Eric Florack on November 14th, 2007

The Washington Post is saying:

Even as the Democratic primary fight enters the final stretch, plans are proceeding apace among party strategists to build an independent money machine that will rival or eclipse what they created in 2004, when donors

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Eric Florack on November 14th, 2007

Kevin Drum makes the usual argument…

VOTER ID….The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country. Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana’s law in

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

hillary31.jpgChris Welch and David Schechter, CNN, report on Muriel  Gallo-Chasanoff of one Mrs. Clinton’s plants from Grinnell, Iowa:

Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in the campus newspaper, said what happened was simple: She said a senior Clinton staffer

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

CBS is now saying that Hillary Clinton’s lead is not there, anymore in Iowa:

In Iowa, the Democratic contest is knotted up. Among likely caucus-goers, Clinton came out on top with 25 percent support, but she was trailed closely by

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

Eliot SpitzerByran, Hot Air:

It’s a good thing for NY Gov Eliot Spitzer that he’s less than a year into his term. He has three years to dig himself out of the Troopergate and licenses-for-illegals chasm that usually takes at

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

John EdwardsIf there is anything clear from Charlie Rangel’s propasal for the largest tax incresae in American history, John Murtha’s pork is there is nothing ‘rats like to do more than spend other people’s money. 

John Edwards wants both to be

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

Betsy Newmark, yesterday:

Mackubin Thomas Owens had a great column yesterday in honor of Veterans Day. He noted the proclivity of those in the media to treat those in the military as either victims or monsters. He notes that since

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

HOUMA, La. (AP) — A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign “Buckwheat,” prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat,

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davidl on November 13th, 2007

Mike Allen, Politico, reports on Howard Dean’s latest gaff:

In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according

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Eric Florack on November 12th, 2007

The other shoe has finally dropped:

Fred Dicker at the NY Post:

November 12, 2007 — Gov. Spitzer‘s former communications director, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal – including

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davidl on November 12th, 2007

Valerie Plame WilsonA juicy tidbit from the weekend talking heads, Wolf Blitzer to Richard Armitage on his disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson’s employer to Robert Novak:

ARMITAGE: They’re not words on which I disagree. I think it was extraordinarily foolish of me.

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2007

WASHINGTON – Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that if elected he will push to increase the amount of income that is taxed to provide monthly Social Security benefits.

Obama and other Democratic presidential candidates previously have signaled support for this

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davidl on November 11th, 2007

Mrs. ClintonThe most arrogrant governor, Eliot Spitxer, New York, is hinting that his about to hang Mrs. Clinton out to dry.   The New York Times is reporting that Spitxer has backed-off his inconsidered plan to give New York State driver’s license

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We’ve spoken several times in these spaces as regards Joe Liberman, and the treatment he’s been getting at the hands of Democrats for supporting the Iraq war effort.  We’ve also mentioned many times that the Democrats and the mainstream media

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