Political bits
(Post Gazette) Jeb Bush was campaigning for Santorum, got chased by protesters, and it got ugly. Tasers, a canine unit was called in. Jeb Bush was eventually stashed in a supply closet. 50 protesters.
Charlie Cook shifts 14 House races, all towards the Dems.
(7 to Toss Up)
Added: (ABCNews) Tom Reynolds runs a campaign ad laying Mark Foley firmly at Denny Hastert's doorstep.
Added: ABC also confirms this morning's WaPo story that Hastert's Chief of Staff had talked to Foley about all this prior to Nov. 2005.
(Rawstory) The ethics committee sent a letter requesting all members to contact all pages they've sponsored asking about Foleyesque behavior.
Americablog has a very vague post about rumors of another GOP Congressman. (Nothing there, really, but "Both rumors seem relevant to this story as it's unfolding." Just putting it out there.)
Charlie Cook shifts 14 House races, all towards the Dems.
(7 to Toss Up)
Added: (ABCNews) Tom Reynolds runs a campaign ad laying Mark Foley firmly at Denny Hastert's doorstep.
Added: ABC also confirms this morning's WaPo story that Hastert's Chief of Staff had talked to Foley about all this prior to Nov. 2005.
(Rawstory) The ethics committee sent a letter requesting all members to contact all pages they've sponsored asking about Foleyesque behavior.
Americablog has a very vague post about rumors of another GOP Congressman. (Nothing there, really, but "Both rumors seem relevant to this story as it's unfolding." Just putting it out there.)
posted by mikevotes at
1:57 PM
4 Comments:
You mean the bad guys might be planning to hit us again.
There's a surprise.
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QuakerDave, at 3:30 PM
(I assume you're commenting on the next post up.)
I don't know. I'm sure they are, but I don't put too much stock in the statements and claims. There's been heated rhetoric before and nothing happened, but something about this one just caught me.
Just from a strategic point of view, Al Qaeda really doesn't need to attack us right now unless they need it for credibility among their followers. The greater conflict is generally going their way. The have managed to draw the US into the same type conflicts where they beat back the Soviets. That was the strategic plan. To sap the US capability and will to fight so we would be more likely to pull out of the middle east.
This is actually from high Taleban not Al Qaeda, although Al Qaeda could easily be using them as an outlet. If they wanted to target a message to what they consider "faithful" muslims, and not the general world audience, this is how they'd do it.
So, I don't know. It's just the "come out of America" is new and quite ominous sounding.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 4:46 PM
The Jeb story was funny. If only more Americans had the ability to drive Republicans into the closet.
By
Lew Scannon, at 6:02 PM
Please, Tom Cruise, come out of the closet.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 10:07 PM
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