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Re: Birther Watch, Ctd.

dougmataconis — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:15:15 -0000

I don't mind the media covering this story, as long as they point out where the birthers are wrong so that people inclined to be anti-Obama don't get sucked into their vortex

Re: McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors

dougmataconis — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:31:17 -0000

David,

Have you talked to anyone in the HRC campaign about this ?

I'm betting we'd find they looked into the issue as well, and similarly rejected it

Re: Birther Watch, Ctd.

dougmataconis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:37:37 -0000

Don't worry, I'm sure this will be all over the Web by Wednesday morning

Re: Some Pushback on the Birther Facebook Campaign

dougmataconis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:16:06 -0000

Well, it's pretty easy to de-friend someone on Facebook. I assume someone at the RNC knows how to do it.

Re: Easy Money?

dougmataconis — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:13:36 -0000

It's a suckers bet.

He'll define what natural born citizen means so it suits him.

You can't win arguing with a birther,

Though it is fun to kick them around every now and then

Re: Only 42 Percent of Republicans Say the President Was Born in America

dougmataconis — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:46:20 -0000

A lot of people will discredit this poll because it comes from Daily Kos, of course.

I've got to think the question is being polled by others, though. Should be interesting to see if other results come out.

Re: Kelly Kapowski Says 'No'

dougmataconis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:08:39 -0000

Too busy looking hot in that bikini ?

Re: Kelly Kapowski Says 'No'

dougmataconis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:35:31 -0000

I'm pretty sure that this video is part of the not-too-subtle publicity campaign that's been going on regarding a SBTB reunion.

Re: Unsafe for Tea Partiers - National - The Atlantic

dougmataconis — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:45:55 -0000

As I said in my post on this topic, I think this is being blown a little out of proportion. If I were giving advice to friends of mine coming to DC, and if I wasn't able to show them around myself, I'd sure as heck tell them to avoid certain areas at night, including, unfortunately, places like Adams Morgan, because of the crime rate in recent years.

Re: Unsafe for Tea Partiers - National - The Atlantic

dougmataconis — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:27:34 -0000

Fortunately for the Tea Party folks who will be driving in , we at Outside The Beltway already have a handy-dandy guide to driving in DC Traffic:

http://www.outsidethebeltwa...

Re: Golly gee: Coons lead over O’Donnell in DE Senate race crumbling

dougmataconis — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:27:54 -0000

The race is not tightening.

Rasmussen polled the (unlikely) scenario of a Castle write-in campaign. If that doesn't happen, this poll tells us absolutely nothing about the state of a Coons-O'Donnell race.

Re: In Defense Of Sarah Palin: Todd Palin’s Mean Email To Joe Miller

dougmataconis — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:45:10 -0000

Does "gratitude" mean that Miller has to spend time boosting Palin while he's trying to win his own election ?

This all strikes me as more than a little silly. So Joe wasn't willing to say that Sarah is qualified to be President ? So what ? Todd needs to grow up.

Re: Penn State Scandal – Defensive Coordinator and Little Boys

dougmataconis — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:09:49 -0000

I am still trying to wrap my brain around this course of events:

1. graduate assistant sees Sandusky molesting a young boy in team showers
2. graduate assistant, disturbed by what he saw, talks to his father
3. graduate assistant and father decide he should report this to Coach Paterno

Umm, why not go to the cops?

Re: ‘Pray Real Hard’

dougmataconis — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:48:36 -0000

My read of the CBS report on the poll makes it clear, to me at least, that the numbers for Cain/Romney/Gingrich are of "people who plan to vote in a Republican Party," not the wider population of adults that were polled, probably on issues that will be released separately as polling people like to do.

Re: In the Presence of His Newtness

dougmataconis — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:53:03 -0000

I wasn't aware that (1) political organizations were allowed to use the Seal Of The President Of The United States for partisan purposes or (2) that it was considered acceptable to stand on said seal.

In fact, I'm fairly sure it's not proper to do either.

Re: Judges [Update: Or Legislators] That Should Be Cashiered

dougmataconis — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:34:29 -0000

I read the decision that Volokh linked to and it would appear that this was nothing more than an application of the facts of the case to the NY criminal statute. Since it's a criminal statute, the words of the legislature must be construed as written. Therefore, the problem lies not with the judge but with a law that has not been written in a way that makes the conduct in question illegal.

Re: Obama lied, people died

dougmataconis — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:32:23 -0000

We don't belong getting involved in Syria and more than we belonged getting involved in Libya or Iraq

Re: VA Attorney General Cuccinelli On GOP Primary Ballot

dougmataconis — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:48:00 -0000

Cuccinelli is wrong. There are two separate provisions of Title 24.2 of the Virginia Code, which covers Election Law, which forbid write-in votes in primary elections. This is not even a close issue.

I refer the curious to Va. Code Sec. 24.2-644(C) and Va. Code Sec. 24.2-529

And this is our esteemed Attorney General? What. A. Joke.

Re: VA Attorney General Cuccinelli On GOP Primary Ballot

dougmataconis — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:06:11 -0000

I'll go with Option 3. These "email newsletter" things are nearly always written by staffers

Re: Virginia Continues a GOP Tradition

dougmataconis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:17:52 -0000

The problem with this is that the RPV did not change its rules at all.

Re: Virginia Continues a GOP Tradition

dougmataconis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:33:14 -0000

The 10,000/400 rule is a matter of Virginia state law, not Republican Party of Virginia policy.

Re: Virginia Continues a GOP Tradition

dougmataconis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:34:08 -0000

There was no change from 10k to 15k. Virginia law requires 10,000 valid signatures with 400 from each Congressional District.

Re: Virginia Continues a GOP Tradition

dougmataconis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:34:44 -0000

Yea, I wrote about that yesterday http://www.outsidethebeltwa...

Re: Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli Rises To The Occasion For GOP Primary

dougmataconis — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:54:37 -0000

There are just a couple problems with Cooch’s master plan:

1. The legislature doesn’t convene until 1/11/2012. The SBOE has said that the final version of the ballot will be approved and sent to be printed on 1/9/2012. By operation of law, absentee ballots must be available and military ballots must be mailed no later than 1/21/.2012.

2. In order for a new law to go into effect mmediately rather than July 1st as is the ordinary course in Virginia, it would have to be passed under emergency legislation rules requiring the approval of a 4/5th majority of both house of the legislature.

This isn’t going to happen.

Re: Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli Rises To The Occasion For GOP Primary

dougmataconis — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:14:27 -0000

I am all for a broad reconsideration of ballot access laws in the Commonwealth. But it needs to be done in the normal course of legislative business, not ad hoc because two campaigns were too incompetent to get on the ballot