Surf City, LBI last month. Looks like fun!

Somewhere in England. Looks like even more fun!

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Looks like we’ll all be getting a tax rebate of between $300 (for singles) and $1200 (married with kids). Congress and President Bush agreed on the tenants of the economic relief package today and it now need only be signed into law - a formality. It’s amazing how quickly (less than two weeks) both sides of the aisle can get together when it involves putting greenbacks into the pockets of congressional constituents (what dope would not accept $$$ which goes directly into the pockets of their peeps?). Yet, congress can’t even agree to disagree on much more fundamental issues, i.e. immigration. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll gladly take the 1200 bucks, but there just seems to be something fundamentally wrong with how this thing went down.

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Maureen Dowd, the unapologetic super liberal Bush basher, actually got it right in her NYTimes Op-Ed column on January 23rd. Not for one second do I buy the rhetoric spewed from the Clinton Machine. I actually like Obama, and would love to see him run against John McCain, but feel that the Clinton Machine is so fine-tuned that he hasn’t got a shot at winning this primary. I just can’t believe that the American public, by and large, buys into her message. I for one feel that she and her husband will say and do anything to get elected. It’s not about the state of our country and repairing the damage of the Bush administration with these two. It’s simply a power grab.

I also have a real problem with the potential of either a Clinton or a Bush occupying The White House for all of 24 years (28 if she’s re-elected in 2012). Does anyone else see a problem with that? This is a democracy, not a pseudo monarchy.

By the way, that’s a great pic, isn’t it?

Dowd…

Two Against One

Published: January 23, 2008

GREENVILLE, S.C.

If Bill Clinton has to trash his legacy to protect his legacy, so be it. If he has to put a dagger through the heart of hope to give Hillary hope, so be it.

If he has to preside in this state as the former first black president stopping the would-be first black president, so be it.

The Clintons — or “the 2-headed monster,” as the The New York Post dubbed the tag team that clawed out wins in New Hampshire and Nevada — always go where they need to go, no matter the collateral damage. Even if the damage is to themselves and their party.

Bill’s transition from elder statesman, leader of his party and bipartisan ambassador to ward heeler and hatchet man has been seamless — and seamy.

After Bill’s success trolling the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, Hillary handed off South Carolina and flew to California and other Super Tuesday states. The Big Dog relished playing the candidate again, wearing a Technicolor orange tie and sweeping across the state with the mute Chelsea. (more…)