Ahhh

Veni, vidi, vici...

Obama may consider running in 2008

Have you guys seen this? Barack Obama has backed off on his comment that he will definitely not run in 2008. He is now saying that he might run.

I know that there are a lot of Obama fans within the Democrats club, so I thought this would be exciting news to you all. :)

The Jack Abramoff Homepage

Though it's not the best place to read in detail about the Abramoff affair (this WaPo story is a good place to start), I find the appearance of the official House Democrats' Jack Abramoff webpage to be hilarious, and it does list many important facts, such as the 485 contacts convicted briber Abramoff had with White House officials.

In a Republican-corruption related story, this youtube clip is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr8qQ-VX9i8&eurl=

And in other news, Republican majority leader Bill Frist, under investigation for insider trading, has declared that we ought to surrender to the Taliban.

The Republicans are collapsing.

How long did they know?

I found this ABC news video on another blog, but I'm posting it here because everybody ought to see it. Key quote: "It turns out that Foley's obsession with sixteen and seventeen year old male pages has been known to Republicans on Capitol Hill for at least five years, but other than issue a warning, little else seems to have been done about the Congressman."

Bush: "Human Dignity...Open To Interpretation"

"Common Article Three of the Geneva Convention says there will be no outrages on human dignity. It's very vague. What does that mean, "outrages upon human dignity?" It's a statement that is wide open to interpretation," - President George W. Bush

It's at about 3:57 here:

George Allen Strikes Again

In a previous post I suggested that George Allen might not have known what he was saying when he twice used the word "macaca". I may have to take that back. From a Washington Post story today titled "Allen denies using racial slur in college":

"...Shelton reiterated that Allen frequently used the "N word" and he also recounted an episode in 1973 or 1974 in which he and Allen and a third friend shot a deer while hunting. Shelton said Allen cut the deer's head off, asked directions to the home of the nearest black person, and shoved the head into that person's oversized mailbox."

A Yee-Haw & a Tip o' the Stetson

David Broder, the man U.S. News calls "the unchallenged 'dean' of what many political reporters like to think is their 'priesthood'," recently had something to say.

And say it he did -- in a column titled, fittingly, "Independence Days."

"...[Y]ou can see the independence party forming -- on both sides of the aisle. They are mobilizing to resist not only Bush but also the extremist elements in American society -- the vituperative, foul-mouthed bloggers on the left and the doctrinaire religious extremists on the right who would convert their faith into a whipping post for their opponents.

"The center," ladies and gentlemen, "is beginning to fight back."

And your resident Texan, needless to say, could not be happier.


Read the rest of Broder's article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001586.html

U.S. Health-Care System Gets a "D"

BusinessWeek magazine, that font of left-wing propaganda, has a new story up: U.S. Health-Care System Gets a "D".

Interesting (although not new) info: "the U.S. spends more on medicine, by far, than any other country. Approximately 16% of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) is devoted to health care, compared with 10% or less in other industrialized nations.... The U.S. ranks at the bottom among industrialized countries for life expectancy both at birth and at age 60.... if the U.S. improved and standardized health-care performance and access, approximately 100,000 to 150,000 lives could be saved annually, along with $50 billion to $100 billion a year.... As a share of total health expenditures, insurance administrative costs in the U.S. were more than three times the rate in countries with integrated payment systems."

In related news, there will be a rally outside Bailey Hall this coming Tuesday, before the Gubernatorial Debate, in support of single-payer universal health insurance. If you want to show your support for fixing our broken health care system, stop by at 5:30 or earlier.