David Broder tells us. He seems to think the current Democratic Governor from Vermont will be the 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee. He seems like an interesting enough guy. He is not your typical Democrat, that’s for sure.
Dean is:
- a physician
- against gun control and has an “A rating” from the NRA
- one who considers himself friendly to the environment
- against all the testing in Bush’s education plan (which was supported by Kerry, Edwards, and Lieberman)
- for capital punishment
- for universal healthcare
- in favor of NAFTA and “fast track” trade authority (but not for Bush “without enforceable guarantees of workers’ rights and environmental standards“.
- for the farm bill and the new ethanol standards
- in favor of same-sex unions, but thinks it should be up to states to decide
- pretty conservative for a Democrat
July 12th, 2002
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Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom links to a story about knuckle-dragging mouth-breather, “Robert Aretz Lindsay, 50, who lives on Homan Avenue” in Fort Worth, TX. Lindsay enjoys hurting puppies with fire.
Says Mr. Goldstein: I’ll bring the picnic basket. For afterwards, when I’m enjoying a nice tuna sandwich over his lifeless, bullet-riddled carcass.
Says I: I’ll bring the sticks and marshmallows to roast over his burning ass after we give him the gas-n-go treatment.
July 12th, 2002
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Tom Daschle is a… a… well a dirty word derived from “pusillanimous“.
Sometimes I am convinced that the Senate Democrats want to fail and have an innate desire to look idiotic. Yesterday’s Daschle-dumb block of a seemingly common sense proposal by John McCain is a prime example. Ted Barlow (keine permalinken) tells us why.
July 12th, 2002
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On my way to get my daily caffeine fix this morning I passed the local Waldenbooks. 90% of the store’s shelf-space has been dedicated to the release of the latest book Left-Behind series. Usually these books have kind of interesting or at least eye-catching titles like “Apollyon” or ” the Indwelling” and stuff (though I admit that when I saw the title of the first book I thought it was a comedy about someone’s posterior). The title for this one however seems odd — “The Remnant“. Man, you must really be running out of creative steam when you have to base a novel on a carpet swatch.
July 12th, 2002
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White House plans 10-year study of climate change
I’ve got to give them credit, this is one cute move.
Advisor: “I know, let’s act like we care and commission a huge study on Global Warming, but make it last so long that we will be out of office before we ever have to do anything about it.”
Bush: “That’s a splendorious idea!”
Of course I would be remiss if I did not point out the criticism of the plan by St. John of the Kerry:
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who presided over the hearing, insisted, however, that the predictions of economic gloom and doom were overstated.
He said the administration’s own “dire warnings” of global warming’s likely effects justify more than a voluntary approach.
“There is an inconsistency,” Kerry said, admonishing the advisers. Even as the administration acknowledges potentially “grave consequences” of global warming, he said, “emissions will increase each year under the president’s program.
“Now why should Americans be satisfied that this is a legitimate response to this crisis, this problem we face?” Kerry asked.
*Sigh!*
July 12th, 2002
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Here was the headline on this morning’s Houston Chronicle:
Ashcroft warning: Terror cells in U.S.–Hundreds of al-Qaida ’sleepers’ feared
Maybe I am just cynical, but I sense a pattern here — The Teflon president starts catching some heat in the media, and the administration responds with scare tactics. I am not saying that I think the claims by Ashcroft are entirely baseless. Rather, I am tired of the administration trying to play upon the fears of the populace for political ends.
July 12th, 2002
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Has anyone else gotten sick of all the hype surrounding the “Road to Perdition”? I have mildly wanted to see this movie since I saw the preview a couple of months ago and remembered that they filmed part of the movie a mile away from where I used to live in IL. Now I find I am already getting sick of it. David Letterman, God love him, has had every single person associated with the film as a guest this week (tonight’s guest is Gaffer Bill Mulrooney and Monday we get Best Boy Davie McDavieson). I opened up the newspaper today to see the phrase “The Road to Oscar!”, so I put the paper down and turned on the radio only to hear more glowing praise for Hanks and Newman and Law. Finally, when I opened up the Parkay this morning the usual “Butter” voice was replaced with “Road to Perdition–it’s Oscar-tastic”. If all the gushing is correct, film audiences across the nation will achieve Nirvana within the first 15 minutes of the picture.
The sad thing is, is that I will probably go see this movie this weekend (if only to see how they used the town of West Dundee). I guess the brainwashing worked. I am such a sheep. Baah!
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