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In the same poll that shows Sen. Obama with a 17 point lead in Minnesota, Al Franken is 10 points behind Norm Coleman. I’ve never been super wild about the Franken run (I don’t like entertainers and other media folks running for office most of the time), but I’m even less so now. Maybe he can still win, but that’s not a good sign.
So, campaigning 101: Don’t talk about how your Colorado’s hometown boy and then use mountains from Alaska in your ad.
More:
Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer unofficially launched his campaign Wednesday with a biographical spot he was forced to pull almost immediately because the image in the ad of Pikes Peak — where he proposed to his wife — turned out instead to be Mount McKinley in, well, Alaska.
Dick Wadhams, Schaffer’s campaign manager, said the spot would be re-edited with Colorado peaks and start running again almost immediately, but not before his candidate took a series of hits from liberal bloggers noting that the ad was supposed to underscore Schaffer’s deep connection to Colorado.
You may remember Dick Wadhams from his time managing now ex-Senator George Macaca Allen’s campaign.
Just use that phrase to cut and past over and over again about the idiotic Democratic leadership in the Senate. They cave over and over and over on the Iraq War, but can’t wait to give in to confirming a far-right judge with racial issues.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Judge Leslie Southwick to the federal appeals court serving Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas despite some Democrats’ complaints that decisions he supported were racially insensitive and inappropriate for a region still shadowed by civil rights struggles.
The 59-38 vote on confirmation was sealed after the nomination survived its main obstacle, a test tally moments earlier. Majority Democrats pressured by labor unions and other constituencies did not have the votes to filibuster, or block, Southwick’s confirmation.
The Congressional Black Caucus warned that there would be consequences for Democrats at the ballot box.
“We regard this as a test,” said District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
They can’t cloture to end the war, but they cloture to vote for yet another right-wing judicial hijacker. If you’re in the majority but act like the minority, did you actually win an election?
Idiots.
Harry Reid is talking big on the President’s new request for Iraq War money.
Minutes after Bush spoke, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, warned the president not to expect Congress to “rubber-stamp” the latest request.
“In the coming weeks, we will hold it up to the light of day and fight for the change of strategy and redeployment of troops that is long overdue,” Reid said.
He said the new request means the overall cost of the widely unpopular war now approaches $650 billion since the March 2003 invasion that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
“The entire war in Iraq is being paid for with borrowed money,” Reid said.
If the recent performance of the Democratic Senate is any indication, they’ll once again give Bush everything he asks for without a single string attached. Remember, Sean Hannity might say bad things about you, and we can’t have that!
I’ll believe it when I see it, Reid & Co.
In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions.
Hours earlier, the House approved an identical resolution, 296-133.
The president praised the congressional action, declaring “America speaks with one voice.”
The five-year anniversary of the congressional resolution to authorize the Iraq war is less than three weeks away, and prospects for legislation by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and others to revoke that authority have dissipated in the face of stiff opposition within the Senate Democratic Caucus.
The issue of de-authorization has been fodder along the presidential campaign trail, but has been largely ignored in the halls of Congress, where senior Democrats argue it would do little to change the conduct of the war.
“I think it raises more problems than it solves,” said Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who is managing the pending defense authorization bill, the vehicle for this month’s Iraq debate in the Senate.
Clearly this, along with voting for a blank check for Bush again and again and again will stop the Republicans from calling the Democrats mean names. We showed them.
The traditional view, especially from folks on the online left, is that Hillary Clinton is the play it safe centrist while Obama is the progressive fighter.
But the mostly symbolic, silly and time-wasting vote on MoveOn did have an effect. Sen. Clinton and Dodd voted against stupidity (Let me know when the senate votes to condemn pro-administration outlets like Rush Limbaugh - who regularly slurs women, minorities and anyone not on the left while calling for torture and the like. He makes anything intemperate MoveOn has ever said or endorsed look like a southern belle at the spring formal. I wonder when we’ll have a single Democratic senator with the balls to push a resolution condemning Limbaugh & Co.) while Sen. Obama simply didn’t show up.
Sure, he sent out a press release trying to position himself above it, but I’m sorry - you chickened out. You’re running for president, sir, not president of Kumbaya.
- “A paltry 11 percent rated Congress positively, beating the previous low of 14 percent in July.”
- Senate Votes to Condemn MoveOn PAC commercial
Winning an election hasn’t taught them a darn thing. Running around like scared little chickens because some Republican somewhere said something bad about them. Spineless.
BY THE WAY: Just about the best thing that could happen to MoveOn is having one of the least popular presidents in U.S. history attack you. President Bush just gave MoveOn a ton of money.
>> Paul Begala: Democrats Should Attack Bush, Not MoveOn
UPDATE: It’s amazing you can get more senators to vote against an ad than to end a horrible war. Just a pathetic statement about the world we live in.
Sen. Reid is having an all night session on the Iraq war.
Sen. Patrick Leahy calls out the Bush administration.
Leahy Introduces Bills To Combat War Profiteering, Public Corruption.
Signaling a renewed emphasis on combating corruption at home and abroad, incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), introduced a package of bills Thursday targeting corrupt officials and private companies seeking to defraud American taxpayers and troops.
“Americans want the culture of corruption to end. From war profiteers and corrupt officials in Iraq, to convicted Administration officials, to influence-peddling lobbyists and, regrettably, even members of Congress, too many supposed public servants have been serving their own interests, rather than the public interest,” said Leahy.
As the GOP has been ramming down our throats for years, elections have consequences.
Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.
“I expect real answers, or we’ll have testimony under oath until we get them,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who will head the committee beginning in January, said in an interview this week. “We’re entitled to know these answers, and in many instances we don’t get them because people are hiding their mistakes. And that’s no excuse.”
To the minority party, this is called "doing your job". Perhaps if you had done this, more of you would be coming back to Washington in January.
We have a better than average chance in 2008 of a Democratic Senate wth 60 seats. In addition to, you know, the presidency.
Right now it’s late afternoon in America. Two years from now it could be morning again.
Who’s who in the new majority?
Robert C. Byrd, President Pro Temp
Harry Reid, Majority Leader
Dick Durbin, Assistant Majority Leader
Barbara Boxer, Chief Deputy Whip
Thomas R. Carper, Deputy Whip
Bill Nelson, Deputy Whip
Russell D. Feingold, Deputy Whip
Charles E. Schumer, Vice Chair of the Conference
Patty Murray, Secretary of the Conference
Charles E. Schumer, Chairman of Campaign Committee
Byron L. Dorgan, Chairman of Policy Committee
Debbie Stabenow, Chair of Steering and Outreach Committee
Jeff Bingaman, Chairman of Committee Outreach
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice Chair of Committee Outreach
Blanche L. Lincoln, Chair of Rural Outreach
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