This weekend, the trolls at Fox News, Drudge and Newsbusters created a bogus story about the Coal industry and here’s the facts about that “hidden” tape. Watch this:
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Sublime.
If you watched the debate, it seems to me that the race is over. McCain has lost.
Looks like something really bad happened to McCain’s campaign around September 8th: Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over that day and according to Pollster.com, it was all downhill from there.
McCain: One Way Out
Oct 13
As it happens sometimes, your best idea gets written by someone else–and most of the time better than you would have ever written it. In this case, the topic was to be McCain’s only shot at losing with some measure of dignity. Alas, Miles Mogalescu at Huffington Post beat me to it with a brilliant, prescient post about McCain’s legacy and the options he has remaining in this election.
With the Presidential election only 3 weeks away, John McCain faces a stark choice: Will he go down in history as a principled conservative who lost an election standing on his convictions? Or will he go down as an opportunist who lost while bringing out the darkest elements in American politics?
John McCain is now at a crossroads. At this historical moment, he has virtually no path to win the Presidency. The question is whether he will lose with honor or lose with disgrace. Will his legacy be like that of his Arizona Senatorial predecessor Barry Goldwater, who ran a campaign of conservative principal in a liberal year and lost in a landslide, only to see his principals come to power 16 years in the form of Ronald Reagan? Or will his legacy be like some combination of Richard Nixon, Robert Dole and George Wallace, one of a man whom, in his overweening ambition for victory, took the low road and tapped the dark forces of American politics to his own everlasting shame and dishonor?
I highly recommend that you read Miles Mogalescu’s prescription for McCain’s ailing campaign. As someone who once respected McCain, I couldn’t agree more.
With a unanimous vote of 12-0, the Republican-dominated Alaska State Legislative council voted to release its findings [pdf] regarding Governor Sarah Palin’s efforts to get her ex-brother-in-law fired and the dismissal of Department of Public Safety head, Walt Monegan. Finding number one was:
Finding Number One
For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides
“The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
Given that the reports recommends that no criminal charges be pursued, the question is, “What should Alaska do now?”
It seems clear to me watching from the outside that there is only one course of action for the Alaska Legislature: the Alaska Legislature must impeach Sarah Palin.
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