From Denver Post DNC host officials short on cash The committee for the Democratic convention considers cuts in light of the fundraising shortfall. Millions of dollars behind in raising money and unlikely to meet a fast-approaching final deadline, the Denver committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is considering spending cuts. Committee sources say they are [...]

The general election in November is forecasted to be a landslide victory for the Democrats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Some predictions show the Democrats with a 70-seat majority in the House and a 12-seat majority in the Senate. The significance of those types of majorities in both chambers is that [...]

Welcome to the May 25, 2008 edition of Carnival of Political Punditry. I won’t be doing any commenting this week because I am trying to get some of my own writing done and looking for ways to get more than 30 people a day to look at this blog. I’m guessing that I would get [...]

I am putting together a series of posts regarding my Presidential Campaign Platform. I am not actually running for President of the US for a few reasons. One reason is that I am 33. Another reason is that I have no political experience. And lastly, I am a very reasonable person who does not enjoy [...]

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.” — Hillary Clinton (Story here) “A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s [...]

Last year when the race began to become “important” during the primary season, the Democratic National Committee declared that the delegates from Florida and Michigan would not be seated at the convention in Denver, due to those states defying the party leadership by moving their primary dates. At the time all major democratic contenders publicly [...]

From Reuters “The Republicans are supposed to be the people that don’t count votes in Florida, not Democrats,” said Clinton, campaigning with his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton at Lynn’s Paradise Cafe, where she chatted with voters and he held an impromptu news conference. “It’s very strange that the Democrats would be more authoritarian and more hostile [...]

Every once and so often my rss readers pick up stupidity from the Huffington Post. Well I got a good one today. Susie Hoeller did a piece titled “Immigration Workplace Raids Will Lead to More Lost American Jobs.” In it she tells us that the recent spat of illegal alien raids have been a bad [...]

From Reuters: Leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee said on Monday they had reached a deal on legislation to create a multibillion dollar mortgage rescue fund and a new regulator for housing finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The plan would enable the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee billions of dollars in refinanced [...]

Welcome to the May 18, 2008 edition of Carnival of Political Punditry. I decided to comment on a few of the submissions again this week. I didn’t get to all of them, but I can tell you that there are some great ones, and some really not so great ones. Enjoy. Environment Mark Schauss presents [...]