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Re: A Blind Eye for Botched Contracts

Leisureguy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:38:52 -0000

The headline is incorrect. "Reigning in" should be "Reining in." Do you have openings for copy editors?

Re: No Experience Necessary

Leisureguy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:14:03 -0000

Good article.

In second paragraph: John McCain is not a loose "canon" but rather a loose "cannon." Big difference.

Re: Palin, Credit Where It’s Due

Leisureguy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:50 -0000

Also, read this full post: http://tinyurl.com/6mhl2a

It begins:

Republicans have been touting Sarah Palin's reformist credentials pretty heavily, with her supposed opposition to Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" as Exhibit A. But how hard did she really fight against the project? Not very, it seems. Here's what she told the Anchorage Daily News on October 22, 2006, back when she was running for governor (via Nexis):

5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?

Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now--while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.

She was very much for the bridge and insisted that Alaska had to act quickly—the party of Ted Stevens and Don Young might soon lose its majority, after all. By that point, the project was endangered for reasons that had nothing to do with Palin—the "Bridge to Nowhere" had become a national punchline, Congress had stripped away the offending earmark, and future federal funds seemed unlikely. True, after Palin was sworn into office that fall, her first budget didn't contain any money for the bridge. But when the Daily News asked on December 16, 2006, if she now opposed the project, Palin demurred and said she was simply trying to figure out where the bridge fit on the state's list of priorities, given the lack of support from Congress. That is, she was quite gung-ho about squandering federal money, but state money was another matter entirely. Finally, on September 19, 2007, she decided to abandon the bridge altogether with this sorry-sounding statement: …

Re: Palin, Credit Where It’s Due

Leisureguy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:28:11 -0000

You're ill-informed. May I recommend that you read Kevin Drum's post on this topic:
http://tinyurl.com/5apbj8

Re: When you fish in your private, artificial lake on your 10-acre estate in Sedona, you're not a regular guy, John McCain.

Leisureguy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:30:13 -0000

I hope the press asks him how much the lake cost, so we can hear McCain say, "You know, for five years in Vietnam, I was not able to go fishing..."

Re: New Yorker cover shows Oval Office with Obama as tribal African, wife as afro-70s-woman with machine gun, Osama on the wall, and flag on fire

Leisureguy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:49:25 -0000

I just cancelled my New Yorker subscription, the only language they'll understand. Separately, I sent an email to customer service explaining the reason for the cancellation: that showing the Obamas as revolutionaries and terrorist burning the American flag is not funny. If I wanted to subscribe to the Weekly Standard, I would subscribe to it. Enough is enough.