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Saturday, September 27, 2008
House Republicans playing chicken
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Congress is reportedly close to an agreement on the Wall Street bailout, but then, they’ve reportedly been close before.
However, House Republicans better be wary of overplaying their hand in opposing the deal. The cost could be devastating. If they do block passage of the bill, they would in effect assume ownership of this mess. If the market really tanks later and the economy collapses, the House Republican caucus becomes the easy scapegoat, even if unfairly, for the whole catastrophe.
And that won’t be pretty. At least some of them seem to understand that, but we’ll see….
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Early polls both say Obama won
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So far we’ve got two polls reporting reaction to Friday night’s debate, one from CBS and one from CNN. Both show a pretty substandial advantage for Obama.
In the CBS poll of supposedly uncommitted voters, “Thirty-nine percent … said Obama won the debate. Twenty-four percent said McCain won, and another 37 percent thought it was a tie.
In the CNN poll, “Barack Obama came out on top, but there was overwhelming agreement that both Obama and John McCain would be able to handle the job of president if elected…..
“The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey is not a measurement of the views of all Americans, since only people who watched the debate were questioned and the audience included more Democrats than Republicans.
Fifty-one percent of those polled thought Obama did the better job in Friday night’s debate, while 38 percent said John McCain did better.”
At the very least, those results suggest that McCain didn’t come close to achieving the so-called “game-changing” results he needed.
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Paul Newman dead at 83….
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
… he was a class act all around. A movie star who never got too full of himself, and a guy who seemed to get a lot of fun out of life while honoring his responsibility to his fellow man.
I think my favorite Newman films were probably “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Slapshot,” which was on cable a few weeks ago and was still funny as hell.
We should all live lives so full.
Oh, and one more thing I should mention. His Newman’s Own Caesars salad dressing is excellent.
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