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Andrea Mitchell occasionally comes up with a juicy, inside-politics tidbit obtained via her husband or some other longstanding beltway contact. Other than that, she is basically a repug talking-point leaker without any jounalistic credibility whatsoever.

Mitchell was the initial source of a whisper campaign spreading gossip about it being widely known throughout the Washington DC social circuit that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA. Both Tim Russert and Chris Matthews made her look like a fool by challenging her information, demanding to know where she got it from and who else knew about it. It became quite hilarious when she gave answers like, "I don't know where I got the information from." or "I must have dreamed it." or "What can I say? I'm crazy." posted 07/10/2008 at 08:47:58

Lame ducks Bush/Cheney are straining to reach diplomatic agreements with Iraq that will force the U.S. into a decades-long military occupation.

Their goal is to transform U.S. soldiers into security guards protecting the interests of oil business buddies they are covertly feeding lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.

This will make the Clintons selling pardons while they walked out the door look like a kindergarten exercise. posted 07/03/2008 at 05:32:23

A barrel of oil was around $31 on the day Bush invaded Iraq. posted 06/22/2008 at 23:19:50

Joe Biden did a great job holding Graham in check.

He was particularly effective when they debated the repugs' latest magic cure for $4 gas - vast expansion of off-shore drilling rights. posted 06/22/2008 at 23:15:00

Attacking an opponent's wife is integral to the repug party's game plan.

They attacked Bill Clinton"s wife.
They attacked John Kerry"s wife.
They attacked Joe Wilson"s wife.

It would be totally out-of-character for repug"s not to attack Barak Obama"s wife. If they don't go after her, it would be a clear case of racial discrimination and she should complain about it.

Wives are "fair game" according to Karl Rove. Therefore, "sugar momma" is an appropriate description of John McCain"s heiress wife, Cindy, whose multimillionaire, politically connected father personally sponsored McCain"s Arizona political career. posted 06/14/2008 at 02:58:30

According to spin from McCain's economist; a vote for Obama is a vote for Bush's 3rd term.

Nice try, but his candidate's opponent already owns that slogan.

By September, a desperate McCain will be calling George W Bush the worst president in history. posted 06/07/2008 at 17:03:08

Finance industry execs often cite professional sports teams when responding to questions about excessive compensation. They equate themselves with athletes and chant a "pay for performance" mantra. They're free agents ready to jump to an opponent if they don't receive ever increasing pay packages.

When caught using steroids, athletes are stripped of their medals/trophies and banned from future competition. Their athletic achievements are stricken from record books. Currently, baseball"s best pitcher and best hitter face potential prison sentences stemming from their steroid use.

Bonuses and stock option grants are Wall Street"s trophies. Why are these faux-genius bankers allowed to slink away with obscene amounts of money they were paid for hyping performance via recklessly leveraged financial machinations?

A few weeks ago, while Bear Stearns collapsed, James Cayne paid $28 million for two adjoining condos overlooking Central Park. (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/03/jimmy_cayne_closes_on_sweet_pl.html) Some media outlets sympathetically report his $1 billion fortune was reduced to a mere $60 million. The guy burns down his own house and keeps money paid to him when he poured gasoline all over it. Cayne should be selling pretzels on the sidewalk across the street from the Plaza, not living in it.

A year after rattling financial markets by blowing up his Long Term Capital Management hedge fund, John Meriwether formed another one and was welcomed back at the casino like nothing happened. Will Cayne to follow in his footsteps?

Where"s the sheriff? posted 03/27/2008 at 21:54:08

Since it's fair to ask Hillary Clinton's daughter if her father's extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky 11 years ago hurts her mother's credibility, then it's fair to ask John McCain's wife if her husband's extramarital affair with telecom lobbyist lobbyist Vicki Iseman 7 years ago hurts his credibility.

So far, McCain condemned the New York Times' "gutter politics" and vehemently denied doing political favors for Vicky Iseman's clients. While his surrogates say no affair took place (How would they know anyway?), McCain himself has not similarly denied it.

By the way, where is Vicky Iseman? Has she responded to the media allegations. She seems to have disappeared. posted 03/27/2008 at 08:00:03