Plunderbund

So the North Carolina GOP puts together a vile down ticket ad and McCain rebukes it strongly in a memo.
LOL. Good cop. Bad cop.
Rinse.
Repeat.

You can tell it’s an election year because a bunch of Republican lawmakers are proposing tax cut legislation that they know will never get passed.
This time it’s a proposal to completely phase out Ohio’s income tax.
The stated goal of the income tax elimination is to “stem the state’s population decline and improve its economy”.
Silly Republicans. […]

Is this magazine cover misogynistic?

…of course not. I’m not sure how you can get “woman hating” out of something like this. Jill thinks it is.
There is a danger here. Much like the danger in every criticism of Obama being characterized as racist (some are, some aren’t). We risk diluting […]

Best summed up by the NYT (who endorsed Hillary mind you):
The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; […]

After 50-odd posts about the Marc Dann scandal- I’m sure Matt Naugle is really, really pissed to hear this news:
Columbus police say they won’t file criminal charges against an aide in the Attorney General’s office over a junior staff member’s allegation that he sexually harassed her.
In a brief statement, police said Tuesday that an […]

Yep. The bastards are back!
Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama’s relatively strong reputation among […]

If you are an average woman, today you caught up with your male peers… for their 2007 income.
Today is Equal Pay Day. If you’re a woman, today marks how far into the year you must work, on average, to earn as much as man with a comparable job earned in 2007. It’s sickening to think […]

I mentioned this a few months back (and am not motivated enough to track it down), but this past weekend Ben Stein’s new “documentary” Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed opened to sub-Uwe Boll numbers. And it’s been absolutely eviscerated by anybody who knows anything.
Rarely has a movie subtitle so capably assessed a movie’s content as […]

Until this morning, a seller on ebay was offering the half-eaten leftovers from Barack Obama’s breakfast at the Gilder Diner in Scranton, PA…
The item description:
THIS IS BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S BREAKFAST FROM THIS MORNING, 4-21-08 AT THE GLIDER DINER IN SCRANTON, PA. WINNER GETS HIS USED DINER PLATE WITH HIS USED SILVERWARE AND […]

I know AEP is pissed about the new energy bill that just passed the house this morning because the bill - thanks to a lot of push-back by Governor Strickland - won’t let AEP immediately raise our rates like they wanted.
Funny coincidence though. Not but an hour after the bill was passed my power […]

It appears the American people have spoken: No Deal!
(USA Today) Only 28% of Americans approve of George W. Bush’s handling of the presidency, a new low for his administration, USA Today reports. In addition, his disapproval rate—69%—is the lowest in the 70-year history of the Gallup poll. Dissatisfaction over war in Iraq and the […]

I just heard that the House FINALLY passed the revised energy bill 91-1. Don’t hold me to that number- but it definitely did pass.
It looks like Tom Patton (R-18) from Strongsville is the only one who voted no.
UPDATE:
The actual vote was 93-1.
UPDATE:
My power went out about 15 minutes after this vote finished and […]

Get ready for more of this:

Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.
It reads: “Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?”
Byrd said that the message wasn’t meant to be racial or political.
“It’s simply to cause […]

Gosh. Have a baby and all of a sudden everything becomes about them. I’ve got a decent enough segue though. We’ve decided to eschew normal disposable diapers for a new “hybrid” design called “g diapers“. They are a study in both design and ingenuity.
Normal diapers are all in one […]