I guess this is where the experts like Murtha know their stuff better.

I was thinking about the new RNC attack ad, Dean and how Murtha blew this debate open and gave the Dems an opening that they, till now, have failed to exploit. Incidentally, Murtha's interview gave me an idea.

Is that how GWB will go down in history?

Are Americans going to forget all the bad things of his Presidency...well, that'd be essentially, his entire term and retain some romantic notions of the Iraq war?

Not if I have to say something about it!

Well, I'm not so sure of religous intolerance but I sure see a lot of intellectual intolerance. People who give you a 0 or a 1 without clarifying or debating you on the merits/demerits of  what you've just posted.

The husband makes $68,000/yr.
He works 90 hours/week to support his family.
He skips lunch to save money.
The wife is asked to beg for charity at churches.
They turn to doctor samples when insurance refuses antibiotic costs.

They end up filing for bankruptcy.

The man, obviously feels like a failure. I would too.

I am not too eloquent and I don't like to be too wordy but what should he have done? Put his child to sleep? Let him die? Is that our Culture of Life? Is this the Culture of Personal Responsibility that opponents of universal healthcare propose?

I was reading a diary last night, a great diary detailing how Ohio is far from a swing state. One poster said how he tries to get folks, people who are being crushed by increased costs and don't like what's happening in the political world but finds them demoralized and "tired". The tiredness here is both physical and mental. When there is the sword of a layoff hanging over your head, or the risk of losing health insurance coverage or just working 2 jobs to make ends meet, who cares about what Republicans are doing to pass the Energy bill in the House? It is a challenge to just get through the daily grind and there is little thought for anything else.

Why do I ask this?

Right now, on Hardball, he is ranting about how "We have created this mess in Iraq.."

"We have made it a terrorist haven...."

"WE"

Who the hell is this "WE"?

Why is he, even after Nov 2004 and more importantly, Paul Hackett, unable to reword his statment to say "Bush and armchair Republicans have screwed this war up"?

Was this man going to win the Presidential election battle for us when he can't frame the message even in August 2005?

The Big Guy was flopping all over the place in his "indpendent stanced" support of Bush:

OR: "Bush was responding to 9/11
Mrs. K: "Iraq didn't do 9/11"

OR: "Your son died for a nobel cause"
Mrs. K: "He was called to serve and I don't believe in that cause"

OR: "Do you support Michael Moore or Bush?"
Mrs. K: "MM, even if he lied, didn't kill 100,000s of people, our soldiers included"

OR: "Saddam didn't do 9/11 but he attacked Kuwait and there was a treaty"
Mrs.K: "They should have taken care of him back in 1991 when he was doing the scorched earth policy".

Man, this must have been a HUGE dose of reality for the kool-aid fed FNC viewers.

I hope the good folks at CrooksAndLiars have captured video of this.

Mrs Kesterson: I am sorry that your son had to die in my name. I am truly sorry.

We know Americans are dead against foreigners sneaking across the border and we know the Bush Administration is beholden to it's business sponsors.

This is a perfect opportunity to exploit the detachment that the GOP leadership has from the masses.

And it is also an excellent opportunity to highlight the hypocrisy of the Right by showing how they are big on bluster but MIA when it is time for action.

Anyway, I caught this picture of Dean on yahoo news and he didn't look any bit un-Presidential to me. Isn't that what we all condemned him as after the "Dean Scream"? The Pundits went on the news cycle to portray Dean as some guy detached from mainstream and we believed them. We liberals, who ought to have known better than to trust the mainstream media

I am not a person for much words and I'll end here but I personally seek redemption in making Dean's second campaign, the campaign to uplift the Democratic Party from it's spineless rut.

I encourage you to do the same.

Really?

Is power measured in terms of how bloated our defense spending is or how many countries we can occupy at one time?

Or is it measured in terms of the lifestyle the citizenry enjoys and their quality of life?

If it's the latter, I fear we aren't doing too well: read the  story detailing how 56 million people are likely to be uninsured by 2013.

Is this what our country has come to that our fellow citizens beg for medical supplies?

Cancer survivors have to skip checkups?

I guess under the "Culture of Life" they are expendable, huh?

One conservative pointed me to this link:

 Link.

I won't make you read much more and get to the crux of it:

Republican Senator wants Washington state split.

Please take the time to rub it into the face of every wingnut you torture yourself, trying to reason to: Democrats go to the extent or judicial challenges (whether the conservatives agree with that or not is a different story).

What do the Republicans do when they lose elections? They come up with ideas to put Tom DeLay to shame: they propose breakup of states like this Senator is proposing. A party of "uniters"? I don't think so.

I think it is important to point out Republicans as extremists who want to tear up the fabric on this country, who want to exploit political differences  at the cost of the very fabric of this nation.

Is this an unfair assesment? Well, judge from what the good Senator has to say:

So as long as it gets the Republicans another seat, they'll carve up this country.

After watching that, I decided to check out their site and saw this poll question:

[quote]TELL US TONIGHT

Did yesterday's election change your mind about the war?

Millions of Iraqis turned out Sunday to make history by taking part in the country's first free election in a half century with the grim reality of insurgent violence, these people put their lives on the line, to cast ballots. And they did it in record numbers, 60-percent turned out. That's the same number of Americans who cast ballots in the 2004 presidential race, and we only have to battle long lines at the polls. But democrats from Senator John Kerry to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid are saying Iraq's election was no big deal.

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My reply: