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Those patriots you mention are in good company.

It’s all so…annoying.

Jane, the linky in the third paragraph goes to Howie’s post on Fossella.

Fossella appears to have more than the usual number of problems, even for a GOoPer.

Damn but Phil Donahue is a lucky so ‘n’ so.

Married to Marlo Thomas AND he gets to hang out with Ms Hamsher, Ms Flanders, and Ms Vanden Heuvel.

I always love KVH on those screaming head shows. I don’t know how she does it.

WHAT A DYNAMIC truly fabulous team…you all rock the world
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McCain worst record on ENERGY VOTING wow,suggamomma express

Wall Street Journal completely omits McCain voting record

“Sen. McCain’s support of regulating global-warming gases like carbon dioxide — the biggest environmental issue before Congress — more closely resembles the stance of his Democratic rivals, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton [than President Bush], though he disagrees with them on how such regulations should be structured,” writes Monday’s Wall Street Journal.

“Besides championing legislation to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions,” the Journal adds, “Sen. McCain has opposed the administration’s call to open parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, citing the refuge as a natural treasure on par with the Florida Everglades and the Grand Canyon in his home state of Arizona.”

The Journal paints McCain as a maverick among Republican rank and file on environmental issues, in an article that is best misleading. While McCain has championed legislation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in his speeches, he hasn’t voted for it. And while he’s opposed drilling in the Arctic, he also refused to support a ban on drilling in a 2005 defense appropriations bill.

The article also fails to mention that McCain ranks last among the 535 members of the current Congress in a rating by the League of Conservation Voters.

McCain has missed every major environmental vote this Congress, according to an analysis by the League. His League lifetime record is just 24 percent. This compares with 86 percent for Obama and 86 percent for Clinton. Obama and Clinton ranked 67 and 73 percent in the League’s most recent report.

“McCain was the only member of Congress to skip every single crucial environmental vote scored by the organization, posting a score lower than Members of Congress who were out for much of the year due to serious illnesses

. Now that Bob Barr is running for president, inquiring minds want to know…will Tim Russert give a highly publicized, “exclusive” campaign kick-off interview on MTP as he did for Ralph Nader? If not, why not?

we should call like we’re republicans or libertarians and be insensed if he does not

Since you all are so smart, maybe someone can tell me how it is ex-cocaine dealer Mark McKinnon, former Bush advisor and founder of Public Strategies in Austin, is still running McCain’s campaign? He has been exposed about this and I even found comments about it in Google, plus, Randy Galloway, brother of the late convicted cocaine dealer Greg, is still around and running a show up in Dallas. With all the cats still around who knew McKinnon well back then, how come no one has confronted him. McKinnon, btw, is also teaching spin politics at Harvard.

“maybe a hundred!”

. We also get “Change Republicans” in the House, who want to offer you “freedom of choice” for your healthcare plan. Which roughly translates as “freedom to get reamed by your eye, ear, nose and throat specialist,” but maybe nobody will notice.

we have to make it clear that single payer WILL be “freedom of choice, and whoever wants to opt out of the system for a “better” private plan will actually be paying less then if there were no single payer

Maybe Obama will pick Webb and McCain will pick Miss Lindsay Graham, and we can have some really rousing Veep debates with Lindsay clutching her shawl tightly around her shoulders and Russert having to revive her with smelling salts as Webb pounds her into the ground.

I cannot decide which Senate race is my favorite for “biggest sleeper:” North Carolina or Texas. Both incumbents so richly deserve defeat. Since I actually met Rick Noriega, I guess I’ll pick him as “most surprising underdog.” Just think how a Cornyn defeat will improve the average IQ of the world’s greatest deliberative body!

But seeing Liddy lose will also be very sweet.

Good for you Jane, you are starting to talk with the folks that really matter, like yourself!

1,840 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Pardon me for not joinin’ the gleeful stoning of another fascist hippocrate but why should I be interested in the trials and tribulations of another wing-nut shill unless it’s gunna bring me and my family national single-payer health care, RICO prosecutions against Bush, Cheney and Blackwater and war crimes trials at the Hague?

The extent of the corruption of our society and our politics has made it impossible ta stay focused on what is really important…like frogmarchin’ Rove, Cheney, Bush and a cast of thousands before federal magistrates. Now THAT is some theater that would make a difference!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, FIRST WE SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ‘EM THEN WE VOTE ‘EM INTO OFFICE AND THEN WE TEACH ‘EM HOW TA SHOOT!!

Laura Flanders has published a handy dandy new post that purports to be a Sneak Preview of Grit TV-Delegates! from AgitProp! I have a feeling this is another one of those “learning curve” thingies that we go thru from time to time when new posters are learning how to time their posts!

In fairness, Bill Richardson recanted pretty quickly once told of his error on White:

But Richardson recalled a blunder that earned him criticism — naming Byron “Whizzer” White as his model Supreme Court justice.

He said he named White because the justice was nominated by John F. Kennedy, whom the governor said was his idol.

“Then I found out that Whizzer White was against Roe vs. Wade,” he said referring to the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. “And he was against civil rights.

“That wasn’t a good one,” Richardson deadpanned. This won him laughter and applause.

It’s also telling who he chose when asked by Brian Williams to choose a living justice:

MODERATOR BRIAN WILLIAMS: We’d like to ask the same question of all of you, down the line, in order, and it calls for you to say a name or to pass. And Governor Richardson, we’re going to start with you. The question is, your model Supreme Court justice.

GOV. RICHARDSON: It would be Justice Whizzer White.

MR. WILLIAMS: How about someone who is among the living? (Laughter.)

GOV. RICHARDSON: It would be — and in this particular case, Judge Ginsburg, who said that this was an erosion of a woman’s right to choose and degraded the ability of a woman to protect herself health-wise.

What an awesome team you all make! It’s about time Air America Radio smartened up. ;-)

Does this mean we get to watch Laura as she drinks glass(es) of wine and ponders eating egg salad sandwiches?

Cause, I really thought that was SUCH cutting-edge stuff, that Vlogging….

. Bill Richardson for VP? Great way to bring women back into the fold. Just say “Whizzer White” three times, click your heels and maybe you’ll be back in Kansas, too.

Not to mention Bill’s pro baseball career that may have been interrupted by sniper fire.

Bill Richardson for VP? Great way to bring women back into the fold.

How about these VPs:

1) Sebelius
2) Jane
3) Marcy
4) Redd
5) Digby
6) Napolitano
7) Katherine Harris

Too many bridges burned for HRC in my humble opinion. And too much of a lightning rod to get the Republican vote out.

The one thing to say for Hillary is that she’s completely transcended gender. I don’t think anyone is against her because she’s female and only a small vocal minority of her supporters support her for that reason. In fact, I’d say her vaunted “hard-working white” base is for her in spite of her being female.