There has been speculation for weeks over the NY Time’s David Paterson story. The buzz reached such a height that people thought the BIG revealed would force the Governor to step down.
Here’s nifty graph of what the rumor cycle looked like, via John Koblin’s take on it in the New York Observer.

Would it be hookers/future NY Post columnists? [...]

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Obama made his big announcement today for Supreme Court nominee.
Let’s briefly meet Sonia Sotomayor:
-She is 54.
-She has diabetes.
-She has been a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1998. Prior to that she was a federal judge for the U. S. District Court Southern District of New York and before that she [...]

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This week Senate Democrats, alarmists, and those worried about re-election had something to say about Gitmo prisoners being shipped to the US where they will induct other prisoners into their cult of terror and then be let loose to cause havoc on small Midwestern towns with turbans and bombs.
But OMG! They are already on American [...]

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Obama continued his new role as Offical Commencement Speaker today with an address at the Naval Acdemy, stating: “I will only send you into harm’s way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support that [...]

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Oy vey! Republican candidate for Senate from Arkansas, Kim Hendren, decided to get a little subtly anti-Semitic recently at an appearance, calling Democratic Senator, Chuck Schumer, “that Jew.”
He has sort of apologized by saying, “I ought not to have referred to it at all. When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn’t because I [...]

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Liz Cheney went on Morning Joe today to defend her dad. It’s basically just a replay of the pro=torture propoganda/ass covering Dick has been doing, only this time we learn that he’d rather be fishing. Someone get him an apron or visor with that [...]

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Just to show how desperate the Republican Party really is, consider this little tidbit…
From CNN’s Political Ticker:
Nicolle Wallace, a top adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain’s presidential campaign, is adding a few names to the list of Republicans who might lead the GOP out of the wilderness.
Top among them? Actor Gary Sinise.

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Ipsos just conducted an interesting poll involving 7,000 adults in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, that shows how much more love they have for Obama than for the U.S.
Of those surveyed, Obama received favorable ratings averaging 48 percent in the region as a whole. Approval ran as high as [...]

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Georgia Creator’s Rights Party candidate for governor, Neal Horsley, who is running on the secessionist platform to be Georgia’s governor, is incredibly conservative, anti-gay, anti-abortion, and pro-torture. He is also a sex freak with a penchant for farm animals.
From his interview with Alan Colmes:
NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a [...]

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Stormy Daniels is considering running against Louisiana’s Republican senator, David Vitter, in 2010. Vitter was linked to the D.C. Madame and her prostitution services in 2007. Daniels has launched what she is calling a listening tour in Louisiana. She spoke to Kiran Chetry on CNN’s “American Morning” Wednesday.
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When The National Enquirer broke the story of John Edwards affair and possible babby daddy-dom with new age hippie Rielle Hunter, he lost his chance at the Presidency and the faith of the American people. Now, he’ll have to pay for his bad behavior even more, as he is forced to face a federal inquiry [...]

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Back in January when former RNC chairman Chip Saltsman released a CD including a parody song “Barack The Magic Negro,” Steele came forward and said that, yo, it “doesn’t help at all … it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party.”
Today he changed his tune. A transcript via Huffington Post of Steele on today’s Bill [...]

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Sarah Palin took some time off from scapegoating the media for her stupidity and governing to appear on American Choppers, a show about two men who build custom motorcycles.
Why, you ask? Why not? Is there possibly a better way to celebrate the state’s 50 year anniversary? No. no, there is not. Machines=Patriotism=America.

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“Free your mind and the rest will follow. Be color blind, don’t be so shallow.” - En Vogue.
Gov. Paterson, who is legally blind but can still play a mean game of basketball, just settled a federal racial discrimination law suit for $300,000.
The suit accused Paterson of firing a guy over race back when he was [...]

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Pennsylvania Senior Republican Arlen Specter will run on the Democratic ticket in 2010 in “a move would give Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 seats if Al Franken is seated in the Minnesota race.”  This after assuring Republicans as recently as March that he would run on the Republican ticket. 
Said Senator Specter: “I now find my political philosophy [...]

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Above is a photo of the head of the National Economic Council Larry Slumbers (har har, get it?) during yesterday’s meeting with credit card execs. His outrage is apparent.
From the pool report:
One thing to note is that Summers appeared to be nodding off near the beginning of Obama’s remarks. And then he DID nod off, [...]

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I don’t use a credit card, because shhhhh…I have bad credit. At this point I can get about $200 on a card, so why even bother. I’m in the minority though, as most Americans (80% of households) flash their plastic to pay for the majority of stuff.
Today, Obama will be meeting with bigwigs of the [...]

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Steven Schmidt, a top McCain campaign aide who also worked for Bush, is speaking out at the big gay Log Cabin Republicans (Republicans who would like to screw Abe Lincoln) meeting. 
His message isn’t just for the group, but for the entire Republican party: Hug, embrace, and do the dirty with the homos if you want to gain more [...]

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It’s looking even more lonely out there for Cheney as he continues to be the only member of the GOP to put down the Obama administration with warnings of impending doom. Bobby ‘Kenneth the Page’ Jindal, just one of the bobble heads currently at the front of the Republican party, has certainly distance himself from any [...]

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Big ol’ socialist Barack Obama just announced unlimited travel and money transfers to the 1.5 million Cuban Americans who have family in big ‘ol socialist Cuba.  Expect some calls of socialism from the right.
Under the Bush administration, travel was restricted to just two weeks every three years, so this is great news for those who have not been able to see their [...]

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