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Posted at 1:41pm on Jul. 10, 2008 TIME Mag's Karen Tumulty plays the ditz when snarking Phil Gramm
By Mark Kilmer
McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm says:
"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. "We may have a recession; we haven't had one yet."
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Posted at 12:23pm on Jul. 10, 2008 ENPR: Obama has two potential veep picks in PA
By Mark Kilmer
I wrote this for the PA Water Cooler blog, but it should be of interest at least to the Pennsylvanians amongst us:
Tim Carney writes the Evans & Novak Political Report (ENPR) for Bob Novak, and today he looks at possible veep choices, two of whom are from Pennsylvania. There are no Republicans – which is not surprising, I guess, as it is not altogether clear that our Keystone Commonwealth still has a GOP – but two Pennsylvanians made the list.
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Posted at 8:28pm on Jul. 3, 2008 Obama is nothing. No Dem nominee since Fritz has been something.
By Mark Kilmer
Barack Obama is not any particular thing, ergo he is nothing.
He's ready to refine his position on Iraq and troop withdrawal:
Obama told reporters in Fargo, N.D., that he is “going to do a thorough assessment."
"When I go to Iraq and I have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I'm sure I'll have more information and will continue to refine my policies," he said, according to CBS News. “I have been consistent, throughout this process, that I believe the war in Iraq was a mistake.”
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Posted at 9:14pm on Jun. 29, 2008 I's on the Guy Benson show, WIND 560AM, Chicago
By Mark Kilmer
I just did the Guy Benson show on AM 560, WIND in Chicago. It was about a five minute interview in which I was asked about the Sunday Shows. Basic stuff. I read the Wes Clark quote – "I do not think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification for being President" – and we talked a little about Rendell. He noted that Jay Rockefeller was pilloried for saying less.
I was going to mention Pawlenty cleaning Emanuel's clock, which I should have done, but… oh, the interview was five minutes long.
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Posted at 1:10pm on May 29, 2008 CNN's Jess Yellin: MSNBC is run by pro-Bush censors!
By Mark Kilmer
Last night at the top of her little lungs, Jessica Yelling was yelling to CNN's Anderson Cooper that she agreed with former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new novel. The woman became deranged:
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Posted at 12:38pm on May 29, 2008 New Poll: McCain sans Mitt beats Obama in Michigan
By Mark Kilmer
John McCain is beating Barry in Michigan, according to a new poll conducted by EPIC-MRA, but there is a caveat.
The poll, commissioned by Detroit's WXYZ-Action News, was of 600 likely Michigan voters, and the margin of error is four points. It showed McCain leading Obama by the margin, 44% - 40%. Among Michigan independents, McCain puts on the hurt, pulling ahead of Obama by thirteen points, 41% to 28%.
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Posted at 5:23pm on May 20, 2008 Obama is confused about FOX News
By Mark Kilmer
FOX News Channel's Megyn Kelly interviewed Senator Barack Obama this afternoon, and the Senator talked about crossing milestones tonight and about Senator Kennedy.
Mending fences really quickly.
Yesterday, Obama told the world that he lost in Kentucky because FOX News is telling lies about him, that he is a Moslem, etc. (FNC has always defended him against that charge.)
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Posted at 1:10pm on May 19, 2008 Keith Obermann mentions "cold-blooded killers." The craven, little puke.
By Mark Kilmer
The MSNBC sportscaster, Keith Olbermann, said this (via AllahPundit):
The president replied: “Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States. The biggest issue we face is, it’s bigger than Iraq, it’s this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives.”
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Posted at 5:05pm on Apr. 30, 2008 "McCain has been told to knock it off."
By Mark Kilmer
So says Bob Novak in his weekly newsletter, Evans-Novak Political Report:
McCain has yet to show that he understands the role of a presidential nominee. He still sometimes acts like a back-bench senator, as when he ordered the North Carolina Republican Party to take an ad off the air (a request that ought to have been made by Republican National Chairman Mike Duncan). McCain has been told to knock it off.
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Posted at 8:12pm on Apr. 25, 2008 The Huffington Post inexplicably attacks young ballplayer
By Mark Kilmer
It never ends with our friends at the Huffington Post. You know their record for non-sequitur and factual invention at times, but this one has nothing to do with a per se conservative or a Republican, or anyone else the cut of whose jib they happen not to like. Nope. They're attacking a talented, young rookie pitcher with the New York Yankees named Joba Chamberlain, after the second-time-ever bad evening of his young career. (The first was last October in the former Jacobs Field in Cleveland, when Dennis Kucinich and Eric Wedge turned loose the Lake Erie midge's on the young man's upper body.) Even more on his mind, his father Harlan, a splendid man who raised a magnificent son while dealing with his own travails, collapsed last week forcing Joba away from the team to be at his ailing and beloved father's side.
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Posted at 3:12pm on Apr. 22, 2008 I've voted in the Pennsylvania Primary
By Mark Kilmer
Well, I voted this afternoon, and there were no interesting decisions. My wife and I arrived at our precinct's volunteer fire station, and there was no one there. I expected to see strange kids with Mohawks and Miley Cyrus t-shirts pushing either Barack Obama or Ron Paul, but none were there.
For President, the choices were listed: Ron Paul, John McCain, Mike Huckabee. The wife chose Huckabee, just because she wanted to vote for him at least once. I went with McCain. The other contest were either uncontested or choose a maximum of four to be a delegate. (I'm not one who puts a lot of thought into who I want to go to the RNC, don a silly hat, and blow a horn. Personally, I'd have sooner not sent a Romney supporter, but we were not told who supported what. It'll be over on the first ballot anyway, so they're committed.
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Posted at 3:03pm on Apr. 3, 2008 Air America's latest follies
By Mark Kilmer
We haven't had fun at Air America's expense for a while, and I wasn't sure they were still on the air until today. Let's do it.
First, one their founding execs, Thomas L. Athans, was busted for paying a 20-year-old prostitute $150 for sex. He is married to Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, a loud Democrat.
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Posted at 2:07pm on Mar. 31, 2008 My sister meets Barack Obama
By Mark Kilmer
Last Saturday afternoon, I received an excited phone call from my sister Amy, who told me that she was with some friends in a pub beneath a bowling alley. The Secret Service had arrived and did their Secret Service thaang, and now Barack Obama was upstairs bowling a game.
Amy's a McCain supporter, a solid Republican, but she was excited. I told her that, no matter our political party, Barry's candidacy was history. Plus, that morning, the local paper had run an article about how we're so Republican and our State's primary so irrelevant that all Presidential candidates ignore this county.
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Posted at 9:23am on Mar. 26, 2008 Do the Dems really want to debate on CBS?
By Mark Kilmer
CBS News had planned to stage a Dem Presidential debate last December 10, but that one was cancelled due to labor strife (writers' strike). Every single other television network imaginable has hosted an event, but CBS won't get its opportunity until April 16 in Philly.
The New York Times claims, among other sundry things:
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Posted at 4:21pm on Mar. 24, 2008 Hillary aide Blumenthal drives drunk, avoids jail time
By Mark Kilmer
Hillary henchman Sidney Blumenthal has pleaded guilty to driving while liquored up – January in New Hampshire – and he'll lose his license for sixteen months. He avoided trial and greater punishment only because his arresting officer was ordered to Iraq.
Now an unpaid adviser to Hillary Clinton's campaign, Blumenthal, 59, was arrested Jan. 7, the day before the New Hampshire primary, and charged with aggravated drunken driving. Police said Blumenthal was traveling 70 mph in a 30 mph zone.
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