With frayed nerves on the mend - and with all the wisdom of four weeks' hindsight, we thought it safe to sit down and ask "Did Hillary lose because she was too much woman - or too little?"

Please email us to save you a hot seat (and cool glass of wine) – and so we can also shoot you readings and location details. Spots limited to 20.

Fancy yourself a rational voter?

Let John Neffinger and Josh Tucker disillusion you of
such silly notions as they break down your brain into all its irrational parts - and tell you what's really pulling the lever on Obama – or McCain – come November 4.

Party and location details TBA.

This week’s Transparency Recap opens with a Corruption Chronicles blog entry entitled “‘Nonpartisan’ La Raza Council Endorses Obama.” The National Council of La Raza was founded in 1968 in Washington D.C. as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. While the organization touts nonpartisan status, Judicial Watch (via its blog, the Corruption Chronicles) is charging partisan support for the presumed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. According to Corruption Chronicles:

“...La Raza President Janet Murguia stood by as Los Angeles’ renowned Chicano mayor (Antonio Villaraigosa) praised the Illinois senator during the group’s annual convention in San Diego. A former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, Villaraigosa assured the crowd of thousands that Obama is Latinos’ best hope for reforming the nation’s federal immigration policies.”

Well I see there are certain people who keep claiming that the reason that the economy is in the shape it is in is because of High taxes, and if we would just cut taxes some more everything would correct itself and the ship would right itself.  

Isn't this the same line you all fed us to promote tax cuts?

We already cut taxes and look what effect it had on our economy?

Some of you think a swelling debt, a crumbling dollar, Bank failures, and Record Foreclosures are the sign of a great economy, which explains why they are able to set the hook in your mouths baited with Bullshit that another Tax cut will bring us out of this funk.

First of all, whether it's a tax cut or a stimulus check the same thing is going to happen, the money will be spent mostly on products made in China.

Hi,

I would like to invite one person from every county of each state to join this group.

The purpose of this group is to start a grassroots organization to form a viable "4th" party, in which we can network and spread the word about a "better way".

"I have a dream"........that someday we will be able to replace the 2 party system with a 3 party system with the "4th" party being one that represents all Americans not just half of the country. We talk Politics of hope, not hate. We realise we are all Americans First and Democrats and republicans second.

With the New Yorker's website crashing under the rage of liberals apopleptic over its current cover (for the two readers who haven't heard: Michelle and Barack dressed in Muslim terrorist garb), many Democrats and other Obama supporters will want to talk about how offensive the New Yorker is being - but rather than harping on its insensitivity, liberals should focus on the New Yorker's flat out half-brained idiocy.

The cover may be offensive, but saying so is not in the liberal tradition, which encourages freedom of expression, even - or especially - in the form of political satire.

What liberals are probably intuiting - if not saying outright - is that the cover is just plain stupid - that is, if the New Yorker has any desire to see Obama elected president, which presumably it does.

Any Republican strategist - and a growing number of Democratic political consultants - will tell you two things about campaigns: fear makes voters vote conservative and nothing evokes fear more than a picture (no matter what clever commentary it comes with).*

This Week on Capitol Hill

The Home Stretcher: As if it weren't enough voting to prop up $300 billion in defaulting mortgages - as Congress was planning to do this week - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's tumble last Friday could double the scope of a hefty housing bill now hot-stepping through Congress. House leaders were expected to sign off on the real estate rescue bill this week, covering refinanced mortgages for up to 400,000 homeowners caught up in risky loans. It also had plans to stiffen oversight of Fannie and Freddie, the two "quasi" governmental agencies that back almost half of the nation's mortgages but which - long before last week's fall - were thought to be on shaky ground. Now the big question is how much further Congress will go to keep Frannie and Freddie chugging; the Treasury is asking lawmakers to let it extend up to $300 billion in loans to - and possibly directly invest in - the two mortgage-backers. Signs are that Congress will comply in the next couple of weeks.

Dear Sir/Madam,

“A netted conspiracy to trap the nation for destruction and chaos”, in the name of war against terrorism, what happened to patriotic people and the sons of the soil,  Do we deserve to become mute, deaf and blind  in these critical moments…..?