ryanavent.com - 10/24/2008
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ryanavent.com —
The Post reports: Metro and 30 other transit
agencies across the country may have to pay billions...
of dollars to large banks as years-old financing deals unravel, potentially hurting service for millions of bus and train riders, transit officials said ...
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dailykos.com - 10/24/2008
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dailykos.com —
Chris Matthews tries to extract a coherent explanation
of Sarah Palin's comment that the vice president of...
the United States is "in charge of the United States Senate" from McCain aide Nancy Pfotenhauer. Over an eight-minute stretch, she's totally ...
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Total Fail: McCain's Own Aides Can't Defend Palin
thinkprogress.org - 10/16/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
On Salon Radio this morning , Glenn Greenwald
asked Harper’s Scott Horton about his recent reporting on...
how Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol lobbied the McCain campaign to select Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the Republican vice presidential ...
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McCain aides privately call Palin a ‘total disaster.’
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Blithering Idiot Watch
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
"A vice president has a really great job because not only are they there to support the president's agenda, they're like the team member, the teammate to that president, but also they're in charge of the United States Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better." - Sarah Palin, yesterdayAt least we can be thankful she didn't add "dude." Now watch the video, below, of McCain's press person (who looks oddly like Cindy, and Vicky Iseman, and Lady Lynn de Redneck, and even a bit like Carly Fiorina) trying to defend Sarah Palin's inane comments about ...
Total Fail: McCain's Own Aides Can't Defend Palin
Daily Kos —
Chris Matthews tries to extract a coherent explanation of Sarah Palin's comment that the vice president of the United States is "in charge of the United States Senate" from McCain aide Nancy Pfotenhauer. Over an eight-minute stretch, she's totally unable to defend Palin's ill-informed claim: There's a discussion of Pfotenhauer's pfail going on in Stiffa's diary on the recommended list.
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When Narratives Collapse
Open Left - Front Page —
As Glenn Greenwald points out , there's been a dramatic sea-change in the rules of effective political rhetoric. Glenn cites three examples over the course of one week's time--GOP Rep. Robin Hayes, VP nominee Sarah Palin, and GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann--all attacking Democrats' patriotism, then denying it, turning tail and running away.
There's clearly something interesting -- and different -- happening here. It's not that right-wing politicians are accusing liberals and Democrats of being unpatriotic, anti-American subversives. There's nothing new about that. To the contrary, that McCarthyite accusation has ...
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