He went to my high school, though much older than me, and I have encountered him many times. He's arrogant, not an intellectual and just a corny white boy from a large Democratic district.
He spoke at my sister's high school commencement last year and just came off as an elitist moron. He's the Debbie Phillips of Trumbull/Mahoning County, a Democratic party cheerleader suckling from a huge blue district tit.
Sure, he's a young guy who should be able to relate to our generation. But make no mistake. He is a political patsy. One of the, it's us (the Democrats) versus them (the Republicans).
Voinovich retirement could set up tough primaries
Contributed by Reid Wilson
01/12/09 10:13 AM [ET]
Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) announced his retirement Monday, giving Democrats the opportunity to pick up another Senate seat in 2010 and setting up the prospect of competitive primaries for both parties.
"After prayerful consideration and much thought, my wife Janet and I have decided that I will not seek a third term in the United States Senate," Voinovich said in a statement this morning.
"I have never seen the country in such perilous circumstances. Not since the Great Depression and the Second World War have we been confronted with such challenges, as a nation and as a world," Voinovich said. "I must devote my full time, energy and focus to the job I was elected to do, the job in front of me, which seeking a third term – with the moneyraising and campaigning that it would require – would not allow me to do."
Voinovich, the 72-year old former Cleveland mayor and two-term Ohio governor, has been a largely centrist voice in the Republican conference during his two terms in the Senate.
His retirement creates the prospect of a competitive primary on both the Republican and Democratic sides, something both parties are already maneuvering to prevent.
Reps. Tim Ryan (D), Zack Space (D) and Betty Sutton (D) are widely mentioned as potential
Democratic challengers, and the party may look to Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D) and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) to run.
Many Republicans expect ex-Rep. Rob Portman (R) to make a return bid for public office. Appointed President Bush's director of the Office of Management and Budget and U.S. Trade Representative, Portman has been laying the groundwork for a run already. A top GOP source says Portman has signed up businessman Mercer Reynolds, who served as Bush's national finance chairman in 2004, to head Portman's own fundraising committee.
Some expect former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R) to consider a bid for Senate four years after his run for governor came up short. Blackwell, currently a top candidate to chair the Republican National Committee, is focused only on that race, according to a source close to Blackwell. Party sources say the GOP would much rather have Portman atop the ticket than Blackwell.
read the whole story at The Hill
Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give
W. comes clean - on his dad, Condi's farts and the time Dick waterboarded the house boy
Posted Jan 22, 2009 11:45 PM
Despite a financial crisis for the ages, the catastrophic collapse of a Republican Party crippled by his political legacy, and the highest presidential disapproval rating in the history of American polling, outgoing commander in chief George W. Bush has not completely lost his sense of fun. When Rolling Stone caught up with him at the White House shortly after the holidays for what would turn out to be his final extended sit-down interview as president, the graying but still quite fit Texan had just finished his morning exercycle session in an eagle-emblazoned sweatsuit and was fiddling with a new toy."They call it a Wii, or a Mee, or something," Bush tells me, smiling as he waves a wandlike plastic device in front of a 54-inch plasma TV in the Treaty Room, a large, brightly lit chamber on the second floor of the Executive Residence that traditionally functions as the president's private study. The president is playing a friendly game of Major League Baseball — the Boston Red Sox against his cherished Texas Rangers — and a computer-rendered Daisuke Matsuzaka drills a hard slider right past him, down and in.
"Huh," says the president. "Might have to choke up a little."
Although now used as a game room, the Treaty Room still has a classic feel, with a century-old painting by Theobald Chartran depicting the signing of the peace treaty after the Spanish-American War, and a magnificent mahogany "treaty table" first used by Ulysses S. Grant. A bookshelf on the north wall displays standard-issue Americana such as Poor Richard's Almanack, but it also contains former swimsuit model Kathy Ireland's Powerful Inspirations: Eight Lessons That Will Change Your Life ("There's a lot of good life stuff in there, a lot of stuff about patience," the president says) and a well-worn copy of 101 Dumb Dog Deaths ("Makes me laugh every time, especially the one about cow-tipping").
Matsuzaka delivers again, but the president looks fastball when the pitch is a change. "Damn it!" he shouts, bouncing the Wii wand off an antique globe in the corner. "Goddamn motherfucking shit!" After collecting himself, he takes a seat at his desk and leans back in his grand leather easy chair, stirring the ice cubes in a glass of Diet Coke with a finger.
So are we meeting up here because Michelle Obama is measuring the Oval Office windows for drapes?
[Laughs] No. I just like it up here. Plus, people tend to get nervous in the Oval Office. Figured I'd make it a little easier on you by doing this here.
While I was waiting, one of your staffers told me a crazy story about a certain member of your Cabinet breaking wind in the Oval Office. Can you confirm that story?
Well, like I said, people get nervous down there. It's — [laughs] — I can't believe someone told you about that.
But you're leaving office in a couple of weeks. Come on. Throw us a bone. Just think, you finally get to talk about all of these things.
Look, I can't. Besides, it wasn't that big of a — OK, fine. It was Condi.
Condoleezza Rice farted in the Oval Office! When she was the national security adviser?
No, this was when she was State. Just after I appointed her. And it wasn't no little whistler, either. She's a little lady, but she let that baby rip. Nearly blew [White House chief of staff] Andy Card's ears off.
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