Wednesday, January 24, 2007
News Roundup:
This past sunday, the Patriots and Colts played one of the greatest AFC Championship games I've ever seen; the 2008 Presidential field was blown open with announcements from Senators Clinton, Obama, Biden and Edwards, and Governers Vilsak and Richardson on the left, and Mayor Guiliani, Governers Romney and Huckabee, and Senators McCain and Brownback; and I finished a Camden Joy novel while preparing one of the most delicious white pizzas ever tasted. Congress demanded the White House complete the International Intelligence Estimate it's been delaying for years. Vampiric Conservative columnist Robert Novak said something NOT biased and basically electioneering.
FOX News' smear/lie that Senator Obama attended a terrorist training camp was debunked as Tony Dungy's face was plastered all across America's TV screens. And speaking of Obama, he and Russ Feilgold finally pushed much needed ethics legislation through. Two Ohio GOP election workers were convicted of pre-rigging the 2004 Presidential recount in Ohio,which, by the way, still reeks of the stolen show in Florida last time around. As Ohio's vote-count was coming in, Bush was told he'd lost the election by his team, and to their shock, he didn't seem concerned. Forty minutes later, the vote-count drastically swung is way, with heavily GOP districts turning out at 70% of voters, and Democratic districts turning out at 3% of voters. Hmmm. Also, Senate Republicans, who were so adamant against the filibuster last year that they threated to change Senate rules to eliminate it, today filibustered a bill to raise the minimum wage.
It's wonderful when so many disparate things come together to complete a weekend. Also, the State of the Union would be three, four, maybe five times more fun to watch if Stadler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show were seated in the gallery with Mrs. Bush and Dikembe Mutombo. Not that Dikembe Mutombo didn't make all the pomp and golf clapping worthwhile.
--Patrick
FOX News' smear/lie that Senator Obama attended a terrorist training camp was debunked as Tony Dungy's face was plastered all across America's TV screens. And speaking of Obama, he and Russ Feilgold finally pushed much needed ethics legislation through. Two Ohio GOP election workers were convicted of pre-rigging the 2004 Presidential recount in Ohio,which, by the way, still reeks of the stolen show in Florida last time around. As Ohio's vote-count was coming in, Bush was told he'd lost the election by his team, and to their shock, he didn't seem concerned. Forty minutes later, the vote-count drastically swung is way, with heavily GOP districts turning out at 70% of voters, and Democratic districts turning out at 3% of voters. Hmmm. Also, Senate Republicans, who were so adamant against the filibuster last year that they threated to change Senate rules to eliminate it, today filibustered a bill to raise the minimum wage.
It's wonderful when so many disparate things come together to complete a weekend. Also, the State of the Union would be three, four, maybe five times more fun to watch if Stadler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show were seated in the gallery with Mrs. Bush and Dikembe Mutombo. Not that Dikembe Mutombo didn't make all the pomp and golf clapping worthwhile.
--Patrick
# posted by Patrick : 7:45 PM
