Isn’t it time that the government stops telling us what we can do for entertainment? The GOP congress slipped in a law regulating online poker in 2006. Poker players and others who believe in basic freedoms and liberty are trying to overturn that law and ensure that this game of skill can be played without governmental interference (other than sensible oversight, taxes and regulation).

Here’s a video from the Poker Players Alliance.

John McCain gave Barack Obama a gift when he couldn’t remember how many houses he owned.
The Obama campaign immediately put together a scathing ad. Obama has also been having a field day with this on the campaign trail, working in McCain’s other comment that $5 million per year was a good definition of “rich” in America.

The theme is simple - McCain is the one that’s out of touch.

The pundits who think Obama has been unwilling to punch back just aren’t paying attention.

Here’s a great clip of Frank Caliendo on The Late Show with David Letterman doing his hilarious George W. Bush impersonation:

Andrew Sullivan has been encouraging readers to come up with their own campaign ads for the election season. This one is better than any ad I’ve seen from the Obama campaign, and their ads have been pretty good.

Wow. Alan Colmes is getting tough!

Here’s a clip of Alan Colmes taking on Sean Hannity and some conservative pundits who were ripping John Edwards for his admitted affair. After we get a typical tirade from Hannity about how we can’t trust someone who hasn’t been true to his wife and family, Colmes seizes on the opening and raises the issue of John McCain’s admissions that he was not faithful to his first wife.

Hannity goes crazy, arguing that this was thirty years ago and that McCain was a prisoner of war. Of course, he has a point. I don’t think we should disqualify a candidate for issues like this, particularly when it happened years ago. But, Hannity and other moralists are more than happy to scream for bright-line moral tests when they apply to Democrats, but they won’t apply the same standards to their side.

Colmes let’s him have it, and he doesn’t back down. He’s taken plenty of flack over the years for being the liberal stooge on Fox, but this clip shows that he does have his moments.

Hat tip: Fark

Anyone who thinks the Obama campaign can’t throw a punch hasn’t been paying attention to the recent ads from the Obama team.

The latest ad is very powerful. They pick up on the latest news that Iraq has a $79 billion oil surplus, while we’re spending over $10 billion per month on the Iraq War. The also explains that McCain votes with Bush 95% of the time.

It’s a powerful ad linking McCain, Bush and the Iraq War to our current economic difficulties. The tag line at the end - The Middle Class First - is a powerful one as well.

Great stuff.

Too funny.

Former Senator Phil Gramm is hilarious. He’s one of the true believers in the concept of deregulation, while he seems completely oblivious to the negative effects of many of our deregulation efforts, probably because the was behind many of them.

He’s now becoming famous for his claim that “we’re becoming a nation of whiners.” Now, we all know plenty of whiners, but this isn’t the best way to describe Americans when you’re an advisor to a presidential candidate. He’s also dead wrong about our economic situation. Things aren’t peachy. The economy has serious structural problems, and our major banks are in big trouble and are getting bailed out by Middle Eastern investors, the same people we’re making rich with our idiotic energy policies. In the meantime, ordinary Americans are getting squeezed. Foreclosures are going through the roof, and gas prices are slowing the economy.

Phil Gramm is a PR nightmare for McCain, but more importantly he is McCain’s cheif economic advisor. The Gramm/McCain policies would be a disaster for this country. So it’s poetic justice that Gramm’s stupidity and lame political skills are hurting McCain. I remeber when Gramm ran for president in 2006. He had by far the most money, but people hated him. He crashed and burned very quickly in Iowa.

McCain threw Gramm under the bus today, but he and Gramm have been friends for years and he has been a critical advisor. That connection will continue t be a problem for today.

Meanwhile, the video has surfaced of Gramm making his “whiner” statement. As Joe Sudbey points out, he’s so smug and condescending.

John McCain has a long career in the Senate, and he’s taken strong positions on many different issues. His problem, however, is that he can’t seem to remember them. His latest gaffe involves his position on Social Security. Yesterday he denied ever being in favor of private accounts. Of course, that’s not true. He clearly expressed support for privatization back in 2004.

Watch the whole clip. It’s hilarious when he shows the pundits who proclaimed that Hillary was the inevitable nominee. So much for sexism.

This guy looked like such a fool when he was press secretary, mostly because he was such a terrible liar. His attempts to avoid answering questions were pathetic. Now we know why. Basically, the man has a brain and a soul.

With his new book, he comes clean and tells the truth about the Bush White House. Some former colleagues have criticized him for not speaking up back then. His response was very credible - at the time he gave Bush and his team the benefit of the doubt. Now he knows they were not telling the truth. Here’s McClellan on the Today show.

Obama is clearly angry, frustrated and disappointed by Wright’s performance before the National Press Club.

Awesome parody. Let’s face it - Hillary is a natural villain!