Posted on 03/01/2005 4:31:23 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Even Sen. Edward Kennedy doesn't think Kerry is worth his time. On Monday February 28th Kennedy presented the Distinguished American Award via the phone.
Kerry, now known as Mr. Irrelevant, did manage to make the news in Massachusetts, however the rest of the nation could care less. Yahoo didn't even bother with a story.
That one doesn't seem as green. They must of given Kerry the moldy one they had in the basement.
Thanks DC and thanks for the link to the laughs!
In 15 minutes? The way Hillary drones on there were probably all of two questions asked and maybe one of them was answered.
Hillary the hawk takes flight again...
(1010 WINS) (WASHINGTON) Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Tuesday for tougher punishment against Syria, saying the country was aggressively supporting terrorism in the "dangerous neighborhood" of the Middle East.
In lambasting Syria, Clinton joined a growing chorus of officials in Washington urging the United States to take a harsher stance against that country following a Feb. 14 bombing in Beirut that killed the former premier of Lebanon.
Speaking to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Clinton branded Syria and Iran bad neighbors bent on upsetting the fragile balance in the region.More
Hardly enough time for all the "ums" and "you knows."
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Oh this bit of news is too funny. Here in FL before Jeb the governor was "Walkin'" Lawton Chiles. He liked to call himself "the he-coon that walks at night," but I digress. 2006 is the year we elect a new governor since Jeb is term limited and the big news for the past couple of weeks was that Lawton's son, Lawton "Bud" Chiles III will run for the dems. That was until this morning's news:
The son and namesake of former Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles Jr. dropped out of the 2006 governor's race Tuesday because does not meet the state's residency requirement.
Lawton "Bud" Chiles III, 51, said had not been aware the constitution requires a gubernatorial candidate to live in the state for the seven years before the election. He had announced his candidacy in January.
"I'm clearly a Floridian. Me and my family are Floridians and always have been and always will be. Yet there's this pesky little constitution and it says what it says," Chiles said in a speech to the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans. story
Oooops!!! Damn that pesky constitution!
In other FL news, Sen. Bill Nelson's (D) might have a hard fight in '06 against Katherine Harris.
Miami Herald:
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has broad appeal in Florida -- even among Republicans -- but might face a significant challenge in 2006 from Republican Katherine Harris, a Sarasota congreswoman who gained nationwide attention in the 2000 election recount, according to a new poll.
The numbers reflected in the Quinnipiac University poll of 1,007 Florida voters are hardly set in stone, but pollster Clay F. Richards says it gives a good picture of what's in store for Florida voters in what's likely going to be a wild election season.
''It's a name-recognition poll and in that game Katherine Harris has everyone beat. She's the strongest known politician in the lot,'' Richards said. ``Nelson has a little work to do shoring up his base, but clearly he's already working hard getting his numbers up and he's a centrist respected by both parties.''**********************
Hey Mae, do y'all have a governor yet? ;-)
One excellent indicator of how dems are stewing is our ever favorite Chris Matthews. He sees the dems chances in 2008 flapping off into space. Here's a segment from last night's show the reveals how the madness is taking hold.... Ahahahaahaaa!!
Katrina, the other—earlier in the show, I was talking to Mark Warner, the very impressive governor of Virginia, who is a Democrat and clearly thinking about running for president. He‘s term-limited with one term. And I referred, probably infelicitously, to Hillary Clinton as the 800-pound gorilla in his way.
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: I probably should have used the term 800-pound gorilla more felicitously in reference to her husband, because there was a lot of talk over the last seven years or so—I‘ve been pushing it—that he wants to get a job, so that he can try again for success, because he really left the presidency rather badly.
Do you think that she can bring him back into the White House, unemployed, living there with him and not get him in the way of her policy-making?
VANDEN HEUVEL: God, if he can sit next to Bush‘s father, as he has in the last weeks, he can certainly come back into the White House.
They were a pair. The key thing to me, Chris, at this moment is, what Bill Clinton stood for was triangulation. And the problem with Democrats right now is, they don‘t seem to show strength of conviction or clarity of direction. Or at least there‘s a perception gap about that.
What the Democrats need to do in these next few years—and Hillary Clinton will be tested by this, I think—is stop the dismantling of the New Deal, the rollback of Social Security, expose this administration‘s extremist agenda, whether it‘s secret torture chambers or global warfare. And Clinton was never one, I feared, who stood that fast for core principles. There was a lot of caving in to corporate interests.
Power inside the Democratic Party is not where it used to be.
MATTHEWS: Well, yes or no, are you hedging here, Katrina? Is Hillary the real thing or is she a hedger?
VANDEN HEUVEL: A hedger in terms of bringing her husband back into the White House?
MATTHEWS: Is she a liberal? Is she what you call—is she a progressive?
VANDEN HEUVEL: You know, Chris, liberals—liberals and—is she a progressive? She is—on choice, it‘s interesting, where she has gotten all this attention in the last few weeks. She has a 100 percent choice record. And that needs to be defended by Democrats, choice.
On foreign policy, as I said earlier...
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: I don‘t know why you people keep talking about abortion rights when I simply ask you, as a party—as a person in American politics—skip abortion for at least two minutes..
VANDEN HEUVEL: I think that‘s an important...
MATTHEWS: Let‘s talk about economics, foreign policy.
VANDEN HEUVEL: Right.
MATTHEWS: And what kind of a country you want to live in. Is Hillary Clinton a progressive or not?
(CROSSTALK)
VANDEN HEUVEL: I want to live in a country which has reproductive rights for women.
But on economic choice, on economic rights...
MATTHEWS: I want to be in a country where you don‘t talk about it all the time.
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This is your democrat base Chris. Rots o' ruck in '08!
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Be nice, Chris. Hillary's been working out and cutting carbs, and I hear she's only a 765-pound gorilla these days.
Good catch! (I didn't see it so I went back and looked at the transcript). The exchange continued:
Pat Buchanan, let me ask you this. Is Hillary Clinton a liberal?
VANDEN HEUVEL: On economic rights, her president was too pro-corporate.
BUCHANAN: Hillary Clinton, in my judgment...
MATTHEWS: Is Hillary Clinton a liberal?
BUCHANAN: Yes, she‘s a liberal.
MATTHEWS: Is Hillary Clinton a liberal, Pat?
BUCHANAN: Yes.
Hillary Clinton is not only a liberal. She has got three problems Bill Clinton didn‘t have, or Clinton had three assets. One, he was from the South and Arkansas, perceived as a centrist. Secondly, Bill Clinton was a fine debater and a fine speaker. And Hillary Clinton gets too high and too shrill.
And, third, Bill Clinton had Ross Perot in the race, who siphoned off 40 percent, 40 percent of Bush‘s 1988 vote...
VANDEN HEUVEL: Yes, that‘s true.
MATTHEWS: That‘s true.
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I don't agree with Pat on many things, and I really resent that MSNBC calls him a Republican.
But he's one heckuv a political analyst!
I read one intriguing analysis today regarding Syria and Baby Assad. You've heard of "suicide by cop"? Basically someone who wants to die pulls a gun on a cop and gets the cop to do it for him.
The theory about Syria opines that Baby Assad may be doing the same thing. He was never meant to take over from his dad (#1-son got killed). He's an opthamologist who lived the good life until the "crown" was thrust upon him. He really isn't cut out for this dictator stuff. Not to mention his party is only about a 10% minority in Syria which can significantly shorten one's life expectancy.
Could it be that he's maneuvering toward the day when he's "driven" out of Syria and "forced" to go live in luxurious exile in the salons of Paris???
Amen to that.
Can't remember where I heard it yesterday (Hardball?) but someone said Hillary should get a hard right winger to run as a third candidate, it'd probably be her best bet to win.
Did you notice that throughout the entire show (Hardball) Chris mentioned Syria once but didn't say anything, that I caught, about the Syrian government in Lebanon stepping down?
We should send Chris a roll of duct tape to wrap his head so that when his head explodes it won't make such a mess.
Oh no Br'er Jihadi, don't throw me into that thar luxurious Paris exile!
NASA calls it simply "The Eye of God"...
This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope combined with the wide view of the Mosaic Camera on the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz. The image shows a fine web of filamentary "bicycle-spoke" features embedded in the colorful red and blue ring of gas. At 650 light-years away, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. A planetary nebula is the glowing gas around a dying, Sun-like star.
LOL!!!! Comedy GOLD!
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The NYT's has hired John Stewart to write new analysis under the above pseudonym.
Michael Ledeen of National Review, when referring to democracy in the Middle East, has been saying for years: "Faster, please". He's a very smart man and I look forward to his articles as much as those of Victor David Hanson.
Today Ledeen explains that the current worldwide trend of democratization began with ...are your ready for this?...the death of Generalisimo Franco of Spain! I love it when a writer surprises me with something like that.
Very informative article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200503010752.asp
Can you imagine looking through a telescope...and seeing THAT?!
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