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April 19, 2007

Duck to run against Bartlett again

The first step in the Democratic Party’s efforts to win Western Maryland’s 6th Congressional District after 15 years of Republican leadership is finding a viable candidate.

Andrew Duck of Brunswick, who lost to U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R) in November, announced Monday that he will run again in next year’s election.

Duck’s announcement comes just days before the Western Maryland Democratic Summit, designed to strategize on ways to build the party in the 6th District, and win in 2008.

I think Duck will face a definite bigger challenge this time around. Looking at voter turnout in the MD-06 for the last 8 election cycles there are definitely Republican surges every Presidential election cycle that helps Bartlett get reelected, but Bartlett will be 82 by the next election cycle and one has to wonder how many more of these fights does he have left in him? This is also his first time in office where the House was not controlled by tyrannical Republican leadership and the feeling is that he might decide that he's had enough of the minority status and retire. Not to mention that the one area where he doesn't rubberstamp the radical Republican agenda is on the environment and we know how they work...You are either all in on their radical agenda or you're out. Gilchrest has a similar problem in the MD-01 and the Republicans hate him for standing for something other than their radical agenda, so both are relegated to being trivialized because of their political party. I think both will face major challenges from the extremists in their own party this election cycle, Gilchrest for his Iraq time line votes and Bartlett for his comments like "It's possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot." The radical extremists in the Republican party find such principled stands to be offensive and then of course there is the Republican in the MD-03, but we've already got plans to handle that problem since he's a Lieberman style DINO. So let's see what do we have now? Andrew Duck for the MD-06 (maybe the greens could set this one out and help out since there is no chance a Republican would support anything you believe in), Donna Edwards in the MD-03 and now we just need someone serious in the MD-01 to have the trifecta.

Read more over at Gazette.net.

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April 4, 2007

Pelosi diplomacy?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday freed the 15 detained British sailors and marines in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an Easter gift to the British people. Prime Minister Tony Blair said he bore "no ill will" toward the Iranian people.

Iranian state television said the 14 men and one woman, who were seized while on patrol in the northern Persian gulf on March 23, would leave Iran on Thursday. An Iranian official in London said they would be handed over to British diplomats in Tehran.

The people making this happen behind the scenes were the Syrians. Guess who is defying the Bush Administration and visiting the Syrians? Nancy Pelosi. Hmmmm...I wonder if the two things are related to one another? Couldn't be, because all the radical right's saber rattling has been so effective....I'm sure it's worked once somewhere right? Sure makes you wonder if while the Republicans are trying to cause global conflicts for their corporate puppet masters if America might not be better off with some real leadership? And maybe respecting other people's culture instead of attacking it, might just yield positive results from time to time? One just has to wonder.

Read more over at Think Progress, Sky News and The Huffington Post.

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GA-10: Dems Rally Around Marlow

I hadn't checked up on this race lately because of all the other things going on in the world. As most of you know the GA-10 is where I have family, so it's of particular interest to me. I was hoping that the Democrats would find a great candidate for the area given the utter lack of representation my family gets now, due to the utter rubber stamp nature of the Republicans in Georgia and North Georgia Republicans are particularly vile in their radical extremism.

That being said Marlow is way too conservative for my tastes, but hey that's why I don't live in Georgia anymore. The race has gone completely crazy, six Republicans, six Democrats, and one Libertarian already in, while more are on the way. What I found really interesting given that kind of environment was the support this first time candidate like Marlow has gotten from the Democratic establishment.

Marlow obtained the backing of 13 Democratic county chairmen at a meeting held March 31 in the 10th District city of Clarksville, according to Marlow spokesman Emil Runge.

Although this is the candidate's first foray into politics, his name is not unknown in local Democratic circles. His father, Buddy Marlow, served as mayor of Lincolnton. The campaign staff Marlow has assembled, including Jeff DiSantis, former executive director of the state Democratic Party, and Runge, former state Democratic Party communications director, likely will bolster his rookie political effort.

That's pretty impressive to say the least. I guess they've sort of gotten tired to losing, which is a good sign. You can't start winning until you realize that what you've been doing isn't working.

Anyway, it should be interesting. The wait of course is because the Republicans are trying to maintain control of their radical agenda in Atlanta and they can't afford to lose the extremists from the GA-10 area in the state government that want to take their extremism to Washington. So they are stalling the election to finish the state legislative session so that way when they are forced to resign their state posts to run for a federal one their agenda isn't lost. It's a tangled web in Georgia politics on the best days.

Marlow is an ex-tech guy, which moves him up massively on my scale. I was disappointed that his website didn't use ActBlue for fund raising. That tells me that he's got the knowledge of the technology, but not the politics of the technology yet, which can be remedied pretty easily I think. Other than a great website, which is what I've come to expect from NGP, I hate the fact that they leave the site to process your information and that they don't use secured links when collecting campaign information. It makes me nervous, but I could write a book on the things about the NGP system that bother me. They help Democrats set up quick websites, so I'll forgive them for most of their transgressions. Obama and Hillary use them, but I can't help but wonder if there isn't a better way. (I've thought of one, as you've already guessed.)

I checked out ActBlue's site and they don't have the special election set up for some reason, so I poked them on that subject because in a few months the Netroots are going to get interested in this race and we need our tools working.

Read more over at Wikipedia, Swing State Project, CQ Politics, 2008 Race Tracker (yes we know it's 2007), Marlow for Georgia and Georgia Secretary of State.

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March 26, 2007

Happy Birthday Nancy!!!

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is currently the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and is the first woman to hold that position. She is also the first Californian and the first person of Italian descent to become Speaker. She is also the second person from west of the Rocky Mountains to hold the post, after fellow Democrat Tom Foley of Washington. Before becoming Speaker, she was the House Minority Leader from 2002 to 2007, holding the post during the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses of the United States. She is the first Democratic Speaker of the 21st Century.

Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which includes four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House.

Pelosi ranks second in the line of presidential succession, following Vice President Dick Cheney. She is the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Government; no woman has ever been closer in line to the U.S. presidency.

One of the most powerful women on the planet, plus a former Maryland Resident and I didn't even know it was her birthday. And yes, I put the excessively long block quote in just to include the happy news that she's second in line to the presidency. I know every time Bush gets in more trouble for one or another of his criminal schemes that I know responsible leadership is just a heartbeat away. And she's become quite the blogger lately! If you haven't checked out her blog The Gavel you should. Anyway, she sure does prove that 60 is the new 40, my goodness, I would have never guessed she was 67!

[via BobGeiger]

Read more over at Wikipedia and Speaker of the House's website.

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The Scopes Monkey Trial of new century

When I heard the comparison the other morning on the radio I had to laugh out loud. That's the prefect analogy to what the Republican party attempted in Congress against Al Gore last week. And predictably the results were exactly the same for them. The modern face of the conservative movement launched into their bitter oil company sponsored counter attack against Gore, and were utterly defeated. The attacks were pitiful and despite the massive amount of planning by the climate skeptics, they crumbled before Gore anyway. It was like watching children getting disciplined by an adult. And ultimately that's what's going on in the world right now. The conservatives are running about like children trying to pretend away the problems that face this planet, as well as this country, and the now the moderates and liberals are having to be the responsible parents and start getting the work done that needs to be done to save us all. Gore's quote is priceless "If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame-retardant. You take action" and you listen to the conservatives, they are afraid to take action. This is the difference between parents and children here...Parents make choices based on the best information they have. I don't let my kid walk next to a cliff and just hope that she won't fall off, I err on the side of caution like every other responsible adult does. Conservatives don't care if the kid falls off, they just want nothing to change. And yet the only thing that is certain in this world is change. Good work Al!

Read more over at The Washington Post and Think Progress.

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Republicans kill DC voting rights

Another big thing that happened last week was the Republican party's move to kill DC voting rights. There are many people that have written extensively on the subject at this point, but I wanted to give my general thoughts. I hate to admit it, but I think they may actually right on this one, the way they are doing it is unconstitutional. Luckily I already wrote up a solution to that problem a long time ago, so just put this up instead. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) makes me bust a gut, every time she says that the American people will be outraged to learn what the GOP is doing. They've been victimizing the entire country, you think that anyone is going to be startled to learn that they've disenfranchised everyone in DC?? Please, we weren't all born yesterday, we know what the GOP is up to, we just can't do anything about it at the moment. When "No taxation without Representation" was coined by Reverend Jonathan Mayhew we were under the boot of a tyrannical king, conservatives should remember that Americans don't have much stomach for tyrants and get out of the way, making sure that they don't end up under the foot of history. Americans are awakening to the reality that their principals have been trampled on by fools and cowards. We are going to return our principals no matter how conservatives want things to go.

Read more over at MyDD.

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February 16, 2007

House Passes A Non-Binding Resolution Against Bush's Escalation

17 Republicans voted in favor of the resolution disapproving of Bush's decision to send over 20,000 more US troops to Iraq. The total vote count is 246-182.

It's nice to see some Republicans came back from the dark side. Although it is non-binding it's good to see that the will of the American people is being noted none the less.

Found via AMERICAblog.

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February 12, 2007

Evidence Grows That White House Planned To Release Cooked Intel On

Tragically it's become readily apparent that this is the plan of the Republican party. They are going to expand the war in the middle east to include Iran so people will stop focusing on the utter failure they've been in Iraq. The latest polling of Americans tells me that I'm in the majority of Americans that believe that the GOP is so desperate to cover up their failure in Iraq that they will invade Iran within the year. Of course my military mind is baffled to explain, and Senator Webb joins me on this concern, how we hope to actually hold or control three times as much territory and twice the population, and a military that held the best the Iraqi army had at bay. But the GOP can not be dissuaded. They seem to have dreams of igniting their entire middle east against us. They've moved a third carrier group into the Gulf. Given that the Iranians are doing better work against Al Qaeda operatives than the GOP, you'd think they'd stop trying to provoke war against them. But last week we see them traipse out what can only be described in the kinds terms as circumstantial evidence to link Al Qaeda and Iran.

I have no faith left in anyone in the GOP given their behavior in Congress lately, so now everything really depends on the Democrats alone. But you never know what the treacherous DLC/New Democrat group is going to do, they love the GOP so much and the money from their corrupt campaign contributors, you never know where they will land on saving the Republic from these madmen. If you're the praying sort you probably should. It's going to get really nasty this year.

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February 10, 2007

Rep. Anthony Weiner stands up for Pelosi

Personally I've found the GOP's sudden interest in protecting the nation from green house gases an interesting development. But Representative Weiner brings up an interesting point, who are they having a fight with exactly? It's pretty much everyone else (even the White House disagrees with them) in the world verses the crazies in the Republican caucus in the House. I know for the GOP the most important thing in the world is politics and keeping Congress from doing meaningful business is their only goal in life, but honestly if we have situation where the President and Vice President were incapable of protecting America (which we can debate if that's a daily occurrence or not), do you really want to cause a breakdown in the chain of command and leave America vulnerable and unable to respond in the mean time? This is the party of national security??? They are basically screaming on the House floor that they don't care if our country is unable to defend itself in a crisis. I mean honestly if the GOP is so worried about it then add a Terrapass cost requirement to the Pelosi trips. I mean go a step further and require a Terrapass for every single government trip or vehicle. If the GOP is serious about the problem let's fix it, if they are just wasting time for the sake of wasting the tax payers dollars, then like Representative Weiner says they will be the minority party for the foreseeable future, which is fine with me, Republicans have little to contribute to the national debate on any subject.

[via Crooks and Liars]

Read more over at Think Progress.

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January 25, 2007

Democrats Fight For GOP Support On Iraq Resolution

This is the most baffling exercise I think I've ever heard of. Why are the the Democrats wasting time trying to talk to Republicans?? These people stand up and scream that they think the President is wrong, I mean quite literally half the Republicans on the committee that sent the resolution to the floor stated clearly that they thought Bush was wasting American lives by this escalation in Iraq, but in the end they can't change the fact that they are puppets and happily voted against the resolution that they allegedly agree with. So you're left to try and decide what is really going on. Either they don't believe what they are saying about it being a bad idea, or that they are helpless to contradict their corporate masters to vote against this horrible idea. Now most are disingenuous liars, so that's a very easy argument to make, the word two faced doesn't really cover how vile and low they really are, but one wonders at what point will they put the American people ahead of their radical partisan agenda? I doubt it will ever happen honestly, it's just not in there nature. They are Republicans, you'll get one maybe two with a momentary prang of conscious like Hagel (interestingly coinciding with a presidential campaign bid), but the reality is the Republican party is a machine and it's members are nothing but drones. They will say or do anything to get reelected and protect their campaign funds. So the Democrats need to stop wasting valuable time trying to talk to these people. The effort is better spent on getting these people out of office than talking with them at all. The radical right don't believe in unity except as a tool to do damage to the enemy and America is their enemy. The Democrats need to stop messing around trying to pretend things are different than they really are.

Read more over at CNN.

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January 4, 2007

Pelosi Named Speaker

Jubilant House Democrats on Thursday elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) as the first woman speaker of the House, the crowning celebration of newfound power the party won in the November's electoral sweep.

"I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship, and look forward to working with you on behalf of the American people," Pelosi said. "In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country."

I'll be the first to admit I'm not a big Pelosi fan, but this is a HUGE step for women across out nation! Congratulations Speaker Pelosi. I hope that you are able to help bring the country back from the brink!

Found via Yahoo! News.

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I'm Surprised Goode's Head Didn't Explode!

Bravo Rep. Nelson for making Goode face you! You can't see Goode's reaction in this video since his back is to the camera, but I'm really surprised his head didn't explode!

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January 3, 2007

Ellison Will Take Oath Of Office on Thomas Jefferson's Copy Of The Koran

Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran -- especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.

Yet the holy book at tomorrow's ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We've learned that the new congressman -- in a savvy bit of political symbolism -- will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

"He wanted to use a Koran that was special," said Mark Dimunation, chief of the rare book and special collections division at the Library of Congress, who was contacted by the Minnesota Dem early in December. Dimunation, who grew up in Ellison's 5th District, was happy to help.

I haven't gotten why this was such a big deal for the Neo-cons/christians given this country is supposed to be all about religious freedom, but they are all up in arms about the whole thing. And it's not as if the oath of office hasn't been given on books other than the Bible before. Swearing an oath on the Bible means nothing for him, but swearing an oath on the holy book of his religion does. As a Christian this does not offend me at all, but then again I'm not a Neo-christian. I just don't get their thinly veiled, or as it may be in this case not veiled at all, racism. It just goes to show how out of touch Neo-cons/christians really are with reality. In my house alone we have a copy of the Koran, the Bible, the Mormon bible, a Kabblah book, a few Jewish books, several new age books, etc. I think it's important to study and understand all religions in an effort to coexist and get along.

This recent turn of events is brilliant on Ellison's part! He's going to use one of Thomas Jefferson's copies of the Koran to be sworn in upon! Now that's thinking! That is about as American as it gets! Goode should be shamed of himself and his racist rants!

Found via Bring It On and the Washington Post!

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December 13, 2006

TX-23: A great victory for conservatives!

Such is the snark on Daily Kos this morning. I know I've been personally excited that all my "leftist" beliefs are now labeled conservative. Given how much money the GOP had poured into the TX-23 election and their effort to schedule it during a Hispanic holiday to suppress Hispanic turnout and support for Rodriguez, I'd honestly already written this race off as a GOP win.

I have to say it's great news for the country, it brings the total to 31 picked up seats for this election cycle minus the FL-13 which will not be decided anytime soon because of major voting irregularities that disenfranchised 18,000 Florida voters. Now given that the GOP has an iron grip on Florida and their absolute willingness to steal an election right in front of the faces of the American people, I'm not holding out much hope for this pickup. We'll just have to turn out more voters and hope they can't steal all their votes so we can win and get some freaking election reform.

The Democrats have a lot of personal house cleaning to do because of our failures in the LA-02 race this weekend. The wheels of justice do turn slowly, but they are at least starting to turn again, which is something that wasn't happening before.

Read more over at MyDD.

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December 6, 2006

Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week

This quote is priceless, it pretty much sums up everything wrong with the GOP.

"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."

This is Representative's Kingston's response to the suggestion that he should have to work 5 days a week for his tax payer paid six figure salary. If you need any further evidence of how out of touch with reality the GOP is you need not look any further. Amazing these are the same people that can't imagine why it would be troubling for someone to work 80 hours a week to feed their family on minimum wage, but they can't be bothered to actually do what most of us tax payers have to do to fund their six figure salaries. It's disgusting how vile the Republicans in Congress really are. This is the modern Republican party folks from bottom to top, these are the "values" that someone has when they say they are a Republican. It's never too soon to start campaigning against these incompetent fools for 2008.

[via Daily Kos]

Read more over at Washington Post.

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November 29, 2006

It's About Time Someone Decided To Work In Washington

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid said Tuesday he's doing away with the "do-nothing Congress" that Democrats campaigned against and plans to keep senators working long hours _ focusing first on ethics, the minimum wage and stem cell research.

The Nevada Democrat said he would tackle those priorities after cleaning up the "financial mess" the outgoing Republican Congress is leaving behind, a reference to nine long-overdue spending bills covering 13 Cabinet departments for the budget year that began Oct. 1.

"They're just leaving town, it appears," Reid said during an interview with The Associated Press in his Capitol office. "And so we're going to have to find a way to fund the government for the next year."

The must-pass legislation totals more than $460 billion and could divert time from other items on the Democratic agenda. "It's certainly not going to help it," Reid said.

He is wrapping up his final days as Senate minority leader. He will assume control of the Senate's agenda on Jan. 4, when the next Congress convenes with 10 new senators, at least 52 new House members and Democrats holding majorities in both houses for the first time since 1994.

"We're going to put in some hours here that haven't been put in in a long time," Reid said. That means "being here more days in the week, and we start off this year with seven weeks without a break. That hasn't been done in many, many years here."

We have a hard road ahead of us, especially with the lack of effort put forth by Republicans, but make no mistake we will persevere. It may take a year or two, but slowly but surely we are going to fix our country. Of course the Republicans will have to be drug kicking and screaming and that will slow down the process a bit, but the tide has turned against them and their backward ways. The time to heal our country is now, so either get on board or go ahead and lay down in front of the train and just put yourself out of your misery now. Progress is the only way forward and that's what the Democrats intend to do.

Found via the Washington Post.

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November 27, 2006

GOP leaving spending bills to Democrats

I guess nothing should surprise me anymore, especially Republican incompetence and mismanagement. The general consensus is that the GOP is hoping that they can derail the Democratic efforts to actually start making some forward progress for the country by leaving them a complete budgetary mess. My confusion is that the budgets were already suffering massively from Republican incompetence and irresponsible spending, so it's really not any bigger of a mess than the GOP had already created. This is good because it's gets the children out of the room so that the adults can take over and start making decisions with an eye towards the future.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the Democrats pasted the most most perfect budget in the history of the world, the GOP will find one line item and that's what they and their puppets in the right wing media will be whining about for the next two years. Republicans are always so predictable, there is no interest or ability to really govern, they only strive to backseat drive while people infinitely better than them make the hard decisions.

If I have any advice for Democrats at all it's this: Do what has to be done! The American people are starving for real leadership after a void for the last decade in the House. Make the hard choices and stand by them, the Republicans lack the spine to do anything that's not pushed by James Dobbson and his crew.

[via Crooks and Liars]

Read more over at Yahoo News.

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November 16, 2006

Oh Well

Well it appears the push to have someone as majority leader that is interested in protecting the Speaker of the House instead of pushing the radical right wing agenda of the Republican party was a failure. Tragic, but onwards and upwards we've got a country to save and for as long as Hoyer doesn't get in the way we'll all be better off.

Via AMERICAblog.

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November 15, 2006

House Targets for 2008

There was a bit of good news this morning from Connecticut, despite all Lieberman's effort to allow Republicans to hold control of the House in Connecticut, all his betrayal appears to have been undone in 2 of the 3 targeted districts. The CT-2 is now ours with only 91 votes. That just leaves one of Lieberman's anti-America allies in the Republican party left standing and he won't be running his campaign in two years. So at the top of the list is the CT-4. The asterisks in this list indicate that they were targeted this year unsuccessfully. So it looks like we are going to be focusing on picking up an additional 50+ seats in 2008. It's going to be the standard split again, the DCCC will be working from a much smaller list and not be interested in any of our races until it looks like we've won them. If you live in one of these targeted districts you need to start getting in touch with the local Democrats and make sure you can plug in early to these campaigns.

CT 4 Chris Shays
IL 10 Mark Kirk
PA 6 Jim Gerlach
NY 25 Jim Walsh
PA 15 Charlie Dent *
VA 11 Tom Davis*
OH 1 Steve Chabot
MI 9 Joe Knollenberg *
NV 3 Jon Porter
PA 3 Phil English*
MI 11 Thaddeus McCotter *
NJ 7 Mike Ferguson
IL 6 Peter Roskam
AZ 1 Rick Renzi
MI 8 Mike Rogers
MI 7 Tim Walberg*
IL 11 Jerry Weller *
CA 50 Brain Bilbray
NY 26 Tom Reynolds
NY 29 Randy Kuhl
NJ 5 Scott Garrett *
MN 6 Michelle Bachmann
NV 2 Dean Heller
VA 2 Thelma Drake
CO 4 Marilyn Musgrave
NE 2 Lee Terry *
CA 4 John Doolittle
KY 4 Geoff Davis
KY 2 Ron Lewis
IN 3 Mark Souder
ID 1 Bill Sali
NE 3 Adrian Smith
DE AL Mike Castle
FL 10 Bill Young
FL 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
FL 24 Tom Feeney
IA 4 Tom Latham
MI 6 Fred Upton
MN 3 Jim Ramstad
NJ 2 Frank LoBiondo
NJ 3 Jim Saxton
NY 3 Peter King
NY 13 Vito Fossella
NY 23 Bob McHugh
OH 3 Mike Turner
OH 12 Pat Tiberi
OH 14 Steve LaTourette
OH 16 Ralph Regula
PA 18 Tim Murphy
WI 1 Paul Ryan
AK AL Don Young
MT AL Dennis Rehberg
CO 6 Tom Tancredo
VA 10 Frank Wolf [ possible retirement]
IL 14 Dennis Hastert[Possible retirement]
CA 26 David Dreier

What's not on this list and the reason we are going to be pushing a challenger for every seat in the nation is which scandal will take down the corrupt and incompetent Republican party in 2008. So even if your Republican isn't on the bloggers list, you should still plug into the local campaign because you never know which one of them is going to get caught this election cycle and be going to jail giving you a chance for real representation in Congress out of the blue.

Read more over at Daily Kos and Swing State Project.

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November 14, 2006

Pelosi endorses Murtha for Majority Leader

Yawn! The GOP is desperately trying to make some hay out of this one. We have two DINOs running for the same job and Pelosi decided to support the one that isn't gunning for her job. Wow, major shocker there! This has as much intellectual intrigue as a watching a game of tic-tac-toe.

The annoying part is both men are ethically compromised. Unfortunately in Washington you are lucky to drive through the place without become ethically compromised, so the notion that people that work there every day could stay above the fray is pretty laughable.

David Sirota over at Daily Kos sums up the issues: (snag this from Rheinhard over a Oliver Wills)

1. Hoyer, like Lieberman, finds himself in the "Oh no, I was always against the war, really!" camp, when while Murtha was first speaking out and standing alone Hoyer was doing everything possible to stab him in the back.

2. While we can certainly expect to hear the phrase "Abscam" endlessly from the Wingnuts for the next 2 years, Hoyer essentially has his own private K-Street project. Since the latter graft-generation engine was a significant thing the public voted against, enabling something like it on the D side would be not so hot.

Amusingly I came to the same conclusion about Steny on my own earlier this year after he worked so hard to carrying the Republicans water of the Colbert act. I guess all that Republican ass kissing doesn't help you very much when the Democrats are in control, take notes you godless Blue Dogs. You betray America and your party, there might just be consequences.

Honestly it doesn't matter one way or another who is the majority leader, other than the pure amusement factor of W having to sit across from Murtha during weekly meetings. That alone makes him the obvious choice for me.

Read more over at America Blog.

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November 9, 2006

Officially Dead

Senator Lincoln Chafee is calling a press conference to state categorically that he will not support John Bolton's confirmation in the upcoming lame duck session.

The Bolton confirmation will be officially dead in a few minutes.

Nice to see, even though I had a feeling this would be the outcome.

Via Huffington Post.

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November 8, 2006

Hastert is Outta There!

House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection to the Republican leadership when his members return as a minority party after taking heavy losses in Tuesday's elections, a Republican official tells TIME. Hastert, 64, a low-key former high school wrestling coach, was beloved by members as a "good cop," compared to the enforcer style of the longtime number two leader, former Rep. Tom Delay (R-Tex.). But Hastert was badly damaged by questions about how much he had known about former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his contact with pages, and members felt Hastert also handled the aftermath of the revelations clumsily.

The battle to succeed him will be bruising, as members attempt to allocate blame for the Foley mess. Among those seeking to replace him at the top of the House leadership, which will now be the minority leader, are House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), now second in the House leadership, and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the House conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee. Other possible candidates are Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), now chief deputy whip and one of the most popular and hard-working members of the leadership, and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), now chairman of Energy and Committee.

The Speaker plans to announce his departure this week and perhaps as soon as today, officials said. Leadership elections are scheduled for next Wednesday but are likely to be pushed back to closer to the deadline under party rules, which is Dec. 20.

This isn't surprising. He totally mismanaged the whole Foley mess and then he lied about it. Not his best moment, not that he's had many in the first place. But it's good to see him go. I'm sure he'll be replaced by someone just as bad, but time will tell.

Found via TIME.com.

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November 7, 2006

Democrat House Pick Ups

Via AMERICAblog.

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Nice!

CNN projects first Democratic pickup in Indiana 8th Congressional district with Brad Ellsworth beating incumbent John Hostettler.

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Now They Are Using Kleeb's Voice In Robo Calls In Nebraska!

Apparently the GOP is using Scott Kleeb's own voice in negative robo calls against him in Nebraska! What in the world is wrong with these people??

I think John in DC sums it up best:

I want these people in jail. And if the laws aren't strong enough to catch them, then we strengthen the laws when we take over congress. No one should be allowed to defraud voters of their vote - not Democrats, not Republicans. Either party does this, you go to jail for a long time. It just happens that this election, all the fake calls are targeting Democrats.

Found via AMERICAblog.

Vote Kleeb.

He's clearly the better and only choice for Nebraska's 3rd district.

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Now The GOP Is Making Death Threats in CO

The headquarters for Jay Fawcett's campaign for Colorado's 5th Congressional District was vandalized overnight and a death threat - the third such threat - was also emailed to Fawcett. Both incidents have been reported to the police.

As voters headed to the polls, Fawcett campaign volunteers arriving at campaign offices were greeted with a vile "Skunk" aroma, making it virtually impossible to conduct work there. The campaign is expecting more than 200 people to come through the offices today to help with Get Out The Vote and Poll Watching efforts.

"Don't let these hooligans deter you from exercising your Constitutional right to vote," said Fawcett. "It's time to take a stand against these attacks."

This is the second time the Fawcett Campaign has been vandalized. Last Tuesday the Campaign Finance Director's car was covered in the skunk smell, while parked out front of the El Paso County Republican Office.

"I find it disgusting that, as we are fighting for Democracy in Iraq, people are besmirching Democracy here in Colorado Springs," said Fawcett Campaign Manager Wanda James. "Death threats and childish illegal activities will not deter us from getting out the vote to victory today."

This is just ridiculous that the GOP can't just let people go out and go about their business casting their votes as the Constitution intended. Instead when the going gets tough they start spouting off death threats to opposing candidates and vandalizing their oponents campaign offices. Dispicable! Truly, dispicable! If you vote Republican you condone this sort of thing, it's as simple as that. You can't say you believe in the Republicans and then deny that this is the way they do things. It's time to own up to your beliefs once and for all and if those actions embarrass you then you need to take a long hard look at yourself and what you truly believe and move away from the GOP.

Found via the Daily Kos. And also check out Jay Fawcett's campaign site here. If you're in Colorado's 5th Congressional district and can give him a hand, then do. After all he's been through he more than deserves the effort.

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November 6, 2006

109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress

Think Progress has an excellent post up with 109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress.

My favorites include:

3. Congress failed to raise the minimum wage, leaving it at its lowest inflation-adjusted level since 1955. [Link]

7. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works thinks global warming is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” [Link]

- This one especially ticks me off!!

21. Congress has issued zero subpoenas to the Bush administration. [Link]

30. Congress failed to protect 58.5 million acres of roadless areas to logging and road building by repealing the Roadless Rule. [Link]

33. Both the House and Senate voted to open up our coasts to more oil drilling, “by far the slowest, dirtiest, most expensive way to meet our energy needs.” [Link]

41. Congress passed an energy bill that showered $6 billion in subsidies on polluting oil and gas firms while doing little to curb energy demand or invest in renewable energy industries. [Link]

44. The House passed a bill through committee that that would “essentially replace” the 1973 Endangered Species Act with something “far friendlier to mining, lumber and other big extraction interests that find the original act annoying.” [Link]

54. Congress is trying to destroy net neutrality. [Link]

- We bloggers scare the snot out of them!

61. Congress spent days debating an anti-gay constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. [Link]

62. Congress isn’t doing anything significant to reverse catastrophic climate change. [Link]

97. Katrina victims were forced to take out ad space to “plead[] with Congress to pay for stronger levees.” [Link]

Have you had enough?

Read all 109 reasons here.

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November 4, 2006

I'd Vote For Him: Scott Kleeb

I have a feeling this man is going to go far, like Oval Office far! If you live in Nebraska make sure to vote for Scott Kleeb!

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Ney Finally Resigns

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Bob Ney delivered his resignation from Congress on Friday, according to his chief of staff.

The Ohio Republican faced expulsion from the House following his guilty plea to multiple counts stemming from the long-running probe of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

The six-term Congressman and former chairman of the House Administration Committee faces more than two years in prison. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, had been pushing Ney to resign, threatening to expel him from the House if he refused. GOP leaders said Ney's expulsion would be their "first order of business" when Congress returned later this month.

"Bob Ney must be punished for the criminal actions he has acknowledged," Hastert said in a joint statement with Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, and Rep. Deborah Pryce of Ohio, the leader of the House Republican Conference. "He betrayed his oath of office and violated the trust of those he represented in the House. There is no place for him in this Congress."

Last month Ney's attorney said he would resign sometime before his January 19 sentencing, but not immediately.

In his resignation letter, dated Friday, Ney wrote, "I am proud of the many accomplishments that have helped improve the lives of people in the 18th Congressional District of Ohio during my tenure of public service. Having completed all outstanding work in my congressional office, I now hereby resign."

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California on Friday criticized the GOP for letting Ney wait weeks to resign after his guilty plea.

"The Republican leadership has allowed Bob Ney to receive his paycheck and benefits for seven weeks after his admission of guilt to criminal conspiracy charges," Pelosi said in a statement. "It is an embarrassment to this institution and an insult to the American taxpayer."

Ney pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, deprive his constituents of honest service and violate his former chief of staff's one-year lobbying ban, and a second count of making false statements to the House. Prosecutors have said they would seek a prison term of up to 27 months and $60,000 in fines at sentencing.

This was all posturing on his part, but Ney should have resigned long ago and if he refused he should have been forced to do so. What amuses me most is how he proclaimed his "innocence" and assured the world he would not be charged for any crimes. Their delusionality astounds me. This type of behavior (i.e. lying, cheating, stealing) is rampant within the GOP. Theirs truly is a culture of corruption.

One down, oh so many more to go!

Found via CNN News.

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November 3, 2006

Why Quit If You Aren't Guilty?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- The president of the National Association of Evangelicals resigned Thursday after accusations by a male prostitute that the pastor paid him for sex over three years.

The Rev. Ted Haggard said he also is temporarily stepping aside from the pulpit of his church in Colorado Springs pending an internal investigation by the church.

The church official who temporarily has assumed Haggard's post said late Thursday that there has been "some admission of guilt," but not to all of the allegations. He did not give any more details.

In 2005, Time magazine put Haggard on its list of the 25 most influential evangelical leaders, noting his participation in a weekly conference call with White House staffers and other religious leaders.

The National Association of Evangelicals is an umbrella group for more than 45,000 churches and some 30 million members across the country. (Watch Haggard deny the accusations -- 2:07 Video)

"I've never had a gay relationship with anybody. I'm steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife," Haggard told KUSA-TV, a CNN affiliate in Denver, on Wednesday.

Haggard is married and has five children, according to the National Association of Evangelicals Web site.

Why quit if you aren't guilty? Where there's smoke there's fire. And if this gentleman hadn't done exactly what he's been screaming about not doing for years (he's even got a bit in the new documentary Jesus Camp ranting about issues similar to this) then he wouldn't have quit. But then again religious people are notoriously judgmental and that's one of the reasons I don't subscribe to their hoo hah anymore. There is no love one another and forgive, it's all hate and judge. Organized religion is the very antithesis of what God actually wants.

I'm sure we'll hear more about this as the days pass and I'm equally as sure that it will come out that he did indeed do exactly what he preaches against. That's hate for you. Not only do they hate you, they hate themselves too, because no one has ever taught them that it is ok to actually do just that...Love yourself! Stop blaming, open yourself to God and you'd be amazed what he actually is telling you. God doesn't hate...Think about it.

Found via CNN News.

Update: 10:09 am: There is a breaking story saying that now he's admitting "some guilt", whatever that means. More to come as the story develops.

Update: 10:16 am:

After Pastor Ted Haggard went public Wednesday night denying allegations of a homosexual affair, senior church officials told KKTV 11News Thursday evening, Pastor Ted Haggard has admitted to some of the claims made by a former male escort. The church's Acting Senior Pastor, Ross Parsley, tells KKTV 11 News that Pastor Haggard has admitted to some of the indiscretions claimed by Mike Jones, but not all of them.

Like I said where there's smoke there's fire.

Found via KKTV.

Update: 10:21 am: AMERICAblog has some of the alleged voicemails.

Update: 11:27 am:

The Jesus Camp Clip:

Update: 11:56 am: Apparently it's ok for him to pass judgement on people too. Ah good old Christian values at their finest proclaiming Ghandi in hell! I mean can't you just feel the love there?

Update: 12:31 pm:

Good Morning America footage of the alleged voice mail:

Update: 3:38 pm: My BS meter is going of strongly with this one:

Evangelist Ted Haggard admitted Friday that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a gay prostitute who claims he was paid for drug-fueled trysts by the outspoken gay marriage opponent. Talking to reporters outside his house Friday, Haggard denied the sex allegations but said that he did buy meth from the man because he was curious.

You've been caught red handed. What's the point of lying now?

Found via Crooks and Liars.

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October 10, 2006

GOP Officials Brace for Loss Of Seven to 30 House Seats

Republican campaign officials said yesterday that they expect to lose at least seven House seats and as many as 30 in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, as a result of sustained violence in Iraq and the page scandal involving former GOP representative Mark Foley.

Democrats need to pick up 15 seats in the election to take back control of the House after more than a decade of GOP leadership. Two weeks of virtually nonstop controversy over President Bush's war policy and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's handling of the page scandal have forced party leaders to recalculate their vulnerability and placed a growing number of Republican incumbents and open seats at much greater risk.

I refuse to get my hopes up, because I've gotten them up for the last two elections, only to be completely and utterly disappointed with the people of this country and how clueless they are when it comes to these truly evil people. I was certain, especially in 2004 that people had had enough of this quagmire, only to be truly horrified when people apparently voted for Dubya in droves. But I would love to see it be near the 30 end or more! The Republicans utter mismanagement and dishonesty has to end. They care nothing about We The People, and only about keeping their power. They'll throw you, me and even our children in the path of their destruction without a second thought. Hopefully on election day we'll see their reign of evil come to an end.

Found via the Washington Post.

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October 9, 2006

Lawmaker Saw Foley Messages In 2000

A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley's inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications.

A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed yesterday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the youth feel uncomfortable with the direction Foley (R-Fla.) was taking their e-mail relationship. Last week, when the Foley matter erupted, a Kolbe staff member suggested to the former page that he take the matter to the clerk of the House, Karen Haas, said Kolbe's press secretary, Korenna Cline.

The revelation pushes back by at least five years the date when a member of Congress has acknowledged learning of Foley's behavior with former pages. A timeline issued by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) suggested that the first lawmakers to know, Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill.), the chairman of the House Page Board, and Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.), became aware of "over-friendly" e-mails only last fall. It also expands the universe of players in the drama beyond members, either in leadership or on the page board.

A source with direct knowledge of Kolbe's involvement said the messages shared with Kolbe were sexually explicit, and he read the contents to The Washington Post under the condition that they not be reprinted. But Cline denied the source's characterization, saying only that the messages had made the former page feel uncomfortable. Nevertheless, she said, "corrective action" was taken. Cline said she has not yet determined whether that action went beyond Kolbe's confrontation with Foley.

The plot thickens! Kolbe claims to have confronted Foley, but did he do anything else? These people are just really on top of things aren't they? (Note the sarcasm in that last sentence for those of you who are impaired in that area.) Disturbing.

Found via the Washington Post.

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October 8, 2006

Mark Foley's explicit e-mails could bring down the GOP

And to hear them tell it the Democrats have the market cornered on sex scandals, but low and behold it looks like it's their own massively twisted sex scandal that appears to be the final straw to bring down their empire of evil.

Click on the picture above to read the Newsweek story.

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October 3, 2006

Foley's Admissions

Foley's new admissions, via his lawyer, are that (1) he was molested by a clergyman when he himself was young, (2) that he is in rehab, and (3) that he is gay.

My sympathy is with Mr. Foley, but... those things are not the point. Mr. Foley's statements, in fact, put a sharp edge on the point, here.

You do not abuse the trust of children. If you find out about the possible abuse of children, you have a duty to stop it. A duty. An imperative. An oath. All those words that men say, and seldom, apparently, mean.

Because sexual abuse ruins lives forever. What happened to Foley came full circle, from molested victim to predator himself. And now new children are involved, and new lives have been affected, forever.

That is why you do not abuse the trust of children. That is why it was so very important, when the red flags were raised, from 2001 onwards, from 2003 onwards, from 2005 onwards; you have a duty to do more than the most minimally possible nothing.

It is not a political duty. It is a duty to the lives involved -- the ones you know about, and all the ones you may not.

I am sick of this. I am sick of this entire foulness. I am sick of Hastert on the Rush Limbaugh show, and lawyers, and press conferences, and I am sick of what is going to come next. I am sick of our country preaching moral values, and electing to office those that, when the chips are down even in their very halls, have none.

At long last: even this?

Hunter says it well. There isn't much I can add to that.

Found via Daily Kos.

Update: 6:48 pm: CNN has more information now as well.

Update: 6:54pm: John from AMERICAblog sums it up nicely as well:

Oh please. So now he's an alcoholic, and was abused as a child. He's a victim, you see. And then, the kicker, after talking about being molested as a child, at a press conference about concerns regarding molesting children, Foley's lawyer says "Mark Foley is a gay man."

WTF? How is that relevant to a press conference about molestation? Jesus Christ. Who is advising this guy, the Christian Coalition? This press conference is sick. Oh, and the lawyer just added that he won't say whether Foley was molested by an imam. What? The man is running a public relations campaign from treatment.

At this point, his people need to shut up. This press conference was totally unnecessary.

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Throw Denny Hastert Out!

Vote John Laesch...It's time for a change for the better!

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September 29, 2006

Tim Mahoney

Tim Mahoney is the Democrat who is running in the Florida 16 against Mark Foley, or whatever other corrupt Republican they put in his place now I guess. Check out his website and if you live in that area vote for Tim Mahoney. He's the only logical choice and it's most definitely time for a change.

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If You Aren't Guilty, Then Why Resign?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Mark Foley, R-Florida, resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page.

"I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent," he said in a statement issued by his office.

Foley, 52, had been considered a shoo-in for re-election until the e-mails surfaced in recent days.

Campaign aides had previously acknowledged that the Republican congressman e-mailed the former Capitol page five times, but had said there was nothing inappropriate about the exchange. The page was 16 at the time of the e-mail correspondence.

Foley's election opponent, Democrat Tim Mahoney, has called for an investigation.

The correspondence took place in August 2005 after the boy gave Foley a handwritten thank you note before returning to Louisiana.

Foley was running for re-election to a seventh term. He has represented his district, which includes West Palm Beach, since 1995. Florida Republicans could replace Foley on the ballot.

In his exchanges with the boy, Foley asked how old he was, what he wanted for his upcoming birthday, how he was doing after Hurricane Katrina and for a photo.

The e-mails were posted Friday on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's Web site after ABC News reported their existence. The group asked the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate the exchange Foley had with the boy, who served as a page for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Louisiana.

"The House of Representatives has an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process," the group wrote, adding that the committee, "must investigate any allegation that a page has been subjected to sexual advances by members of the House."

According to the CREW posting, the boy e-mailed a colleague in Alexander's office about Foley's e-mails, saying, "This freaked me out." On the request for a photo, the boy repeated the word "sick" 13 times.

He said Foley asked for his e-mail when the boy gave him a thank you card. The boy also said Foley wrote that he e-mailed another page.

"he's such a nice guy," Foley wrote about the other boy. "acts much older than his age...and hes in really great shape...i am just finished riding my bike on a 25 mile journey now heading to the gym...whats school like for you this year?"

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Shame on you Mr. Foley! If you aren't guilty (which I am sure you are) then why resign? Why not stand up for yourself? And why apologize to your family? I have a feeling there will be more than just the inappropriate emails and comments that have surfaced so far before this is over. Truly sick!

Found via CNN.

Update: 4:00 pm: What do you know!!! It DOES get worse!:

Hours earlier, ABC News had read excerpts of instant messages provided by former male pages who said the congressman, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to sexual organs and acts.

Who could have predicted?

Found via the ABC News Blotter.

If you truly believe that Republicans are really moral after all of the corruption, lying and down right despicableness that has gone on in the last 6 years then you really are completely insane and it speaks highly of your own character. There are too many instances of these occurrences and indiscretions and that's the fact of the matter.

Update: 4:18 pm: I've been thinking...In today's electronic age who is dumb enough to do this sort of thing via e-mail or text message? Putting it in writing period is just nuts! You are going to get caught and you're leaving a trail. It almost sounds like you want to get caught. Just a thought.

Update: 6:22 pm: And it gets worse! Check out some of the inappropriate conent over at AMERICAblog. I'm sorry, but there is no way you can spin the comment " Do I make you a little horny ?" into a positive light. Sick!!

Update: 6:39 pm: And even more inappropriate content via AMERICAblog.

The Republicans are trying to spin it that what Foley did was not wrong, but his mistake was that it's so close to the election that they can't get a decent candidate (which is an oxymoron given Republicans aren't decent to begin with) into the race. Not for once second do they think his pedophilic behavior is bad, it's just bad that he got caught! Yeah, that's morals for you.

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September 2, 2006

Ah...The Smell Of Integrity In The Morning!

I had to run to the bank this morning and as Alexis and I were driving to our destination I saw one of the local Republican candidate's people putting his signs back up along the way after our little tropical system adventure from yesterday. They had the truck with all his signs plastered to it so you would be sure to see they were working for their candidate, and they were putting signs every little bit along the way. But wouldn't you know it...They were being so "helpful" as to take down all the other candidates signs, both Democratic and Republican, and pile them up in the back of their own truck! Wow! Now that's integrity for you! I don't care how many times I hear the right wing nut jobs scream about how the Republican party stands for ethics and honor it just isn't believable. The reality of the situation is that you guys get caught in way too many acts of dishonesty for me to even take that seriously! So bravo!! You have once again proved that you are nothing but a bunch of snakes in the grass!

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