Liberal Talk Radio

The only thing better than burying bad news before the Christmas break is the time-honored tradition of resigning to spend more time with your family, alive and well in all corners of this great nation:
Less than three months into her three-year term as a Houston City Council member, Betty Vehrs resigned this week to spend [...]

In other spam news (two spam posts in one day!), I suppose this explains why Nigerians continue to keep at it after all these years:
Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams.
Initially, Mezvinsky became the victim of “just about [...]

Republicans everywhere wake up this morning asking why this couldn’t have happened, say, last week:
Republican officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. Word comes a day after the Democratic gains in the election, in which Rumsfeld was a focus of much of the criticism of the Iraq war.

I just heard a clip of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the radio coming out in support of Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays. Bloomberg, himself somewhat of an iconoclast, was saying (I’m paraphrasing — maybe I’ll find a link later) that Shays is a good guy because he speaks his mind and stands up [...]

Bizarre results from a CNN poll. I’ll try to summarize:
1. John McCain would lose to Hillary Rodham Clinton he would give Hillary Clinton a run for her money.
2. Alternatively, Rudy Giuliani would lose to Hillary Clinton, but he has a better shot against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Can anyone offer a good pop-psychology answer on this? [...]

Am I the last one to realize (via) that Harry Reid is a Mormon convert?

When I saw this headline I was convinced that the Seattle Times had inked a content-sharing deal with The Onion.
Sadly, no.

We haven’t heard from Karl Rove in a while. Apparently he really is the genius we made him out to be.
How do you get people to stop talking about Iraq, Woodward, botched 9/11 warnings and whatever else is unseemly? Pick on the gays (after all, it worked so well in 2004):
According to two people close [...]

The New Jersey Senate race is critical to Democrats as they hope to take control of the Senate. So what is Robert Menendez doing? Campaigning in South Florida, of course, courting Republicans:
He shook hands with supporters at Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little Havana. He was given the keys to the affluent city of [...]

Is it just me or wouldn’t you have expected the U.S. to threaten Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan would be bombed into the stone age if they didn’t stop working with the Taliban after Sept. 11? I know it’s pick-on-Richard Armitage season, but “cooperate or we’ll bomb you” is basically the definition of military deterrence . [...]