When you follow Bush so closely, your country will kick you out of office: Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party won Australia’s election, ending John Howard’s 11-year rule after promising to tackle climate change, restore workers’ bargaining power and withdraw Australian troops from Iraq. Labor won 83 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives, gaining […]
That is an astonishing number from the latest ABC/WaPo poll. This country is fed up with how it is being run. I don’t give the Republicans the sole blame for this either. The Democrats have give their fair share of help to this low number. They came into power last year promising all this change, […]
Lake Superior State University has released their annual list of banished words and phrases. You know – those words that are over used. The list is available here for your viewing pleasure. One phrase that didn’t make the list, but should have is “Clinton did it”. That has been the most over-used phrase for the […]
And they keep on falling: The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill. Those sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, had urged Republican […]
This was reported on Wednesday. I was planning on posting about it and totally forgot. Luckily Larry Johnson didn’t forget. Now the time is appropriate to read: Metropolitan Police today charged the director of human resources at The Washington Times with one count of attempting to entice a minor on the Internet. Randall Casseday, 53, […]
I’m sure some high paid execs at ABC and Disney are not very happy about this: SHOW RATING SHARE NFL Football (NBC) 15.1 23 9/11 (CBS, rerun) 8.2 12 Path to 9/11 (ABC) 8.2 12 (h/t ThinkProgress) So the same amount of people turned to the true documentary of 9/11 that CBS ran as tuned […]
It looks like Murtha is wanting the shooting of Iraqis dealt with right: “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.” This echoes of Abu […]
On his second day behind the White House cameras, Tony Snow once again put his foot in his mouth. Today he suggested that ABC was a “competing network” and now the question is – competing against what? Q Okay. But, I mean, maybe it was a terrific meeting. As far as I can tell, that […]