January 2008

After seven years, now he decides he wants to save money:

President Bush's 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal health care programs, a senior administration official said Thursday.

I know where we could save a lot of money. Four simple letters -I.R.A.Q.

This is not good news for the GOP front runner:

John McCain, who ended the year with a $4.5 million debt, plans six coast-to-coast fundraisers in three days to capitalize on his Florida victory and front-runner status and build on the $7 million he raised in the first three weeks of January.

$7 million? That really fails in comparison to Obama's $32 million he raised in January. But McCain isn't the only problem for the GOP. Even their congressional races are coming up short:

[...]New fund-raising figures to be made public on Thursday will show that the national campaign committee of the House Democrats ended 2007 with $35 million in the bank and $1.3 million in debt. The Republicans’ committee had $5 million in the bank and $2 million in debt.

MoveOn is running a poll today to decide who the group should back for the Democratic primary. If you are a member of MoveOn then you should receive a link to the ballot in your in-box. They are doing it this way to prevent any ballot box stuffing. The results will be announced tomorrow.

He talks about how great democracy is in the Middle East. I don't find news like this very great:

A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after "liberation" and under the democratic rule of the West's ally Hamid Karzai.

The fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has led to domestic and international protests, and deepening concern about erosion of civil liberties in Afghanistan. He was accused of blasphemy after he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed.

This is the freedom he has been pushing? If that's freedom I would sure hate to see tyranny.