Sunday, February 03, 2008

Yep It was History alright......

Tried to text you John but my cell was being difficult... and I'm too mentally challenged to try and attempt to figure it out. I had a draft message all ready but the phone kept trying to call rather than just "Send the message". I hate my cell phone. Not up for fighting its evil ways I just gave up... Mom always said if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything at all. Anyway why add insult to injury? My heart was racing fast enough as it was, and I've gotta say honestly I'm sort of a fair weather fan of the Pats.... and additionally, I sort of expected this going in. The Pats have been "just squeaking by" for a while and it was bound to catch up eventually. The Manning brothers have made the case for good genetics. Who would have thought several months back that the Giants would be the team to take the Pat's down? Ahhh... honestly it isn't as brutal as the many past Red Sox defeats by the big apple... Guess Dolphins fans can celebrate 1972 again. (grumble...)

If this semi insignificant news wasn't bad enough I learned that Mitt Romney won the Maine Caucus... a liberal and "Independent Minded" state. BAD NEWS for McCain. However, my feelers tell me that the GOP kept the caucus sort of private from the masses, and it may be more of a representation of GOP establishment than what the Republicans of Maine wanted.

Because I really dislike Mitt:

From fact check:

With a nationwide wave of nominating contests looming next week, Republican presidential candidates held their last scheduled debate against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s retired Air Force One. But we found some of the candidates' facts just won’t fly.

  • Romney complained that McCain used "the wrong data" about job creation to support his assertion that Massachusetts had ranked 47th among the 50 states while Romney was governor. Romney was wrong; McCain was correct.
  • Romney said his hundreds of millions of dollars in "fee increases" merely caught up with years of inflation and weren’t tax increases in disguise. Independent budget experts contradict him on that.
  • Romney said the over-budget costs of his Massachusetts health care plan were due to changes made by his successor. Authorities on the plan say that’s mostly untrue; costs went up because more people than expected signed up for state-subsidized insurance.
  • Romney wrongly claimed McCain’s anti-global-warming bill would boost gasoline prices by up to 50 cents per gallon. Actually, the official estimate is 40 cents for most vehicles, and not until the year 2025.
  • McCain and Romney traded oversimplified assertions regarding a "timetable" for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
  • Huckabee cited a Heritage Foundation study to back up his assertion that rebates to taxpayers aren’t as good a way to stimulate the economy as the highway construction he favors. In fact, the study does disparage rebates but urges tax cuts instead, not increased spending.
  • Ron Paul repeated his claim that defending the U.S. "empire" is costing "a trillion dollars a year." But the dubious figure includes costs such as the entire Veterans Affairs budget. Paul also claimed "nobody" is talking about cutting spending, even as his rivals did so 14 times during the same debate.

Romney Outspends All Opponents Combined in Ad Buys…

In the article: Republican Mitt Romney spent as much as all of his opponents combined - and almost four times as much as John McCain in Florida.

The article claims that 90% of the GOP ads were not negative, however I think this is an obvious bias towards Romney as I have not seen a single Romney ad which did not attack and distort the records of both McCain and Huckabee.

Tuesday is going to be a very scary day.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, the Pats definitely had this coming. It turns out that besides the Giants, the undoing of the Pats was that 18-0 record. But like you wrote in your text, pitchers and catchers report in about two weeks. The anticipation of baseball season has already quashed any disappointment from the Patriots near-perfect season. Fantasy Baseball anyone?

-John