LFRGary on October 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM

That pathetic tool was interviewed by Alison Camerotta (sp) this morning, where he was a guest along with John Fund. He kept interrupting Fund, and making “STTT STTT STTT” noises when he was talking. When Fund brought up the fact that ACORN sued to be exempted by the very minimum wage laws they are advocates for, Levenson responded as if this was an unfair personal attack.

If I’d been the producer I would have turned his freaking mic off.

The upside is maybe they will pull Limbaugh off the air so we do not have to listen to him turning our candidate into a cartoon character or smearing Romney supporters with labels like “mittens” as if we were brainless groupies.

clnurnberg on October 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM

Please. Get a grip! I’m a Mitten and I heard that episode, and in no way did I feel that Rush was “smearing” Romney.

And if you can’t take McCain being compared to Yosemite Sam, then you have a very low threshold for “smears”.

The upside is maybe they will pull Limbaugh off the air so we do not have to listen to him turning our candidate into a cartoon character or smearing Romney supporters with labels like “mittens” as if we were brainless groupies.

Screw the GOP for their incompetance.

There is also a poll, you can vote for your least favorite celebrity, you get three choices. Remember to vote and often.

CINCINNATI – A federal appeals court sided with Ohio’s top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge’s order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.

Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.

“With less than a month until the election, and less than two weeks until the beginning of counting absentee ballots, the secretary cannot be required to undertake the extensive reprogramming and other changes to the election mechanics without complete disruption of the electoral process in Ohio,” the majority said in its opinion. “The irreparable harm to the voting public caused by the district court’s order is equally clear.”

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith in Columbus ordered Brunner to verify new registrations by matching information on them against a database maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration. He also ordered her to establish a process by which the county boards can access the information generated by the checks.

Brunner praised Friday’s decision, saying there are sufficient systems in place to verify new-voter registration.

“The … Court of Appeals has halted another partisan lawsuit in Ohio,” she said. “Under the Help America Vote Act, this verification process is not and has not been permitted to be used to determine a voter’s eligibility.”

CHICAGO (AP) – Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.

Rezko also was friendly with Obama – offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko’s trial, there’s no indication there’ll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee – even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.