The Obama campaign recently released an ad mocking John McCain’s inability to use a keyboard as evidence that he’s “out of touch”. But according to a post by my SamSphere colleague Warner Todd Huston, the McCain campaign’s Web site is way ahead of the …
[Leslie Carbone] Alexander Hamilton and Blogging
Posted by Leslie Carbone in October 8th 2008 under: aggregated
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One of the things I love about blogging is all the fun opportunities it brings me. I spent last night tweeting the presidential debate in DuPont Circle with a group of other bloggers. We were being filmed for an upcoming PBS documentary on Alexander …
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With the connection between Barack Obama and Weather terrorist and University of Illinois professor Bill Ayers finally receiving some attention, much of the focus zeroes in on the Weather Underground’s history of violence, such as its 1972 bombing of t…
[Leslie Carbone] A Time to Hope
Posted by Leslie Carbone in October 3rd 2008 under: aggregated
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The bail-out has passed Congress, and King George XLIII is almost certainly going to sign it, yet I feel hopeful about the future of our republic.For four days, we held Leviathan off. Against an Administration that prizes cronyism over competency and …
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The anti-Constitutional bail-out has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 263-171. And nowI will lay me down and bleed a whileThough I am wounded, I am not slainI shall rise and fight again.
Wells Fargo has found a way to flourish despite the federal government. From this morning’s Washington Post:Wachovia said it will snub Citigroup and jump into the arms of Wells Fargo instead, seeking to upend a government-arranged rescue of the troubl…
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote tomorrow on the bail-out, which passed the Senate last night. Arm-twisting is in full swing as Administrative and Congressional power-mongers seek to flip a sufficient number of the 133 Republicans…
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Screwtape wins one. The U.S. Senate has passed the bail-out bill, 74-25. Senators McCain, Biden, Warner, Obama, and Webb were among those, “enslaved … to the pressure of the ordinary”, who voted to continue to induce America “to spend more than [s]…
The bail-out rears its ugly head again, this time in the U.S. Senate, which is expected to vote on it tonight. The version that tanked in the House on Monday has been gussied up a bit. Some business tax cuts have been extended, and temporary AMT reli…
[Leslie Carbone] Booted from White House Conference Call
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 30th 2008 under: aggregated
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Was the White House miffed by my post last week about the conference call with Ed Gillespie? Well, it looks that way. I was just kicked off today’s call, to which I had received an invitation via email this morning:THE WHITE HOUSEWASHINGTONThe Office…
[Leslie Carbone] BREAKING: House Rejects Bail-Out!!
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 29th 2008 under: aggregated
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The U.S. House of Representatives has defended the Constitution, the will of the people, the market economy, the lessons of history, justice, and common sense by rejecting, by a vote of 205-228, the $700-Billion bail-out bill.
[Leslie Carbone] BREAKING: House Rejecting Bail-Out!!
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 29th 2008 under: aggregated
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Right now, the U.S. House vote on the $700-Billion bail-out bill stands at 207-226, with one member not yet voting. Arm-twisting is in full swing, and the vote will remain open until leaders of both parties believe that they cannot lure any more of th…
[Leslie Carbone] The Bail-Out is Still a Bad Deal
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 29th 2008 under: aggregated
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Congress worked furiously this weekend, in brazen contempt of the Constitution and the people’s wishes, to come up with a plan to bail out irresponsible banks and borrowers that’s almost as bad as the earlier proposal floated by King George XLIII. The…
[Leslie Carbone] Writing Well: Organization
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 26th 2008 under: aggregated
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With the book at the publisher and the bail-out in limbo, I can get back to my series on writing well. In my last post in this series, I addressed the importance of clear thinking to clear writing.This post will cover organizational structure as it en…
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Twenty-five hours after President George W. Bush’s doomsday address, House Republicans continue to rebel against his Administration’s $700-Billion bail-out for irresponsible banks and borrowers. Bail-out deal talks tonight have ended with no agreement…
I spent about 30 minutes this morning on a White House conference call during which Ed Gillespie, Counselor to the President, tried to talk up the idea of bailing out irresponsible banks and borrowers. I don’t question either President Bush’s or Mr. G…
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Yesterday, John McCain took the surprising step–brilliant, bizarre, or both–of suspending his campaign in order to rush back to Washington to work on a financial bail-out plan. While it’s good news that the Paulson power grab appears dead, Sen. McCa…
[Leslie Carbone] Grizzly Groundswell Radio Show Tonight
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 24th 2008 under: aggregated
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I’m going back on my friend Chad Everson’s Grizzly Groundswell radio show tonight at 8:00 EST to chat about Bush’s bail-out and what’s wrong with it. You’re welcome to call in at (646) 915-9997.
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FOX News is reporting that John McCain has realized that the Bush Administration’s outrageous plan to burden the taxpayers with a bail-out for irresponsible banks and borrowers cannot pass Congress. Sen. McCain has requested a delay of this Friday’s p…
[Leslie Carbone] Republicans Square their Shoulders
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 24th 2008 under: aggregated
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Yesterday, six weeks before the general election, the lame-duck Bush XLIII Administration dispatched its lame-duck Vice President to Capitol Hill in order to persuade Congressional Republicans why they should rush to pass the lame-duck Treasury Secreta…
[Leslie Carbone] Ten Conservative Concerns with the Treasury Bailout
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 23rd 2008 under: aggregated
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Atlas might shrug yet. Someone on Capitol Hill is speaking out for the responsible taxpayers whom George Bush and John McCain want to saddle with the financial crisis caused by irresponsible lenders and borrowers.The House Republican Study Committee, …
[Leslie Carbone] Biden: Obama Ad Mocking McCain’s Handicap “was Terrible”
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 23rd 2008 under: aggregated
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A recent Obama-Biden ad mocks John McCain’s inability to use a computer. It’s been widely reported that Sen. McCain can’t type on a keyboard because of the injuries he sustained from torture as a POW. A young Obama spokesman appearing on FOX News a f…
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While our Congressional and Administrative overlords were meeting today to hammer out the details of King George XLIII’s proposed $700-Billion reward program for irresponsible lenders and borrowers, Sen. John McCain was speaking in Scranton, Pennsylvan…
[Leslie Carbone] I’m a chump.
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 19th 2008 under: aggregated
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A while back, I went shopping for a mortgage. When I saw the obscene amount of money the bank was willing to lend me, I nearly fell over. Thanks, but no thanks, I said. There was no way that I was willing to assume that much debt. But plenty of oth…
[Leslie Carbone] “Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel”
Posted by Leslie Carbone in September 19th 2008 under: aggregated
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