{"id":14621,"date":"2008-02-18T18:43:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T23:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14621.html"},"modified":"2008-02-18T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T23:43:51","slug":"mondays-mini-report-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mondays-mini-report-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s Mini-Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Post by <a href=\"www.toosense.net\">dnA <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s not here, but I love the Mini-Report and I assume the rest of you do too, so I&#8217;ll do my best to reproduce one here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Going into tomorrow&#8217;s primary in Wisconsin, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/polls_obama_holds_small_edge_i.php\">most polls show Obama with a small to moderate lead over Hillary Clinton<\/a>, except for ARG, which shows Clinton ahead by six points. Erik Kleefield notes that they haven&#8217;t had such a good track record this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of primaries, CNN has Obama and Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/02\/18\/poll.texas\/index.html\">in a dead heat in Texas. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> The FISA law has been expired for more than 48 hours, and America hasn&#8217;t blown up yet. Someone should probably tell the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/2\/18\/144651\/132\/558\/459144\">Heritage Foundation to fix their clock, however.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more Read More--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=4539\">Pam notes<\/a> that the Washington Post, after publishing like 50 articles on John Edwards&#8217; haircuts, killed an item on David Vitter to take &#8220;the higher moral ground.&#8221; Lol?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/mccain_campaign_banked_on_taxp.php\">More &#8220;Straight Talk&#8221; from John McCain. <\/a>Apparently, before hitting Obama on the subject, McCain didn&#8217;t intend to take public money were he to become the nominee. He was however, banking on taxpayers to pay his campaign debts. Ever the crusader against government waste!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14611.html\">After complaining about all the love<\/a> Obama was <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/18\/on-the-trail-africans-for-obama\/\">getting in Africa<\/a> when he was supposed to be the star, it turns out Bush recently cut funding for <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/18\/bush-decreases-funds-for-aids-tuberculosis-malaria\/\">AIDS,  Tuberculosis and Malaria<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/18\/obama-clinton-camps-point-to-borrowed-rhetoric\/\">Responding to &#8220;plagiarism&#8221; allegations<\/a>, Obama points out Clinton has occasionally borrowed his words and says it&#8217;s not &#8220;too big of a deal.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2008\/02\/over-80-dead-in-afghan-blast.html\">Over 80 people were killed<\/a> in a when a bomb exploded in Qandahar, Afghanistan today, where things seem to be getting worse and worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/02\/17\/steyn\/index.html\"> Glenn Greenwald notes,<\/a>  &#8220;For those who crave and glorify (though in their lives completely lack) acts of warrior courage, play-acting the role of the intrepid Warrior is uniquely satisfying.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider this an end of the day open thread! Something about trackbacks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0UPDATE: <\/strong>A couple of important things I should have added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/18\/AR2008021800709.html?hpid=topnews\">Speaking from Dar Es Salaam<\/a>, President Bush officially recognized the former Serbian province of Kosovo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/17\/AR2008021700176.html?hpid=topnews\">Serbia isn&#8217;t happy <\/a>about that whole Kosovo secession thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependent.com\/view\/dont-tase-me-bro\">Jefferson Morley at the Washington Independent<\/a> says that attendees at the Republican convention this year should behave if they don&#8217;t wanna get tazed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependent.com\/view\/oh-really-cdc-says\">The CDC just figured out the FEMA <\/a>trailers are toxic, only two years behind the Sierra Club.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m done, I swear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by dnA Steve&#8217;s not here, but I love the Mini-Report and I assume the rest of you do too, so I&#8217;ll do my best to reproduce one here. 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