Asking questions about Trig Palin’s parentage: http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2008/09/show-me-trig-palin-birth-certificate_03.html Or the possibility she had an affair with one of her husband’s best friends: http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2008/09/palin-follies-day-6-bombshell-affair.html — when the GOP has made ANTIPRIVACY a campaign issue for more than 20 years is NOT "attacking" To boot, these allegations never denied by McCain-Palin, either, BTW. As for strategy, if Obama hadn't sucked all the oxygen and money out of 527s, maybe he'd have MoveOn or some other group actually pushing Mad Jack's and Steve Schmidt's buttons even harder.

Than they did on Immunity 1.0?

I'm skeptical about the likelihood of the Dems caving to Paulson, including on Immunity 2.0. (Remember the FISA 45 percenters among Democrats, including beloved leader Barack Obama, who caved to Mike Mukasey on Immunity 1.0? And, isn't it "interesting" Paulson made his immunity request the same day Mukasey played the immunity card against EFF's telecom suit.)

OK, more on why I'm skeptical of Democratic spine...

It's called Democratic caving on the two most serious financial "reform" bills of the Clinton era — Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999 and before that, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, otherwise known as Newt Gingrich's Contract with America-promised "tort reform" bill.

Let's put it this way: Chris Dodd was a Senate cosponsor of that second bill. A one-vote margin of House Dems voted in favor (Pelosi included) as did 40 percent of Senate Dems (Reid included).

On GLB, it's true that the Senate Dems voted against it on a party-line vote, but, 2/3 of House Dems voted in favor.

More at my blog, including lists of some of the top Dem sellouts.

So, don't hold your breath. After all, Obama himself, in his inadequate statement today, said "there's not time right now" to institute serious regulatory reform as part of this.

You're being sold down the river, and, if you're a straight-Dem voter, rather than looking at third-party options, what are you going to do?

With apologies to the memories of both Ira Hayes and Johnny Cash, here's a little parody for you:

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

Gather round me press scribes, there’s a story I would tell
About a brave young pilot you should remember well
From the land of the Navy, Maryland,
And proud and noble men
Whose forefathers had its highest naval command

Weighed down by family history
Admirals to be overcome
He looked for his new heritage
His past failures to be undone.

The entire song parody is at this post on my blog.