Wizbang Politics: April 2007 Archives

OOPS! - Rudy's list of NH "supporters" includes some who don't

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 30, 2007 · Comments (1)

Although endorsements have been dwindling in importance in elections for more than half a century, candidates still seek them and proudly parade them publicly. The Giuliani campaign is eating crow today, though, for releasing a list of New Hampshire supporters and endorsements which includes several names who have NOT given... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.5/5 (2 votes cast)

It isn't "paranoid" if they are REALLY out to get you

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 30, 2007 · Comments (2)

It's bad enough the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been stalking Hillary Clinton for years. She's been able to resist, of course, because VRWC-ers have other pressing business like starving children and taking away old people's Social Security checks. Now she is apparently about to be persecuted from the left, as... [Full Story]

Rating: 1/5 (1 votes cast)

Frying Fish, Pressing Flesh

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 30, 2007

Every year, South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn, the first black elected to Congress from SC since Reconstruction and the new House Majority Whip, puts on a fish-fry in Columbia that has become a traditional social gathering for SC Democrats (it coincides with the state party convention). This year, a few... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (2 votes cast)

Hillary Drops the Rodham Again

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: April 30, 2007 · Comments (4)

Just pick a name and stick with it already. When John Edwards ran for the Senate, Elizabeth Anania decided to become Elizabeth Edwards, so at least Hillary isn't the only one in the race with identity issues. This is not a big deal, I just found it interesting that even... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Obama: backing "comparable worth" now?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 29, 2007 · Comments (1)

Barack Obama has cruised to the top of the Democratic field with a broad appeal, but his voting record has been strongly leftist. Now he is signing on to Senator Tom Harkin's bill which would enforce "comparable worth," a Carter-era idea which purports to "equalize" pay across various job descriptions... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (5 votes cast)

Frist cleared of insider trading charges

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 29, 2007

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has apparently been cleared by an investigation into charges he engaged in illegal insider trading. Richard Powelson of the Knoxville News Sentinel reports: In the end, Bill Frist's habit of frequent e-mails helped document the former Senate Republican leader's account that he was not... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Notice Anything Different?

Posted by Kevin · Published: April 29, 2007 · Comments (2)

If you're reading this site with an RSS reader the answer to that question is probably "no." Everyone else visiting the front page or an individual entry has probably seen the new look. This is an interim design that borrows a portion of the header of our forthcoming redesign and... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (5 votes cast)

More "Culture of Corruption" you won't see on MSNBC

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 28, 2007 · Comments (3)

Former congressman and Senate candidate from Tennessee Harold Ford, Jr.'s uncle, former state Sen. John Ford, has been convicted of bribery by a federal jury in Memphis. The jury deadlocked on a related charge of extortion, but found him not guilty of three counts of witness intimidation. Woody Baird reports... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

SurveyUSA bogus poll on SC debate

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 28, 2007 · Comments (1)

The SurveyUSA poll after the Democratic candidates' debate in South Carolina Thursday is laughable. You need not read beyond the first result" 1 Asked of 1250 adults Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 2.7% Did you listen to tonight's South Carolina presidential debate? 32% Yes 67% No... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (6 votes cast)

Democratic debate in SC: no winner, but several losers

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 27, 2007 · Comments (3)

I watched the debate at South Carolina State in Orangeburg on MSNBC. It was good to see they are still on the air - shouldn't they "divest" themselves of the "MS" part, though? Or was that part of the deal, "intellectual property" of NBC like the character of Larry "Bud"... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Rudy leads Hillary in FL, OH, PA

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 27, 2007 · Comments (1)

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading Senator Hillary Clinton in the key battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Among Democrats, only Gore ran stronger in FL and PA, although he lost Ohio badly. The AFP reports: Republican Rudolph Giuliani is favored over... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Huckabee's son arrested with gun at airport

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 26, 2007 · Comments (1)

Former Arkansas Governor and current Republican dark horse candidate for President Mike Huckabee's son has been arrested for trying to board an airplane with a gun in his carry-on. He has a concealed-carry permit for the weapon. He was fined and given probation with a one-year suspended sentence. Reuters reports:... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (5 votes cast)

1st Democratic debate is tonight

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 26, 2007

Three of the originally scheduled Democratic debates between contenders for the Party's Presidential nomination in 2008 have already been canceled, but we should see the first of several tonight, live on MSNBC from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. I've stated repeatedly that I expect Hillary, Richardson, Dodd, and... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (4 votes cast)

Supreme Court: campaign finance law under fire

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 26, 2007

The Wisconsin case challenging the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act's provision prohibiting "issue ads" which mention a federal candidate by name within 60 days of an election may have good chances of overturning that portion of the law, if the oral arguments before the Supreme Court are any indication. BCFRA... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Rudy says Dems don't get the threat; Dems lash back

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 26, 2007 · Comments (2)

Rudy Giuliani said the nation will be safer under a Republican President because Democrats don't understand the threat, and that we would be at greater risk for another major attack. Predictably, the leading Democratic candidates disagree, as Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports: Democratic presidential candidates on Wednesday rebuked... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (6 votes cast)

McCain to make it official today

Posted by Lorie Byrd · Published: April 25, 2007 · Comments (3)

I don't profess to understand the presidential candidate announcement dance, but am getting the hang of it. First they announce they are thinking about running, then they announce they are setting up an exploratory committee, then they announce they are going to announce. I guess the last step is the... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Culture of Corruption, Part XLVII

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 24, 2007 · Comments (4)

The DNC is all over Senator John McCain's recent hiring of Tom Loeffler as National Finance Chairman, as reported by ABC News' Teddy Davis at their blog, Political Radar: On the same day that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is calling dependence on foreign oil and global warming twin threats that... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Culture of Corruption, Part XXXVI

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 24, 2007

ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger reports at Political Radar: After coming under fire repeatedly for his connections with indicted Chicago slumlord Antoin "Tony'" Rezko, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., yesterday responded to the critics. Following a speech on foreign policy to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Obama told print reporters that... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Hillary compares herself to Harriet Tubman

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 24, 2007 · Comments (4)

Hillary Clinton's struggle for the Democratic nomination reminds her of Harriet Tubman's underground railroad. No, seriously! From the Mouth of the Potomac: First the microphone cuts out part way through Clinton's speech. When it is restored she said: "There may be some bumps along the road! You know this reminds... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (6 votes cast)

Poll: Obama pulls even with Hillary

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 24, 2007

The latest national Rasmussen poll has Senator Barack Obama moving up into a tie with Senator Hillary Clinton for the lead in the Democratic nomination contest, according to Reuters: Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, has steadily gained on Clinton, a veteran on the national political scene, over the last... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Primary challenge for Chuck Hagel?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 23, 2007 · Comments (11)

Political gadfly and antiwar Republican Senator Chuck Hagel may have reached the limits of endurance even for his "safe" seat, as Nebraska's Republican Attorney General Jon Bruning is mulling a primary challenge. Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring reports on the story from The Hill: Based on this report in... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (13 votes cast)

SC straw polls boost Romney, Huckabee

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 22, 2007 · Comments (5)

Upstate South Carolina Republicans held conventions and straw polls in three counties yesterday, with most of the Republican candidates attending - except John McCain. Aaron Gould Shenin reported for The State: Andrews was disappointed, he said, that U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., did not attend the convention. While the other... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (4 votes cast)

Another Republican steps down from committee

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 22, 2007

Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) is stepping down from the House Intelligence Committee, the second Republican congressman to relinquish committee duties due to corruption investigations in as many days. John Doolittle (R-CA) gave up his seat on the Appropriations Committee after his home was searched by the FBI, as we reported... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Gore team meets in secret to plan run

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 22, 2007

A group of former aides and campaign workers for Al Gore has met secretly to prepare for the possibility of Gore entering the race for the Democratic nomination later this year, according to Tim Shipman in the Sunday Telegraph: But, aware that he may step into the wide open race... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (3 votes cast)

Obama: "Gasbag"?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 21, 2007 · Comments (5)

Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse isn't impressed with the junior Senator from Illinois: So I go to listen to the speech. Am I offended that Obama reframes his usual material with the Virginia Tech story? He had a speech to give that day, and it would not have worked to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (5 votes cast)

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