Joe Klein sums up what I have been feeling: I’ve been watching cable news this afternon–I know, get a life!–and you know, Barack Obama comes from the same state as Rod Blagoyevich. That is really suspicious! What did he know and when did he know it? This is the first major scandal of the Obama […]
Last week Bush made an unprecedented request for the Department of Justice to investigate Ohio voter registrations. Something like this has never been done so close to an election. Well now it looks like the DOJ is ignoring Bush: The Department of Justice will not require Ohio to disclose the names of voters whose registration […]
Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, has some interesting ties that are really close to McCain: Turns out that Joe Wurzelbacher from the Toledo event is a close relative of Robert Wurzelbacher of Milford, Ohio. Who’s Robert Wurzelbacher? Only Charles Keating’s son-in-law and the former senior vice president of American Continental, the parent company of […]
Two high-ranking McCain campaign officials actually lobbied for the companies at the center of the new sex for oil scandal. This is what happens when you have a campaign filled and ran by lobbyists.
Pretty bad when a Murdoch company is now going after the right’s golden child: An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state’s public safety commissioner and warned that the matter could snowball into a bigger scandal. […]
Nothing like a good scandal coming out of the Bush ran government to kick off our election season: Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties improperly engaged in sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. The alleged transgressions involve 13 […]
Publicly vetting a candidate is so interesting: After taking over as Mayor of the small town of Wasilla, Palin fired the longtime local police chief. The former police chief, Irl Stambaugh says he was fired because he stepped on the toes of Palin’s campaign contributors, including bar owners and the National Rifle Association. It seems […]
The wingnuts are going nookular over Andrew Sullivan raising the questions of Palin’s baby actually being hers. Wow – how dare people raise issues about a candidates personal life? That would be like the right pushing some smear that Obama is a Muslim. Oh wait a minute.. That’s exactly what the right did. For over […]
The Washington Posts’ editorial board has gone out of their way to defend Michael Mukasey’s comThe Washington Posts’ editorial boardments this week that the attorney hiring scandal wouldn’t be prosecuted. It’s a sad day when a member of the media defends the politicization of our Justice Department. I wonder if a President Obama decided to […]
Good – now send her ass to jail! I remember during the whole U.S. attorney scandal the right wing talking heads on TV trying to say how this was normal practice and very legal. I guess it’s time to serve them up a big old plate of crow.