Mon, 13 November 2006 post-election wrapup Comments[0] |
Mon, 13 November 2006
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Thu, 9 November 2006 We'll need a holiday weekend to process the big changes coming down the pike here in DC. On Monday, we'll give you our thoughts, allow some of us to gloat over predictions, and talk about what a Democratic House and Senate will mean for the next 2 years... In the meantime... let's all gather 'round and watch Rick Santorum concede again... My personal favorite moment is the shocked "oh NO!!" from one of Santorum's supporters immediately after he says he called Senator-elect Casey. It's almost as if she thought this was going to be a victory speech... Check it out about :45 into the video here: Category: general -- posted at: 5:42 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 8 November 2006  Looks like the expected happened... House to the Dems... and the less expected is also happening... Senate to the Dems. Rumsfeld is out... and we get to practice using the term "Madame Speaker" for the first time in US history. What a day!We'll let Virginia shake out a bit, let the dust settle, and come out with a new show with our thoughts soon! Category: general -- posted at: 3:37 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 7 November 2006  We'll probably play some kind of drinking game involving a Congressional district map, a blue marker, a red marker, and some form of frothy beverage made with hops. Oh, and Rick Santorum is wearing a hot pink victory shirt today (like this tie... only hotter, pinker, and um, the whole shirt). We'll miss him. Category: general -- posted at: 1:30 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 30 October 2006 stem cells, tv ads and election last calls Comments[0] |
Mon, 30 October 2006 
Thanks to Flickr's stormbear for this outstanding photo! Category: shownotes -- posted at: 11:53 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 21 October 2006 GOP Meltdown II, shenanigans in Vegas, and the biggest loser NY edition Comments[0] |
Sat, 21 October 2006 
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Thu, 19 October 2006  Apparently, the Houston Chronicle has now picked up the story of Fred Head and the romance novel. The "pornography" charge is still on his website. Good going, Fred. Category: general -- posted at: 6:44 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 17 October 2006 Regarding Adam's (at the time baseless) bashing of Lamont, seems like the Washington Post
was listening to our podcast and rushed this story to print the next day: Lamont's primary victory drew national attention, but momentum in the Senate race began to change that night... There followed a series of missteps. Lamont, who had run a skillful, grass-roots primary campaign, left for vacation and his campaign immediately began to flounder. "We kind of went to sleep," said
Tom D'Amore, a senior Lamont adviser. "We were led to understand, as
naive as it sounds, that there were forces at work" trying to persuade
Lieberman to give up his independent candidacy for the good of the
Democratic Party. "They said, 'Don't come out and go too hard on Joe.
Give us an opportunity.' " That never happened. Category: general -- posted at: 9:56 AM Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 October 2006 The best and worst campaigns, North Korea in the nuke club, and a GOP meltdown? Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 October 2006 
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Wed, 11 October 2006 Greetings all... Capital Caucus will go to weekly show through the end of election season. Look for the next episode to hit early next week.... Category: general -- posted at: 3:44 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 6 October 2006 Turns out Adam may have finally gotten a prediction right. The Washington Post
reports today that No sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised, according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts. Category: general -- posted at: 10:39 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 6 October 2006 Foley resigns, and the evangelical right loses faith in the GOP? Comments[0] |
Thu, 5 October 2006 
Brownie... W... Foley. Ladies and gentlemen... this is your Republican party.
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Sun, 17 September 2006 Election trends, GOP still staggering, and Obama 08? Comments[0] |
Sun, 17 September 2006
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Tue, 5 September 2006  Florida Republicans have never been the types to listen to polls, or
apparently, conventional wisdom. Despite a near-daily barrage of
negative press, embarassing headlines and bizarro behavior, Sunshine
State GOPers are poised today to send Katherine Harris to represent them in
the race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat. And why not? Apparently no
other Florida Republican seems to have the gumption to take on
Democratic incumbent Senator Bill Nelson, despite earlier thoughts that
his seat was vulnerable. If nobody else wants to run, we at Capital
Caucus applaud the state GOPers for giving us all the entertainment
value of Rep. Harris.For that, Florida... we thank you. And we also thank Flickr's mrbigmuscles for this picture. ("Me and Katherine Harris at the Langord Park Repbublican Luncheon yesterday. She was nice enough to honor me with a photo.") Category: general -- posted at: 5:31 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 31 August 2006 Pre-Labor Day election preview spectacular Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 August 2006
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Mon, 28 August 2006 With the traditional beginning of election season hitting this Labor Day weekend, we'll be rolling out a new edition of Capital Caucus this week. Our talented and talentless prognosticators (you be the judge as to whom that applies) will chat about themes, hot races, and other nonsense later in the week. In the meantime, let's watch Senator Allen look silly. Again. Category: general -- posted at: 10:27 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 August 2006 Lieberman goes down, the Internets are tubes, and... something else... I forget Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 August 2006 
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Tue, 8 August 2006 We at Capital Caucus don't know whether Sen. Lieberman's campaign site went down due to hackers or failure to pay the bills, or low-end webhosting. But we do know one thing. He should have listened to DJ Teddy Stevens. You can't just dump a truck on the Internet. It's a series of tubes. Category: general -- posted at: 6:34 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 7 August 2006  There are no words...But enough of the gift that keeps on giving. The ragtag gang of the usual suspects is eagerly awaiting the results of tomorrow's CT primary. No, the substance of the outcome is not nearly as intriguing as the "who shall eat crow" issue. Was Dan correct in predicting a Lamont victory? Did Tim and Adam foolishly go against the clear tide of public opinion? ABCs The Note is giving Tim and Adam a glimmer of hope in that department... Check out the returns tomorrow night and then point your podcatchers to Capital Caucus on Wednesday night for the aftermath... Category: general -- posted at: 8:03 PM Comments[1] |
Tue, 1 August 2006 Summer's a bit slower in DC, and it seems it's made our podcasting schedule a little less regular. The good news is that we have some interesting things to talk about Update - seems our schedules are preventing a show this week after all. Apologies to the ever-increasing audience out there, but I have it on somewhat decent authority that we'll be able to put a show together next week. In the interim... check out the crack shot of one Rep. Harris! Category: general -- posted at: 11:52 AM Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 July 2006 I suppose we could have done a show on the Georgia Lt. Governor race... that would be a scintillating 30 minutes of podcast goodness... but we've decided to put off the show another week to see if Katherine Harris implodes a little more. Is it too long to wait to listen to Dan gloating over the ever-increasing possibility that he was right and the rest of the ragtag gang of the usual suspects were wrong in crystal balling CT primaries? We think not... Category: general -- posted at: 9:42 AM Comments[4] |
Fri, 21 July 2006 Many have openly wondered where President Bush will go after he leaves the White House... what profession will he leap into? Considering his track record as an oil man and a baseball owner was, ahhhh... mixed... perhaps he's considering a lucrative and rewarding career in the day spa industry? Skeptical? Check out his massage technique on German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
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Fri, 14 July 2006 Thank you YouTube!
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Thu, 13 July 2006 Headbutts, unmentionable things and DJ Ted Stevens Comments[0] |
Thu, 13 July 2006 
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Wed, 12 July 2006 I will warn you now... headbutt references will dominate tomorrow's show...
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Tue, 11 July 2006 Too good... too good.
New show on Thursday night!
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Sat, 8 July 2006 While we haven't exactly been clogging our show with thoughts on net neutrality, it's certainly an issue that has come to the forefront of the tech and policy crowd. For a very revealing and interesting take on the issue, take a listen to the latest Podcast411 featuring a faux interview with Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska. His spin on defining net-neutrality as a two-tiered system (um, it's not... what the telecoms want would be two-tiered), plus his oft-quoted concept of the internet as a series of "tubes" is frankly, a classic... as is his pronounciation of DeutscheTelecom. Let's just say his German needs a brush-up, and if we had been present, all sense of decorum would have been lost... Category: general -- posted at: 12:18 PM Comments[1] |
Sat, 8 July 2006 New show next week everyone! We'll have the full ragtag gang of the usual suspects in Studio 3M... tentative topics include judicial nominees, an update on the '06 election, plus a completely soccer-less last call. We think... Category: general -- posted at: 12:07 AM Comments[0] |
Thu, 29 June 2006 Our Entourage discusses three big SCOTUS cases Comments[0] |
Thu, 29 June 2006 
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Mon, 26 June 2006 Clearly, this shownotes blog (and its author) are as trustworthy as a denial of wrongdoing from Repubican candidates for Georgia lieutenant governor. (Google it... trust me, it's funny). BUT, to usher in a new era of accountability... we promise a new show this week, and barring continued biblical rain in DC, it'll go up tomorrow night. Category: general -- posted at: 3:46 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 19 June 2006 We're comin' at ya with a new show this week... seems like we've gone "Congressional" and become comfortable with a one week on, one week off kinda thing. Must be in the water or something? Category: general -- posted at: 11:58 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 6 June 2006 Replacing the Dukester, our foreign policy and the procrastinating Supreme Court Comments[0] |
Tue, 6 June 2006 
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Thu, 1 June 2006 We're unabashed fans of the train wreck that is the Katherine Harris Senate campaign and YouTube. Put them together and you get a classic clip montage...
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Wed, 31 May 2006  A little over a week ago, we shared with you the maniacal math of Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL). Today, we shake our collective heads in disbelief over Rep. Steve King (R-IA). It seems the good Congressman has been repeating the preposterous notion that it is somehow safer in Iraq than it is here in DC. Apparently, some willful ignorance and that patented "fuzzy math" has him concluding that the death rate is higher per 100,000 in DC than Iraq. Um, we call bullshit. Frankly, it's a disgrace to our soldiers who brave a truly dangerous environment that people like King peddle such nonsense. Congress is taking Memorial "Week" off... so all of America must be enjoying the same benefits as Congress, right? We'll play the same game and come back at you next week with a new show... Category: general -- posted at: 8:57 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 30 May 2006 Category: general -- posted at: 11:00 AM Comments[0] |
Thu, 25 May 2006 Election prospects, 60 year old American Idols and Pat Robertson's miracle shake Comments[0] |
Thu, 25 May 2006 
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Fri, 19 May 2006 Um, no. Actually a family of 4 (with two kids) pays a touch over $3,000 in federal taxes. I guess 7.5% is now zero. Fuzzy math indeed. Check out the full statement here...
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Thu, 18 May 2006  Busy week professionally for the ragtag gang of the usual suspects... we'll be back next week with the next edition of Capital Caucus.In the meantime, check out this little bit of lunacy from the craziest of crazies over at Fox News, courtesy of Media Matters. Category: general -- posted at: 9:13 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 11 May 2006 The NSA has your number, a bad week for judges and Charmed fans rebel Comments[0] |
Thu, 11 May 2006 
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Fri, 5 May 2006 On a recent episode of Capital Caucus, Kelly apparently offended a very key demographic... homophobic Charmed fans.
Check out our iTunes commentary for the scoop:
Needless to say, we're going to have to chalk this one up as "lesson learned." Category: general -- posted at: 11:31 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 4 May 2006 Special week-off edition Comments[0] |
Thu, 4 May 2006 We're taking the week off, but we certainly won't leave you, our loyal fans, high and dry. Here's what we would have podcasted about... see you next week for Capital Caucus #8!
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Thu, 4 May 2006 Thanks again to Think Progress!
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Mon, 1 May 2006 At this point, it really seems like McClellan is mailing it in. Check out this response to a pretty straightforward question on the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner... (thanks to ThinkProgress.org)
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Sun, 30 April 2006 
Thanks to C-SPAN for this pure comic gold (Real Player) Category: general -- posted at: 10:49 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 April 2006 Gas prices soar, Bush taps the judge well and Alyssa Milano finds a cause Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 April 2006 
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Thu, 20 April 2006 White House shakeups, more evidence that you can gamble on anything, plus the best and worst in the Senate Comments[0] |
Thu, 20 April 2006 
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Thu, 13 April 2006 The President admits a leak, marches move mountains and K-Fed is America's secret weapon Comments[0] |
Thu, 13 April 2006  Capital Caucus #5
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Tue, 4 April 2006 Tom DeLay ends the madness while Katherine Harris prolongs it Comments[0] |
Tue, 4 April 2006  Capital Caucus #4
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Tue, 21 March 2006 The hard working Congress, candidate translation, plus the return of Dan Comments[0] |
Tue, 21 March 2006 Capital Caucus #3
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Thu, 16 March 2006 Censures, Jessica Simpson and game show teeth Comments[0] |
Thu, 16 March 2006  Capital Caucus #2
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Mon, 13 March 2006  Ok, so we're no Barack Obama... or even Sean Hannity (trust me on that latter one), but the first episode of Capital Caucus launched us into the top 100 political podcasts on iTunes! Currently, the ragtag gang of the usual suspects sits comfortably at number 75... and rising! THANK YOU for your continuing support... if you dig the show, tell your friends all about it. They can subscribe with one click over there on the right side of the page.
Now, the truly amazing thing is that we're doing this without our full team. Succeeding despite the absence of Dan is kinda like Gerry McNamara, hobbled with a gimpy groin hitting those threes in the Big East tourna... what's that Kelly? Stop with the sports? Um, ok... (go Orange!) Category: general -- posted at: 11:50 PM Comments[3] |
Mon, 13 March 2006 Tim was the featured interview on Darren Main's Inquire Within podcast this week. He discussed the history of Roe v. Wade and the ramifications of the recent law passed in South Dakota that makes virtually all abortions illegal. Check out Darren's podcast at darrenmain.libsyn.com, or download it directly here (mp3).
Next Capital Caucus will be held later in the week. Thanks for listening! Category: general -- posted at: 2:08 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 9 March 2006  Category: general -- posted at: 10:40 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 7 March 2006 Delay, polling in the teens, the courts and the ports Comments[0] |
Tue, 7 March 2006  Capital Caucus #1
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Wed, 1 March 2006  Too much stuff this week... we're still mourning the loss of Don Knotts, and our travel schedules are getting in the way of recording our best show ever. We were also momentarily distracted by the star power at the Court this week. (No, we're not talking about the guy who argued the campaign finance case for Vermont.) Trim Spa baby!
We promise... next week! Category: general -- posted at: 12:51 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 25 February 2006  We mourn the passing of Don Knots, AKA Ralph Furley. Many a lunch has been spent at a local pub renamed the Regal Beagle in honor of the pub downstairs in the fictional Three's Company universe. Needless to say, the mourning period has only begun, but we still plan on bucking up and getting show #1 together next week... Category: general -- posted at: 9:47 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 February 2006 Thanks for hanging on... we've had a lot of initial interest in the show, and we're looking forward to the first edition of Capital Caucus. Look for show #1 sometime next week... Category: general -- posted at: 7:41 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 9 February 2006 iTunes has us up... be sure to subscribe with the buttons on the right or click here. Category: general -- posted at: 10:55 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 8 February 2006 Pop-culture-politics... coming soon... capitalcaucus.com Comments[0] |
Tue, 7 February 2006 Capital Caucus... Inside the beltway, out of the ordinary. Category: general -- posted at: 9:35 PM Comments[0] |
