This item wasn’t at the top of the news, but it did make page one of the Times: “Obama budget puts security first at the border - He'll ask Congress to help curb the flow of arms to Mexico before seeking any immigration reform.”This is a complex topic, with some strange twists. But first, let me quote a forecast that I made, way back in December ( Read more... )

I haven't had much time to write anything or at least haven't taken the time to collect my thoughts. I guess in summation, I'm an Obama supporter and was beyond emotional that he won, but unlike a lot of others I don't think he can walk on water or, as Craig Ferguson put it last night, can make puppies out of moonbeams and angel farts. :D ( Read more... )

Remember the whazzup guys from the Super Bowl beer commercial?

Courtesy sometimesdee:

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Well, I did want to post this directly on here, but LJ apparently doesn't like it and likes even less my attempt to remote post it.

If you want to figure out whether you'd get a tax cut under Obama's plan and if so how much, click here:
Obama Tax Calculator Widget

I wish there wasn't any editing, but I found this video fascinating if it turns out to be true:

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Senate GOP blocks windfall taxes on Big Oil
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Yahoo.comWASHINGTON - Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have ( Read more... )

DNC bans lobbyist money
By NEDRA PICKLER and JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writers
Yahoo.comNEW YORK - In his first order of business as his party's presumed presidential nominee, Barack Obama is instructing the Democratic National Committee to adopt his policy against accepting donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees ( Read more... )

Thanks Rodham-Clinton. Now I don't get to sleep well tonight.

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann made a good point. Did they pick the location of Clinton's speech where there would be no blackberry signal or monitors so her most ardent supporters wouldn't know that at 8ET Obama became the presumptive nominee?

Interesting.

Let. It. End.

A gesture to her [Clinton's] wing of the democratic melange would be Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, who backed BHO early and who managed to win re election by a landslide in a normally Republican prairie state. She is articulate, persuasive, ad [sic] - tho [sic] she’s not an HRC supporter herself - would also serve as an excellent offering to ( Read more... )

S found and sent this to me:

Okay, listen. I don't care if pundits and Clinton surrogates want to talk about placing Clinton on the ticket as Obama's running mate. But for the love of god and all that is holy, will they please stop calling it the "dream ticket?"It's not the damn dream ticket. The dream ticket is two dynamic, powerful candidates ( Read more... )