From Talking Points Memo:
“Over the weekend, the Washington Post’s George Will, got in on the act. And it took us about ten minutes — longer, it appears, than the Post’s editors spent — to figure out that Will, like Barnes, was essentially making stuff up.
Both of Will’s major ‘data points’ fall apart after a moment’s scrutiny.”
“Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently wrote an opinion piece for the Fort Worth Star Telegram titled, ‘Voter Fraud Must Stop.’ Abbott discussed his commitment to use a newly created office – the Special Investigations Unit – and a $1.5 million grant from the Governor’s office to train local officials so they can stop what Abbott describes as ‘an epidemic of voter fraud [that] is infesting the electoral process.’
Ed Ishmael, a Dallas lawyer and President and Cofounder of the Texas Values in Action Coalition, disagrees with Abbott’s assertion that voter fraud is an ‘epidemic’ in Texas. In a viewpoint posted on Dallas Blog, Ishmael points out that:”
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“If you add up all of the suspects Abbott references in his article as being somehow involved in election fraud in Texas, it comes to 16…If you wade through Abbott’s carefully parsed words, you see that only three of these suspects have actually been found guilty (all three of them pleaded guilty) and the rest have either been merely accused or only recently indicted so they haven’t even yet gone to trial…Three! How is that an epidemic?”
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C-SPAN today releases the results of its second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership
President Obama granted interviews with 5 columnists last week. Below are a couple of articles on those interviews.
An Eternal Optimist — But Not A Sap – Ronald Brownstein
Obama on Nationalizing Banks and the Stimulus – E.J.Dionne
Bernie Maddoff: The Texas Re-Mix –
“Fifty-eight-year-old Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is looking a lot more like the next Bernie Madoff.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Federal Bureau of Investigations are looking into the eccentric money man for alleged fraud involving his Stanford International Bank, which claims to have $8.5 billion in assets and some 30,000 investors.”
Obama slows down troop boost decision
Politically, Stimulus Battle Has Just Begun – Parties Position Themselves To Claim Credit, Cast Blame
In response to the negative reaction of Wall Street to Sec. Geithner’s announcement of the Bank Bail-out plan, David Axelrod, President Obama’s Sr Advisor, said: “Well, I think it was a bumpy rollout because Wall Street was hoping for a complete answer to some really complex and expensive problems, and what Secretary Geithner laid out didn’t meet those expectations, but he laid out a strategy that we think is going to work.”
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Summary: In purporting to “take a look back” at how the economic recovery plan “grew, and grew, and grew,” Fox News’ Jon Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods — all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release.
| Having wrapped up his career as an ambassador under President Bush, Fort Worth’s Tom Schieffer is back home and pondering a run for governor – as a Democrat.
“I’ve thought about it for a while,” Schieffer told the Star-Telegram. “I have not made a decision.” Although Schieffer served in a Republican administration under Bush – with whom he worked as general manager of the Texas Rangers – he says there should be no confusion about his political affiliation. “I am a Democrat,” said Schieffer, who voted for Barack Obama in the primary and general elections. |
Tom Daschle: “I read the New York Times this morning and I realized that I can’t pass health care if I am too much of a distraction … I called the president this morning.”
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