- Time spent on a job
- Time spent in a management job
- Accomplishments
They are different measures of experience. And the different candidates have varying degrees of the above.
Correlation is not causation, but it can be awfully suggestive. (Francis Porretto, Bastion of Liberty)
The credentials committee's work is expected to win ratification by the whole convention Monday.Mercy me, he has the Superdelegate Endorsement! Like that can't change (and did, in his favor, during the primaries, when he seemed unstoppable).
Florida has 211 delegates, including superdelegates, and Michigan has 157. Both states are expected to be battlegrounds in the November election.
Restoring their voting rights increases the total number of delegate votes at the convention to 4,419. It will take 2,210 delegates to win the nomination.
Obama ended the primaries with a 365-delegate lead over Clinton. Reinstating the Florida and Michigan delegates will not affect that lead because Obama has more endorsements from the states' superdelegates.
Does anybody have a fail-safe way to meaningfully increase traffic? I've been blogging for a few months now, and it kind of sucks that only a few people actually read my blog. Readership is growing but tooooo slow for my ADHD tastes ...Friend, we've all been there. Initially, you feel as though you're rolling pebbles down a mountain. They start rolling, then stop. Some seem to gain momentum, then slow down. Occasionally, they hit another pebble, and you think you've got something started.
While chairman, Biden presided over two of the most contentious U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings: Robert Bork in 1987 and Clarence Thomas in 1991.
January 31 remark on fellow Democratic candidate and Senator Barack Obama, frequently transcribed as, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man.
1. Wrong. As in, “You are wrong.” This is a narrow, judgmental, bigoted swipe at people who have their own equally-valid definitions of morality (or choose not to have any morality at all). Just who are you anyway to say what is right or wrong? It’s not like there’s some Book out there, or God-given universal moral code, that would help decide this. We don’t need any God-based, or scripture-based morality to tell us what is right or wrong when we have human consensus (as embodied in the United Nations) to handle these matters for us.Numbers 3, 4, & 6 were my favorites.
Rather than spend money on defending ourselves, the thinking went, all we
needed were smarter, more honest and compassionate leaders who would tame the
world with their sincerity.
These were convenient, convincing and comforting arguments to cut military
spending. They were also just wrong. The U.S. economy worsened, and the world
became deadlier.
Now we’re hearing the same arguments all over again. The answer to all our
ills is "end this war." Of course, ending wars won’t solve
irresponsible tax-and-spend fiscal policies, rebuild the military or restore
global confidence in American leadership.
And that’s assuming we could just "end" wars — and you can’t. You
can lose, quit or win wars … but you cannot end them simply by walking away.
Wars have two sides and the enemy, as the saying goes, "gets a vote."
This is the real lesson of Vietnam.
At times on Tuesday, the third day of the Republican protest, nearly all of the chamber's 435 seats were filled with members, constituents, and tourists as lawmakers tried their best to project their voices without microphones to be heard.
“One woman told me she had driven two and a half hours just to be here,” said Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave.
Monday, the Capitol police attempted to bar people who were visiting the Capitol building from entering the normally closed corridor leading to the Republican cloakroom, a tiny railroad-car type of an anteroom with a tiny kitchenette that leads onto the rear of the House floor.
So members of Congress went roaming the halls of the neighboring congressional office buildings, and personally escorted groups of constituents onto the floor so they could hear the Republican protest firsthand.
“Welcome to the people’s house,” Hensarling said when his turn came to speak in the well of the House on Tuesday.
"We'll continue at least this week," said Rep. Tom Price, R-Georgia. "Then we'll see what we know."
Price said 24 congressmen returned to the Capitol for Monday's session.
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, said that 40 Republican members are committed to rotate in shifts throughout the week. Asked how long they'll be there, he said, "We'll be here as long as we can."
Reporters and Republicans found themselves attempting electronic gymnastics, trying to contort around House rules that prevent recording on the chamber floor when the House is out of session.
GOP congressmen were quickly turning to new technology, with lawmakers sending updates on the blogging site Twitter and Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, uploading video interviews he conducted with fellow representatives just outside the Republican cloakroom.
"We don't want the government shutdown to be an issue, but the fact is the Democrats are so overconfident that they're willing to talk about a ban and they're willing to talk about raising taxes on gasoline, so this is just pretty incredible," said Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who is circulating a letter encouraging colleagues to demand that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, strike the drilling moratorium from the budget resolution.The public is on the side of drilling. It's time to let your Congreessmen hear from you (button on the Blogroll, near the bottom).
This COULD be a lengthy post. But, I'll try to winnow it down to a reasonable length. The CA Parent Bribery 'Scandal' - the 1...