The American Empire Is Collapsing, And Americans Will Be The Last to Know | | AlterNet

The American Empire Is Collapsing, And Americans Will Be The Last to Know | | AlterNet

Supreme Court handling of Wal-Mart appeal will have wider implications - latimes.com

Supreme Court handling of Wal-Mart appeal will have wider implications - latimes.com

Republicans Are Stomping On Us

Republicans Are Stomping On Us

Mid-Term Election Eve

Your blogger voted for:

John Hickenlooper (D) for Colorado Governor.
Can't believe recent polls show wing-nut Tom Tancredo (American Constitution Party) trailing Hick by only a few percentage points.

GOP candidate Dan Maes is struggling to poll at least 10%. His last campaign finance filing showed a reimbursement to himself of over $70,000 out of $200,000 in contributions. Said his campaign has no credit cards, and sometimes he finds himself without his wallet, so he pays campaign expenses himself and then files for reimbursement from the campaign later. Made me wonder, "if he doesn't have his wallet (or, presumably, his checkbook), how does he pay for anything? Does he have wads of cash in his pocket?

Dan Maes (R-Evergreen), a perfect add to the short list for Sarah Palin's 2012 running mate.

Bob Kinsey (Green Party) for U.S. Senator.
Michael Bennet (appointed Democratic incumbent) lost my vote when he [finally] admitted in a recent debate that he does not support the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which has been going nowhere in the current Congress, because, God forbid, Senators like Mr. Bennett would stand up for the working men and women for our country. Wouldn't want to upset the "tan man', John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Recent polls show Bennett in a virtual tie with his Repugnant challenger, Ken Buck, who shilled for our votes by saying "Vote for me, I don't wear high heels, and I have Weld County bullshit on my boots". Whatever, dude, you're a nut, just like all the rest.

Voted for all the other Dems on my ballot. Voted against all the Referendum initiatives, with the exception of the one allowing for the temporary relocation of the state government away from Denver in the event of a national emergency. I'm thinking this would be, such as, if Tancredo is elected Governor. We should move the Capitol to Boulder and dare Tom to show up for the inauguration.

Dollar Stores Reap 'Super-Profits' By Exploiting Their Own Workers | | AlterNet

Dollar Stores Reap 'Super-Profits' By Exploiting Their Own Workers | | AlterNet

Sowers for Congress: Boots on the Ground

Your blogger is supporting Tommy Sowers' run for Congress.

From Tommy Sowers' Facebook page:
"I am a 4th generation Missouri native, a former Green Beret/U.S. Army Special Forces officer, an educator and a life-long public servant. I'm fighting for my home, to represent my fellow 8th District residents in the US House."

David Michael Green: Time to Write Off the Obama Presidency?

An excerpt from "The Regressive Antidote":
Perhaps a better explanation for the failure of Obama and his ilk to fight hard for the country’s welfare and for progressive values is that he is no progressive at all. I’ve been arguing that for a long time, and he is certainly helping to reaffirm that notion right now by appealing a federal court decision ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, a policy which he claims to oppose. But, in fact, the Obama ideology ship sailed a long time ago. He previously also went to court defending the Defense of Marriage Act. He bailed out Wall Street a hundred pennies on the dollar, and demanded nothing of them in return. He has tripled the US presence in Afghanistan, and is bombing the snot out of Pakistan. He has not closed Guantánamo, and has an even worse record on civil liberties than Bush and Cheney did. His health care bill is a total gift to insurance corporations, and now we’ve just learned from Tom Daschle that the president had never considered the public option at all, having cut a deal with those corporations in advance promising that there would be no such component in the legislation. And so on, and so on. Stupid voters make the erroneous assumption that politicians like Bill Clinton are liberal because they are Democrats, and because the right and the media keep telling them that these guys are liberals. Most of the country has now done the same for Obama, but of course the opposite is true. So maybe the explanation for his failed presidency is simply that he has adopted the same regressive policies that have been killing the country for three decades now.

Link to today's New York Times Magazine interview:
by Peter Baker
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17obama-t.html

Lou Dobbs Hired At Least 5 Undocumented Immigrants To Work At His Estates « SpeakEasy

Lou Dobbs Hired At Least 5 Undocumented Immigrants To Work At His Estates « SpeakEasy

Michael Moore Blames Iraq War on Liberals and The New York Times | | AlterNet

Michael Moore Blames Iraq War on Liberals and The New York Times | | AlterNet

GOP Nominee Christine O’Donnell: “God Created the Earth in Six Days” « SpeakEasy

GOP Nominee Christine O’Donnell: “God Created the Earth in Six Days” « SpeakEasy

Alan Grayson -- What Are the Core Values of a Liberal? | | AlterNet

Alan Grayson -- What Are the Core Values of a Liberal? | | AlterNet

Right-Wing Arizona Gov Jan Brewer Totally Screws Up 1st Debate, Flees Reporters « SpeakEasy

Right-Wing Arizona Gov Jan Brewer Totally Screws Up 1st Debate, Flees Reporters « SpeakEasy

She appears to have been coached by the former half-Governor of Alask Sarah Palin

President Obama: Wake up and smell the coffee!

from The New York Times
Click on the title, above, to link to the full text of today's column.

Opinion
It’s Witch-Hunt Season
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 29, 2010
In a repeat from the 1990s, the Republicans appear bent on ugliness and paralysis.

Christian Right Bigots Are Hiding the Truth -- Early Christians Condoned Gay Marriage | | AlterNet

Christian Right Bigots Are Hiding the Truth -- Early Christians Condoned Gay Marriage | | AlterNet
An icon from St. Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai illustrates this point. It shows two robed Christian saints getting married. Their pronubus (official witness, or “best man”) is none other than Jesus Christ.

It is a standard Roman portrayal of a wedding. The difference: the two saints are both male, Fourth Century Christian martyrs, Saint Serge and Saint Bacchus, close friends in the Roman army who were purportedly singled out for their secret adherence to Christianity before being tortured and killed.

The Regressive Antidote: David Michael Green on Politics

An Excerpt:
originally posted August 28, 2010: "Our Bloody Valentine"

"But the governing class has gotten really good at how to get the public out of the decision-making loop, overcoming the infuriating inconvenience of the few shreds of democracy remaining in the system, in order to continue feeding the military-industrial complex all the blood and bodies it requires for its sustenance. The Masters of War (as Bob Dylan aptly called them) got twenty years of good mileage out of Vietnam, and then only had to wait less than a decade for Reagan to come in and re-open the floodgates of spending. Nevertheless, I’m sure they were quite spooked that the public finally found a way to shut down the war and deny them their booty. So they figured out that – by killing the draft and saddling an all-volunteer military with outrageous burdens, by completely coopting the media, by giving the public tax cuts instead of traditional wartime tax increases, by banning Dover Air Force Base photos of the war dead, and by scaring the living shit out of the Democrats in Congress – they could still have their wars and more or less no one would notice. Which is pretty much how it has gone down. The vast majority of Americans are as insulated from America’s wars as they are from the ones in Central Africa. Iraq might as well be Upper Volta for all it impacts the daily lives of most Americans."

Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs « SpeakEasy

Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs « SpeakEasy

I love this! Fuck the Government!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-23/the-orwell-project-hasan-elahis-anti-terrorism-art/

One Muslim artist decided responded to his mistaken FBI investigation by creating an online record of his every move, meal, and travel. An excerpt from Amitava Kumar’s book on global reactions to the US war on terror.

If you don’t want to be sent in shackles to be interrogated in a shed in Guantánamo, you can photograph every meal you eat and every urinal you use and upload it immediately on your website. A GPS-based device on your phone can broadcast on the site your exact location at any given time of day or night. You can make public your phone records as well as every purchase you make on your debit card. You can adopt this form of self-surveillance as a strategy not so much because you know that the government monitors your movements, but because it gets things wrong. That is why it is the government. You can monitor yourself much more accurately.

America Has Disgraced Itself

America Has Disgraced Itself

Hey Fox Fans, Your Favorite Network Is Part-Owned By a Saudi Prince Whose Family Rules By Sharia Law « SpeakEasy

Hey Fox Fans, Your Favorite Network Is Part-Owned By a Saudi Prince Whose Family Rules By Sharia Law « SpeakEasy

Troops surprising loved ones.

Pat Tillman's mother on Stanley McChrystal: I told you so - latimes.com

Pat Tillman's mother on Stanley McChrystal: I told you so - latimes.com

Social Security: The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall - latimes.com

Social Security: The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall - latimes.com

WikiLeaks Bombshell Docs Paint Afghan War as Utter Disaster -- Will We Finally Stop Throwing Money and Lives at This Catastrophe? | | AlterNet

WikiLeaks Bombshell Docs Paint Afghan War as Utter Disaster -- Will We Finally Stop Throwing Money and Lives at This Catastrophe? | | AlterNet

America's Tragic Descent into Empire | | AlterNet

America's Tragic Descent into Empire | | AlterNet

District Court Rules Fed Ban on Gay Marriage Unconstitutional « SpeakEasy

District Court Rules Fed Ban on Gay Marriage Unconstitutional « SpeakEasy

Sen. Mark Udall's Position on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

July 8, 2010


Dear Keith,

Thank you for contacting me regarding efforts to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), the law that bars openly gay men and women from serving in the U.S. armed forces. I appreciate hearing your views on this important topic.

Repealing DADT is priority for me, and that is why I am an original cosponsor of the bill to do away with this misguided law (S.3065). This is both a matter of national security and of honor and integrity, since the law actually requires service members to lie about who they are. As we engage in two global conflicts, it is important that we recruit and retain the highest quality soldiers.

To those who argue that the current law is "working," I need only point out that since the law's implementation, the armed forces have discharged over 12,000 qualified combat troops, code-breakers, medical and intelligence specialists and skilled translators simply for being gay. We cannot afford to discharge highly skilled soldiers on the basis of their sexual orientation. That is why I am proud to have voted for an amendment in the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 that would repeal DADT.

You may be interested in knowing what other action I have taken to lead on this important effort. On July 15, 2009, I gave a speech on the Senate floor in which I highlighted the need to repeal DADT. To view this segment of the speech, please visit the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDhR_g7JV0&feature=player_embedded.

On October 15, 2009, I also sent a letter to President Obama applauding his intention and commitment to repeal DADT. I assured the president that I will continue to be vocal on this issue and urged him to request that Department of Defense Secretary Roberts Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen send their proposals on the timing of DADT's repeal and an action plan for repeal implementation. To see the full text of the letter, please visit this link: http://markudall.senate.gov/?p=blog&id=286.

On February 2, 2010, the Senate Armed Services Committee, of which I am a member, heard testimony from Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen on the Administration's plan to repeal DADT. At this hearing, Admiral Mullen expressed his personal support for ending DADT, calling it a matter of "integrity." This testimony was part of the first Senate hearing on DADT since the law was passed in 1993. To view my questions to Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, please visit this link: http://markudall.senate.gov/?p=blog&id=411.

I believe the discriminatory DADT law undermines the strength and effectiveness of our military. I plan to work with my colleagues and with the Administration to see that we accomplish in a timely manner the full repeal of DADT. As the National Defense Authorization Act comes to the full Senate for a vote, I will remember your thoughts and will work hard to retain this provision in the bill.

I will continue to listen closely to what you and other Coloradans have to say about matters before Congress, the concerns of our communities, and the issues facing Colorado and the nation. My job is not about merely supporting or opposing legislation; it is also about bridging the divide that has paralyzed our nation's politics. For more information about my positions and to learn how my office can assist you, please visit my website at www.markudall.senate.gov.


Warm regards,

Signature

Mark Udall
U.S. Senator, Colorado

Destroying Afghanistan in Order to Save It « SpeakEasy

Destroying Afghanistan in Order to Save It « SpeakEasy

Maureen Dowd: "McChrystal Still Has the Blood of Pat Tillman on his Hands"

Opinion, New York Times
Seven Days in June
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 22, 2010
So much for polishing a general’s image with a pretty profile in Rolling Stone

Jon Stewart on Gen. McChrystal's Giant Balls

A Funny as Hell clip from Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show"

The BP Party: GOP Stands Behind Congressman Who Apologized to BP « SpeakEasy

The BP Party: GOP Stands Behind Congressman Who Apologized to BP « SpeakEasy

American Businesses Kill 14 Workers Every Day as the Corporate Media Yawn | | AlterNet

American Businesses Kill 14 Workers Every Day as the Corporate Media Yawn | | AlterNet

Boycott McDonald's!

Apparently McDonald's is eager to market itself to gay consumers in France, but their Chief Operating Officer in the U.S., Don Thomson, claims his "Christianity", and the "cultural norms" in the U.S. would prevent him from airing the same commercial here.

Here's the commercial:

Huge Spike in Afghan Violence - The Daily Beast

Huge Spike in Afghan Violence - The Daily Beast

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) : Worst Person in the World!

10 Things That Terrify Right-Wingers | | AlterNet

10 Things That Terrify Right-Wingers | | AlterNet

Pvt. Mike Mansfield: Just One Marine in Arlington Cemetery

Pvt. Mike Mansfield: Just One Marine in Arlington Cemetery

Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the "War Is Making You Poor" Act | | AlterNet

Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the "War Is Making You Poor" Act | | AlterNet

From Rep. Grayson's speech on the House floor introducing his bill:

"And I think most people would be surprised to learn that that is so much money that we've been spending in the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq that every single taxpayer in America would be able to get his first, her first, $35,000 of income completely tax-free. You won't see dollar one of tax, until you make more than that. And in fact, almost a third of Americans don't make more than that, so they will simply be excused from the federal income tax system, and all we need to do is to stop separately funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane | | AlterNet

How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane | | AlterNet

Afghanistan, Where A Thousand Corpses Lie « SpeakEasy

Afghanistan, Where A Thousand Corpses Lie « SpeakEasy

toledoblade.com -- The Blade ~ Toledo Ohio

toledoblade.com -- The Blade ~ Toledo Ohio

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Wal-Mart to Pay for Toxic Dumping, but Who Pays for Wal-Mart? « Bodhi Thunder

Wal-Mart to Pay for Toxic Dumping, but Who Pays for Wal-Mart? « Bodhi Thunder

Karzai Threatens to Join the Taliban, as U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan Hits a New Low | | AlterNet

Originally published April 5, 2010, but well worth reading again:

Karzai Threatens to Join the Taliban, as U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan Hits a New Low | | AlterNet

McConnell Tries To Dodge Repeated Questions About His Wall Street Fundraising « SpeakEasy

Mitch McConnell: Wall Street's Bitch in the U.S. Senate:

McConnell Tries To Dodge Repeated Questions About His Wall Street Fundraising « SpeakEasy

We Want a President Who Won't Coddle Capitalism | | AlterNet

As Americans, we buy a lot of crap, but we’ve finally stopped buying this lie. What’s good for big business is not good for America.

We Want a President Who Won't Coddle Capitalism | | AlterNet

In Interview with Rosie O’Donnell, Huckabee Says Adoption by Gay Parents Is Not ‘Ideal’ « SpeakEasy

Last week, an Arkansas Circuit Court struck down a state law that banned unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children. The Court found that Huckabee’s “ideal” view was unconstitutional. “Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Chris Piazza said in a two-page ruling Friday that people in ‘non-marital relationships’ are forced to choose between becoming a parent and sustaining that relationship. ‘Due process and equal protection are not hollow words without substance,’ Piazza said. ‘They are rights enumerated in our constitution that must not be construed in such a way as to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.’”

In Interview with Rosie O’Donnell, Huckabee Says Adoption by Gay Parents Is Not ‘Ideal’ « SpeakEasy

Troubled Soldier Speaks Out about the 2007 Apache Attack Slaughter of Iraqi Innocents « Bodhi Thunder

Troubled Soldier Speaks Out about the 2007 Apache Attack Slaughter of Iraqi Innocents « Bodhi Thunder

Outrageous: Ohio Republicans Tell Female Representative to Get “Back in the Kitchen” « SpeakEasy

For the record, Betty Sutton is an accomplished lawmaker and respected attorney — and does not have a background as a professional chef. In other words, there’s nothing about the congresswoman’s background that makes “back in the kitchen” appropriate. The Republicans’ rhetoric seems predicated entirely on gender.

Outrageous: Ohio Republicans Tell Female Representative to Get “Back in the Kitchen” « SpeakEasy

An Open Letter to the Iraqi People, From Soldiers in the Unit Depicted in the WikiLeaks Video | | AlterNet

An Open Letter to the Iraqi People, From Soldiers in the Unit Depicted in the WikiLeaks Video | | AlterNet

How the Sleazy Used-Car Salesmen at Goldman Sachs Tricked Investors into Buying Their Busted Clunkers | | AlterNet

How the Sleazy Used-Car Salesmen at Goldman Sachs Tricked Investors into Buying Their Busted Clunkers | | AlterNet

Facing the Threat from the Far Right, Noam Chomsky Says He 'Has Never Seen Anything Like This' | | AlterNet

Facing the Threat from the Far Right, Noam Chomsky Says He 'Has Never Seen Anything Like This' | | AlterNet

Beck: Make Texas a Concentration Camp for Wingnuts « SpeakEasy

Beck: Make Texas a Concentration Camp for Wingnuts « SpeakEasy

Death and Surrender in Afghanistan « JacobFreeze

Death and Surrender in Afghanistan « JacobFreeze

Junior Florida Republican Party staffer had $1.3 million charged to party credit card - St. Petersburg Times

Junior Florida Republican Party staffer had $1.3 million charged to party credit card - St. Petersburg Times

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3 Key Toxic Ingredients Revealed for GOP Victory Plan: And It Could Work « SpeakEasy

3 Key Toxic Ingredients Revealed for GOP Victory Plan: And It Could Work « SpeakEasy

The Five Creepiest Moments of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference | News & Politics | AlterNet

The Five Creepiest Moments of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference | News & Politics | AlterNet

The Republicans Are Like Frat Boys in 'Animal House' | News & Politics | AlterNet

The Republicans Are Like Frat Boys in 'Animal House' | News & Politics | AlterNet

Moyers: Obama's Bad Gamble on Afghanistan -- 100,000 Soldiers Used as Chips for a Bet the US Can't Win | | AlterNet

Moyers: Obama's Bad Gamble on Afghanistan -- 100,000 Soldiers Used as Chips for a Bet the US Can't Win | | AlterNet

The GM Truck That Has Been Burning People Alive for 20 Years | | AlterNet

The GM Truck That Has Been Burning People Alive for 20 Years | | AlterNet

A record of corporate murder and recklessness that would make even Don Blankenship and Massey Energy blush...

CEO of Mine Where 25 Workers Were Killed Is a Teabagger « SpeakEasy

Wanted: 25 Counts of Reckless Homicide
(someone will have to make a Citizen's Arrest, though, he's got every Sheriff and Judge in West Virginia bought off; paid-for; and wearin' the white robes, burnin' crosses in the middle of the night, etc.)

CEO of Mine Where 25 Workers Were Killed Is a Teabagger « SpeakEasy

He calls Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid "green-iacs".

You, Don Blankenship, are a spine-less, cowardly, murderer, with the blood of 25 (perhaps 29?) Coal Miners on your hands.

Shame on you!

You'll be glad to know, though, that killer Don is a member of "Friends of America":

The Friends of America Rally featured such notables as Sean Hannity, Ted Nugent, and Hank Williams, Jr., and was graced by Blankenship himself going off on a diatribe that seemed strange at the time, but has come to be commonplace these days. It concerned President Obama, Democrats, and any one who doesn’t salute God, coal, and apple pie. Oh, and we’re also going to ’steal their jobs,’ if Hannity is to be believed.

Blankenship and Massey Energy spend millions to defend unsafe workplaces.

Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation | | AlterNet

Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation | | AlterNet

Hannity’s Hoaxes: The Uncharitable Scamming of the Gullible « Bodhi Thunder

Hannity’s Hoaxes: The Uncharitable Scamming of the Gullible « Bodhi Thunder

By Grant Lawrence

For the last several years, Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance “charity” have conducted “Freedom Concerts” across America. They’ve told you that they are raising money to pay for the college tuition of the children of fallen soldiers and to pay severely wounded war vets…..

….In fact, less than 20%–and in two recent years, less than 7% and 4%, respectively–of the money raised by Freedom Alliance went to these causes, while millions of dollars went to expenses, including consultants and apparently to ferry the Hannity posse of family and friends in high style. And, despite Hannity’s statements to the contrary on his nationally syndicated radio show, few of the children of fallen soldiers got more than $1,000-$2,000, with apparently none getting more than $6,000, while Freedom Alliance appears to have spent tens of thousands of dollars for private planes. Moreover, despite written assurances to donors that all money raised would go directly to scholarships for kids of the fallen heroes and not to expenses, has begun charging expenses of nearly $500,000 to give out just over $800,000 in scholarships…..Source: debbie Schlussel.com

24 Hours -- 16 Senators have Signed Public Option Letter via Reconciliation!

Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission

Click on the heading, above, to link to the full text of the SCOTUS opinion.

From today's Huffinton Post.com:

Jason Linkins: The Supreme Court's Citizen United Decision Is Terrifying

As you may have heard, in a 5-4 decision, the SCOTUS essentially went at the teeth of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform with hammer and tongs.

Key excerpts from Justice Stevens' excellent dissenting opinion:

The Court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation. The path it has taken to reach its outcome will, I fear, do damage to this institution.

Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law.

The Court operates with a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel when it strikes down one of Congress’ most significant efforts to regulate the role that corporations and unions play in electoral politics. It compounds the offense by implicitly striking down a great many state laws as well...

It is all the more distressing that our colleagues have manufactured a facial challenge, because the parties have advanced numerous ways to resolve the case that would facilitate electioneering by nonprofit advocacy corporations such as Citizens United, without toppling statutes and precedents. Which is to say, the majority has transgressed yet another “cardinal” principle of the judicial process: “[I]f it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more,”...

Stare decisis protects not only personal rights involving property or contract but also the ability of the elected branches to shape their laws in an effective and coherent fashion. Today’s decision takes away a power that we have long permitted these branches to exercise.State legislatures have relied on their authority to regulate corporate electioneering, confirmed in Austin, for more than a century.20 The Federal Congress has relied on this authority for a comparable stretch of time, and it specifically relied on Austin throughout the years it spent developing and debating BCRA. The total record it compiled was 100,000 pages long.21 Pulling out the rug beneath Congress after affirming the constitutionality of §203 six years ago shows great disrespect for a coequal branch...

The only relevant thing that has changed since Austin and McConnell is the composition of this Court.

David Michael Green on Politics -- Check out this Blog!

From the website, "The Regressive Antidote" by David Michael Green:
January 22, 2010

An excerpt from today's article:

There’s only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists.

It’s the same party that has allowed the opposition to go on a thirty year scorched earth campaign, stealing everything in sight from middle and working class voters, and yet successfully claim to be protecting ‘real Americans’ from out-of-touch elites.

It’s the same party that could run a decorated combat hero against a war evader in 1972, only to be successfully labeled as national security wimps.

Just to be sure, it then did the exact same thing again in 2004.

It’s the same party that stood by silently while two presidential elections in a row were stolen away from them.

How ‘bout dem Dems, eh?

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Gun battles rage in Afghan capital

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Gun battles rage in Afghan capital

If Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat is lost to the GOP

Who would have guessed the irony in the prospect of Massachusetts voters electing a former Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold GOP'er to the Senate seat vacated when Sen. Ted Kennedy died, and in doing so, would result in the wingnuts' ability to filibuster the Health Care Reform bill? Not this blogger...

We'll be anxiously watching Tuesday night to see if Martha Coakley can defeat Scott Brown to be the next Senator from Mass.