Rossi the Decider: "I say which questions deserve an answer"
SEATTLE – Leading up to Washington’s caucuses, Gov. Chris Gregoire was open with voters about her presidential preference in the historic 2008 election, endorsing Senator Barack Obama. In today’s presidential primary, Republican Dino Rossi continues to conceal his choice for president from Washingtonians. Why?
Republican Dino Rossi has decided his presidential preference, but flatly refuses to disclose who he’s supporting. After being asked repeatedly by the Seattle Times’ David Postman, Rossi stuck to his policy of only answering media questions he decides deserve an answer.
(Questions Rossi doesn’t want to answer constitute the media and others conspiring to “knock him off message.”)
Postman: “Rossi wouldn’t tell me who he backs for president. He said he’d vote in Tuesday’s primary, but said in a couple of different ways that he had no interest in letting me know his choice among the Republican field. … He said he will ‘stay on message’ no matter what. And the presidential race isn’t part of that.”
By contrast, in a February 8th AP interview, Gov. Gregoire noted that taking a stand in the Democratic nomination wasn’t an easy decision, but was one where she owed it to Washingtonians to be open and honest.
“Lots of people said, 'Just stay out of it,' said Gregoire. But all of my friends are going to caucus on Saturday and will be asked to make up their mind, so why shouldn't I?”
While it is certainly true that Republican wannabee, Dino Rossi's opinion on pretty much anything is irrelevent, it is refreshing to have any candidate and a Republican candidate actually admit it.
Who is calling for "More Ralph"? Does this has-been really think America needs his opinion in the race? He goes from 2.74% of the vote in 2000 to .38% in 2004 and thinks, "Gee! I think I've got it now. The 5th time is the charm"?
Yeah, sure: It's his right. So what? He's still a jerk.
Hillary is seeing her dream of the Presidency go up in smoke; partly due to her ineffective campaign and partly due to a brilliant campaign by Sen. Obama.
Knowing she has lost the nomination, one has to wonder why she's lobbing these turds into the campfire. Stash's idea:
She can't get the White House in 2008. So, if she is able to dissolve Democratic hopes and hand the election to John "Bomb Bomb" McCain, she will have another shot in 2012. A successful Obama campaign leaves the probability she couldn't look again to the Rose Garden until 2016... at which time, she will look as feeble as McCain.
So, is Hillary Clinton trying to throw Barack Obama under the bus in order to have another go at the White House in 4 years?
Heritage Bozos blink - take misleading banner off website.
The resident nutbars at The Heritage Foundation took it down, but for awhile they put up this clock:
The intent, of course is keep the the fear level high. Afterall, when you are afraid, you'll give them anything.
While their post should have called it the Protect America Act or PAA rather than FISA, it was additionally flawed in that there is no mention of the offer extended by the majority to extend the Act for 30 days.
The President and his stooges suggest we are now in iminent danger because of this lapse. If that were true, why does he hate America so much he would let it expire? Or, is it really true? How can anyone believe these people anymore?
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Friday that "our country is in more danger of an attack" because of Congress' failure to extend a law that makes it easier for the government to spy on foreign phone calls and e-mails that pass through the United States.
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney met with Republican congressional leaders in the Oval Office to discuss the impasse with the Democratic-led House. Lawmakers left Thursday for a 12-day recess without acting on the law, which expires at midnight Saturday. The president said Congress should act quickly on the measure as soon as lawmakers return.
Bush argues that without the extension, the intelligence community will not have the tools they need to protect the nation from terrorism. Democrats, equally adamant, accuse the president of fear-mongering and say he has the authority he needs to intercept terrorist communications, even if the law expires.
[insert knee-jerk fear statement here] "American citizens must understand, clearly understand that there's still a threat on the homeland. There's still an enemy which would like to do us harm," Bush said. "We've got to give our professionals the tools they need, to be able to figure out what the enemy is up to so we can stop it."
"By blocking this piece of legislation, our country is more in danger of an attack," he said. [/knee-jerk fear statment]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi maintains the congressional majority is simply trying to balance concerns about civil liberties against the government's spy powers, and needs time to do it.
All of this crap about whether or not Roger Clemens got shot in the ass with HDH or Steroids pales in the face of serious national issues. Yet Congress finds the time to hold investigations on this meaningless bullshit.
Congress can find the time... bring every other thing to a standstill, evidently, to hold hearings on this, but investigating the lies, and illegal actions of the Bush Administration is "off the table".
All of this crap about whether or not Roger Clemens got shot in the ass with HDH or Steroids pales in the face of serious national issues. Yet Congress finds the time to hold investigations on this meaningless bullshit.
Congress can find the time... bring every other thing to a standstill, evidently, to hold hearings on this, but investigating the lies, and illegal actions of the Bush Administration is "off the table".
Nancy Pelosi has said that impeachment is "off the table". Why are we then spending the precious time of our Congress investigating a fat assed pitcher's drug habits?
What is more important to the future of this country, knowing whether or not which player or players are artificial or natural behemoths or holding our elected officials to the standards set in our Constitution?
huffingtonpost LOS ANGELES — Gary Coleman is a not-so-newlywed. The former "Diff'rent Strokes" star married 22-year-old Shannon Price in August on a mountaintop in Nevada, but they have been keeping their vows under wraps, the pair told "Inside Edition." "Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us," Coleman, 40, said on Tuesday's broadcast of the program.
Coleman met Price on the set of the 2006 comedy "Church Ball." Price said it was she who proposed to Coleman, but that he surprised her on her birthday by whisking her to a mountaintop in the Valley of Fire State Park to exchange vows. She said they kept their wedding secret because she wanted to keep being seen as her own person.
"I just want my own identity as well because I don't want to be known as Gary Coleman's wife," she said.
Coleman played down their age differences, saying "I don't have issues with age, I have issues with intelligence ... She's more intelligent than I am and that's what matters to me."
Price, who is 5-foot-7, and Coleman, who is 4-foot-8, also played down their height gap.
"That doesn't really matter to me," she said. "He was 10 feet tall to me because he was sweet and I really liked his personality."
Please... please... please... let McCain win the Republican nomination!
I love watching this over and over. If you watch Russert just before McCain starts into his self destructive monologue, I think he was getting to remind McCain who said the words.
Tim must have started getting a woody as McCain started hanging himself and he has probably paused before speaking ever since, just in case the guest has a death wish.
