Eric Florack on November 2nd, 2007

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning, over at Real Clear Politics, by way of Memeorandum:

Doctor Charles KrauthammerThe problem is Bill. But not the way it is usually understood, i.e., the sex scandal waiting to happen. There is that, of course. But

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Eric Florack on November 1st, 2007

Sorry about the display problems, earlier this evening.

Some changes I made to the sidebar blew up. Basically, I inserted the line of code into the PHP one line too high.

Should be OK now.

BBCT to Bluto for catching

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Eric Florack on November 1st, 2007

John Harris over at the Politico:

Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message. It vaulted them to power a year ago this week. Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a

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Eric Florack on November 1st, 2007

The always worthwhile Michael Yon

“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October

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Eric Florack on October 30th, 2007

We recently posted about how the Democrats… particularly those in his home state of Pennsylvania should have had enough long ago, and should start moving to remove him from office. 

Interestingly, there’s a number of Democrats looking to do exactly

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Fersboo on October 30th, 2007

I’ll expect the same outrage for Pelosi’s actions, if not more, that FEMA generated by staging a press conference.

The Hill is reporting that Speaker of the House Pelosi (D) is concerned that Republicans will use the Rangel’s “controversial new

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

A reader writes:

Hello-I’m sending this as an email instead of a comment because, first of all I’m not positive I’m reading this right, and secondly, for God’s sake the last thing I want is to be misinterpreted as defending

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2007

An interesting set of conditions leads to some interesting mail to catch up on, this morning.

Last night, I took a healthy swipe at Glenn Greenwald. (I know… it’s a target that’s all too easy, but someone hadda do

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Eric Florack on October 28th, 2007

It is amazing to me how often Glenn Greenwald can trip over his own tounge and still be convinced he’s smarter than everyone else. This one’s going to require some background.

As Bruce McQuain noted the other day, the

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Eric Florack on October 27th, 2007

Heh….

lantos1.jpg WASHINGTON -AP- Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.

The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the

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Eric Florack on October 26th, 2007

So, Carl Levin is trying to cut the funding for the Iraq war.

Why?

He’s trying to get the President to “change course” in Iraq.

He knows, as do all Americans by now, that real progress is being made there. 

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Eric Florack on October 26th, 2007

So, Carl Levin is trying to cut the funding for the Iraq war.

Why?

He’s trying to get the President to “change course” in Iraq.

He knows, as do all Americans by now, that real progress is being made there. 

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Eric Florack on October 26th, 2007

Democrats are losing the battle for voters’ hearts because the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, according to a widely circulated critique of House Democratic communications strategy.

“Our message sounds like an audit report on defense

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007
  • I finally… finally…slapped that nasty little bug in the comments section. Been a while since I’ve had the programmer’s hat on. The bug in case you’d not noticed, was the oddball time display on each comment. Bad call to

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2007

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

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