Tag: republicans
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“If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address”
by Mark Kleinam on The Reality Based Community: Old Abe is approaching the podium, looking even more like a badly-dressed and ill-proportioned scarecrow suffering from a depressive disorder than he usually does. I mean, if you’re going to be an empty suit, couldn’t you at least find a suit that fits? And as usual, he’s…
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The day after: narrative through the lens of strategy
original essay March 5, 2008 see the comments for updates Back on February 7, Catherine Dodge and Alex Tanzi of Bloomberg News broke a story on an Obama campaign spreadsheet, “inadvertently” released by the campaign, with their projections (or maybe predictions) of delegates. Ben Smith on Politico has a nice screenshot, and even better a…
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The Super Tuesday thread!
To avoid overflowing the blog, I’ll use this thread to collect various snippets about Super Tuesday. Stories and threads elsewhere: Twitter: supertuesday, Politweets, very cool Google maps mashup, Tag clouds for liberal and conservative blogs, from Virtual Vantage point. Live coverage of Super Tuesday, the feeling on the ground and letters to friends and family…
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DA who sent ‘amorous’ and racially charged messages to drop arson charges against Texas Supreme Court Judge
Now that’s a story you don’t see every day! A Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife were charged on Thursday in an arson fire that destroyed their suburban Houston home last June, the judge’s lawyer said. But in a bizarre reversal, prosecutors plan on Friday to seek dismissal of the indictments against the justice……