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    Those numbers tell us 2 things:

     

    1) how much staying power each person has,

     

    and

     

    2) how many rich friends each person has.

     

    Still, I'm pretty surprised Huckabee isn't doing better. Story after story talks about conservative discontent with the field of McCain/Guiliani/Romney, but then almost never mentions guys like Huckbee or Brownback as even running. Weird.

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    The right to privacy is implied, but not stated out-right in the U.S. Constitution. The limits and bounds are pretty ambiguous. All rights have limits, though. I refuse to take this argument that children are just mini-adults with the same rights and ability to make decisions seriously, though. It is pretty self-evident that, as a whole, children are too immature to make informed decisions for themselves. That's why parents are held legally accountable for their actions and are given decision making-power over them until the age of 18.

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    And to tack on, Newt doesn't think American kids should be taught any other language and that bi lingual studies erode the strength of this country. So its not only in America that everyone should speak English. All those other ghetto countries should learn english to so when we visit they can speak to us.

     

    Eddie Izzard said it best:

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    Tommy Thompson to seek Republican nomination

     

    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson officially announced his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination Sunday, telling ABC's "This Week" he is confident about his chances.

     

    "In Iowa, the polls last week came out that I was in fifth place and moving up and at 5 percent," he said, adding that things are starting "to coalesce, and I feel very, very optimistic about my future."

     

    The former four-term governor of Wisconsin set up a presidential exploratory committee in December and filed a statement of candidacy in January. His campaign spokesman said last month that Thompson's formal announcement would come in early April. (Gallery: Possible contenders)

     

    Thompson, a senior partner in a law firm, said he is hoping to appeal to Republicans who feel that other GOP candidates are not conservative enough on economic and social issues.

     

    "I am the reliable conservative, my record shows that," he said. "All that people have to do is look at my record, and I am one individual that they can count on."

     

    Thompson spoke Sunday about his stance on Iraq, saying he believes a timetable for troop withdrawal, as called for by the Democrat-led Congress, would give the terrorists in Iraq an opportunity to "hunker down" and "outlast the Americans." He said he would pull out U.S. troops only at the Iraqi government's request.

     

    Thompson also said he thinks Iraq should be set up like the United States, with Iraq's 18 territories having elected leaders that would report to a federal government.

     

    "The Shiites would elect Shiites, Sunnis would elect Sunnis, Kurds would elect Kurds, and there would be a gravitation of people going to those things, and it would reduce this terrible internecine civil war," he said.

     

    Oil revenues, he said, should be dealt with like the state of Alaska -- one-third should go to the federal government, one-third to the territorial governments, and the remaining third split "to every man, woman and child."

     

    Asked about what he would do for the 47 million Americans not covered by health insurance, the former health secretary said he would allow insurance companies to bid on groups of uninsured Americans to help reduce emergency room visits.

     

    "It's an insurable group because one-third of those individuals between the ages 18 and 35 ... make over $60,000 a year," Thompson said. "It would be a tremendous group."

     

    Thompson made headlines in late 2004, when he was departing his post. "I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do, and we're importing a lot of food from the Middle East," he said at the time.

     

    Last month, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general issued a report saying the department has failed to adequately protect the U.S. food supply.

     

    "Most experts we spoke with regarded the food sector as highly vulnerable to attack. They considered food sector security to be less intensive than the security for other critical infrastructures," the audit said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/01/ele...pson/index.html

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    If you have a kid with a myspace account, check it every now and then, or create your own account and have them put you on their friends. That might require more parenting than some want to put into it. If you don't know enough about computers to do that then learn it or don't let them have internet. Too easy.

     

    Fucking brilliant. Parents actually doing parenting. Who'd have thunk it. That 5 minutes of parenting a week might actually work and make a difference.

     

    What, you mean the schools aren't supposed to be the ones raising the children???

    Its always more fun to blame someone else.

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    Lieberman would filibuster for days and drool on himself if need be. Definitly not passing the Senate.

     

    But it looks great for the House to actually do what Americans want them to do, even if they can't actually end the war themselves.

     

    "America didn't elect a Democratic Congress so they'd actually do anything."

    -Upcoming G.O.P. talking point.

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    Feingold said it better than I can:

     

    The fact is this commission was composed apparently entirely of people who did not have the judgment to oppose this Iraq war in the first place, and did not have the judgment to realize it was not a wise move in the fight against terrorism. So that's who is doing this report. Then I looked at the list of who testified before them. There is virtually no one who opposed the war in the first place. Virtually no one who has been really calling for a different strategy that goes for a global approach to the war on terrorism. So this is really a Washington inside job and it shows not in the description of what's happened - that's fairly accurate - but it shows in the recommendations. It's been called a classic Washington compromise that does not do the job of extricating us from Iraq in a way that we can deal with the issues in Southeast Asia, in Afghanistan, and in Somalia which are every bit as important as what is happening in Iraq. This report does not do the job and it's because it was not composed of a real representative group of Americans who believe what the American people showed in the election, which is that it's time for us to have a timetable to bring the troops out of Iraq.

    Did I miss something here? Didn't this bipartisan group advocate for a withdrawal?

     

    I'd think Feingold would be jumping for joy that an independent voice is calling for exactly what he wanted.

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    Right now, my prognosis for top candidates are:

     

    Republican: Mitt Romney (needs to avoid his father's 'brainwashing' moment)

     

    You need to do a lot more research on Romney if you think that's the only thing that could hold him back.

     

    You mean because he's pro-choice Mormon 1-term governor of a liberal northeastern state?

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    If youre going to attempt to be a pundit, Jerk, you need to look alot deeper than the surface. But I dont expect a whole lot from the guy that believes Warren fucking Harding started the Great Depression AND World War Two with his bare hands.

    Why do you have to lie because you don't like my conclusion about something completely unrelated?

    Can anyone find a quote of this?

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    I'm not sure how Jordan got on the panel except for his close ties to the Clinton Administration, but if you can mount an argument that O'Connor (who used to be on the Supreme Court) is incapable of studying a complex issue and coming to a conclusion based on available evidence, go ahead.

     

    The entire panel consisted of:

    James Baker, former Secretary of State

    Sandra Day O'Connor, former Supreme Court Justice

    Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State

    Edwin Meese III, former US Attorney General

    Alan K. Simpson, former Senate Republican Whip

    Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and member of the 9/11 Commision

    Vernon Jordan, Jr., former Clinton Administration advisor

    Leon E. Panetta, former White House Chief of Staff

    William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense

    Charles S. Robb, former Senator

     

    The country is probably more interested in what they think than what you think.

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    Boy, I'm sure glad we had that Iraq Study Group.

     

    It took a whole lot of reeeal hard thinkin' and research to say that Iraq is fucking mess & a disaster. Because most of us didn't already know that.

    You don't see the benefit of having a bipartisan panel of experts explaining our mistakes and giving recommendations on what to do next?

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    Loans aren't credit cards.

    I didn't say they were, but it is still borrowed money. I can use a credit card to purchase items, and the money goes from the credit card company to the place I'm purchasing from. I never see the money I spent, but the place I bought from does. In that sense, the money most certainly does exist.I then pay the money back to the credit card company. It is a win-win-win scenario. I win because I get to use the item I wanted or needed to buy, the credit card company wins because they collect a fee for financing the purchase for me (remember, they are taking a risk by financing a purchase I'm not guaranteed to pay back), and the place I bought from wins because they made a sale they might not have made if I had to save up to make the purchase.

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