Munson keeps pushing for a retail tax increase. Originally it was for keeping up with infrastructure repairs on our roads (we are an estimated 80 million behind) but some some new information has come out about what the money is really going to be spent on.
H/T to Stehly and Staggers
Governor Sarah Palin from Alaska
This is a good pick on a female conservative standpoint, but about it. I have always said Tom Ridge would be his best pick and Mitt Romney would be the kiss of death.
Well it wouldn’t surprise me (remember when Jesus fed 5,000 people with a couple of baskets of fish?) In the dead tree version of the Gargoyle Leader (I can’t find the freaking link on there site) they talk about the economic impact of the event (which makes me laugh, because when I used to wait tables the running joke was if they prayed before they ate, and made sure you saw them praying, and only ordered water to drink, you weren’t getting a tip). In the article they say 300,000 people are showing up to the event . . . yeah . . . right. As Scotty Hudson pointed out a few years ago, if every single person in the metro area came (which is about 230,000 people) you would still have to estimate that an additional 70,000 are coming from out of the area. There isn’t enough hotel rooms and campsites or even church basement floors to house all those people. Even JazzFest claims only about 30,000 come from out of Sioux Falls to their event. C’mon LifeLight, isn’t it a sin to lie?
H/T to my friend Kat for finding the photos. I forgot my camera that day.
I was a little worried about the Obama speech tonight. It had such a build up that I was afraid he might not be able to live up to expectations. It did. It was a great speech. The best I’ve seen him give since the 2004 DNC, and a millions of times better then the once I saw him give in Mitchell, SD months back.
Other reactions.
Pat Buchanan: It was a truly outstanding speech…this was the greatest convention speech, and probably the most important.
Andrew Sullivan: It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people other than the candidate, centered overwhelmingly on domestic economic anxiety. It was a liberal speech, more unabashedly, unashamedly liberal than any Democratic acceptance speech since the great era of American liberalism. But it made the case for that liberalism – in the context of the decline of the American dream, and the rise of cynicism and the collapse of cultural unity. His ability to portray that liberalism as a patriotic, unifying, ennobling tradition makes him the most lethal and remarkable Democratic figure since John F Kennedy.
McCain Campaign: Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama,” spokesman Tucker Bounds said. “When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American troops in harm’s way. The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.
Chuck Todd On The McCain Campaign’s Reaction: They don’t know how to react to this. They may as well have been speechless. I don’t know if the Republican Party is looking forward to following this show.
Alex Castellanos: Whoever didn’t get picked for Republican VP today may be a lucky Republican.
Who else watch the speech and what were your thoughts?
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