2008 GOP Ticket – Beavis and Butthead?

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:45 PM MST

AP/Mary Altaffer
Photo swiped from- Dependable Renegade

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Republican Revival… Convention…

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 PM MST

GOP Unveils Its Convention Stars
AP/CNN |   August 20, 2008 03:23 PM
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will [...]

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Obama’s Ad Links McCain To Ralph Reed And Jack Abramoff

By- Suzie-Q @ 6:00 PM MST
Obama Ad Links McCain to Reed, Abramoff
TPM Muckraker- By Zachary Roth – August 20, 2008, 5:14PM
Maybe there’s some truth to the reports that Barack Obama is finally planning to get tough on John McCain. According to the Altanta Journal-Constitution, the Obama campaign will tomorrow release in Atlanta [...]

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Senator David Vitter Can’t Use Campaign Funds To Pay For DC Madam- Related Legal Fees

By- Suzie-Q @ 5:05 PM MST

Vitter Can’t Use Campaign Funds to Pay for Madam-Related Legal Fees
TPM Muckraker- By Zachary Roth – August 20, 2008, 2:29PM
Looks like the price that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who last year was identified as a client of the “DC Madam,” the late Deborah Palfrey, will be paying for [...]

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Evening Jukebox… Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner

By- Suzie-Q @ 5:00 PM MST

Warren Zevon – Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner

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DC Judge To Senator Stevens: “REQUEST DENIED!!”

GEF @ 6:38 PM ET

Via: Thinkprogress
Judge rejects Sen. Stevens’s bid to move trial to Alaska.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan today ruled that Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) will stand trial on seven felony counts in the nation’s capital, rejecting his request to move the affair to Alaska. Jury selection for the four-week trial is set to [...]

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Ralph McReed is on Caspers McCampaign

by Geezer Power…3:14 pm

McLames Victory Team
August 20, 2008
McCain’s Abramoff investigations found Ralph Reed at center, now Reed says he’s on McCain’s victory team
American News Project: John McCain’s investigation into Jack Abramoff’s Indian-gaming scandal found Ralph Reed at it’s center. But now Reed claims to be on McCain’s “Victory Team 2008.” ANP went to Atlanta to [...]

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Right-Wing Vets For Freedom Attacks Hagel’s Military Service

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:05 PM MST
Right-Wing Vets For Freedom Attacks Hagel’s Military Service: ‘Show Me What Battle He Fought In Iraq’
Think Progress- By Amanda at 12:11 pm
Today on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a caller questioned Vets for Freedom (VFF) founder David Bellavia about the group’s attacks on Vietnam veteran Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Bellavia quickly praised [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Werewolves Of London

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:00 PM MST

Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London

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Rice Signs Missile Deal With Poland

by Geezer Power…10:28 am

NY Times: August 20, 2008
By NICHOLAS KULISH and TOM RACHMAN
WARSAW — Despite fierce opposition from Moscow, the United States and Poland signed a long-stalled agreement Wednesday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory.
The Kremlin has leveled sustained criticism against the American plan, characterizing it as a hostile act near [...]

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The Right-Wing’s Five Most Hilariously Boneheaded Anti-Obama Smears

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:15 AM MST

The Right’s Five Most Hilariously Boneheaded Anti-Obama Smears

By Brad Reed, AlterNet. Posted August 20, 2008.
From birth certificates to Bernie Mac, a look at the goofiest attacks against the presumptive Democratic nominee.
In recent months, right-wing opinion outlets of varying pedigrees have accused Barack Obama of participating in [...]

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McCain’s Warped Worldview

anthony @ 13:10 BST
Robert Scheer | TruthDig | August 19, 2008
The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like reports of the 10 French soldiers killed by a [...]

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Russia Never Wanted a War

anthony @ 12:55 BST

By MIKHAIL GORBACHEV | NYT | Published: August 19, 2008
THE acute phase of the crisis provoked by the Georgian forces’ assault on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, is now behind us. But how can one erase from memory the horrifying scenes of the nighttime rocket attack on a peaceful town, [...]

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