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Sure it’s legal but that’s only because it’s not against the law!

Posted: August 23, 2010 by datechguy in congress, media, politics, the courts
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I know there are times when I hit the publish button much too fast, or accidentally erase a word or two but this is the New York Times, they have you know editors?

But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.

and just to show they are fair minded they point out that Nancy Pelosi is also not breaking the law in the very same way! Does that mean they want her to resign?

Hey once we start permitting actions just because they aren’t illegal where will it end? Apparently in Nicaragua.

All last week we heard about Blago, being “vindicated” after he was found guilty of a single charge out of over a dozen, There has been commentary hitting the prosecution for bringing such a poor case. We won’t hear the same complaints about what happened to Delay because as an effective republican he meets the “Just Because” standard.

Can someone please explain to me why these people have a writing job and I don’t?

Memeorandum thread here.

Thank you Frau Harman…Neighhhhh!

Posted: August 22, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, fun, politics
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Even if the Torrance Daily Breeze won’t cover Mattie Fein when she has events, they simply have to give her some copy for a commercial like this:

Regrettably I’ve discovered that there are some young people who may have never seen Young Frankenstein so for there sake here are the relevant clips. The Lab scene:

And of course Frau Bulcher and the horses


Who knew hitting Jane Harmon could be so much fun? If this doesn’t make Willie Geist’s way to early or Morning Joe Tomorrow it’s because they just aren’t paying attention.

Update SISU has the video but it reminds her that she is not amused

Update 2: Who needs the Torrance Daily Breeze when you have Robert Stacy McCain and a Memeorandum thread

Double Barrelled Gunn

Posted: August 21, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, opinion/news
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Bill Gunn appeared on local public access TV this Wednesday:

Shortly after the interview I spoke with him myself:

During the hearing on the Health Care Bill he was in the congressional galleries and at one point shouted out “Kill the Bill”. For saying aloud what the great majority of the American people were thinking he was charged with “disruption of congress” so Bill will be in Washington from Sunday the 22nd through Saturday the 28th working at the Greater Capital Hill food bank to settle that charge.

Hopefully the next time he he arrives in Washington it will be to help to first de-fund and then repeal that bill.

My latest Examiner Article A tale of two districts and Two Newspapers 

Posted: August 13, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, examiner columns, politics
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…compares the two districts Ma-01 and Ca36 and their candidates Bill Gunn in Ma01 and Mattie Fein in CA36 and the respective coverage or lack thereof in the local papers in the communities they serve:

This year however there are some similarities. The economic slowdown is affecting the families of Southern California just as much as the workers of the Bay State and in both districts, indeed all over the country candidates are emerging to challenge the status quo.

In CA36 Republican Mattie Fein has taken up the mantle. In Ma01 Republican Bill Gunn is mounting the challenge. Their situations are similar.

But it is the differences that that tell the real story.

When local newspapers are less interested in reporting their local news then bloggers 3000 miles away you know you have a problem.

Stacy has a brief blub at the American Spectator and Ed Driscoll gives advice to A whopper jr Newsweek.

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