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Obama - Most Liberal Senator
And the jilted Romnuts are declaring that they'll be supporting him.
Leftards in GOP disguise.
"National Journal magazine is reporting that Obama was the most liberal senator of 2007, according to the vote ratings it does every year for members of Congress. Clinton, meanwhile, ranks as the 16th most-liberal senator."
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Wilco leaves 'em wanting more
Sport has its decathlon. Kobayashi has his hot dogs. Part endurance test and part gluttonous buffet, Wilco's just-completed five-show run at the Riviera Theater might be the closest analog in rock. By the numbers, the Chicago band's five gigs in six nights featured sprawling sets of more than 30 songs each. .
Parking mad policies only harm the Capital
Councillors elected to provide facilities and officials employed to organise and manage them consistently fail to meet Edinburgh's parking needs. The council's recent study on parking availability suggests that councillors don't distinguish between high demand in George Street and low demand in Regent Road and Johnston Terrace. Yet they included these off-centre streets to improve apparent parking availability.Four kinds of driver try to park in the centre of Edinburgh – tourists, commuters, shoppers and those who are stopping briefly. Only the latter needs on-street parking for a quick visit – the others would be better served by off-street car parking with payment on departure, removing the risk of a fine. The council recognises this, otherwise why periodically dust off and promote old plans for underground car parks? An automated car park is now planned under Chambers Street – but why only 100 spaces and why there when it could be built under the city streets – for which the council's own study shows high demand? Or, as happens in Europe, why not build downward under squares and public gardens to provide central and unobtrusive high volume parking which would neither encroach on to building space nor reduce amenity?In 2005-6, George Street produced £1.3 million in parking fine income, the UK's highest outside London, but while the council upped its charges, the result of that was to dramatically reduce occupancy.
Mickey Kaus
Had she entered in August or September, the surge would have run its course successfully or not. The Iran issue would be that much further along. Pandemic flu would have hit or not hit. Etc. By announcing early, she brought into play a hundred unnecessary variables. In a nutshell, her challenge is (a) herself, (b) her vote on the War (and her bizarre accounting for same), (c) her husband (never very popular with the party's left wing and a wild card every day), (d) the whole Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton can-we-ever-get-out-of-this-movie thing, (e) Hillaryland (consultants turning everything to hectoring mush), (f) deep-seated fear among Democrats that she is, in truth, the least electable candidate they have. Geffen, a long-time ally, addressed a, b, c, d, e and f. The Clinton campaign, by responding the way it did, amplified his remarks at least twofold.
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