Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Debate, Debate, Debate

Debate, Debate, Debate

I was on the debate team waaaaay back when, which makes my geek credentials impeccable. I even went to debate CAMP which is exactly is nerdy as it sounds. But it had some pluses: it succeeded in recruiting me to go to college there, I met my lifelong best friend, AND I got my first kiss. So I wan't completely geeky.

In any case the speech nerd in me must point out that these joint televised appearances are not really debates.

That said, on with the old media coverage: Glover, Gazette, Register, DI, WCF Courier. No killer quote, no one knew Jack Kennedy. Nussle did try to claim he'd reduced the deficit, but apparantly that's not as wacky as liberating Poland.

  • The overrated one is readable this morning with a decent rundown of key legislative races. And someone gave Yepsen this tidbit:

    House liberals don't want Pat Murphy to be speaker, and they are looking for an alternative. So far, no luck.


  • Register also takes Nussle to task for secretiveness:

    The campaign refused to allow the Register to interview either Nussle's wife, Karen, or Nussle's running mate, Bob Vander Plaats for the Sunday story. Not hearing from Nussle's wife is a bit baffling. But her name isn't on the ballot. Vander Plaats' name is. Let's hope keeping him mum isn't an indication of how Nussle would run an administration if elected.


  • Press-Citizen covers the Loebsack-Leach debate. Focus is on the Foley flap. The manage to catch that Loebsack has a health care plan but kind of fudge the fact that Leach doesn't.

  • The Register editorial board also prescribes painful medicine:

    Let's ask the government to boost the price back up to around $3. That's the best way America can kick what the president calls our addiction to oil.

    Congress should enact a variable tax intended to keep the price of gasoline high enough to encourage the purchase of fuel-efficient cars and to help establish markets for alternative fuels. The fledgling alternative-energy industry needs a floor on gasoline prices to keep from going bankrupt each time the Saudis open the oil spigot a little further.

    Judging by the way things were stirring earlier this year, the price where people start seriously looking for alternatives is around $3 a gallon. The tax could automatically rise or fall to keep the price at the pump at about that level.

    Americans should be willing to pay $1 more for gas now in order to avoid paying a whole lot more later — not just in dollars but in vulnerability to oil-supply blackmail and environmental disaster.


    Painful, yes - but a pill we absolutely need to swallow. (Aside: I got my bike fixed so I'm back on two wheels.)

  • Speaking of painful: Eagles 31, Packers 9. At halftime it was 9-7 Green Bay...
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