The Republicans are stuck, so I don’t think Palin is going anywhere.  However, the CBS interview that will be out tomorrow will be even more horrible than the previous horrible clips.
So it behooves us to formulate odds and begin taking bets.   To that end…
Palin to “spend more time with family” odds are four-to-one against.  In other [...]

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Wow, just wow. 

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That Venezuela borders Iran?
 
This, two weeks after he said that Spain was in Latin America. Here’s the video from McCain’s economic forum that just took place today - Ben Smith has the transcript:
McCain, talking about energy policy, stresses the importance of “ensuring that America is secure, and not dependent on oil from people like Hugo [...]

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The series of segments showing Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin have been slow Chinese water torture.  And they have destroyed Sarah Palin’s candidacy.    Today she destroyed McCain’s argument of experience versus Obama.  Yesterday she could not recall any other Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade (even though if you have watched one [...]

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You may have seen this at kos.  A Fox TV “journalists” is doing a story about how split the vote is in PA and…well just watch. 
I love the last bit.  
 

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Well then this is a great deal for you if you are Resident of Delaware.  I friend of mine that works for the state found this little tax nugget.
It was supposed to be until 9/01/08 I am not sure if it got extended or not.  Find out for yourself.  Better late than never.
Save yourself $500. [...]

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Can we get a better metric of the national’s economic health than the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
BTW - DJIA up 400 points as a write this.
Special BTW to Kavips - You might want to cancel that water purification system you have on order.

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John McCain may suspend his campaign again!
I am so over this nonsense.  
Hey, maybe if McCain suspends Newt will step in.  Seems he’s already messing around behind the scenes.  So much for blaming Pelosi.
UPDATE: For those of you who’ve forgotten how McCain ended up in this suspension situation again…
(Via TPM)

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Ben Smith at Politico reports that Republicans viewed the whole bail out as a way to set up Demcorats from the get go.
The Republican National Committee’s new advertisement critical of the the Wall Street “bailout” was produced and sent to television stations in key states before the package failed, officials at two stations [...]

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The end of the series and where I get into the really wishful thinking.
Ever since the meltdown a week or so back, economists and Wall Street analysts have been thinking and talking about a variety of alternatives to the Paulson plan and fortunately for me, these people have been writing all over the internet. [...]

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Early Saturday, Calvert authorities made a gruesome discovery: the bodies of two children encased in ice in a freezer in the home of Renee D. Bowman, 43. Bowman has been receiving a monthly government subsidy of $2,400 to care for her three adopted children: the 7-year-old girl on the street and two others who are [...]

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Mike Castle tries to put lipstick on the non-compromise bail out bill that protected executive golden parachute contract for the very executives who gamed the financial markets.
The Lie:
“Rep. Castle said the bill as presented would not have included rich serverence packages so-called “golden parachutes” for Wall Street cororate executives.”
That is a flat out lie. [...]

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How does pumping 700 billion dollars into our economy become a good thing?  I am no “not brian” but on a simple level, doesn’t pumping that kind of money make things worse?  Weaken our dollar?  I remember reading somewhere about a government pumping money into their economy and it crashing horribly, no?

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What is an Intellectual Conservative

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If I didn’t know better this looks like Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze thirty years later.

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