Bird’s-Eye View

You know, I’m going to throw this out there, but nobody’s going to care. Sarah Palin’s one of us, after all. By the way, don’t the Republicans have someone else running for president?
From Time:
ack to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. […]

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While no one in the crowd at today’s F&M event with John McCain and Sarah Palin will say it was a failure, they did miss some opportunities to inspire that crowd in ways they will never forget. But the McCain/Palin team did not mention Obama’s answer about when life begins from the Saddleback forum last […]

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Mention the name “Steve Schmidt” in any corner of the United States, and you might get a puzzled look. Who’s that? Say “Steve Schmidt, a Karl Rove-trained political strategist,” and instantly a measure of recognition will cover a lot of faces.
You may not know who Steve Schmidt is, and likely you can’t describe what he looks […]

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Here’s the latest attack ad from the Republican National Committee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haay-y4E6pA

This strikes me as more evidence of a directionless, bitter Republican brand in a year Democrats are confident of winning the White House and expanding their majority in Congress. It makes a false deductive argument in one segment (Marxists support Obama, therefor Obama must be a […]

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… never hurt anyone, right?
Factcheck.org has taken John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee to task twice today for false claims made against Democrat Barack Obama. Here’s the first one:
A new ad from the Republican National Committee claims Barack Obama proposes “no new solutions” for the energy and climate crises. In fact, the Illinois senator […]

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Maybe the heat’s getting to John McCain and Barack Obama, but this week they made two strategic mistakes which could haunt them when the humidity makes way for the cooler climes of the fall.
This is particularly true for Obama, who today responded to Iran’s missile tests by saying:
“What this underscores is the need for a […]

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June may be the cruelest month, not April, because all those voter polls really don’t tell us much about what’s going to happen in November. We’re four months out from the election, and anything - a foreign attack, a major scandal, Swift Boating - can change the playing field and equalize any advantage one candidate […]

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The state Senate this afternoon passed a tax cut package. From the Associated Press:
The four bills that passed Monday are a Republican plan to deliver relief to businesses and low-income taxpayers and to jump-start a sluggish economy.
But Democrats argued against the bills, saying now isn’t the time to cut taxes, when the state is scrounging […]

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12:37 p.m. McCain’s exiting now. Nothing much new, and he’s exiting to the (CLICHE ALERT! CLICHE ALERT!) the Rocky theme. McCain’s not learning much from Clinton’s failures. She invoked Rocky but forget the movie involves a white boxer who went toe-to-toe but did not defeat the charismatic African-American champion with a funny name.
12:33 p.m. WOW! […]

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Press conference tomorrow at the state Capitol. Sen. Pat Browne, who’s helped lead the charge to undo the state’s Corporate Net Income Tax in exchange for a tax based on sales, will lead the event.

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