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Between Iraq and the hard place of a Europe with a burgeoning Muslim population, The Sanity Squad considers the future of a continent and the future of a Muslim Democracy. Conclusion? Sanity is in short supply in Europe, Iraq, and the fringes of the new Democratic majority in congress.

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Strategists seek keys to 2008 presidential election MarketWatch - Nov 30, 2006 … The 2008 presidential election promises to be a wide-open affair for both parties. For the first time since 1928, neither a sitting …

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http://www.thecommonwealthpac.com/news/pr_061129b.html November 29, 2006 - Governor Mitt Romney?s Commonwealth PAC today announced Eric Tanenblatt has been added to its Southern Advisory Team and will focus particularly in Georgia. In addition, Tanenblatt will lead the Georgia Finance Team for the PAC.

?As the Commonwealth PAC continues to look for ways to assist Republican organizations on the state and local levels, I?m pleased to have such a fine team in Georgia,? Romney said. ?Eric Tanenblatt has proven to be a very successful political operative in Georgia for nearly two decades. I appreciate his willingness to lead our Georgia team.?

Tanenblatt said, ?Governor Romney has a refreshing optimistic vision for America. His experience tackling challenging issues in his business career, at the ‘02 Olympics and most recently as Governor, demonstrates his ability to lead in difficult times. I appreciate this opportunity with the Commonwealth PAC.?

Eric Tanenblatt is a Senior Managing Director at McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP. He was the Finance Chair for Governor Sonny Perdue?s 2006 successful re-election campaign. He was also the Georgia Victory Chair and Bush Ranger in the 2004 cycle. From 2003 to 2004, Tanenblatt served as Governor Perdue?s Chief of Staff. In 2000, he was the Georgia State Chairman for President Bush?s campaign. Prior to that, he served as Senior Political Advisor to the late U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell from 1989 to 2000.

Other members of the Commonwealth PAC?s Georgia Finance Team include:

Nancy Coverdell, wife of the late U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell

Fred Cooper, Chairman of the G8 Summit Host Committee in 2004, Bush Pioneer in 2004, Georgia Victory Chair in 2002, General Chairman for Bush 2000, Georgia State Chairman for George H.W. Bush?s presidential campaign in 1988 and 1992, and a successful businessman (Cooper Capital) and longtime Republican leader.

James Edenfield, Georgia Victory Chair in 2006, Bush Pioneer in 2004, Bush Finance Chair in 2000, and Chief Executive Officer of American Software.

Joe Rogers, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Waffle House, a successful businessman and longtime Republican fundraiser.

Copied from Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC.

Kevin Davis Jr.

Technorati Tags: Mitt Romney, 2008, Presidential Election, Election 2008.

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https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=Q0J3V0M9A7 ABCPAC, home of 2006’s RightRoots movement, has created a new program where you can support your 2008 candidate early. You can log on and donate up to the legal limit to Romney’s camnpaign, and as soon as he announces, he will get your donation.

This is a great early way to show a groundswell of support for the Governor. Give what you can.

(For new visitors, we are completely unaffiliated with Mitt Romney or the Commonwealth PAC. We are 100% grassroots and have no guidance from Romney’s people.)

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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack became the first Democrat to officially enter the race for the White House this morning with his 9:30 AM announcement in a college gymnasium near his family’s home. Vilsack’s announcement focused on increasing security through foreign policy changes and increasing renewable energy sources.

America needs a president who builds and [...]

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http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/11/advisers-to-mitt.html “Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Random Observations for Students of Economics”

Greg Mankiw is advising Mitt Romney on Economic issues, for those of you who have an interest in economics.

Please look around, before you comment. From what I understand his readers want to keep the discussion focused on Economics, and not politics.

So if you are interested in Economics, check it out here.

Also stop by to learn a little more about Glen Hubbard here.

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! You have got to watch this video!

~~~Mike

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These old…washed up…racist GOP hacks should just go away. If this is their new attack…I say…
Bring on Sen. Barack Obama!

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Here’s how Associated Press starts its story on Tom Vilsack’s Presidential campaign launch today, as carried by ABC News: “Vilsack launched his long-shot bid for the presidency.” The poor guy’s only been out for five minutes and he’s officially only …

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Paul Belien, editor of The Brussels Journal, sharply criticized a column by Ralph Peters published in the New York Post last week. Mr. Peters responded to Belien’s article with an extended comment here on Pajamas Media. Here Mr. Belien replies to Mr. Peters’ objections.

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Don Surber: “Duke Cunningham can get a pension from Congress while he is in prison? Bob Ney can get a pension from Congress while he is in prison? Dan Rostenkowski is getting a pension from Congress after he did 15 months in prison for 2 mail fraud felonies he committed while in Congress? Enough of this crap. Cut off those ill-gotten pensions.”

Category: 2008 Presidential Election

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Oval Office 2008: “Two Boston Globe columnists have recently offered rather differing views of their departing Republican Governor, Mitt Romney. Re-printed in the Deseret Morning News, Scott Helman argues that Romney’s claims to be the standard-bearer of Reagan conservatism might have more merit than some others’…

“To the Globe’s Joan Vennochi - never a friend to Romney - that last issue of abortion is central to understanding Romney and, in her view, his key personality flaw. Romney “ran for office twice in Massachusetts as a moderate, pro choice Republican,” Vennochi says, so his claims to Reaganesque conservatism look rather flimsy. The crusader against gay marriage, says Vennochi, is the same person who promised in 1994 ‘to establish full equality for American gay and lesbian citizens’ and who campaigned at a Gay Pride rally in 2002.”

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After a nice early winter snowstorm like Colorado just had, it may seem counter to common sense to posit that the Rockies are experiencing a changing climate, with more rain than snow in the early winter and in the spring, but that’s what is happening. Here’s an article about snowpack from the Casper Star Tribune. From the article, “The Rocky Mountains are seeing more rain than snow at the start and end of winter, an indication of global warming, an expert said. Another sign of climate change: The spring snowmelt is starting a week earlier than it did 50 years ago…

“But combined with an earlier spring, shrinking snowpacks rob moisture from the soil at the start of growing season. ‘It sets the stage for drought,’ he said. The West is experiencing more and larger wildfires in recent summers, he said. Soil moisture — or the lack of it — is a critical factor for farmers and ranchers in mountain states. Dry soils absorb snowmelt faster, leaving less runoff for mountain streams, which can’t recharge reservoirs such as Lake Powell, a source of water for 25 million people and irrigation for millions of acres from Colorado to California. Lake Powell is barely half-full, reflecting a drought that took hold in 2000, government hydrologists say. Trenberth said that drought may not be over yet, despite some recovery from the past two wet winters. At the end of last winter, the Colorado Plateau snowpack looked substantial, but much of it evaporated into the air by May 1, Trenberth said.”

Here’s another story about the conference from the Salt Lake Tribune. They write, “It is possible for humankind to restore the global climate to equilibrium, but only if people drastically cut the pollution that contributes to climate change, said a leading expert on global warming. The natural balance will be restored only when carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses dip to 25 percent or 30 percent of current levels, said Kevin Trenberth, who leads the climate analysis section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Trenberth joined Wednesday with Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson at the University of Utah College of Law to discuss the science and politics of climate change. Both noted such pollution controls were on the docket Wednesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Utah Attorney General’s Office has sided with the Bush administration against using the Clean Air Act to control carbon dioxide. Anderson criticized the federal government and many state governments, including Utah, for a lack of leadership on the issue. He focused instead on the actions being taken by citizens, local government and business to reduce the greenhouse gasses behind climate change.”

So how is the snowpack doing? Here’s an update from the Pueblo Chieftain. From the article, “…up to 2 feet of new snow was reported in the mountains. That added to the winter snowpack, which provides most of Colorado’s water. Snowpack readings ranged from 66 percent to 122 percent of the historical average Wednesday. The statewide average was 92 percent. In Southern Colorado, the Arkansas Basin had 111 percent of the historical average, but the Upper Rio Grande Basin showed only a 68 percent reading.”

Category: Colorado Water

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In the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, much was made of George Bush’s likability factor. Nevermind that he couldn’t properly pronounce “underestimate” or, find Iowa on a map or, that he took the nation to war based on falsehoods, his handlers were quick to tell anyone who would listen that Mr. Bush was likable — something they said both Al Gore and John [...]

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One key to success for Barack Obama in 2008 - writes Britain’s Sunday Times - could be his appeal to Christian voters, helping to undermine Republican dominance of the ‘values vote’. Epitomising this appeal is Obama’s apparent friendship with Pastor …

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Two Boston Globe columnists have recently offered rather differing views of their departing Republican Governor, Mitt Romney. Re-printed in the Deseret Morning News, Scott Helman argues that Romney’s claims to be the standard-bearer of Reagan conserv…

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It is going to be a long campaign. The potential candidates are already testing the waters.
Here is the list as of now.
Republicans

Senator John McCaine — exploratory committee
Rudolph Giuliani — exploratory committee
Tommy Thompson
Sen. Evan Bayh
Senator Frist

Democrats

Gov. Tom Vilsack — declared
Senator Hilary Clinton — seemingly inevitable
Feingold pulled out
Senator Joe Biden
Sen. Evan Bayh

We will add to [...]

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Kirk Ross (via the Independent Weekly): “If you needed any evidence that we are at a moral, economic and political impasse over immigration, just review this month’s walkout by more than 1,000 workers at Smithfield Packing’s hog slaughtering plant in Tar Heel. It’s the latest collision between an industry built on cheap labor, a dysfunctional immigration system, and homeland security policies drafted in a reality-proof bubble.” Ouch.

Thanks to Ed Cone for the link.

Category: 2008 Presidential Election

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Washinton Post: “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said today that he will not run for president in 2008, saying he plans to ‘take a sabbatical from public life’ and return to his Tennessee home and his professional roots as a doctor.”

Thanks to TalkLeft for the link.

Category: 2008 Presidential Election

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MSNBC: “The same embryonic stem cell bill that prompted President Bush’s only veto is headed to his desk again, this time from Democrats who have it atop their agenda when they take control of Congress in January.”

Thanks to SquareState.net for the link.

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Our blog friend Andrew Tannenbaum takes a look at some of the current crop of 2008 presidential candidates. From the article, “When looking at 2008 presidential candidates, always keep two things in mind. First, every morning 100 U.S. senators look in the bathroom mirror and see a future president. Many run, but only two sitting senators have ever been elected president: Warren Harding (R-OH) in 1920 and Jack Kennedy (D-MA) in 1960. The reason is clear: senators have to vote thousands of times and opponents can always dredge up some vote to batter them over the head with. The problem is exacerbated by the intricacies of Senate procedures, where the key vote may be on the motion to table the motion to reconsider some proposal.

“Second, people who vote in Republican primaries are to the right of the Republican Party and way right of mainstream America and people who vote in Democratic primaries are the left of the Democratic Party and way left of mainstream America. As a consequence, candidates who might be able to win the general election are often disliked by primary voters as too centrist. Politicans respond by talking fairly extreme during primary season and then ignoring what they said in the Spring during the Fall. Count on it.

“Also worth nothing is that two years before the election, few people are tuned in and pollsters asking ‘Who would you like to win the Democratic Party nomination’ might as well be asking ‘Please name some Democrat.’ Ditto for the Republicans. In 2002, everyone was expecting Gore or Lieberman to be the Democratic nominee in 2004. Nobody saw the rise (and fall) of Howard Dean. As Harold Wilson famously remarked, ‘In politics, a week is a long time.’”

Category: 2008 Presidential Election

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