Rick Davis schools David Axelrod on race card

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  August 1st at 05:44 PM  | 

Mark has addressed some of Barack Obama’s campaign’s handling of the “race card” issue. But it is worth watching the appearance. It is astonishing that Axelrod was so unprepared for this: Note that the closing argument that Obama has never proposed an energy tax increase is laughably false with today’s Politico story about funding a $1,000 rebate with a tax on energy companies. Axelrod is | Read More »

Cancelling markups to avoid votes on energy

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 06:15 PM  | 

Today, Senator Robert “Sheets” Byrd (D-KKK/WV) cancelled a markup in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Why? He even told us. To avoid a vote on energy: “Given the uncertainty in how the oil and gas drilling issue is currently playing out on the Senate floor, I have decided to postpone the July 24th appropriations markups at this time,” Byrd said in a statement. Earlier, Boehner noted | Read More »