http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA…..dt.01.html

Do a search on the word marriage

On the 2nd found hit, read that portion and you will be as suprised as I was. Here, Lou and his guests were mocking the “Marriage Amendment”–right after Dana Bash’s segment over video it gets very interesting. Even Bill Schnieder of the AEI got in on the act and it wasn’t the type of GOP Kool-Aide Stirring I’m used to seeing from Bill.

After watching that rare segment, I’m just wondering how far he will go in this direction. But I truly think this was egged on by his viewers. He put out the question the day before, what do you think Bush and the Republican congress have achieved and just before the piece I referenced, he started reading those viewer comments–some of which:

Brian in California saying, “Lou, you asked for our ideas on what the Bush administration and Congress are doing right. OK. OK. I’m thinking. Give me a minute. I’m still thinking. Can I get back to you on this one?”

And Jim in Illinois saying, “Dear Lou, I’ve thought most of the day about your question and I think I’ve come up with the one thing that our government has done for us. It has brought the American voters together in one common goal, to vote them out in November.”

And Sherry in California, “Hi, Lou. I’ve read and read this over and over again and given it 24 hours of good thought. I came up with nothing, absolutely nothing of what the Bush administration is doing right. As for Congress, the only thing that’s been done right is the Sensenbrenner immigration bill and the defeat of the Dubai ports deal.”

We’ll have more of your thoughts coming up here in just a matter of moments, but I have to tell you, I have never seen — we had e- mails from all over the country, thousands and thousands of them, and I’ve never seen the word “nothing” expressed in so many different ways.

I didn’t give it full context, as I know no one here would want to read the the supposed balance of the wing nut views he aired–but I was suprised to here it go as far as it did.

Many of the goopers who supported the Vietnam War are very much the DLC-hawk types, or were Reagan Democrats. (I’m also aware that the Vietnam War was the reason Johnson withdrew from the ‘68 race; at least he had the sense if not honor to do so, unlike the gooper in office.) As one of the grassroots/netroots activists, I’m doing what I can to weed these hawk-types out; I’m increasingly aware we have them on the ground here in the field and they are actively backstabbing us. But we’ve got a bead on them and I’m only just getting started.

They none of them had a family serve in Iraq; I did. I also have an uncle who served in Vietnam, came home with PTSD and has never ever quite been the same. War is simply not an effective answer a political tool for stopping a meme (like communism or radical fundamentalism). It’s time to use what works instead.

I don’t think it passed. I will find out what happened.

WASHINGTON (AP) – If the chips fall right for Democrats and their party seizes control of the House, President Bush’s agenda on Capitol Hill would fall into the hands of some of his most dogged opponents.

[snip]

For Republicans, the prospect of the House being led by a San Franciscan and so many left-leaning chairmen has supporters in business and Washington’s K Street lobbying shops aghast. The switch could mark the demise of Bush’s tax cut agenda and would usher into power union allies such as Rangel and Miller.

“The whole issue agenda would change,” said GOP lobbyist Jack Howard. “All the businesses and trade associations would find themselves on defense.”

http://apnews.myway.com/articl…..RQD00.html

can you say generational memory ? I knew ya could

Another lassic Democratic campaign mistake…do you need more ammunition for that empty gun?

Here you go.

-GSD