BRAD BLOG: Pelosi on Webb's SOTU Response; Blackwell Bonuses Busted; Luntz is a Liar; MORE...

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A busy day. To say the least. Late in getting this posted here tonight... - Brad

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Statement from Pelosi Spokes on Webb's SOTU Response: 'Logistics of Giving Democratic Response in the Chamber Tonight Make it Impossible at This Late Date'

The speaker's office responds to our call to give Sen. Jim Webb the full chamber to deliver his State of the Union Response tonight...

COMPLETE STATEMENT, ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4062

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Ohio's Blackwell Authorized $80k in Farewell Bonuses to State Employees as He Left Office
Another Suprise: $250k in Legal Settlements for 2004 Election, Helping to Leave Office $1 Million Short as New SoS Takes Helm
BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Memo Listing Bonus Payments to 19 of the Outgoing Buckeye State SoS' Office Pals, Legal Action May Follow...

Former Republican Ohio Secretary of State and failed Gubernatorial candidate, J. Kenneth Blackwell may be mercifully out of office in the Buckeye State, but it looks as if his former constituents will continue to pay for his atrocious tenure in the SoS office for some time to come. That, in addition to the price they are already paying, along with the rest of the country, by suffering George W. Bush who remains in office due, in no small part, to Blackwell's abhorrent mis-administration of the 2004 Presidential Election.

Last week it was revealed by the office of the new SoS, Democrat Jennifer Brunner, that Blackwell got in his last licks by authorizing some $80,000 in year-end bonus payments to 19 different staffers in his office. The BRAD BLOG has obtained a copy of that memo (posted in full at end of this article) which includes type-written payment amounts to 18 now-former employees, along with the hand-written addition of a payment to be made to Blackwell's obnoxious press spokesman and noted democracy-hater, Charles "Carlo" LoParo...

COMPLETE STORY, EXCLUSIVE COPY OF 'BONUS MEMO':
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4056

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Frank Luntz is a Liar
Shame on Huffington Post for Giving Him a Platform to Do So...

Treacherous Republican wordsmith/pollster/spinman Frank Luntz sinks to new depths in pretending to offer "advice" for the Democratic Party in a condescending little screed posted at Huff Po on Sunday.

For a man who damned well understands the importance of words he sure did manage to drop one huge rhetorical and literal LIE smack-dab into the middle of his editorial...

FULL STORY:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4059

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VIDEO - Ed Gillespie Selling Usual Talking Points...
... But Andrea Mitchell Is Not Buying

VIDEO: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4061

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VIDEO - Bill Kristol: White House Is 'SERIOUS'

Bill Kristol responds to Shepherd Smith's questions about whether the White House has a "Plan B" by stating, "they're serious about it...they're serious about staying in Iraq and winning and they're serious about being serious about judging whether we are winning. No more happy talk"...

VIDEO: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4063

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BREAKING CIA LEAK CASE: Prosecutor Says Libby 'Destroyed' Cheney Note, V.P. 'Far More Involved in Leak Case Than Previously Known'
Defense Attny: Libby Was Worried About Being 'Sacrificial Lamb for Karl Rove'

FULL STORY, VIDEO LINKS: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4060

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[Divine Discontent]

1. blackwell...

couldn't happen to a better loser anti-american...