People certainly are incredibly jazzed about Sarah Palin. That tour de force ABC interview, the prolific earmark record, and of course all those “Bridge to Nowhere” lies. The Palin Factor rolls on …
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This week at TPMCafe Book Club, New York Times Magazine’s Paul Tough joins us to talk about his new book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest To Change Harlem And America.
The book pivots around Geoffrey Canada, a poverty-fighting Harlem visionary– Obama described his work once as “an all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children.”– and his work on The Harlem Children’s Zone, a $58 million organization reaching out to 7,000 children.
Discussing along with Paul: Kira Orange-Jones of Teach For America, Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America and Andy Rotherham, co-director and co-founder of the Education Sector.
Here’s an interesting article by the AP’s Brendan Farrington in which McCain gets quizzed on various of his lies. He admits some are lies but say it’s okay. And in others, well …
McCain cut off a question about the “Bridge to Nowhere,” which Palin claims to have killed in Alaska even though Washington pulled back money for the project before she turned against it.
“The important thing is she’s vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects–far, far in excess of her predecessor and she’s given money back to the taxpayers and she’s cut their taxes, so I’m happy with her record,” McCain said.
Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central reports on a conference call last week among Democratic operatives and donors trying to gear up the kind of independent political activities that Obama had initially discouraged.
Gov. Palin’s spokesman confirms to TPMmuckraker that she installed a tanning bed in the Governor’s Mansion.
Down in the underbrush beneath Sarah Palin’s forest of lies there’s been this line that even if she was a big time earmarker that she still vetoed half a billion worth of earmarks as governor.
Well, not exactly.
The late Grammy winner Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was exiled from Louisiana by Katrina. His grave site in Texas was washed away by Ike.
Let me get this straight. John McCain’s top economic advisor, former Sen. Phil Gramm, is the guy who authored the deregulation law that most agree is the ultimate cause of today’s financial meltdown. Tomorrow’s and probably next week’s too. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. John Thain, CEO of Merrill Lynch, which swirled into brokerage oblivion today, is one of McCain’s top economic advisors too. And now McCain says he’s going to clean up the mess by putting in tighter regulations and oversight even though he’s always supported lax oversight and his top economics guy is the one who loosened the rules in the first place.
Who would you expect to announce that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won’t cooperate with the Alaska Legislature’s probe into whether she abused the power of her office in Trooper-Gate?
Not Palin herself. Nor the spokesperson for the Governor’s Office. Nor the lawyer the state is paying to represent her in her official capacity in the case.
Instead, that announcement was made today by a spokesperson for John McCain’s presidential campaign.
Just keep that in mind as this case unfolds.
Kissinger, who is one of McCain’s foreign policy advisors, is now openly supporting Obama’s call for high level talks with Iran.