Not sure how much truth there is too it, but I've heard recently that in addition to the whole Sanford adultery on the public dime scandal, the republican Lt Gov of SC who called on Sanford to step down may have just been unwilling outed to keep him from rising to power in the republican ranks, and that Sanford's appointee, Kristin Maguire, as Chairwoman to the State Board of Education is resigning because its been discovered that in addition to being an an Upstate evangelical and one of South Carolina’s most respected social conservatives she's the prolific author of hardcore erotic fiction on the Internet and Maguire believes that a former friend is leaking the information to the media in an effort to ruin her political career.http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/08/31/sex-education/http://www.blogactive.com/2009/08/rumors-confirmed.htmlNot putting any stock in any of the rumors unless the info comes from a source I know is reputable, nor do I think people's private sex lives should have any bearing on whether or not they can be effective public servants, but if this is all true then I think they need to adopt more healthy & open & less repressive attitudes towards sex before they destroy the whole republican party leadership in SC.I think instead of reading Everybody Poops, there needs to be as required reading for conservative & evangelical leaders in public service a book called Everybody Fucks.
9/1/2009 1:54:30 PM
lol, if that's true...good lord.
9/1/2009 3:33:14 PM
^^^ People in general don't feel like their gov. represents them. It's fairly normal.It's not a feeling that's going to change though when both Republican and Democratic presidents run up massive amounts of debt.It's sad that the guy they attacked the hardest (Clinton) was practically the only president to do anything about the deficit.
9/1/2009 4:33:11 PM
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/02/sanford-now-i-know-what-palin-felt-like/
9/2/2009 12:29:48 PM
Sarah and Mark both love Jesus.
9/2/2009 1:14:25 PM
The Christian right is a pretty heavy millstone around the GOP's neck. Unless they can get shod of it, and attract enough fiscally conservative / social libertarians from the left, they're all but sunk . . . despite the nearly epic ineptness of the Democratic party.
9/2/2009 1:19:12 PM
fat chance.the christian right is where all the GOP's $$$ comes from.
9/2/2009 1:33:00 PM
yeah, I don't see it happening. I think this leaves an opening for a third party. The Democrats will self destruct left unopposed.
9/2/2009 1:36:51 PM
9/2/2009 1:40:47 PM
reading the rest of that link, the results are mixed.I thought this was interesting from the PPP report:
9/2/2009 1:56:35 PM
The GOP's Best Weapon In 2010Gary Andres: History Makes The Case For Divided Governmenthttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/20/opinion/main5255432.shtml
9/2/2009 2:17:18 PM
That's their best case? The same case that any minority party that's ever existed has had?
9/2/2009 3:43:16 PM
^ Well, there's that and this:Democrats Could Lose Big in House in 2010Experts say GOP could pick up more than 20 seatsPosted Aug 31, 09
9/2/2009 4:09:09 PM
i don't know about the numbers, but i think the sentiments expressed are pretty accurate.guess it's time for:2010: Contract With America, part II ... just like 1994, we won't keep any of the promises but it sure feels good.
9/2/2009 4:58:13 PM
^ How many "promises" has Obama kept?
9/2/2009 10:59:51 PM
"no new taxes"sorry had to
9/2/2009 11:11:41 PM
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/09/rs-levi3.html?hpid=artslot
9/2/2009 11:29:39 PM
yeah, i could care less about that.
9/2/2009 11:42:33 PM
I refuse to judge any parent of a special needs child, about how they handle their parenting.that is by far the most stressful, emotionally devastating thing in the world, to have a developmentally disabled child.
9/2/2009 11:44:04 PM
^^^I'm not in anyway disputing the reliability of that article, but it still strikes me as a little sketchy to have the words "reliable source" in the link, much in the same way that I worry about University Apartments or Your Schools Mascot Apartments type places.
9/3/2009 12:30:09 AM
I mean, in all seriousness, stuff she does and says as a private figure now receives more attention than half the asinine shit that flows out of either Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reed. Sarah Palin was unfit for national office, and I'm glad she's gone, but for fuck's sake the left needs to let her go.
9/3/2009 9:48:27 AM
the right needs to let her go, too.
9/3/2009 9:50:45 AM
The GOP is doing a lot to distance themselves from her. She's not speaking at the Republican Women's convention, she's not making any high profile public appearances and, aside from the folks still driving around with Palin / McCain stickers, she really isn't a significant part of the Republican conversation. ]
9/3/2009 10:11:37 AM
^From what I heard on the news yesterday she is still out there making a good chunk of change for paid speeches, she's had around 200 invites from republicans to come help campaign for them, and just hoping over to CNN now one can easily find a Palin story in the politics section and see that they want to make her queen of the tea parties.http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/03/looking-for-a-leader-tea-partiers-issue-invite-to-palin-2/
9/3/2009 10:38:54 AM
Tea Party Express.lol.makes me think of when Buzz Lightyear dressed up like Mrs. Nesbitt and drank one too many cups of Darjeeling.[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 10:50 AM. Reason : ]
9/3/2009 10:46:33 AM
Queen of a tea party?These people are hilarious.
9/3/2009 11:07:46 AM
Well if she's still showing her ass, it should still be a target. And I mean that in a non-gender specific way.Comma however.I do wish the media would spend more time investigating the people actually in power instead of taking the intellectually lazy route of picking the low hanging fruit like Sarah Palin or making fun of the term "Tea Party."
9/3/2009 12:40:58 PM
9/3/2009 1:24:11 PM
Says the champion of childish name-calling.
9/3/2009 1:31:47 PM
^ Maybe you're right, Boone-Tard. But at least I'm not biting off anyone's finger like one Obama supporter did:http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/09/mans-finger-bitten-off-in-clash-at-health-care-rally.html
9/3/2009 1:35:47 PM
That was one helluva non sequitur.
9/3/2009 2:04:46 PM
9/3/2009 2:43:37 PM
^^^http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2009/09/healthcare-reform-advocate-punched-by-opponent-at-nelson-event.html
9/3/2009 4:12:32 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_re_us/us_finger_severed_2
9/3/2009 4:15:52 PM
the irony there is made less humorous by the fact that the government threatens you with revocation of Social Security benefits if you don't accept Medicare.I'm an opponent of both, but I cannot fault people for making rational financial decisions when compelled to by the Federal Government.^^^ Meh. I'll buy some of that. I don't think John McCain ever really had a chance. His campaign was exceptionally poorly run from the start and it is practically magical that he managed to survive.Sarah Palin is gone from elected office. She won't be coming back. People currently in public office, either elected or appointed, are saying and doing all sorts of things that are remarkably more important than Sarah Palin. If she starts popping up in 2011 more and more, I'll buy the coverage. Right now? It's just self-gratifying easy pickings which keeps her in the news.
9/3/2009 4:22:40 PM
9/4/2009 1:35:59 AM
http://www.slate.com/id/2227226/
9/4/2009 9:53:18 AM
9/4/2009 11:08:36 AM
Actually, he's running against Creigh Deeds and yes I think he has a chance. I don't have a dog in this fight (I should, I'm moving there soon) but I do find it interesting that far more inflammatory statements by Obama's cabinet have been largely dismissed and a comment that Bob McDonnell made 30 years ago is getting a significant amount of press attention.I'm no fan of evangelical Christians running as evangelical Christians for office, but is there any evidence that he still believes this?
9/4/2009 11:46:30 AM
Yes, it's going to be a very very close race. But VA has two Dem Senators.And it wasn't 30 years ago, it was 1989.
9/4/2009 11:55:03 AM
9/4/2009 11:57:32 AM
^^^my mistake, I assumed as a first term governor he'd run again... but now after reading I see on wiki:"Virginia is the only state in the United States to prohibit governors from serving successive terms"I did not know that.^^I heard on NPR he was at 14 ahead & since "thesis-gate" (not sure this qualifies as a gate, but the shortening of the term is helpful I suppose) he is falling & his lead has been cut in half so far to 7. The question is, did the poll happen at the exact end of the falling of his poll numbers, or somewhere along the way & they are still going down?[Edited on September 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM. Reason : .]
9/4/2009 11:59:16 AM
Yea, not only can Kaine not run again, he's the Chair of the DNC in waiting if you will....^^ I was merely pointing out the incorrect statement.I remember some of the stuff that Webb wrote and what he said, but, I feel like Webb didn't set out on a political path to bring any change about based on those statements.McDonnell has, as stated above, sought out to ban abortions completely within the state. Yes, his opinions can change, I completely agree with that. But I think his thesis on the subject give a view of the general direction in which he would try to take VA.
9/4/2009 12:03:35 PM
Taken in context it can. However, it is still interesting to notice the difference in the way opponents of the president are dismissed for pointing out things his advisers and cabinet members have said as evidence of who he draws advice from.Interestingly enough, from a national perspective, Deeds was far and away the most conservative Democrat in the primary field.
9/4/2009 12:14:27 PM
He was, and I voted for him
9/4/2009 12:23:19 PM
The problem is that the quotes from presidential aides and advisors don't get much spotlight.I can probably recall on one hand the things I've heard Rahm Emanuel say and maybe less from David Axelrod.Although, it's possible that I may not be looking in the right direction.
9/4/2009 12:46:06 PM
seems like they are jumping on board the van jones wagon
9/4/2009 12:47:57 PM
You haven't heard Rahm because they're purposely keeping him very quiet. He likes to shoot his mouth off.Biden usually says stupid shit, but that's just Biden. He always sticks his foot in his mouth.Axelrod's too smart to say anything really stupid. Which is why you saw him so much on the campaign.The ones you worry about are the Undersecretaries in the different cabinets. They're the ones that are more likely to shoot their mouth off, but also the most likely to not get covered by the media.
9/4/2009 12:48:26 PM
9/4/2009 2:38:08 PM
Poll: Lowest Congressional Approval in Two DecadesPosted September 2, 2009
9/4/2009 4:24:23 PM