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Brokered Conventions
Ignore the folksy tone of the article, for it does contain some interesting insight into just how... parochial.. nominating conventions used to be. As well as fractious.

Source: The Washington Post (no insults to women here I swear)

Give Me a Break
Certain doe-eyed lefties are crying racism over a Clinton campaign ad that uses the old trick of washing out the image of your opponent while using the scary muzak on Barack Obama.

See, on a black person, it sorta makes the skin darker.

Of course, what it really does is make him, and anyone else, look like a zombie from the original Dawn of the Dead.

But zombie movie is the new minstrel show, I guess. If you're way, way overly sensitive.

Source: Daily Kos

Rezzzzzz
Speaking of Obama, Tony Rezko goes on trial soon.

That could be a real minefield, especially if he rats out his, ahem, friends from Chi-town.

Source: The Chicago Tribune

More on Charlotte Allen
The dumbest woman alive continues on her march to Stupidtown. This next piece is from her chat on the WaPo website defending her article.

New York: In addition to writing here that women are “dim,” at the Independent Women’s Forum you’ve written that Hurricane Katrina might have been “the best thing” to happen to New Orleans, which is full of “whiners … chiseling us taxpayers” out of money. Is that supposed to be satire too? Your sense of humor sure does seem hateful.

washingtonpost.com: What Really Happened After Hurricane Katrina (Independnet Women’s Forum, Oct. 11, 2005)

Charlotte Allen: I said Katrina was the best thing to happen to New Orleans because it finally opportunity to a huge number of New Orleans residents living in passive dependency on welfare to get out of New Orleans and change their lives for the better.

Yes, that's right. Those shifty chiselers deserved it.

Still want to stand by this hack, Washington Post? How many more skeletons do you think she has in her closet? She's not even trying to hide them!

Source: Sadly, No!

Progress, With Caveats
The Dems in Congress are looking to repair our battered finances a bit, once the Man-Child is out of office.

House and Senate Democrats rolled out election-year budget blueprints Wednesday that would produce sizable surpluses by 2012 by allowing President Bush's tax cuts to expire as scheduled.

The $3 trillion budget plans for 2009 would award greater-than-inflation increases to domestic programs. The White House said Bush would veto agencies' spending bills.

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The Democratic plans do not to take on the exploding growth of Medicare, Social Security and other benefit programs. Doing so would be a painful exercise in an election year.

"Our budget ... is no grand solution, but it moves us in the right direction," said Democratic Rep. John Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the House Budget Committee chairman.

Even breaking even would be a huge step forward.

Though, to do that, we have to stop bleeding money in Iraq...

Source: Raw Story