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Roadblock Roundup for August 7

The Tricky Dick Trick: Don't talk to the press
Rep. Tom Allen (D-Maine) is doing something Susan Collins (R-Maine) just won't: He's holding a press conference in Maine with actual reporters covering it.

As Stephen Colbert says, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
A Minnesota CBS affiliate, WCCO, has done a reality check on a new Al Franken ad tying Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota) to George W. Bush and found it to be completely accurate. The reality is that Norm Coleman is first and foremost loyal to the President's agenda.

Republican logic doesn't require logic at all
John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) is trying to claim that oil prices will drop immediately from drilling because speculation on oil futures will decrease immediately. It seems that Sununu believes oil speculation artificially inflates the price of oil after voting against a bill at the end of July that would have curbed speculation.

Switching sides is hard to do
Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) has released a new ad highlighting the confusing position changes of Republican opponent, John Neely Kennedy.

Corporate sell-out
Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is being criticized for selling out the American people to big-monied special interests by his Democratic opponent, Bruce Lunsford.