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  1. The system used by military personnel to cast absentee votes is still not working well, six years after the problem was highlighted by disqualified ballots in the contested Florida recount of 2000, election officials say. But the Pentagon is releasing statistics and fact sheets to show that armed-forces voting is, in fact, increasing, with more avenues available to the estimated 1.7 million uniformed and civilian personnel in the states and abroad to obtain ballots. […………………………………………………………..”NO IDs for illegals, and felons must vote, but we must kick out all military votes!” Al Gore, 2000]

  2. I think when Mr. Goldstein reads the comments made by many of the Conservative commenters he must feel like he is casting pearls before swine. But we let them comment here so we won’t have to argue with them on The Huffington Post.

    Toodle-oo!

  3. NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican fishermen captured a 7.5-foot crocodile in the Rio Grande, the river that divides part of Mexico and the United States, authorities reported on Sunday. Illegal migrants from Mexico frequently swim or ride inner tubes across the Rio Grande to reach the United States. Crocodiles do not normally inhabit the river, and authorities suspect it may have been brought to the area as a pet and then… [……………..It may be hard for illegals to vote Democrat while in the middle of a crocodile “death roll”. Still, many dead Democrats vote, so I don’t see the DNC getting to worked up over this issue.]

  4. JCH:

    Thank God for people like you and me. We won’t let them polute our pure white blood. As long as we stay with nice young Republican boys, we will stay pure.

  5. JCH:

    It looks like Dennis Hasert is one of us. No wonder he kept things quiet for us:

    Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill. But none are closer than Scott Palmer is to Denny Hastert. They don’t just work together all day, they live together.

    There are plenty of odd couple Congressmen who have roomed together on Capitol Hill, but I have never heard of a chief of staff who rooms with his boss. It is beyond unusual. But it must have its advantages. Anything they forget to tell each other at the office, they have until bedtime to catch up on. And then there’s breakfast for anything they forgot to tell each other before falling asleep. And then there’s all day at the office. Hastert and Palmer are together more than any other co-workers in the Congress.

    For now, Hastert is holding on to the Speaker’s office because the Republicans don’t have anyone in the leadership who is squeaky clean enough to take the job. Every one of them is tainted by the Foley scandal or the Abramoff scandal or the DeLay scandal or, like Henry Hyde, has some ancient sexual indiscretion in his background. But if the press cracks Scott Palmer’s denial of Kirk Fordham’s bombshell, then Denny Hastert is going to have to pass the gavel to some freshman we’ve never heard of.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....31171.html

  6. “We must have understanding and dialog with Kim Il-Jong.” [Doctor Maf54 Kennedy Esq]

  10. “Can we get the North Koreans to vote Democrat by absentee in November?” [Goldysteinburg]

  13. Wow, Bush’s total failure in North Korea has apparently caused JCH to fully flip…, or the syphilis has finally eaten away his last working brain cell.

    Still, if I were a wingnut, I would want to forget the last six years have happened. Perhaps, in some sick way, he is even happy in his little fantsy world.

  15. That shows Speaker Hastert just doesn’t get it. If something was a “red flag,” he should have been told about it. Now Washington is filled with speculation that Mr. Trandahl and other staffers might have been trying to cover up for Mr. Foley. On “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Jack Kingston, vice chairman of the Republican Conference, raised the idea that “there was a staffer or two who decided to maybe protect Mark Foley for reasons unknown.”

    http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009064

  16. New AP/Ipsos poll shows married moms leaving the GOP in droves.

    Poll results and interviews with political analysts indicate the GOP has lost ground with a voting group that helped the party keep hold of Congress and the White House in 2002 and 2004…An Associated Press-Ipsos poll this month found that support is now evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans among married women with children in the house. Republicans won this voting group by 18 percentage points in 2002 and Bush won it by 14 percentage points in 2004.

    “People have no money. The economy is not going well,” said Michele Huber, 29. A married mother of three, she gave the country a “poor to fair” rating as she speed-walked in a suburban Cincinnati park with one of her children, a niece and a nephew in tow.

    …<snip>…

    “We’re not happy,” said Christy Blaker, 32, as she loaded a McDonald’s-munching Emily, 4, and Becca, 18 months, into a shopping cart. A self-described independent, the stay-at-home mom and her husband, who replaces the breaks on train wheels, did not back Bush in 2004. She says she probably will not support Republicans next month…The war unnerves and conflicts her. She frets about “horrible” gas prices and bemoans an economy in which inflation seems to rise higher than wages. If life does not improve, she said she may have to get a part-time job.

    Gee, maybe MTR should tell them again about the new stock m,arket high and how bush beat global warming.

  17. Thanks to a landmark agreement brokered by the Clinton administration, North Korea’s spent fuel rods were locked in a storage facility under the monitoring of international weapons inspectors from 1994 to 2002. But the Bush administration would have none of a successfully negotiated containment. After all, just because the Republican Congress stiffed NK on the light-water reactor and oil shipments we promised in 1994, they had no right to possibly begin the slow, expensive, painstaking process of enriching uranium.

    Well, we showed them. After a few shrill diplomatic exchanges over the uranium enrichment (which they admitted), Pyongyang upped the ante. The North Koreans expelled the international inspectors, broke the locks on their fuel rods, loaded them onto a truck, and drove them to a nearby reprocessing facility, to be converted into bomb-grade plutonium.

    The Bush White House stood by and did nothing.

    And that, boys and girls, is the story of “how we got here.”

  18. There’s a joke told to some prospective homeowners that once they sign the Deed of Trust and closing documents they vote Republican.

    Especially true in some real estate markets — those maxed out and overmortgaged homeowners whose Adjustable Rate Mortgages are about to reset may have something extra in common with Republicans: fear of losing their house.

  19. Why Hastert will not step down until after Election Day:

    Republicans are terrified of opening that can of worms.

  20. So, if Democrats DON’T pick up majorities in the House and Senate, then the Republican at best will be razor-thin. I don’t see SS “reform” or much of anythign else passing in that environment. The biggest plus you guys weould get is that the Democrats wouldn’t hold Committee chairs or set the agenda (read: investigate Bush).

    I also don’t see, in the above scenario, Republicans
    accomplishing much of anything to get American worried about health care, jobs, or security back on their side.

    Local wingnuts: We get asked a lot what Demcorast would do in the majority. So to you: What will Republicans do to win back an America that seems to be turning away?

  21. That was the wrong question.

    Here is really is: What should Republicans do to win back an America that seems to be turning away?

    Your personal policy advice.

  22. Of the three Axis of Evil countries, 1) is now a killing ground for our troops and a potential proxy state for 2) who elected a wildly-anti-American president and is playing brinksmanship en route to enrichment while 3) has just gone nuclear. Some strategy.

  23. I remember all the wingnuts in here Nyah-Nyahing the local liberals about Wal-Marts new low prescription crug prices. What a great thing that the reviled and supposedly “evil” Wal-MArt is doing, they would say. Bite me, Demcorats!

    Well, as it turns out (and as the more cynical among us might have already suspected), it’s really just “bait-and-switch.”

    Weeks after Wal-Mart announced it will sell a month’s supply of some generic drugs for $4, the retailer is being accused of using already cheap drugs to lure customers. Wal-Mart started selling 291 generic prescriptions last month for $4 each in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area. The program went statewide Friday in Florida, and Wal-Mart said it will take the program nationwide this year.

    …A closer look at the list shows some drugs are listed over and over again. For example, the antibiotic amoxicillin is listed 12 times, but in different dosages. “I’m not saying it’s a bait and switch, but you’re left with 124 different drugs, which is fine, but not compared to the thousands of generic drugs out there,” said Ernest Boyd, executive director of the Ohio Pharmacists Association.

    There are more than 3,000 generic drugs available in the United States. Many of the generic drugs Wal-Mart chose are older drugs that already are inexpensive, sometimes costing pharmacies less than $4, said Ben Zelman, of Medical Mutual of Ohio. He pointed to hydrochlorothiazide, which is used to treat high blood pressure. “It is literally pennies a pill. Sometimes you can find it for less,” Zelman said.

    People who don’t have insurance, an estimated 1.4 million in Ohio, could save money on these select drugs. But most insurance plans include co-pays of about $5 for generic drugs, Zelman said.

    Critics say some of the moreexpensive and most-prescribed generics did not make the list…These include the equivalents of Zocor, Zoloft, Zithromax and Paxil, said Wendy Morphew, spokeswoman for Aetna.

  24. Daddy

    I used to take HCTZ and I paid 18 bucks for a three month supply in Las Vegas a couple of years ago, I bought it because I ran out of my Madigan prescription and I was taking care of my Dad after he broke his hip.

    Whether it is media hype or not, even the low price of these pills help people and I hope Wal-Mart does more. Wasn’t it Target who immediately did the same thing with some of their drugs. If people don’t buy, the prices will drop.

  26. More Bush incompetence led to NK’s nuclear test. Clinton brilliantly rattled the American military sabre to craft the 1994 Agreed Framework, under which NK halted its nuclear reprocessing program and put its spent nuclear fuel rods under international inspection adn control.

    Bush, of course was (and still is) certain that negitiating duccessful outcomes was mere “appeasement,” which is why this administration has STILL not negotiated a single sucessful outcome yet. Bus used his reliabnce on force alone as the only means of international engagement, and some uncertain intel regarding uranium enrichment (a slow, expensive, and technically difficult path to weapons-grade nuclear fuel) to blow up the 194 agreed frmaeowrk.

    All diplomatic niceties aside, basially president Bush’s idea was that the North Koreans would respond better to threats than Clinton’s mix of carrots and sticks. Then in the winter of 2002-2003, as the US was preparing to invade Iraq, the North called Bush’s bluff, withdrawing from the NPT and grabbing their fuel rods to start that quick and relatively easy task fo “reprocessing” them into plutonium for weapons. And the president folded. Abjectly, utterly, even hilariously.

    Threats are a potent force ONLY if you’re willing to follow through on them. But he wasn’t. The plutonium production plant, which had been shuttered since 1994, got unshuttered. And the bomb that exploded this weeken was almost certainly the product of that plutonium unlocked almost four years ago. So the President talked a good game, the North Koreans called his bluff and he folded. Boy, isn’t that the pattern? chest-thumping followed by failure followed by cover-up and denial. The same story as Iraq. Even the same story as Foley.

    And since then, for all intents and purposes, and all the administration hot air to the contrary, he and his administration have done essentially nothing.

  27. What do you call a city made up of 100% Democrats?: a third world Detroit [Harare East] Hillary Village slum

  28. What do you call a city full of big black man wanting to give JCH a little Tookie Love?

    JCH wettest dream.

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