I am still waiting for Hackett to make another move WITH Dem support. He is a Iraq veteran, an officer who led men into battle there, loaded with charisma, a lawyer from Cincinnati who opposed he war and was extremely vocal about it. He also called Bush. “A soonofabitch” in a campaign speech which put him in my heart permanently Maybe in 2008. Definitely someone to keep an eye on.

When Emanuel was working for Clinton he earned the nickname Rhambo for his focus and I suppose we have to say his pretty ruthless ways. I think he just what the Dem party needs and I say rock on!

I believe there was a lot of talk about carpetbagging in NY with Clinton. However, I think the voters looked at it as if it was a business decision. It was good business to elect her. . .but the carpetbagging issue continues to come up, even with her. Perhaps one of the reasons she has sucked so hard on Iraq.

No one sucks more than Hillary on Iraq. In my opinion she’s even worse than the only Neocon-Independent-Whatever-the-F%$k. In my mind neocons are more forgivable–they’re just really, really, really confused.

With Hillary, she refuses to stand for anything despite countless opportunities. As far as I’m concerned, she doesn’t belong in Congress.

She didn’t even allow her contender in the primary to debate her after being petitioned by her supposed party.

Any Democrat could have won her seat;
she might as well be a Republicat.

BearCountry @ 63

This whole story just shows explicitly how bad little rahmmie is. Again, so many people who came out of Bill Clinton’s administration turned out to be rethug-lite. Let’s hope that Nancy Pelosi can get a better grip on the party, but I’m not overly optimistic since she seems to be strongly favoring bipartisan cooperation, and no impeachment.

Denny said bipartisan and it meant R way.

Nancy says bipartisan — we’ll just have to wait to see what it means. As frustrating as it is, I think that a lot of what she says is for Them, not us. Now that I have heard Mme Speaker, I can believe she’d set up the investigations, the R’s will fall all over themselves to impeach the Chimp before he tanks *their* chances in 2008, and she’ll just smile a big, innocent “Who me?” smile.

Also, re snapping Rahm into line, she does not have ultimate authority just because she is Speaker. Rahm as DCCC has control of a shit-load of money — although Howie and ActBlue and Howard Dean et al. are undermining that — hah!) and Steny will probably back Rahm over Nancy if it comes to a fight. Also, all this party in-fighting has to happen out in full view. The R’s can still count on the media to not see the damnedest obvious things, but Fox and the crew will disect Mme Nancy’s every move and Rahm will leak like a baby to them.

That money will be under my Congressman from MD-8’s control soon, and “rahmmie” will be as defenseless as pie

bg @ 99

It is incredible to me that Rahm E thought he could just move candidates around from one district to another.

That sort of “carpetbagging” even in a localized area never flies with voters. People see it as a scam, and it is an increasingly uphill battle from then on.

If you’ll recall, when Shumer conspired to drive Paul Hackett out of the Senate primary in Ohio, it was Rahm who popped up out of nowhere and “offered” Paul the 2nd district nomination (which Paul’s neighbor and friend Victoria Wulsin pretty much had sewn up already). Rahm’s and Shumer’s treachery and conniving nearly lost us a senate seat in Ohio. But in the end Paul campaigned hard and strong for Sherrod Brown and DeWine lost.

That affair was just as bad–I was shocked this time, but was just as shocked the second time around

LindaR – here we go – the BlueAmerica Pac page:

http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica08

I’m setting up a monthly contribution (small but regular) to help us build towards ‘08!

Another good PAC is Russ Feingold’s Progressive Patriots PAC, if you like it to be a little more personalized, but both of them sound good to me.

EvilDrPuma @ 29

Which can be done by tarring him with the Foley brush along with his GOP co-conspirators.

Dr. P, it looks like the Republicans are Rahm have made a deal to sweep the whole Foley cover-up– as least as pertains to GOP and Dem leadership (himself)– under the rug– WAY UNDER THE RUG. They want to “move on.” Potentially this scandal should do in Hastert, Blunt, Boehner, Reynolds and at least Emanuel. But they’re trying to bury it.

four Republicans, one Democrat–sounds good to me

I wish Jan would let me talk freely about what went on in that district. Emanuel was as vicious to her as he was to anyone whose campaign he tried to derail. But she asked me not to publish the specifics. (I confronted Hoyer on the phone with his role in this and it was the only time during our conversation where he kind of lost it. He was key, along with Rahm, in a series of dirty tricks employed against Jan on behalf of Jennings.)

Howie – if you pop back into this thread (I missed a doozy while I was out on my bicycle), check your email! If you’ve got anything to add about Hoyer’s role in this, I’d like to post about it in HoyerBlog.

Howie Klein @ 127

HotFlash @ 122

Delay-ed voting on the Medicare prescription drug bill.

Rahm is out of the DCCC and we are feeling out the new top dog, Chris Van Hollen, about how he will behave in regard to the grassroots. I think we’ll have him as a guest on FDL soon. I’ve been exchanging e-mails with his office and Jane and I are hoping to sit down and talk with him face to face soon.

Good news! I wait with ‘bated breath.

I live in his district and have threatened to have him rooted out if he doesn’t speak out, and promptly. He definitely leans progressive, but he also takes money from the military-industrial companies. One of them is located in Bethesda in my district.

DC Peaches

I didn’t know this story…we have to stick together with slime like him to defeat the greater enemy on the Right.

No fucking way!!!!!!!!!

…after he withdrew from the race, he sent a note back to every single Blue America contributor– along with a check for the amount they had donated to his campaign.

I am somewhat confused… He obviously doesn’t have “Ned”-type money because he’s a school teacher-

So! Where did this money come from?

He did not spend every dollar he had received in campaign contributions trying to actually win the race?

OR-

The total of the donations from “Blue America” were so small that repaying them was essentially just another “petty cash” expenditure that didn’t have any larger impact on his overall campaign finances?