Joe Lieberman has offically conceded the race and now is running an independent. He used some bullshit sports analogy to say this is just the first half and in the second half he will lead “team Connecticut” to victory in November. Lieberman called what happened “old politics of partisanship”. Old poltics? How the hell does […]
Firedoglake is coming and going right now because of excessive traffic. This really isn’t shocking since the polls are closed in Connecticut now and everyone is looking for results. We are grown up and won’t blame political opponents for the site going down. Here is a current update on results: Connecticut (Updates 11:01) 713 of 748 […]
Oh this is just great: Dennis Miller is hardly shy about expressing his conservative political views. The 52-year-old comedian, who has voiced his support for President Bush and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, will talk politics as a contributor on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes,” network spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer told The Associated Press on Tuesday. […]
This is a cross post from a post I did at Firedoglake about Joe’s “hack” Interesting how things develop overnight. I am of course talking about the “Joe2006 hack” story going around. I have had CNN on all day and they cover it about every 15 minutes or so. What is amazing is that a […]
While all eyes are on Connecticut today, don’t forget about the other states holding primaries Michigan Missouri Colorado The run off vote is also happening in Georgia today for Cynthia McKinney and we are officially less than 3 months from the mid-term elections.
There has been so much talk over the doctored photos of Lebanon posted by Reuters that it is ridiculous. Of course the typical tin-foil hat wearers over at LGF jumped right on it and has coined it as some liberal media plot. Reuters has since posted about the pictures and what happened: Reuters withdrew all […]
Today is the big day in Blue Ohio News, the day where we find out Bob Ney is out. The interesting part is that Ney is trying to pick his successor: In a heavily Republican district, Ney reported last month that his own internal polls had him clinging to a 4-percentage point lead; Space said […]
Well to give them credit they haven’t lost one in a couple of weeks now. As many as 38,000 veterans may be at risk of identity theft because a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor lost a desktop computer containing their sensitive personal data. VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said that Unisys Corp., a subcontractor hired to assist […]
Earlier toay the Texas GOP asked Justice Scalia to block the appeals court ruling that Delay had to stay on the ballot. CNN just reported that Scalia has refused to block the ruling. Will he now be branded as one of those “activist judges” by the GOP?
I just read the following headline and rolled my eyes: Bush wants UN resolution on Lebanon conflict fast We are almost a month into this conflict and now Bush wants a resolution “fast”. What about our veto at the U.N. last month or our constant screwing around with the resolution so it says what the […]