John McCain Still Supports Privatizing Social Security

The American people - across party lines and ideology - do not support privatizing social security. They don’t support it in boom times, let alone in the middle of this Republican recession. But John McCain, just like George W. Bush, does support privatizing social security.

Sen. McCain, the Republican nominee, said he remains open to personal accounts, also called private accounts, for younger people. Under this system, pushed hard by President Bush in 2005, workers could divert some of the taxes that normally would go to pay Social Security benefits into personal accounts invested in stocks and/or bonds. In trade, their guaranteed checks from the government would go...
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GOP Has Buyer’s Remorse

Oh noes, they’ve got the wrong candidate at the top of the ticket!

“She’s the draw for a lot of people,” said Marilyn Ryman, who came to see her at the Colorado rally inside an airport hangar. “The fact that she’s someone new, not the old everything we’ve seen before.”

Of course, when you think old everything, you think… John McCain. He was a POW, you know?

McCain Supporters/Campaign Pushing Phony Story About “Thrown Away” Flags

When you’ve got no record to run on, this is the kind of bull you pull.

Days before the anniversary of September 11, on the same morning that John McCain and Barack Obama released a joint statement pledging to avoid politics in light of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, McCain’s campaign accused Democrats of throwing away 12,000 American flags.

“The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there,” Fox News reported, “and they are going to be used as part of the warm-up ceremonies before McCain takes the stage” for a rally in Colorado Springs, Col.

But according to a senior official involved in organizing the Democratic convention, the McCain...
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That “Sambo” Story

I’m not going to link to it here, but Google, my email, and some comments show me a lot of people are talking about it. The story rings false to me, and is just the sort of thing like the phony “whitey” video tape story that Larry Johnson was peddling that would be whipped up by a Republican activist like Roger Stone. There’s more than enough verified stuff out there about Sarah Palin’s record, lack of a record, misconduct and extreme views that you don’t need to go into an unverified story of a dubious nature.

The McCain Campaign Is Delusional And The NY Times Is Helping

From a New York Times article on where the campaigns are competing comes this.

Some campaign officials hope that Ms. Palin, an Alaskan, can broaden the ticket’s appeal in the Northwest, possibly gaining traction in states like Oregon and Washington, as well as shore up Mr. McCain’s standing with social conservatives who had, up to now, been lukewarm at best about his candidacy.

By this logic, Joe Biden should help to deliver Texas and South Carolina to Sen. Obama. Of course, he won’t, and the idea that a hard-right social con like Palin would do anything to help McCain in blue territory like the northwest is the kind of stupid that passes for Republican strategy nowadays.

Let’s go to...
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Some Straight Talk From Joe Biden

I love how the Bush-McCain Republicans try to sweep eight years of failure under the carpet.

The GOP’s Mistake In Attacking Community Organizing

The backlash keeps building and building. Because its an activity that leans left, the mainstream media is totally unaware of how pissed off people are. But then, who are involved in community organizing are pretty good at… organizing. Beware.

People do remember that Sen. Clinton became a major rallying point for the right, allowing them to unite in opposition, right? Okay.

A Base Pick

Back before I started this blog (eight years ago), I assumed that the pundit class clearly knew more than the rest of us. They were surely tuned in, highly educated, certainly that had to be true for them to go on television and make snap interpretations of the mood of a nation as large and diverse as ours. After reading Eric Alterman’s Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy and by actually getting my hands dirty, offering up opinions of my own on an almost daily basis I came to realize most of the people on television have no idea what they’re talking about.

We’ve been told in the last couple of days that Sarah Palin is the roaring...
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Republican Recession Watch: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac To Be Turned Over To The Government

Running the federal government is, indeed, “hard work”. Republicans, for the past decade or so, have worked hard at getting elected then once in office they think the job is done - mission accomplished. That’s why they argue so strenously against the government we are all a part of. That is why their goal is to privatize as much of it as they can while sending as much money into the hands of their friends, families and other associates. But this great nation didn’t become great by our government sitting back and letting the robber barons belly up to the table. We need the government to mind the store, to referee, to regulate and legislate so we can keep...
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The Most Important Issue Of This Election

I’m sorry, hockey? They may play that up in Canada and whatnot, but here in America we play football.

This is a nation with lingerie football, not lingerie hockey. Are we not Americans? STAND AND FIGHT AT THE FIFTY YARD LINE FOR YOUR NATION!!!

McCain “Black Supporters” Were Bought And Paid For

They only cost him a few dollars to buy some stock photos.

I want to laugh, but I want to cry at the same time.

McCain Campaign Doesn’t Know What Walter Reed Hospital Looks Like

They support the troops so much they can’t tell the difference between Walter Reed Middle School and Walter Reed Hospital. All the troops are is a backdrop to them anyways.

Americans United reminds McCain where Walter Reed is.

Four More Years? Federal Highway Funds Running Out

I repeat again. We are running out of federal highway funds. In America. Here. In America. What the hell have these people done to our country?

The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday.

The trust fund — a federal account used to help pay for highway and bridge projects — will run about $8.3 billion short by the end of September, Peters said during a conference call with reporters.

The shortfall will mean short delays — and in some cases a temporary reduction — in payments to states for infrastructure projects the federal government has agreed to help...
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John McCain’s Empty Reform

I can’t believe someone would fact check a man who was a POW.

GOP Senate Campaign Committee Pulls Out Of New Mexico

For the ten millionth time, this election is about individual states.

Republicans’ Senate campaign arm called off television ads Tuesday that were to air in New Mexico in the run-up to Election Day, an indication that it’s leaving the GOP candidate there to fend for himself as the party braces for losses.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s decision to cancel the New Mexico spots reflects its priorities during a tough year for the GOP, with the party lagging badly in fundraising and resigned to losing seats in the Senate.

New Mexico has been moving in Sen. Obama’s direction. In 2004, Bush won New Mexico. I also feel it is worth noting that New Mexico has a large...
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You Betcha!

Beware of sealed documents…

Republican Recession Watch: Unemployment At Five Year High

We have to trust John McCain to deal with this, because as you may have heard, he was a POW for five years. That doesn’t qualify him for president, according to Fred Thompson’s teleprompter, but still… FIVE YEARS!

The unemployment rate soared in August and employers slashed jobs, as a weakening in the labor market accelerated. The numbers suggest there is little good news ahead for American workers, who face deepening stress from several sides.

The jobless rate was 6.1 percent last month, up from 5.7 percent in July, the Labor Department said today. It is the highest unemployment rate in five years, and compares to joblessness of 4.1 percent one year ago.

Meanwhile, employers cut 84,000 jobs, the...
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BREAKING NEWS!!!

John McCain was a POW. I had to report that because he’s so reluctant to say it he says it every five minutes.

This just in.

John McCain’s Car Wreck Acceptance Speech

Make your own, post in comments!

UPDATE: In case you’re wondering, the AP got their GOP talking points.

John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the “constant partisan rancor” that grips Washington as he launched his fall campaign for the White House. “Change is coming,” he promised the roaring Republican National Convention and a prime-time television audience.

He;s such a rebel he supports the unpopular president. And that crowd - sparsely filling the arena - hardly roared. I must have missed the notice where the AP became a wholly owned subsidiary of the RNC.

GOP Embraces Graphic 9/11 Imagery

As you would expect. They can’t do anything but use 9/11 as a backdrop. Like maybe try to catch the people responsible.

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