hi Jordan and great post!

Angie, I left you a comment at the end of the post downstairs about diabetic kitties. Get in touch if you want to…

I know a place here, a laundry that washes hospital gowns and uniforms, where the temperatures are so high that people’s shoes melt. Wages are very low, there are burns, needle sticks, very bad working conditions.

Margot: These people need OSHA and a union. UNITE-HERE is organizing laundries. They should get in touch. Contact me if you want more info: jbarab@starpower.net

As reported on the Lamont blog, Alan Schlesinger is claiming he’s pretty sure that Lieberman’s missing $387K slush fund is “street money”, a term used to describe cash that’s used for vote buying.

Here’s the transcript:

CT Bob: “Senator Lieberman apparently went through $387,000 in petty cash during the twelve days preceding the primary. By comparison, Ned Lamont’s campaign recorded a total of $500 petty cash for the same period. No other senate campaign has recorded anywhere near the same amount of petty cash being essentially unaccounted for. What do you think may be going on here?”

Schlesinger: “Well, it’s an awful lot of petty cash. It’s more than our whole campaign in petty cash.

I’ll tell ya, it’s gotta be street money. I mean, it makes no other sense.

I really thought the days of that were over, back in the early sixties, but I guess not. It’s unfortunate.”

Sure, that’s just Schlesinger’s say-so, but what about this Courant article? This article describes an appalling absentee ballot scheme Lieberman’s been using to prey on the elderly and buy their votes.

I just can’t believe that Lieberman is THIS BAD. But here it is…

Cynical use of initiatives and referenda?

Hah! That’s a good one. Like they think we’ll forget all those “sanctity of marriage” initiatives? Accompanied by flyers saying Democrats want to “take your Bible” away? Hahahahaha!

Saying that we’re “using” poor people reminds me of Limbaugh’s complaint that Democrats “use” so-called “untouchable” folks like Michael J. Fox or other “victims” who make it difficult for right-wingers to attack them.

That’s right! How DARE we show the victims of their greedy policies and incompetence to show how their policies are wrong, wrong, wrong. So unfair!

I suppose the only way we’d be “fair” about anything would be if we agreed to KICK victims in the teeth, just like they do. Reminds me of the cultural attitudes in the thirties in Germany, about how “healthy” it was to revel in your own “strength” and to mock the weak.

But then these strong macho Republicans take the cake by WHINING (like little babies) in the face of our “unfairness” at pointing out their injustice.

There’s so many layers of irony there, you’d need a trowel to peel ‘em away.

In a recent survey by the Pew Foundation, 88 percent of voters nationwide say they support raising the minimum wage — leading us to ask Republican members of Congress who blocked the raise and are desperately seeking more votes on November 7th, “What were you thinking?”

Lookee, lookee…there goes another oxymoron.

Thanks for another zinger Jordan!

And Claudia @ 24, I have often thought the same thing. Let us do the performance evaluations and determine if the rep gets a raise or not.

CNN is airing a program called “Broken Government.” It appears to be an excellent summary of the Bush Presidency.

Lynne Cheney is a big fan! LOL

CNN is airing a program called “Broken Government.” It appears to be an excellent summary of the Bush Presidency.

This series’ title got Lady Halliburton all engorged at Wolfie the other day.

My Member of Parliament and my Member of Provincial Parliament are both taking bills to their respective houses to raise the minimum wage here to 10/hr. Yeah! I am a *very* small business owner and $10 has always been the minimum I will pay. Looks like I wil have to go up!

There are smart, just employers who, as a moral and business decision, pay above the minimum wage. This is why raising the minimum wage benefits so many more earners than only those at the floor.

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