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Charles Grassley (Republic Senator from Iowa) made a stupid comment about AIG executives.
Obviously, the AIG situation is bad. This isn’t about that. It’s about hypocrisy.
It occurs to me that a person believing that others should take full responsibility for their actions might want to do that himself. Instead, Grassley seems to believe [...]

There’s a nice little day-after-Christmas “no-shit” article leading CNN Politics (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/26/bush.poll/index.html).
26 days and counting…

More RNC ridiculousness…even Newt Gingrich agrees. What in the world would be the purpose of putting together smear ads at this point in time?
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/17/how-can-gop-help-pres-elect-obama/
The fact of the matter is that the parties should focus on moving the country forward. Concentrating on nothing but smearing the other side does nothing but set [...]

Maybe that subject isn’t what he intended to mean by these statements, but I’m wondering if it’ll turn out to be accurate.
The lack of an end to the finger pointing from this guy is amazing. It’s unfortunate for him that winning an election is no longer as simple as spreading fear.
Anyway…off to find a [...]

…apparently America agrees more than ever. The percentage of Americans who disapprove of Bush’s work reached 76% in the CNN/Gallup poll released today.
To put it in historical perspective, check out the chart tab. The article is actually kind of kind by just noting that no other president has crossed the 70% mark. [...]

There is a ton of discussion right now about why the GOP was crushed this week. Most of it is noise.

Some (inexplicably) think that the GOP has lost independents because they aren’t conservative enough
Some think it was because McCain’s strategy centered on baseless attacks (i.e. calling Obama a socialist, communist, terrorist)
Or was it because [...]

I love this post from Oliver Willis (a liberal blogger that I read). It’s short, to the point, and speaks to something that I’ve always thought is obvious.
In my mind, there shouldn’t be much of an argument about economic policy between the parties. Those of us who are interested/educated in economics can argue [...]

The Obama campaign did an excellent job using the web as a tool to connect with people during the campaign. The campaign used their presence on the web to mobilize and organize supporters, offering personalized sites and tools and information to help supporters help Obama. For instance, while McCain’s website pushed empty messages [...]

Did Palin not know what countries are in NAFTA?
Did she think that Africa was a country?
Did Fox News willingly hold back information about Palin and the infighting on the McCain-Palin campaign until after the election?
Interesting stuff:

It wasn’t that long ago (the 2000) election, where Ralph Nader was very relevant. He arguably shifted enough votes away from Al Gore to give W the victory.
I also remember attending a Pearl Jam concert in Chicago a few months before the election and having Eddie Vedder encourage the full arena to chant [...]