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Friday, May 19, 2006

Talkin’ Bout the News

Posted by on May 19 at 9:10 AM

I’ll be on KUOW’s Weekday this morning at 10 am, talking about the news of the week and my Jim McDermott feature, just in case anyone wants to call in and tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about.


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CONGRATS ON THE MC DERMOTT PIECE, FIRSTHAND, AND GOOD BACKGROUND AND DEFINITION OF THE ISSUES AND PLAYERS.

AND NOT SEATTLE CITY HALL MISC.

I listen to this show every week and you, Eli, are a much bigger asset to this segment than Suburban Skip. I hope to hear you on it more often.

I'll be partying down with Jim McDermott and Russ Feingold at the 43rd Dist Dems Spring Party on Saturday night ($25 at the door, three auction tables, drinks usually about $3) myself.

I'll go turn on the RealAudio stream of KUOW now - hate to do it, cause we don't have gigapop here, just T1.

This just in: Mike McGavick Hates Gays
Well, that's not exactly what he said, but according to an article in the Kitsap Sun yesterday, Lobbyist Mike! is in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment. I don't want to let him get away with this comment. Here's the whole article.. Maria may be lacking, but she voted against the FMA and will continue to do so.

GOP Senate Candidate Comes to Bremerton

# Mike McGavick: It's time for candidates to stop 'tearing up' each other.

By Steven Gardner, sgardner@kitsapsun.com
May 19, 2006

Bremerton

Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Mike McGavick called for an end to the politics of "tearing up another person" Thursday — but presented his case for why he should replace Democrat Maria Cantwell as Washington’s junior senator.

McGavick spoke to a group of about 90 Republicans gathered at a Kitsap Golf and Country Club lunch. He said that too often, real issues are discussed only in ways to score political points.

"And this has got to stop," he said.

McGavick, former chief executive officer at Safeco insurance, said he took three philosophies from the Ronald Reagan administration.

First, "Liberty must be defended and promoted at home and abroad," McGavick said.

He said today that means keeping U.S. troops in Iraq.

"From where we are today, the least moral choice would be to suddenly pull out of Iraq. You can’t go to a country and take over its government institutions and just say, ‘Have a nice civil war,’" he said. "We must give the Iraqi people the opportunity for democracy, and then the troops can come home and we’ll have the parades."

He later acknowledged that he and Cantwell don’t disagree much on the war, but he did criticize her vote Wednesday against a bill to put up 370 miles of fence along the U.S. border.

"You need a senator who understands that border security is central to the security of the United States," McGavick said.

The second point he learned from Reagan was that government’s role should be limited. He blamed the federal deficit on a "lack of discipline" in Congress and in the president. He said higher taxes won’t fix the problem — reforming the government so it spends less money is the best solution.

McGavick said Cantwell was the No. 1 voter for federal spending.

"She voted for a government even Teddy Kennedy doesn’t dream of," he said.

Of the four biggest government expenses — Social Security, defense, Medicare and Medicaid — three are insurance programs.

"Wouldn’t it be a remarkable concept to have someone in the United States Senate who actually understood this stuff?" he said.

His final lesson from Reagan was that government should reflect its people, not the other way around. He criticized courts that have removed references to faith from public places.

He said he’d prefer that states handle the gay marriage issue, but if courts continue to require it be allowed in some places, he’d then vote for a constitutional amendment defining marriage.

The Republican challenger didn’t fault Cantwell for her opposition to drilling for oil in Alaska, though he’s for it. He did criticize her for leading the fight, which he said has harmed the relationship between the two states.

The McGavick campaign acknowledged this week that it overreported its March 31 cash balance to the Federal Election Commission by $147,286, confirming an accusation made by Democrats last week. McGavick spokesman Elliott Bundy said it was an honest misinterpretation of FEC rules and the candidate’s first-quarter report will be corrected.

McGavick said Thursday in Bremerton that the issue is trivial compared with issues the candidates should be discussing.

"We made a mistake," he said. "We fixed the mistake and we’ve taken responsibility for it.

Copyright 2006, kitsapsun.com. All Rights Reserved.

Listened this morning to taxpayer supported KUOW-FM public radio's weekly news roundup's troika: John Carlson, Stefan Sharkansky, & Tim Eyman.

Oh, wait. Silly me. That's only in my dreams, although The EyeMan is closer to my nightmares. But you surely get my point, & you would surely howl if "nonpartisan" NPR loaded its commentary with partisan hacks.

Oh, wait. They do. Susan Paynter, Danny Westneat, & Eli Sanders ... running the diversity rainbow from far left to farther left and, in some small but painfully significant way, I'm paying for it. (& did McDermott pay you, Eli, for the very kind in-kind political pimping you did for him this morning? So far Big Bag Dad is closer to being a certified con -- three judges said so -- than is Tom DeLay, but you alleged journalists persist in pretending that he's a freedom fighter. He's a lying liar. By stroking him, so are you. McDermott said his district doesn't care that he lies, & you proved this morning that for probably the first time in his life of Leftist lunacy, he's Right.

oh, give it a break, deadender, if you don't like it move to Idaho. And I gave them $1000 a couple years back, so don't give me that taxpayer-supported CARP.

Hmmm...duh, maybe SSDIVERSITY.

So now for MY opinion: I listen to that show every week, and for the life and lifestyle I live in Seattle, I hear Skip, Susan, and Danny always group-therapy-talking to each other on Friday, and their communion makes me SO sleepy. Does the crusty triumvirate say anything that unnerves anybody? Do the big three shake a synapse's shoulder in the morning and say 'wake up'? Yawn; not sure. They do, though, nimbly tiptoe around "Stranger Stuff" on air, never mentioning The Stranger. That is to their credit. Those Waskally Stwangers! Let them be unaired.

I do, however, have a fond, lucid memory of Knute a ways back skipping around the whole Weekly buy-out thing by claiming something to the effect that 'hey, lots of businesses are parts of chains, that buy-outs are common, and that The Weekly isn't the only free-weekly chain paper in Seattle'. Get it? The Stranger is a chain newspaper, too!

Man, if that guy was a pad of butter, he'd be in my next bowl of bisque.

Hey, gotta go. Gotta go make my war payment. Dag, I wish this whole war thing was on a donation basis, SSD.

Tnis part of the formerly civilized world is so filled with unhinged fat cats like Will, that KUOW can con the willing without taking a damn dime from the rest of us. Let Will & plutocrat-"populist" heiresses (e.g. McKrok) get it up by giving it up. Let the rest of us free-ride on those rare occasions when we want to hear Scott "Giggles" Simon simulate laughter.

Eli, Learned on the air that you're a Garfield High Graduate Liberal. Your Israel coverage leads me to conclude that you're also Jewish. None of this would matter in the least if The Stranger did not always provide labels for the writer's of competiting publications (Aging white hippies etc.)


So are you indeed a Garfield High liberal Jew? If so, why did you attend Garfield? I've heard kids from wealthy Seattle Families say "my parents wanted me to experience diversity, so they sent me to Garfield when we could have afforded a private school."


The African American students from the Garfield neighborhood provided diversity training for rich white kids from Madrona, and Madison Park.


How wealthy is your family Eli? And what Seattle neighborhood did you grow up in?

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