Plunderbund

Audio:

They talk about Schmidt in the beginning and how she “squeaked by” Paul in the special (a characterization Paul seemed to enjoy). They then move on to DeWine and his response to illegal wiretapping.
Randi was tough to break in on - yap, yap, yap. Paul did a great job breaking in […]

via Grow Ohio:

I was able to get some audio clips of Alito nomination confirmation hearings today. Today featured several legal experts on both sides and featured some really good testimony. I found three particularly thoughtful and enlightening as it relates to what a Justice Alito might mean for the American people.
First is from Erwin Chemerinsky […]

From OH02 Blog: I grabbed this audio bit of Hackett being mentioned on Stern’s new Sirius show. No serious. The most interesting snippet to me is:
They’re all comin’ back and runnin’ as Democrats…that’s no coincidence

From yesterday. Concerned Alumni of Princeton. The group the judge can’t remember much about. The line of questioning that Kennedy puts him on seems to speak to the nature of his stonewalling and his inability to come clean.
Have you ever put something on a resume that years later you can […]

Again today listening in a bit via Pipeline while working. Right off the bat Senator Durbin gets into Alito and grills him on Griswald, privacy, and Roe. Again, these hearings more and more seem to be setting up Alito to be the taskmaster of the right in overturning Roe v. Wade. Alito […]

Listening to a bit of the Alito confirmation hearings yesterday and today on Pipeline.
DeWine appears to be ready to prostrate to the man and rubber stamp Alito, and yesterday he gave a wonderful little anti-Roe soliloquy:

The right will surely be proud. Might even put him back in the running for the Petro […]

This was almost inevitable after the blowup at the ODP Holiday Party. Now what would have been the best way to handle such a thing? Show up for what is becoming standard practice for Ohio politicians: Sit down with Meet The Bloggers. Maybe that would have been surrenduring in Sherrod’s eyes. […]

Buckeye Senate has some interesting audio clips up of the ODP meeting. I was able to get them all to amplify and export as MP3 (they are in .mov format and the level a bit low) - all but the last one, not sure about that one. I think I have it in […]

I have two burning questions: 1. Why can’t Republicans write good music? And 2. Why is Bushco propoganda so damned funny? I like to think I have a pretty good sense of comedy, but I could never make shit up this good. Remember the horrid Bush was right song? […]

Sherrod Brown took a few minutes to talk with me tonight. A few readers emailed me with questions and those were asked as well as some on my mind. It was a good talk and I appreciate Sherrod taking the time.
(22:33 5.16 MB MP3)

(Note: I may try to do a […]

Bush gave yet another speech on Iraq today. This one using Pearl Harbor as a backdrop (today is the 64th anniversary of the day that would live in infamy). Basically the same speech, but notice in the beginning how used to invoking September 11th he is. He almost can’t say December 7th. […]

With the majority of the American people now NOT in favor of the war in Iraq, Bushco decided it was time to unveil a “plan for victory in Iraq”. High time I’d say, Mr. President. Yes, in fact, so many people are now against this war Bush himself might call it a “mandate”. […]

Are these guys for real? This little clip of audio is a real head shaker. Charles Grassley, Republican from Iowa outlines his case for Manifest Diesel:
You know, what–what makes our economy grow is energy. And, and Americans are used to going to the gas tank (sic), and when they put that hose […]

Jim Petro is running an ad which appeals strongly to the Rod Parsley crowd…and he’s running it very early. This is a sign to me that he might think himself and other state Republicans are in real trouble over the ongoing corruption within their party and Jim’s inability to effectively step up and deal […]