The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘We’ve Got Grijalva Scared to Death’

This video was recorded nine days ago, when everybody’s favorite rocket scientist, Ruth McClung, was just beginning her surge in Arizona’s 7th District: If Grijalva was scared to death before, he’s positively mortified since Sarah Palin endorsed Ruth yesterday. Today I got this e-mail from Democracy for America, the “progressive” group founded by Howard Dean: Robert […]

OBAMA COMING TO BOSTON!

BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick’s campaign announced today that President Obama will be here Saturday for a fundraiser and public rally at the Hynes Convention Center. Every Tea Party and 9/12 group in Massachusetts is calling for volunteers to greet the president. We remember the turnout in January when Obama came to Boston to campaign […]

Do Interns Fret Around You, Billy? Of Course Conservatives Want A Restrained Federal Government

by Smitty Clinton, lurking about and supporting Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY25), accidentally sneaks up on the obvious. Clinton said the tea partiers and the Republicans want to break the power of the federal government. Also, humidors are stocked with things that, sometimes, are just cigars. Be sure to check out Dan Maffei’s GOP challenger Ann Marie […]

Barney Frank’s Pals Fannie and Freddie Helped Cause the Foreclosure Crisis

A very simple question: “[A]ren’t there a lot of seat-warmers at Fannie and Freddie who collect their salaries for the express purpose of reading mortgage documents?” Doug Ross calls our attention to the role of these “government-sponsored entities” in the massive screw-up of mortgage paperwork that now threatens to freeze the entire U.S. housing market: […]

NY-25: Ann Marie Buerkle

Several friends have been urging me to support the Republican challenger in New York’s 25th District. She’s awesome: The 25th District around Syracuse has sent Republicans to Congress since the 1970s. In 2008, eight-term Republican Rep. Jim Walsh retired and, in that year’s Obama-led surge, Democrat Dan Maffei got elected. Now the latest poll shows the […]

Can’t Score With The VFW? If You’re Jim Moran, There’s MOAA. Or Not.

by Smitty Do we need to call in Mr. Wolf, The Cleaner, from over at BlackFive? Hardly. We’re only talking about “Gentleman” Jim Moran here. As, according to Wikipedia, Moran was beavering away in school during Vietnam, we couldn’t expect him to shoot for a VFW endorsement. The Military Officers Association of America, MOAA, on […]

VIDEO: Barney Frank ‘Debates’ Bielat

BOSTON — Here are two segments from last night’s 4th District debate on New England Cable News. First, on Social Security: Next on economic policy: Now, there are a couple of things we need to point out here: First, the host Jim Braude is about as neutral and objective as John Kerry. You’ll notice that […]

Where He’s Building Ace a Robot: Inside Sean Bielat’s Campaign Headquarters

BOSTON — As everyone knows, this unprecedented effort to defeat Barney Frank really caught fire Sept. 22 when Ace of Spades coined the Official Campaign Slogan: Sean Bielat For Congress When he’s not killing terrorists, he’s building fuckin’ robots Although this slogan hasn’t yet appeared on billboards in Massachusetts’ 4th District, I’m sure it’s only a […]

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