My mother thinks I'm crazy and I can't really disagree with her. I just subscribed to a ton of presidential candidates email lists. I got everyone from Barack Obama to Tommy Thompson, heck I even hit up Mike Gravel and I'm not even sure who he is.
I should probably mention that the picture above doesn't show everyone. I've been subscribed to a few candidates list for some time and others didn't send out a confirmation.
Today the House passed a non-binding resolution against an increase of troops in Iraq. What did the White House think of this? They issued a short release that basically said they didn't care so long as the money keeps coming.
The House of Representatives has passed a resolution expressing disapproval of President Bush's plan to send reinforcements to Iraq. This plan enjoys the support of the Iraqi government and U.S. military leadership, including Gen. David Petraeus, Commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, who recently was confirmed to his post by an 81-0 vote in the Senate.
The President ordered a new way forward in Iraq because he, like most Americans, believed the existing situation in Iraq was unacceptable. The President concluded that this new strategy was necessary in order to help the Iraqi government gain control over Baghdad, assume more responsibility for security, and pursue reconciliation of all of Iraq's communities.
The resolution is nonbinding. Soon, Congress will have the opportunity to show its support for the troops in Iraq by funding the supplemental appropriations request the President has submitted, and which our men and women in combat are counting on.
The President believes that the Congress should provide the full funding and flexibility our Armed Forces need to succeed in their mission to protect our country.
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This is really starting to get on my nerves. Despite being elected over 3 months ago Charlie Wilson has yet to get a House website and still has a basic placeholder up. Unfortunately the words
This Web site has been set up to provide my constituents with an immediate Internet address for my newly elected office. Stay tuned for updates to my full featured Web site in the first session of the 110th Congress. In the meantime, I hope you will contact my office if you have any questions or would like assistance with a Federal Agency.
don't do a damn thing for me. Even more problematic is that he hasn't even been integrated into the House email service. I've had an email ready to send to him for several weeks but I can't send it. Sure a website for all the new Reps probably takes time but why no email?
This just infuriated me. The following is an excerpt from a Politico article titled "Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says" by a man named Dan Gerstein.
If the liberal blogs want to understand why so few people outside their narrow echo chamber take them seriously, and what it will take to gain the broader credibility they crave, they should look no further than their handling of the recent flap over John Edwards’ foul-mouthed blogger hires.
This ugly morality tale - which mercifully concluded Tuesday with the second of the two offending online staffers resigning from the Edwards campaign - revealed the Kossacks in all their angry adolescent glory: impudent, impotent, unreflective and unaccountable.
Throughout the course of the controversy, the left’s bigger digital diatribers never stopped to address the substance of what the Edwards bloggers actually wrote before joining the campaign. Had the bloggers done so, they might have found the postings were widely deemed by Democrats and Republicans alike as bigoted and patently offensive to many Christians, not just devout Catholics or evangelicals.
Nor did they ever stop to think how hollow and hypocritical it sounded for the same people who ravaged George Allen, for his “macaca” moment in last year’s Virginia Senate campaign to cry “free speech” when confronted with a far more nasty, vulgar, and hurtful display of prejudice from two of their own.
Instead, right until the bitter end, most liberal bloggers responded in their familiar mode – by lashing out at their critics and trying to marginalize them. This was, in their eyes, purely a manufactured controversy by the “right-wing smear machine” and a cynical attempt to silence and marginalize the Netroots.
Who is this Dan Gerstein? He's Joe Lieberman's former communications director. This so called "Democrat" supported a candidate that the real Democrats rejected. Is it possible that he might have a grudge against bloggers because of their support for the Lamont campaign?
Source: Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says - Politico.com
There's a proposed legislation in Tennessee right now that would create death certificates for aborted fetuses. I've looked over several articles on this and I'm calling bullshit. Abortions are already tallied up so the only possible purpose of this bill would be to create public records on who has had them.
Read More: Death certificates on abortions proposed - Yahoo! News
Zack Space has been added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's list of "Frontline" seats. Frontline is a program that directs money and support to Reps in danger of losing reelection.
The RNC has had a large target painted on Space since the day after the election. Hopefully these funds will help him out.
Space picked up the 18th District seat in Ohio that had been held by six-term Republican Rep. Bob Ney, who quit his re-election bid, pleaded guilty to taking illegal gratuities from Abramoff in exchange for legislative favors, and ultimately resigned before the end of the 109th Congress.
Lampson, Mahoney and Space ran against a Republican “culture of corruption” in 2006. But with the Democrats now in charge of the House and the fallen Republican members out of the way, the 2008 campaign will likely focus on different issues — and Republican strategists will be trying to recruit stronger candidates than those who belatedly stood in for their resigned incumbents last time.
Source: CQPolitics.com - DCCC Announces Its 'Frontline' Seats for 2008
Great, now I've got AC/DC stuck in my head over a headline that doesn't make any sense. Oh well.
Guess what guys and gals, remember that guy that promised that Ted Strickland would turn Ohio into a state filled with homosexual pedophiles? As of March 1st (same day Bob Ney has to report to prison) he will be a member of the Columbus based think tank Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions.
Ken Blackwell, last year’s Republican nominee for governor and former Secretary of State, is pushing a conservative agenda again.
Blackwell, whose 2006 campaign platform included cutting taxes and expanding school choice, has joined the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a Columbus-based conservative think tank. He will receive a stipend under a fellowship named for former President Ronald Reagan
Source: cleveland.com: Weblogs
The second campaign blogger (though it turns out she wasn't hired as a blogger at all, rather a technical advisor) for the John Edwards campaign has stepped down from her position.
I regret to say that I have also resigned from the Edwards campaign. In spite of what was widely reported, I was not hired as a blogger, but a part-time technical advisor, which is the role I am vacating.
I would like to make very clear that the campaign did not push me out, nor was my resignation the back-end of some arrangement made last week. This was a decision I made, with the campaign's reluctant support, because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign, and making me increasingly uncomfortable with my and my family's level of exposure.
I feel that these two bloggers are setting an extremely bad precedent, though it may not be entirely their fault. By resigning they send the signal that bloggers can be used as an opening to attack candidates and possibly be viewed as a liability by the candidates themselves. She goes on to address this by saying:
I understand that there will be progressive bloggers who feel I am making the wrong decision, and I offer my sincerest apologies to them. One of the hardest parts of this decision was feeling as though I'm letting down my peers, who have been so supportive.
Sadly actions speak louder than words and I feel that the legitimacy of blogs in politics has suffered a great blow. What effects, if any, this will have are yet to be seen.
Source: Shakespeare's Sister
Shortly after not being fired over some idiots selective outrage John Edwards campaign blogger Amanda Marcotte has resigned. In a statement posted at Marcotte's former (and now current) blog Pandagon she claimed that she felt that she might be a burden for the Edwards campaign.
I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for what’s right. Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills don’t respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics (I’m anti-theocracy, for those who were keeping track). Bill Donohue—anti-Semite, right wing lackey whose entire job is to create non-controversies in order to derail liberal politics—has been running a scorched earth campaign to get me fired for my personal beliefs and my writings on this blog.
In fact, he’s made no bones about the fact that his intent is to “silence” me, as if he—a perfect stranger—should have a right to curtail my freedom of speech. Why? Because I’m a woman? Because I’m pro-choice? Because I’m not religious? All of the above, it seems.
Regardless, it was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign. No matter what you think about the campaign, I signed on to be a supporter and a tireless employee for them, and if I can’t do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesn’t have anything better to do with his time than harass me, then I won’t do it. I resigned my position today and they accepted.
You can read the full statement here. I'd definitely say it's worth a read.
It's kind of sad that she felt she had to leave over this but at least now she can respond to all this without having to worry about her words being interpreted as those of John Edwards.
Read More: A Blogger for Edwards Resigns After Complaints - washingtonpost.com
I'm getting this from the summary in my feed reader (from a CNN feed) until I have a connection so I don't have a ton of information to go by.
Apparently North Korea has (tentatively) agreed to stop their nuclear program in exchange for energy aid.
North Korea has tentatively agreed to close down its nuclear weapons program in exchange for energy aid, U.S. and Chinese officials say. Last year, North Korea tested a low-yield nuclear weapon and walked away from negotiations. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said America and its allies "have put everything on the table," and it was time for North Korea to make a decision.
Does this mean we'll be spared from hearing "nucular" for the moment?
I don't really have much of a comment on this right now. I'm really just posting it because I hate Pat Robertson.
Source: Man claims Pat Robertson Threatened him - Yahoo! News
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