“Liz Cheney has been on a tear lately, she questioned if Tom Brady is a real Patriot” was best quote of the speech.

by Robert Reich
Dear Senator,
I know you’re in a tough spot. It would be bad enough if you only had to get Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln on board, but anyone who has to kiss Joe Lieberman’s derriere deserves a congressional medal of honor.
But Harry, you really need to take on future [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
We’ve celebrated for 2½ weeks and what better way to remember Jack Kennedy on this solemn day than to watch President-elect Obama’s deliberate, studious and principled leadership in action. The hard work began precisely at 11:00 pm on 04 November, healing our land and cleaning up our reputation in the world, after the [...]

By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]

by Denis Campbell
Every incoming POTUS and VPOTUS (President of the United States and Vice), has a code name used by their US Secret Service protection detail. The name is chosen by the White House Communications Agency, originally created as the White House Signal Detachment under Franklin Roosevelt.
According to protocol, ‘good’ codewords are unambiguous words that [...]

 
McCain misstatements from the last debate:
• Governor Palin a Bresh of freth air.
• Calling Obama ‘Senator Government’.
• Saying Obama voted for Supreme Court Justice Bryer even though he was confirmed 10 years ago, before Obama was in the Senate.
• Promise he would fight for a line-item veto, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1998.
• Hitching onto [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
Could Sarah Palin really be a Walt Disney creation? At some point the comparisons between her and perky Mouseketeer Annette are hard to push out of consciousness. Annette learned her lines and recited them with real “Gosh, Shucks” authenticity in such a way that she became and old man’s and America’s sweetheart (not [...]

 
 
by Charley James
 
No, it’s not Karl Rove. I’m speaking of Murray Warmath.
And who is Murray Warmath when he’s home? He happens to have been the world’s greatest expert on lowering expectations.
From 1954 through the 1971 season, Warmath was head football coach at the University of Minnesota. Although he won two Big Ten titles, mostly he [...]

Balloons fell from the rafters in St. Paul where the Obfuscation Talk Express (Straight, had left the building) crowned the King and Queen of the Republican Prom and eased on down the road to a 1950’s, Donna Reed Show style, lily-white, male dominated, middle class America, where the press politely knows their place and doesn’t ever [...]

Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]