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Newt Gingrich - who left 1st wife stricken with
cancer, cheated on 2nd wife, and now is on 3rd wife - does video in support of 'traditional marriage'

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 05 September 2008 03:55:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Newt is such a fan of traditional marriage, that's why he couldn't stop at one. Or two.

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Delicate Dance

post from Talking Points Memo on 05 September 2008 03:50:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

The investigators up in Alaska have come out with their press release announcing how they plan to deal with Gov. Palin's stonewalling of the trooper-gate investigation. It seems Palin has now gotten seven others to also refuse to speak to the[...]

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In Palin’s Alaska, Court Records Are
“Service Unavailable”

post from All Spin Zone on 05 September 2008 03:49:00 PM. © All Spin Zone

This is not a story about how Ted Stevens’ innertube broke and thus we can’t get to some court records because of it. No, and it is not because of some kind of incompetence in the Alaska internet infrastructure. Indeed, there’s a whiff of suggestion here that the court internets in Alaska are quite competent, and that they are showing “Service Unavailable” for a reason.

I have not talked about this story though I’ve known of it for a couple days. Frankly, I don’t respect the National Enquirer, and they are at the heart of the story. Evidently, they are reporting that Sarah Palin had had an affair with a coworker of her husband Todd some time back. I do not know anything about the veracity of that report one way or another, and I find it irresponsible to repeat their claims, especially since there is no mention of the affair on the National Enquirer web site. But the McCain is taking the report seriously, and are threatening a lawsuit, though they would have no standing in a court of law, of course.

So what makes me think this might be a story? According to Andrew Sullivan, longtime conservative commentator, though he now supports Obama, the coworker of Todd Palin, who is named as Scott Richter here, has filed an emergency motion in Alaska courts to seal his divorce records. Sullivan gives us a link to that emergency motion to seal the records, but that’s where we get the “Service Unavailable” message.

Hmm. Makes one think, doesn’t it? But, heck, perhaps whole bunches of people read Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic, and those people all clicked the link to the court records in question. Perhaps they overwhelmed the Alaska system. Still, why did this guy choose this particular time to get the records sealed. Enquiring minds want to know.

Hey, maybe that’s why they’re not going to let Sarah Palin talk to the press for a while.

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MONTHLY EMUSIC BINGE.

post from Ezra Klein on 05 September 2008 03:46:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

Every month, I basically wait till the final day to do my Emusic downloading. Its proof that procrastination is more a personality flaw than a response to circumstance. I like getting new music! In any case, it's Friday, and I'm frankly burnt out on[...]

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Ceding Control of the Courts to the Radical Right

post from TalkLeft on 05 September 2008 03:46:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Today I remembered this blogger conference call with Sen. Charles Schumer in 2005 over President Bush's judicial nominees.

Sen. Schumer was emphatic in his remarks to us. He said the hard right, both economic and religious, has decided that the only way to push their agenda through is to control the courts. If they win and gain control of the courts, both economically and socially, they will roll back America to the 1930's or the 1890's.

He said that the hard right made a deal with George Bush during the election. It would support him and "not hound him", but he had to cede control of his judicial nominations to the Federalist Society.

That's the reward (in addition to enthusiastically supporting his election) I would bet the radical right is offering John McCain. When you see reports of his campaign coffers growing due to Gov. Palin, the picture comes into closer focus. [More...]

The radical right dumped Bush over the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court (which I supported.) She wasn't sufficiently anti-choice.

They believe it will be different with McCain/Palin. If they win him the election, he will owe them their desired judicial picks. And having been burned by Bush over Harriet Miers, they will be smarter about extracting their quid pro quo this time.

Gov. Palin is but a pawn. But she's a dangerous one for our constitutional democracy, as I wrote here.

Regardless of who you supported in the Democratic primaries, or whether you are independent and stayed out of it, if you don't want James Dobson, Focus on the Family and other extremist evangelical groups dictating the replacement of retiring Supreme Court justices and jeopardizing your freedom and constitutional rights and those of your children for the next 30 years, do your part. Support the Democratic ticket.
Any Republican would be bad for health insurance, jobs, social security, war, the economy, the environment and criminal justice reform. But John McCain's sell-out to the extremist fundamentalists he once distanced himself from -- the same groups who opposed his candidacy prior to his Palin pick -- threatens the core of our constitutional democracy.
McCain likely won't be around in 10 years to witness the lasting damage his deal with the devil brought to our country. But many of us and our children will be.

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Troopergate Investigation Report Date Moves Up

post from Daily Kos on 05 September 2008 03:45:39 PM. © Daily Kos

ABC:

Investigation into Palin Now on Fast Track
Sources Tell ABC News that Report Will Be Released Almost Three Weeks Early
By LEN TEPPER

September 5, 2008—

ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release date of his investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired. The results of the investigation were originally scheduled for release Oct. 31 but will now come almost three weeks earlier, according to sources.

The announcement is set for 9 a.m. AKDT time.

The Alaska state senator running an investigation of Gov. Palin had accused the McCain campaign of using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31, four days before the November election.

"It's likely to be damaging to the Governor's administration," said Senator Hollis French, a Democrat, appointed the project manager for a bi-partisan State Senate Legislative Counsel Committee investigation.

Palin, who has denied any wrongdoing and has said she has nothing to hide, has hired private lawyers to represent her in the matter.

After years of reports and investigations released after elections (so as not to "interfere" with people's important choices based on issues like who we'd rather have a beer with), it's nice to see the American people might get a chance to actually evaluate someone before having to decide how to vote on their candidacy.

The only remaining question is whether the Alaska State Legislature has the same odd predilection for Sternly Worded Letters^TM that the U.S. Congress has.

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Sarah Palin Slashed Funding For Teen Pregnancy
Programs

post from Crooks and Liars on 05 September 2008 03:45:14 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Washington Post:ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin [...]

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Fox Attacks: Obama Like Kerry

As was discussed on Meet The Bloggers today, Fox News has taken to attacking Barack Obama this cycle with virtually identical lines of attack as they used against John Kerry in 2004. It's actually pretty pathetic and really shameless. Brave New Films has[...]

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Ready on Day ... 57

From Ambinder ...A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won't submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska,[...]

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Demonstrations at the RNC seen through a teen's
eyes

I live ten minutes from downtown St Paul. Just to be right up front, I am not super involved[...]

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