Gridlock It Ain’t. And Anyway, is It What’s Needed? No.

There is an old adage, which states that it is impossible to get ahead, if you spend all your time getting even.
James at OTB notes McQ’s rehashing of his take on the purposes, and utilities of ‘divided government, by

If Eliot Spiter were a republican in Washington,  the democrats would be talking impeachment.   As it is, Spitzer iis democrat in Albany.  But for how long?   Erick, Red State, has a laundry list of charges.

They should start yelling

Upon being asked, during a phone interview, for a comment on the vindication of the Marines at Haditha that John Murtha slandered, his staff responded:

Click.

We’re still waiting for you to apologize, Mr. Murtha. You already have no credibility. 

Hey Billy, even you aren’t aware of the scope of the attempt, here…. an unusual situation…

“The United States should consider implementing a European-style gasoline tax if it hopes to deal with energy security and global warming, the head of

Over at Q&O, McQ says:

You know sometimes you think that something is so obvious that even Ellen Goodman might figure it out. But then you’d be wrong. In one of the more absurd columns it has been my misfortune

Mrs, Clinton gets snotty and sloppy with the facts.  When asked why she favored socialized medicine, i.e. HillaryCare, Mrs. Clinton flatly denied having ever favored socialized medicine.   Alllah Pundit, Hot Air, has the video.

Last week, Mrs. Clinton

Sudhin Thaanawala. writes, “Peace activist Cindy Sheehan announces candidacy:”

(08-09) 15:20 PDT San Francisco (AP) —

Citing her son as inspiration, a tearful Cindy Sheehan announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House of Representatives.

The anti-war activist

Billy Hollis over at Q&O:

I’m referring to Tom Daschle. You’ll recall that he got knocked out in 2004 despite being the Democrats’ leader in the Senate at the time.

His co-senator, elected in 2002, was Tim Johnson, who suffered

Bret Baier, who is still doing Hume’s job, says last night:

Anti-war groups are said to be split over the question of whether to attack Democrats over their failure to secure legislation mandating a troop withdrawal from Iraq.

The Hill

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, has Ed Morrissey’s, Captain’s Quarters, expose of Move-On donor and lawyer Henry Reynolds, who set up a phoney web site to smear Fred Thompson.

Good job Ed.

Addendum: (Bit) McQ notes this story this

MediaBistro says:

The AFL-CIO Democratic forum last night on MSNBC, was the lowest rated-yet of the eight primary debates/forums held this election season. Based on live +same day data, Nielsen found the debate had 960,000 total viewers and 340,000 viewers

Democrats? They really are a party with no new ideas except: tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax …

Don Surber.

Fits in well with James Oberstar and  Neil Abercrombie,

A Blue Dog is a conservative democrat.   The Kossack wing of the democrat party faces a problem.  It appears that the Kossacks can’t live with the Blue Dogs.  However without the Blue Dogs the democrats would not have have a

Let it be known, there is no such thing as a “temporary” goverrment rax.

In 1898, Congress passed a levy of one cent per telephone call to help raise money for the Spanish-American War. By 1990, the tax had

And, perhaps more specifically, what kind of the fact is that image having on our position, worldwide?

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, today. It’s from Ion Mihai Pacepa, who says Precisely what I’ve been saying for years, now”