Thanks for responding to my e-mail. You misunderstood me. I never said Hillary had to taper her message. I said they will take her words splice them and use them against her with a totally different meaning. Please quit drinking the Koolaid with these people. We need to stop turning on each other. I believe Hillary is surronding herself with people who are looking for a strategy that will get us out of this. I don’t see anyone in the party that can win over John McCain. There’s no none out there, that is electable face it!!!!!!!

Here’s his email if you want to contact him:

Now here’s the contact info:

For comments on overall show content:
wendyjoschultz AT yahoo.com

To contact the show’s producer:
james AT edschultzshow.com
701-200-9134

E-mail Ed during the show!
ed@edschultzshow.com

And he has a vote here:

http://www.wegoted.com/

Dear Mr. Shultz or Wendy Shultz,

I am extremely angry and disappointed in Ed’s big rant at the Democratic Senators yesterday. Frankly, he couldn’t have helped the right-winged pundits anymore had he tried!

Let me explain why….First, the bill by Levin, Reid, Clinton, Feinstein, and Salazar was a hodge podge of mush just set forth to atone the calls for bringing the troops home but the plan itself had no meat and no real actionable accountability for this (lying)President and this (lying) Republican Congress. We’ve seen the President has no intention of bringing the troops home and the Republicans think that any strategic plan to pull the troops out is to be held out there for political purposes. Hence their incorrect and overused frame “cut and run.”

Yet, despite your bashing of John Kerry, John Kerry was right when he called it a “Lie and Die” strategy from the White House and the Republicans. Thus, the Levin-Reid bill was playing exactly into those same incompetent hands that have no intention of bringing the troops home. It’s why their measure was nothing more than grandstanding and sitting on the fence.

I researched both bills because at first I thought they were almost the same, and I had notices to call my Senators and ask that they support both bills. Through my research, I discovered exactly what made Kerry’-Feingold’s bill better than Levin-Reids bill. The things most valuable in Kerry’-Feingold’s bill were:

1. Accountability. The President and his administration would no longer be able to paint half-truths about the progress in the war and would be reporting to Congress how the war was going. For an administration who has had no oversight this was a hugely important facet of this bill. This President and his majority party have run a-muck and can not be trusted! We needed this oversight desperately!!! Furthermore, the very fact that Bush has refused to fire the archetect of their incompetent war, Rummy himself, is all the proof we needed that until there is accountability, we will never see the war run in a competent or honest way and we will never see the troops come home, except as a midterm election year ploy.

2. A Specific time table to get out while at the same time giving a huge lea way for a secret and strategic exit. (As opposed to an article saying, “We are leaving July 7th” , the President would have ample time to secretly pull troops out and to work diplomatically with other countries to use an international approach to ending the war.)

3. Americans want the troops home immediately. They see the war as a failure and they see this President as a liar. So Kerry-Feingold’s bill was the policy that most American’s support. They no longer trust Bush and they no longer trust Republican policy. This bill was exactly what they wanted!

Yesterday, I was quite upset after listening to you bashing Democrats for not having one specific plan. Then I heard your rant against Kerry and I was more upset that you chose to specifically take sides against Kerry. The more I thought about it, the more angry I became that you even considered the Reid-Feingold measure to be an acceptable plan at all! It’s a hodge-podge of nothingness except pure unadulterated politics! The American people don’t want that. They wanted a specific plan and Kerry-Feingold put their own names at risk to give the American people a true, specific, highly engineered plan that would pull the troops home in a strategic manner and would hold a crazed political administration and his party accountable for the first time in 6 years!

And Kerry is attacked every time he does something by the right-winged media, and you can vew the NYT’s hit piece on Kerry from Monday as proof of this statement as well as view the video of the Today show that broadcasted the same article, the same concerted smear! So I guarentee you Ed that he didn’t just say to himself, “Gee…I feel like standing on the backs of the troops for political gain and letting the right-winged media (and apparently the left too) smear the hell out of me, so I think I’ll put in a logical, strategic resolution to bring the troops home…I love to get smeared!!!!”

You claimed the dems should have had only one plan. Well, if you want to believe the Republican talking points, I can not stop you. But at the very least, I hope that my information has helped you see that the single plan that Reid, Levin, and Clinton should have gotten the nerve to support should have been the one that was best for the American people. And that one was the Kerry-Feingold-Boxer bill.

Thank you for your time.

Second, a couple of days ago I received a snail mail appeal for donations from my Senator, Bill Nelson. I wrote to tell him that he can’t have it both ways: vote like a Republican (albeit tacitly) and then expect to be supported like a Democrat. We need to get that message through to all of them.

Larisa over at Raw Story has a piece about Harry Reid introducing the Iran Intelligence Oversight Act

According to “Give ‘em heck” Harry:

“To the best of my knowledge, Congress has not yet been briefed on any of the key details of the deal offered to Iran a few weeks ago,” Reid said on the Senate floor this week. “The Iranians have been briefed, the Europeans have been briefed, the Russians have been briefed, the Chinese have been briefed — but not the U.S. Senate.”

Why brief the (rubber stamp)U.S. Senate, they’re irrelevant now that Bu$h is the Urinary Expletive.

I didn’t mispell anything in bold letters either!