Plunderbund

The AP is reporting that at a hearing this afternoon Democratic lawmakers voted to subpoena Ken Blackwell - who has refused to comply with their previous ‘invitations’.
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers still has to decide if he will actually issue the subpoena. But during today’s hearing his gave Mr. Blackwell one more chance:
“Mr. Ken […]

Look for yours truly on BBC giving some post-debate analysis tonight. Details to follow. I don’t think it’s live, but we’ll have the MP3 of the 10 minute segment soon enough.
I hear I’ll be on with a Texas Hillary supporter and possibly Jill Miller Zimon of WLST. Should be fun!

After Blackwell refused the first ‘invitation’ to testify, Reps. Conyers and Nadler have sent him another more forceful letter:
“we believe your prominent role in recent elections … in which serious questions arose concerning protection of the right to vote gives you a uniquely valuable perspective.”
“Your cooperation will ensure the committee can obtain the benefit of […]

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This has been posted in other places, but some miss the point to this. Her defense of it is that there is no shame in Barack wearing “his native clothing…the clothing of his country”. Excuse me Miss Tubbs Jones, but Barack Obama’s native country is THE UNITED STATES. In order to run […]

NASCAR is a wussy motorsport. Rally is where it’s at, and this short film showing rally legend Ari Vatanen racing a Peugeot 405 T16 to the top of Pikes Peak shows why rally takes big brass ones. Be sure to turn up your sound so you can hear the roar of the engine […]

According to her website, the Clinton campaign has released a new spanish-language theme song.
The Clinton campaign announced today a new Latino campaign theme song entitled “Hillary, Hillary Clinton” written and performed by Walter Suhr and the Mango Punch, and introduced by famed Tejano musician Johnny Canales who dedicates the song to “Nuestra Amiga” (“Our Friend”) […]

As Obama and Clinton fight to differentiate themselves in the eyes of Ohio’s Democratic voters- the topic of health care plans keeps coming up- just like it did during the 2006 race for Ohio Governor.
And, just like the 2006 Gubernatorial race, the differentiating factor with these health care plans is whether or not to mandate […]

This NAFTA issue must be hounding them. I got this in the mail today:

(click for full pdf)
Won’t comment too much on it. I do love the “FALSE ATTACK ALERT”. Most especially in a piece that uses reporter quotes to appear as Obama quotes. I wonder if Ben Smith will correct […]

A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that Barack Obama is now only 4 points down from Hillary Clinton in Ohio!
Clinton leads Obama 50-46. Obama’s surge appears to be at least partially attributable to the virtual certainly that John McCain will be nominated on the Republican side. That means more independents and Republicans in […]

Something got me thinking the other day on a long flight from the west coast back to our beloved Buckeye State. I was reading about the ongoing controversy about why Hillary Clinton will not release her tax returns. Something her opponent - and Plunderbund endorsed candidate - Barack Obama had already done. […]

On this day in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was sworn in to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
138 years later, only four other African Americans have served in the US Senate- the most recent being Barack Obama. It seems like we should have a made a little […]

As you may have noticed, Buckeye State Blog is down. I just talked to Jerid and he’s working on getting it back up.
He’s not sure what happened yet- but he assures me it will be back up soon (6-24 hours).

Whitehouse.com is reporting that Larry Sinclair - the nutjob who claims to have performed oral sex on Barack Obama in the back of a limo after the two shared cocaine and crack - is officially full of crap…
Dr. Ed Gelb, Former President of the American Polygraph Association was the Polygraph expert selected by Whitehouse.com. He […]

Huckabee gave a speech in Denver on Friday to a bunch of wingnuts at the annual Leadership Program of the Rockies dinner.
He again promised to work toward ammending the US Constitution to be more in line with God’s law- this time going to far as to say that NOT having an amendment forcing all in […]

According to the AP, Republicans lead Dems 6 to 2 in lawmaker indictments since 2000:

_ Feb. 22, 2008: Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., indicted on charges of extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other crimes in an Arizona land swap that authorities say helped him collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs.
_ June 11, 2007: […]