Think women Hillary Clinton supporters will cross the aisle and vote for John McCain?
Tune in to Good Morning, America Thursday morning between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. and see what MOMocrat Joanne (aka PunditMom) has to say about that!
Hopefully, they'll be kind to me in the editing process!
UPDATE!! I found out that the piece is now scheduled to run on Friday morning, getting bumped for breaking news (I'm assuming the bad weather in the Midwest).
UPDATE #2: Looks like it will be sometime next week due to the breaking news with severe weather in the Midwest.
Writers for TV and film went on a 100-day long walkout in order to win concessions from the studios on teeny weeny residual payments for material written for broadcast and distributed online. That mess took til February 2008 to resolve, and even then some people still aren't happy with the results.
What that means is that the WGA strike dented the bottom lines of tv and cable outlets. With no fresh tv shows to put on the air, advertisers didn't want their ads appearing next to bottom-of-the-barrel dreck as opposed to high-quality narrative one-hour drama or half-hour comedies they were originally sold, and promised. Studios bluffed hardball to those uppity writers (can you imagine? getting paid for work done? the very thought), but were genuinely worried about the strike's effect on the Oscars broadcast and late night shows.
What does this have to do with revenues from political tv ads? Well, a person who heard it from the horse's mouth himself (where horse=Jeff Zucker) said the head of NBC was looking to to pad what started as a Very Bad Year with political ad purchases from the Democratic and Republican primaries as well as non-stop wall-to-wall Olympics coverage, a claim that has since been borne out by this recent piece of news here.
For many, the sharpest difference between Obama and Clinton policy-wise is that his plan does not have an individual mandate while hers did. If you are worried that Obama's plan won't cover everyone, perhaps this is a sign that his plan will soon be moving in the right direction. With Mrs. Edwards advising (someone who is intimately familiar with the flaws in McCain's plan), I dare say, we're in capable hands.
This news trumps cheaper, faster iPhone news any day.
Elizabeth Edwards and Lance Armstrong are backing legislation sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, that would create a more comprehensive approach to fighting cancer. Both testified before the U.S. Senate today on the importance of cancer research, prevention and treatment funding.
Cindy McCain doesn't feel it's necessary to release her tax information, because "[she's] not the candidate."
That sounds *almost* logical; except for the fact that John and she are married. Which means that what is hers is his. Based on common knowledge regarding how marriage works (at least among the unwashed masses types), they share everything they own. In other words, despite their separate-filing status, he still, in all likelihood, makes use of the things that Cindy's money paid for. Like the kitchen, and the food, and the toilets, and the beds, and the sofas, and chairs, and cars, and gardens, and serva-- uh, and the domestic help, and the private jet (because what beer baroness *doesn't* have a private jet, right?)
(ftr, I am merely speculating about the private-jet ownership by Cindy. Who knows what she really owns, because she won't release her tax records.)
Doesn't that mean John's wealthy, too? Where else did the man find the money to run for public office in the first place?
(This is all just me, thinking out loud, all crazy-like. Because, lord knows, Lady Cindy has a perfect right to keep *her* tax information to her own damn self. John's obviously planning this whole presidency business without including her. As is typical of the extremely wealthypandering populist kinda Republican that usually runs for the highest office in the land.
Next you'll tell me John and Cindy have separate bedroom suites in each of their residences. Which sounds so totally like my neighborhood. Minus the space to have one actual bedroom suite in any of the houses in my neighborhood, let alone two. Oh, and minus the multiple-residence-having. Also, minus the super-sweet fancy vaseline'd-camera-lense for those times when my neighbors are interviewed on national television about their stockpiled millions. Except for all that, Cindy and John are just. like. us.)
I want to know why McCain thinks lifting a federal excise gas tax of 18.4c/gallon will do anything to actually help people who are feeling the squeeze from summer gas price increases.
Because IF we did fight in Iraq to "protect" a vast oil supply, then it sure wasn't for the consumer's benefit. The price of oil is at record $120 or so per barrel. And the 18.4c/gallon (or whopping $30 for the summer) saved at the pump won't go into your pocket, nor will it go to highway repair projects that the federal excise tax is otherwise intended for. That's clear as day.
Cynematic pays attention, here and at her personal blog, P i l l o w b o o k.
MOMocrats Contributors Liz and Kristen will be appearing on The View From the Bay, a local San Francisco Talk Show at 3 pm Pacific this afternoon on ABC7 or on a live-stream here. They won't be talking politics this time around, but will be talking about another topic near and dear to all MOMocrats' hearts: Unique Mother's Day Gifts. Tune in for tips on cool gifts to shower your MOMocrat with this Mother's Day.
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