Bush/Cheney 2004 Via Wonkette, georgewbush.com has a nifty custom poster generator. According to Wonkette, you can’t make obscene or derogatory Bush/Cheney 2004 signs (my effort at “Dude: Where’s my 2.2 million jobs?” failed.) Limited to what I could get past the censors, I came up with these: AB

Voting: I’d Like a Receipt, Please I’m really not a conspiracy theorist, just a subscriber to Murphy’s Law (see this post.) Recently, Avi Ruben of Johns Hopkins’ Information Security Institute (co-author of this pdf paper criticizing the security of Diebold’s electronic voting systems) worked as an election judge in Baltimore County. Charles Kuffner has Rubin’s […]

GOP.com Here’s a useful tip for bloggers with writer’s block: just wander over to GOP.com and you’re almost sure to find something that will inspire a post. For example, just now I discovered this: Under the President?s proposal to speed up tax relief, 92 million taxpayers would receive, on average, a tax cut of $1,083 […]

Classy Move Howard Dean, today: “I will work closely with John Kerry to make sure we beat George Bush in November and turn our country around,” Dean said in a statement that did not specifically mention an endorsement. “There is a lot we can do together to rebuild an America that belongs to all of […]

Kerry/McCain 2004 I keep seeing this posted and emailed all over the place, probably because McCain didn’t exactly ridicule the idea: “John Kerry is a close friend of mine. We have been friends for years,” McCain said Wednesday when pressed to squelch speculation about a Kerry-McCain ticket. “Obviously I would entertain it.” On the other […]

Poor Lou Dobbs In his commentary for today Lou Dobbs complains about being attacked for his anti-globalization stance: NEW YORK (CNN) – You may have noticed recently that I’m being attacked for my views on the exporting of American jobs and my calls for a balanced U.S. trade policy… [and] I will tell you it […]

Day Pass Reading Salon’s lead story today, The new Pentagon papers, is worth the time it takes to watch an ad. AB

Question George Tenet yesterday, before the Senate Armed Services Committee: I’m not going to sit here and tell you what my interaction was … and what I did and didn’t do, except that you have to have confidence to know that when I believed that somebody was misconstruing intelligence, I said something about it. I […]

Stop Digging I like this line from Kerry today: He called the president too “stubborn” to admit his policies weren’t working and said Bush’s economic prescription “begins and ends with tax giveaways.” “When you’re …in the hole, step number one is pretty simple: stop digging.” Being from Massachussets, I suppose Kerry knows something about digging. […]

Argentina Avoids IMF Default… …at least for now: Argentina agrees to meet IMF debt deadline FT.com: Argentina on Tuesday agreed to make a $3.1bn payment to the International Monetary Fund, narrowly avoiding what would have been the biggest single default in the fund’s history… Details of how the IMF and Argentina broke the impasse were […]