Plunderbund

So given all the McCain stuff (and I’m not stopping soon), this was a hilarious find:
Former senator Mike DeWine, the chairman of Mr. McCain’s Ohio organization, walked around the banquet hall while people ate their chicken cordon bleu and rice pilaf.
“He’s the one candidate in this race who understands national defense,” Mr. DeWine said.
“What we’re […]

Senator Catch 22 is not comfortable in his own skin. He knows better than to be spewing the lies that he is, but he is too far down the road to come back. He’s like that kid caught in no man’s land in dodge ball. He has no idea where to run. […]

I had to pull out the best lines in what is one of the best and funniest smackdowns in some time on national news. I was talking with a buddy and he said that CNN appears to have just snapped on the continual whistling of the Bush administration over Iraq.
So here’s the […]

John picked up a new nickname last night. Thanks to CNN’s Michael Ware. Ware says he doesn’t know what part of Neverland John McCain is talking about when McCain says we can go strolling in Baghdad:

I honestly can’t stop watching this and laughing. Ware absolutely RIPS McCain a new one over this. […]

via ABC News’ “The Blotter”:
Bush administration officials throughout the government have engaged in White House-directed efforts to stifle, delay or dampen the release of climate change research that casts the White House or its policies in a bad light, says a new report that purports to be the most comprehensive assessment to date of the […]

Matt speaks and ModernEsquire pummels him into dust with superior knowledge and a better handle on the art of the pugilistic polemic.
Matty ignores the obvious that after massive federal and state tax cuts have been enacted, the state is still facing a foreclosure crisis. (Under Republican rule, Ohio cut its personal income tax some […]

I love this one. “Mr. Secretary, Halliburton on line one”. Jeff Hess pieces together a little puzzle regarding the attempts to gut the Endangered Species Act. The administration got into a bit of a space-time continuum problem by announcing they wanted to put polar bears on the endangered list (their habitat […]

Two high profile cancer stories lately offer us a unique opportunity to shed politics - or improve it - by realizing that there is no left-right. No Democrat-Republican. We engineer such things to make sense of the world, but in the end they are illusions. You see it all the time. […]

From CQ.com:
On Monday, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, introduced an amendment to strike the withdrawal language from the supplemental but not the benchmarks and reporting requirements. Trying to strip all three provisions at once raised the prospect of complicating the Republican effort to eliminate the withdrawal goal…
The amendment failed […]

I’m not sure which.

While the rest of the country fights to get the premier of the Simpsons’ Movie in their State- OUR U.S. House Representative Dave Hobson (R-Springfield) is actively battling AGAINST it.
When asked about the chance of premiering the movie in his town, Rep. Hobson said:
“I know my daughters don’t allow their children to watch it,” said […]

Tony Blair says no way! That CAN’T be true- even though people in his own administration support the study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins that says 654,965 Iraqis have died as a result of the war.
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Iraq death toll debated
LONDON, March 26 (UPI) — British officials and scientists are debating the accuracy of a […]

Bill Sloat picked up on a new report by Policy Matters Ohio on foreclosures in Ohio (give ‘em a link Bill!). I thought I’d pick this up and write a bit on it seeing how I’m smack in the middle of foreclosure hell myself - my neighborhood is experiencing precisely the problem that has […]

It’s back today. I thought it was gone- but it’s not. It got so bad I had to shut off my television.
Please help me.
Please.
Take 10 seconds and go to CNN’s Feedback Form and enter a message like this:
DEAR CNN,
PLEASE STOP! WE DON’T CARE ABOUT ANNA NICHOLE SMITH. WE DON’T CARE HOW […]

Thanks Mary! Really helps to have you point out the incredibly obvious:
Columbus - Today Ohio Auditor of State Mary Taylor released the 2005-06 audit of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and Industrial Commission of Ohio. The audit contains four major findings that highlight the inadequate policies and procedures that existed within […]