Nancy Skinner, who only lost to Joe 51-47 last time, is running against Knollenberg again — she just announced her candidacy officially today — and we will have a primary. The guy behind the camera is a strong supporter of her primary competition, Gary Peters, and, frankly, I’m not so sure I’d want a loose cannon like him on my side.

K

Re: video:

Just how does one combat that kind of Repug anger and hatred and bile?

You don’t. You just show it to the public and let them deal with it in a Democratic way.

Be civil, be kind, but rely on the Truth as your shield and sword.

Geez…just watched the video…Where does he get this idea that if you are for children and against the war; you hate America, love Iran and want Iran to “win”, and even weirder, love Toyota and hate GM.

His threatening posturing is really disturbing. He is clearly a very unhappy, off balance character.
His anger appears to have chemically poisoned his mind it seems.

Hey, that’s just the kind of guys Gingrich was recruiting back in the ’90s to create a solid wall of support for whatever wing-nuttery he and the Bushies would come up with.

They need to be revealed, not as moderates, but as nuts. Then we can replace them, even in red states, with Dems of some kind.

Those sick fucks withhold money meant to save a kid so they can kill a troop and an Iraqi with it.

You could barely SCRIPT something more perverted than that.

That’s not quite right. The money for Iraq is borrowed. We don’t actually have any free money laying around for health care, either SCHIP or a universal system.

Hopefully we’ll have a system in the near future which distributes costs and keeps them down, so it will mostly pay for itself. But, SCHIP isn’t that kind of system.

The strange thing about SCHIP is that it might be moot pretty soon after the next Dem president takes office. If a universal system goes in within the first year or two, then SCHIP will be subsumed (one would suppose).

Still, the idea of shrinking foreign base numbers and saving DoD monies for other more productive purposes is very appealing if it can be done without much furor.

Were I to detect the deliberate overbilling you describe having conducted in your small business, my first obligation is to notify Federal law enforcement.

This reality helps shield public assets from those who regard the Federal Treasury as a private piggy bank for their small (or large) businesses.

My quite non-theoretical experience has taught me that reporting overbilling is not merely an ethical obligation, but a downright pleasure.

Thanks for sharing your opinions.

eRobin @ 99

Wow. That was upsetting. Truly frightening and very very sad.

I finished my post about an SCHIP compromise and why it’s unacceptable. It’s here. Since the veto has a good chance of being sustained, it’s important that when we call our Congresspeople, we tell them NO COMPROMISE.

eRobin,

I read your blog, why are you comparing the Republicans/GOP to terrorists? You make the argument that the pubs are holding children hostage…are you out of your mind?? That would be political suicide if it was true. Trust me, the GOP is in reverse right now trying to win back their base…they are not going to pass anything that is overly inflated and inefficient, nor are they going to do anything stupid and go against the ‘will of the children’.

On a side note, has anyone noticed the more money we throw at issues relating to children, the more screwed up our children are becoming? I think parents (both of them, not just the single mother) need to take a little more responsibility for the welfare of their children. It doesn’t take a village, it takes a couple responsible parents.

OK, I’ll bite…

Many people think the S-CHIP bill is necessary, myself included.

Some Republican Congresspeople who are inclined to sustain Bush’s veto, for whatever reason, are willing to vote against the veto if they get what they want, which is this damaging overhaul of the FISA bill and no accountability from this Administration OR the telcos.

Now, in the abstract, one can shrug and say “Eh, it’s just politics.” But in a very real sense, the ability for children to get insurance hinges on whether or not this government gets greater ability (and less accountability) to spy on anyone who might be considered to be engaged in terrorist activities or suspected of such. No need to prove why someone is suspected. Let us spy on anyone the Bushies want to spy on, or no insurance for kids.

In that sense, one could make the argument that some that the welfare of these children is being held for ransom, and with some literary hyperbole, the Repubs are using fear tactics to get what they want, which is what terrorists do.

The Frosts are the parent of the 12 year old boy that spoke up in support of SCHIP a couple of weeks ago. The parents that many of the folks on the right have taken great pleasure in trashing because they had the audacity to question the president and try to live a life that would seemingly be the poster family for following the rules, keeping the family together.