Last night Japan’s ruling party lost control of the Diet by a 3:1 margin. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown escaped the UK and spent the weekend in Afghanistan. Is this where we are? The PM must go to a war zone to get some peace? As Japan goes, so goes Labour in 2010?
Mr. Brown has [...]
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As Japan Goes in UK Labour’s Summer or Discontent - Is a Tory Win Assured?
Posted on 31 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Afghanistan, Conservative leader David Cameron, Daily Kos, Danyl Johnson, David Cameron, demconwatchblog.com, Diet, Expense-gate, fivethirtyeight.com, Gordon Brown, ICM/Mirror poll, Japan, Labour, Lib Dems, MP expenses row, Nate Silver, Nick Clegg, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Susan Boyle, The Telegraph, UK media, X-Factor
Blood in the Hearing Room! Republicans Circle Ominously Over Speech Sentence!
Posted on 14 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Advise and Consent, Appeals Court Judge, Associate Justice, Confirmation hearings, Conservative leader David Cameron, David Cameron, Federal Appeals Court judge, hearings, John McCain, Judge Sotomayor, michael Buffer, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Jeff Sessions, Senator Lindsey Graham, Sonia Sotomayor, United States Senate, US Supreme Court
By Denis Campbell
Called the world’s most deliberative body, the United States Senate often more resembles a circus side show. 100 members can slow legislation to a crawl and demand that laws pass by a 60-40 super majority vs. a simple 51-49 majority vote. Failure to do that on important legislation such as climate change, healthcare [...]
MP Expense Row Drum Beats On
Posted on 18 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Buckingham Palace, Conservative leader David Cameron, David Cameron, displeased, Gordon Brown, HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Lib Dems, MP expenses, Nick Clegg, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth, Tony Blair
By Denis Campbell
Her Majesty is “displeased.”
Queen Elizabeth II normally stays above the fray, so much so that “displeased” is a cause for alarm bells across Westminster and the land. Most monarchs in Europe’s labyrinth of Constitutional Monarchies serve largely “ceremonial” roles. Although most can still take the Draconian step of dissolving a dysfunctional government, they [...]
Is Sarah Palin About to Become Mrs. John Zaccaro?
Posted on 10 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $17, 000+, 18-months to pick a real running mate, 1984, 312 days worth of meal and housing per diems, base went wild, Blair, Chinese water torture, Conservative leader David Cameron, day-12 of the “when will she talk to the press” watch, Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, drip of scandal, earmarks, general feeling of entitlement, Geraldine Ferraro, Homeland Security, just keep breathing, Lib Dems Sir Menzies Campbell, live vetting process, McCain, MP expenses, Mrs. John Zaccaro, MSM questions, obama, off-the-cuff gaffe about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, outrageous lies, political napalm, polls rebounded dramatically, President Reagan, Prime Minister Brown, pro-choice, real estate developer husband, reams of documents, rightt wing blogs trying hardest to protect her, Sarah Palin, scurrilous and ridiculous, Sex Education for 5-year olds, show her incredibly poor judgment, spinning badly out of control, Stump speech embellishments, tied to indicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, to stay at home, Tom Ridge former Pennsylvania Governor, trooper-gate, up yours to the party, Walter Mondale, won re-election in a landslide, worse than Dan Quayle
In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was chosen by Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale. The base went wild, polls rebounded dramatically and then when “our Geraldine” became Mrs. John Zaccaro, her real estate developer husband and the press focussed in on his “interesting” business dealings, President Reagan won re-election in a landslide.
Now, Sarah Palin whose high pitched [...]
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