The Positivity of Absolute Value

Michael Barone at RealClearPolitics gives his two cents, not on why the recent troop surge that will soon deploy to Iraq and the Anbar Province will succeed, but instead on why he thinks that arguments against the surge are both ill-conceived and asinine.

Jay Cost points out some things that may make Barack Obama more than a simple lame duck contender to Hillary Clinton in the coming elections.

Still, I'm a little skeptical.

Earlier this evening I said to a fellow political compatriot that the thing that was going to propel the Democrats into office in 08 wasn't any cohesive effort in unified strategy, but sheer confusing, unorganized policy making attempts (just what the Democrats have proven best at).

I have said since November that all the Democrats have to do is try and force bill after bill through congress. They will likely fail in most of their attempts, but that is not the point. The point is that if they try and make changes, whatever those changes may be, and the Republican party, led by George Bush continually shuts them down, they will symbolically convince the American people that they are the party of change and that the red are simply trying to hold them back for spite. If the people are convinced of that, then the Democrats will skip into victory in the next presidential election.

Rahm Immanuel knows this. This is the guy to watch. I am not saying here that I think he is more talented than Karl Rove, because if fact, I think the opposite; though I do think he is talented enough. And with his party on the verge of controlling the escalating mutiny that is Washington, he may be able to lead the blue into greener pastures for some time to come.

After watching a few these events unfold over the last couple of days like Bush announcing his 21,000 troop increase and top Democrats trying to decide whether to take an immediate symbolic moral victory or listen to John Murtha and have a longer lasting but harder to come by victory, I must say that I have felt something that I haven't felt in a very long time.

I feel as though power may be shifting. I mean power may be shifting in a very powerful way. If Immanuel can play his cards right and the Democrats, at least for the next couple of years can keep their malcontent, then the Democrats may hold power for many years to come. I really feel this.

Now the disclaimer is that this may be to the chagrin of the American people. Because while this "no strategy is our strategy" may be working wonders for them at the moment, what happens when this country truly needs them to unite. When they can't, what do we do then?

I fear all the Bush's may be gone.

Who ever would have thought?

I have a Motorola Razr, and at the beginning of the year I was at work, when I dropped it in a bucket of dirty mop water. Don't ask.

Needless to say there was no way I was going to get to work again, so I called this company. And though the twenty five minute automated conversation I had to have before I was able to talk to a real person was somewhat taxing upon my patience, the whole ordeal took no longer than a half an hour and my new phone was in my hands the next day, as promised, blemish free.

Granted I had to pay the fifty dollars to make all of this happen, it was better than shelling another three hundred out to Verizon for a new one. Overall satisfaction.

ITWire.:

Right now the two formats are slugging it out, toe to toe, at CES for the hearts, minds and wallets of the masses. The format war has sparked a press release campaign, with each side claiming to be winning, yet Blu-ray has gone so far as to clear itself victorious.

Read on however, and you will learn that at most the two formats are still in a dead heat to the finish line.

Funny, Blu-ray seems to have been in touch with some of Bush's PR people.

Though the 110th session of congress is officially underway in the real world, fantasycongress.com is a little delayed.

This upset me at first, but reading on they explained that the reason they decided to wait is because they are still in the midst of making some pretty exciting changes that I think will improve game play. So sit tight and be patient; I think this is going to be a pretty exciting session.

If you have never heard of the sight, you should visit immediately, it's a lot of fun. And if you would like you could play against me by joining my league. It's called The 13th, join soon and test your congressional abilities.

Being a proud owner of the ipod, I will say that this is pretty exciting; made much more so by the intense hype this thing is getting from pretty much every news source I have read that is covering the story.

At five and six hundred dollars for a four or eight gig, respectively, that is a little out of my comfort zone. But like all other new technology, as it gets a few months old the prices will drop drastically and I will have to seriously consider this purchase.

Or, I should say, Oprah's troubles.