Wait, did Palin's own PR firm just compare her to the Grinch?
"Am I the only person who noticed that she used to recommend tipping 15% on the pre-tax cost of a restaurant meal?
grrrrrrrrrrrrr."
What's the complaint about this? That 15% is too high? That it's too low? That it should be on the post-tax cost? That she doesn't recommend it anymore?
http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com has very little content yet, but hopefully will be worth watching.
My first thought was that a $600,000 one-time actual advance payout to a first-time author is a much smarter publicity move than $600,000 worth of standard print ads. But then I realized that vanity presses never spend that much on print ads in the first place.
If the Democrats somehow manage to lose, she'll have Howard Dean's stature as "the candidate we should have picked". If they win, I don't know - depends on what she does next.
"The butter’s natural texture could be replaced with inferior alternatives, such as vegetable fats. And consumers would never know."
If the difference isn't even perceptible, what does it matter?
Deadlock may hurt the Democrats on bills where most people are divided, or don't really care or understand and can only see that Congress is being ineffectual. However, if they propose legislation that has broad support - on health care, for instance - and it gets filibustered or vetoed, then it's the Republicans that look unstructionist.
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