Gingrich: invest in shares of ramen noodles, Dollar Store

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today that the U.S. economic downturn is much worse than political leaders admit and predicted the recovery will take three to five years.
The financial meltdown points to “a much more profound problem than people think” as American industries and education have lost ground to China and India, [...]

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The Palin bus rolls on and on! On and on! On and on!

Calgon, take me away:
Asked if her new political action committee was an early signal that she is running for president in 2012, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin replied: “No, not at all, not at all, no. It’s helpful to have a PAC so that when I’m invited to things even like to speak at the Lincoln [...]

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How To Run For President In 2012: Rule #2

As Fred points out in this post, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (a conservative Republican) is vying to supplant Kaleefornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (a less-conservative Republican) as the nation’s symbolic green governor. I don’t see it as triangulation. I see it as an essential component for both winning the Republican nomination and taking on Barry “Killing [...]

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Palin triangulates

Or is this satire? Mind you, this comes from the not-unconservative GOP governor of Alaska:
Last week, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called a news conference to announce “a future where, ideally, 50% of Alaska’s electricity is generated from renewable resources by 2025.”
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Palin’s 50% goal one-ups California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who touts himself as the nation’s [...]

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Is This The “A” List?

Brian Gaines, who is with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and is also a political science professor, had this to say when asked by the Daily Illini about the next GOP presidential candidate:
Whether successful or not, I don’t think anybody is likely in the next two years to emerge as the likely [...]

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Palin’s next move

Her vice-presidential bid redefines the expression “mixed bag.” News media outlets generally ripped her to shreds, micro-analyzing her candidacy to new heights. (Depths?) Dyed-in-the-wool conservatives adored her, and most probably still do. More moderate conservatives didn’t appear certain of what to make of her. I do not exclude her running [...]

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Olbermann Is Shriek and Cringe Worthy

Sarah Palin, when shown a photo recently of MSNBC’s resident douche bag Keith Olbermann, let out a shriek and said, “THAT guy is EVIL!”
I have to admit that my instinctive reactions about MSNBC’s resident hate-monger are similar to Palin’s. Whenever I flip to an NFL pre-game analysis on NBC and I see that Olbermann is [...]

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Truth-Telling is Demeaning? Come Again?

Sarah Palin is counter-attacking some smear mongers (aka the mainstream media) who have been making apparently false claims that her daughter Bristol and her son-in-law Levi Johnston are high-school dropouts.
This prompted media expert Michael Levine to characterize her statements as “profoundly unusual”  and, “in some ways, demeaning of the position she has. It’s so clearly [...]

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On the GOP chief executives

As this Newsweek piece reminds us, there are still 21 of them. I’m really not in the mood to talk about Bobby Jindal right now, since for the first time in my life a key figure in the Republican Party is younger than me, and I’m still stinging from the blow. (They don’t [...]

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This Won’t Help Palin

$42,000.00 for a hairstylist? (!!!) What did the friggin’ hairstylist use, gold-plated scissors?
$68,400 for makeup? (!!!!) I’d hate to see the before pictures, if that’s how much it took to make her look presentable.
And I went all Holden Caulfield on John Edwards when I found out about his $400 haircut! So much for fiscal [...]

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