This has to be seen to be believed.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, on an airplane back to South Carolina, is caught laughing that Hurricane Gustav is going to hit New Orleans at the start of the GOP
For me, of course, most of the fun of the past 24 hours has come from watching Democrats get caught up in the whole identity-politics tangle.
And you know, Glenn’s hit this one. That’s really what this has been
Continue reading about Identity Politics As a Crutch, And It’s Failures
I see, by way of McQ, a set of trascripts on National Review from Larry Kudlow, of interviews with Sarah Palin, Here and here I’ll include a few excepts, here.
Kudlow: Here’s the bad news. The Congress is going
OK, I admit I don’t have an Iphone.
I gather some of you with them were having problems with it and this blog, though, (Totally unreadable, I hear) and of course I want to help. I’ve added some code to
BBCT to Michelle’s readers…
Reader Brian wrote:
My secretary was just listening to channel 7 news on the thedenverchannel.com online.
The news guys had the audio on and did not know it.
They commented that they think McCain and Palin
Continue reading about Well, How Many Seconds Did THAT Take?
I’m going to take the unusual step of sending the news release out untouched from The Source, since with all the political goings on, there’s no way you’re going to hear much of it otherwise. You certainly won’t see it
Oliver Willis asks on Twitter:
“How many qualified and tested Republican women did McCain pass over for Sarah Palin? “
About as many as the Democrats passed over to pick Barack Obama, Oliver. Why?
LOL… sometimes
Holiday weekend, so this will be a short one… essentially a nod to the Ramble Tradition.
- As to the holiday itself, let me say this clearly: Labor unions have outlived their usefulness, and have evolved to the point where they
Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Why the Holiday, Yet?; 3rd Place; Reax to Palin; More
I’ve cleaned up the front page a bit, as well as the footers on individual posts.
The object is to lighten the load a bit on the Database server, and get the page looking a bit cleaner. Individual posts still

I said a short while ago, I wasn’t buying Palin as the VP choice until it came out officially. Apparently, it just did. Fox News Channel:
DAYTON, Ohio — A senior campaign official in the John McCain campaign confirmed to
Continue reading about OK, I Guess I Was Wrong. Palin IS the Pick
The latest chatter I’m hearing is on Palin.
Sister Toldjah seems to have this stuff down, though;
Instead of breathlessly reporting on every news report that comes out, I’m gonna wait until it’s actually confirmed before I blog about it
Yes, I saw the speech last night. Let me be brief, because frankly, his dog and pony show deserves no more effort than that.
Obama, in the end, did and said nothing new. His speech was grandiose, certainly, but
- Bad news for the Democrats. Better put the ‘resession on hold. How can they keep selling gloom and doom when these little bits of reality keep sneaking through?
- McCain has decided on a running mate. But of course we
Continue reading about Nightly Ramble:3% Growth Means It’s Not a Resession; WGN;LPGA;more
Yeah, I saw some of it last night. I turned it n last night just in time to see that thing under Bubba’s big red WC Feilds nose, say to the country what a great president he’d been.
My reaction:
The McCain campaign is sending this one around:
Today, workers at Invesco Field are putting the final touches on the newest wonder of the modern political world — The Temple of Obama (“The Barackopolis”). It is upon this pulpit that
