February 14, 2008
Hillary and Obama Both Have Ties to Nuclear Energy Giant
Sam Stein, The Huffington Post, February 14, 2008
Even as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was blasting Sen. Barack Obama for his ties to the Exelon Corporation, Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars through his firm from the very same nuclear energy giant.
This past week, Burson Marsteller, Penn’s powerhouse consulting agency, was paid more than $230,000 by Exelon to help renew a nuclear energy license in New Jersey, the Huffington Post has learned. The payment was for work that took place over several months, and Burson is still employed by the company.
“They did some work for us in New Jersey between June and November,” said Craig Nesbit, vice president of communications for Exelon Generation, a subsidiary. “That bill was invoiced on December 12 and it just took that long to pay these things… We still are paying them a little bit but it is ramping down.”
It has been public knowledge that Exelon is a client of Burson. But news of the recent payment comes less than two weeks after the Clinton campaign, and Penn himself, took Obama to task for what they implied was preferential treatment for the company.
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BartCop.com Volume 2116 – Scathed
BartCop.com Volume 2116 – Scathed
In Today’s Tequila Treehouse…
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Bush Chronicles |
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Dems Torn Apart  |
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Obama Critic |
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GOP Obama Bloggers |
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Why I Hate Clinton |
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She’s Battle-Tested |
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Tards HuffPost |
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Clinton & Superdels |
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Mariska Hargitay |
February 13, 2008
McCain Sells Out To The Right On Torture
Today Senator John McCain showed America that his allegiance and priorities lie with the conservative right wing of the Republican Party. Casting a ballot today, McCain voted against the Intelligence Authorization Bill which contains a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that establishes a single interrogation standard, requiring the intelligence community to abide by the same standards as articulated in the Army Field Manual and bans waterboarding. With his vote McCain again caved to Bush and the right wing of his party.
In the past McCain has spoken out against the use of torture including the use of waterboarding. In fact McCain has argued strenuously for the implementation of the Army Field Manual. It is amazing that a man that suffered horrible torture under the Vietnamese during the Vietnam war would ever vote against a bill that outlawed torture. McCain wants to be president so badly he is willing to give up his moral convictions to get the vote of the morally corrupt right wing of the Republican Party.
BartCop.com Volume 2115 – No Big States?
BartCop.com Volume 2115 – No Big States?
In Today’s Tequila Treehouse…
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Limbaugh vs the GOP |
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Democrats torn apart… |
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The Theory of Hate |
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Obama Criticism |
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Clinton Slipping |
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Democrat Passion |
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It’s Tailspin Time? |
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Hate Springs Eternal |
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Mischa’s sexy bath |
The Tattlesnake – Bush Boys Whack McCain, Huckabee’s Sneaky Strategy and the Dems Back Problems Edition
Presumed GOP Presidential Headcheese John McCain just took a below-the-bowline hit as our Worst President in History bubbled that he was a ‘true conservative’ and Jeb Bush rushed to gush over him, all within one day. (Why didn’t they complete the Grand Slam of Doom by having Cheney praise his drunken bird hunting skills?) Can you see the Oppo Ad later this year: “John McCain — Endorsed by the Bush Family because he’ll continue their policies as president.” Ever get the feeling these guys want Flyboy Johnny to lose big so that the way is cleared for Brother Jeb in 2012?
Speaking of headcheese and 2012, the Punditrocracy has been getting persnickety of late because Mike Huckabee won’t cooperate with their timetable and step aside – “He can’t possibly win, so why is he staying in?” Geez, the way they’re squealing, you’d think Ron Paul had won a major primary.
There may be method to Mikey’s madness, however, beyond praying McCain goes ballistic and strangles a reporter on live TV for asking him for the 1.4 billionth time if he has an anger management problem. Huckleberry may be carefully positioning himself to be the Republican frontrunner in four years, after the expected GOP meltdown next November but, even if McCain somehow wins, he’ll still be a party name plate, and he’s young enough to be viable in the next two presidential election cycles. He might also be able to leverage his delegate count into a Veep slot with Fleet Enema Mac’s ’64 Goldwater Redux ticket which, at the least, will guarantee him the Senate seat from Arkansas next time around, so what does he have to lose? Y’all remember Reagan in 1976? He didn’t win then either.
“Hey, you try wagging these puppies around a while and see if you don’t have back problems.”
– Dolly Parton, announcing she’s postponing her national tour for six to eight weeks due to backaches caused by her breasts, as quoted by Reuters, Feb. 11, 2008.
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Maureen Dowd: A Flawed Feminist Test
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, February 13, 2008
Russell Berman, a young reporter for The New York Sun, trailed Bill Clinton around Maryland all day Sunday. The former president was on his best behavior, irritating the smattering of press.
After Bill’s last speech at Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring, Berman interviewed two women in the audience.
Elaine Sirkis, 77, an Obama supporter, confided that she just isn’t sure she’s ready for a woman president. Betty Conway, 83, a Hillary supporter, confided that she just isn’t sure she’s ready for a black president.
As Conway walked away, Sirkis smiled sheepishly. “I’m sorry,” she told Berman sweetly about her friend. “She’s a bigot.”
We’re not just in the most vertiginous election of our lives. We’re in another national seminar on gender and race that is teaching us about who we are as we figure out what we want America to be.
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The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico
The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico
A reader asked me to check into information that President Bush was pushing a massive foreign-aid package to Mexico to help them secure their southern border against the flow of illegal aliens from Central America.
“We can’t even get our own border straight, and we are going to provide Mexico with funding so they can solve their problem,” the reader fumed. “I doubt the Central Americans are staying very long in Mexico anyway. We know where they are going!”
Too outrageously outrageous to be true?
Well, I checked it out and it’s even worse than the reader described. Far worse.
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