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All in All, I figure the next Governor of Tennessee will be crucial in shaping our state for decades to come. Whoever it will be, they will need superior leadership capabilities. The list of possibles just dropped a big name off the list...Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell is leaving Tennessee.
Major legislation from Obama and John Kerry has closed loopholes that allowed Dick Cheney's company to avoid paying Social Security to employees in Iraq.
Congressman Zach Wamp: I have more money than the disclosure forms indicate...but not much. Congressman Lincoln Davis: The forms are about right. Senator Alexander: After a life of public service to the people of Tennessee...I'm loaded. Senator Corker: I don't know. First I was really rich and then I was broke...I need more time to fill out the forms.
From the (thanks for the correction) Nashville City Paper:
Update: Beecher Frasier stands firm that he was misquoted:
So there's the fact that President Bush's first business partner was Osama bin Laden's big brother. Is that a terrorist connection?
Congressman Cohen has shown himself to be a very capable Representative who supports every goal of the EMILY's List folks except one. When the ultimate goal should be to elected the very best leaders regardless of race or gender, this action would seem to justify discrimination based on sex. Very disapponting...And harmful to long term goals of nondiscrimination and fairness.
There's too much in here to boil it down so go read it and form your own opinion. Another factoid I find interesting is that Hillary outraised McCain last reporting period, and Obama outraised Clinton by at least $9 Million, pickin up 200,000 new donors in the process. McCain raised just over half what Obama took in, which doesn't bode well for McCain in the General election.
There's this comment on that:
I guess we'll see if Corker bounced back. If so, how did he do that? On the Speaking tour with Clinton?
Other things that were interesting: Voters are more uncomfortable with an old person than they are with a Woman in the Presidency. (34% to 17%) Voters are slightly more uncomfortable with a woman than they are with a black person in the Presidency. (17% - 16%) Other projections show Tennessee going solidly for McCain, even in the best case scenario for the Democrats. We ARE the firewall state for the neo-cons.
That's Two dead women connected with this very Republican scandal, and Senator David Vitter is still in office.
"Ignore the Corporate Media spin, McCain is a weak candidate," Frank Rich in the NY Times
I'm a card carrying member of the ACLU...Have been for a long long time. Sometimes I am more proud of that fact than others. This is one of those times.
TN-SEN Apr 8 Rasmussen Alexander (R) 59%, Tuke (D) 30% Apr 8 Rasmussen Alexander (R) 58%, Padgett (D) 31%
My insiders reported back from a sit down with Brian Schweitzer,Democratic Governor of Montana. He's a Super Delegate. Governor Schweitzer announced to the small gathering that he was with a group of ten Super Delegates and he had gotten everyone to agree to vote with the majority of voters in Denver. They will respect the will of the People and support their Majority pick for Democratic Nominee for President of the United States. Schweitzer is wicked smart, a very successful Governor, and has a bottom line ethical baseline from which he makes his decisions. He's a future POTUS, if that's what he wants. Update: Lincoln Davis is a SuperDelegate. Wonder if he will follow this lead?
This is an issue near and dear to me. I spend a good bit of my efforts on water issues and this one could affect us all. Outdated mining laws amount to a give away of public lands and resources belonging to the American people. They go to huge mining corporations with no conscience or care for what they leave behind or the damage that is done as they rape and pillage Natural America.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who served under President Bush, said Friday he may not back the GOP presidential nominee in November, telling CNN that “I am keeping my options open at the moment.” “I have voted for members of both parties in the course of my adult life,” Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “And as I said earlier, I will vote for the candidate I think can do the best job for America, whether that candidate is a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent.”
Well surprise, surprise:
John McCain has been using John Mellencamp songs "Our Country" and "Pink House" at his campaign rallies. Mellencamp wants McCain to stop. I think they should let McCain keep using "Pink House":
Yeah, back in the day, when Elizabeth Edwards was kicking her some Ann Colter adam's apple. So which one of them is going to run against Liddy Dole? John...Or Elizabeth?
George W Bush's new Attorney General... the one who replaced the torture approving, stop investigating republicans, make stuff up about democratic officials and prosecute them, Alberto Gonzales...Robert Mukasey has a portrait of Eric Arthur Blair in his office. We know Eric better by his pen name, George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four Oh that's just great...I feel much better now.
It's about time, actually. If you claim to be a "Democratic" analyst, you shouldn't be, in fact, a "Clinton" analyst. Now if CNN would only ban "Republican" analysts.
Or...Why the French take their politics much more seriously. (NSFW, I'm told) Term for the day: "Conversational Viagra"
What is it with Democrats? They keep making these silly demands on their candidates that really make it hard to campaign for President. I'm talking about "Honesty", and you know...Republicans don't think honesty is a particularly worthwhile trait in a candidate. It's a real handicap. That's got to hurt.
...John Edwards calling for support of Chris Dodd's filibuster on retroactive immunity for telephone companies who spied on you. it was against the law, against the Constitution, and against the American people. Hillary? Obama? Will this election be about who will most fight for the American People, or about who will support Corporations breaking the law?
John Edwards, good at arithmetic:
Can you say, "Brokered Convention" Boys and Girls?
- Argus Hamilton
So we're in a nasty recession and the President's plan to fix things centers on the Conservative answer for everything: Tax Cuts for the Rich. America faces an economic disaster funded by those very tax cuts for the Rich that Bush says have done such a great job for America's economy that they need to be made permanent.
A certain Clemson junior whom I keep close tabs on...OK, "Pay" the tabs on, called in a report from a Preacher Huckabee rally in South Carolina today. I was a bit shocked that he went to a Huckabee rally, since he was President of the Young Democrats Club in high school, but he said, "Dad! Chuck Norris was there." |
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