Call It A Comeback
Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States of America…
“I think — tide turning — see, as I remember — I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of — it’s easy to see a tide turn — did I say those words?”
Yep. His finger’s on the button.
I tend to pay close attention to the national political scene and would spare the readers here my take, but since the Connecticut Dem primary race is very Netroots centric, I’m going to broach the subject here.
There is a lot of hyper analysis over Senator Chuck Schumer’s statement that the DSCC would support an independent bid by Senator Lieberman. Markos was pissed and he generally reflects the sentiment of much of the progressive blogosphere, but the hand wringing continues with Jim Dean entering the fray recently.
With so many keys being stroked (instead of ink being spilt) over this, I have to wonder if people are missing an obvious factor.
Joe Lieberman is a Jewish Senator from Connecticut. I would think he has some big donors in either NY or Connecticut that are close to him and have expressed to Chuck Schumer their dissastisfaction with this whole Lamont thing.
After all, he did almost become vice-president and then ran for president. I think Schumer is just humoring some people so he can get back to trying to win a Dem majority in the Senate.
My hearty apologies for not scouring the Post-Dispatch this AM.
TPM Muckracker, thank goodness, did it for me.
A teaser:
Roy Temple, a Missourian blogger and capable muckraker, recently tried to attend a bill signing by Gov. Matt Blunt…
Tons of stuff including shady Blagojevich news (big suprise, right?), all things Obama, some 6th CD news, your world champion Chicago White Sox, trouble at the Trib, google searching the government and a few other national things. All after the jump.
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So, a hearty thanks to Larry for asking me to sub on one of the finest political blogs (and the first one I read). I?m honored and flattered.
And now, if I may use this platform for an indulgence?
?I?ve always taken the Ann Coulters of the world with something less than a grain of salt. She?s no less a shock artist than Marilyn Manson. I don?t believe she believes most of what she says or writes ? but boy does her act sell books.
I typically take my cue on Coulter et al. from the wise Lisa Simpson, who, in Treehouse of Horror VI, in the face of giant, murderous advertising icons, joins Paul Anka to remind us that advertising is only effective if you pay attention, so ?Just Don?t Look.?
Sorry, guarantee void in Tennessee.
But the flip-side of that argument is that words can do harm. And harmful words deserve to be challenged. And a blogger friend of Mr. and Mrs. Turgidson, Heather Peet, provides one of the best challenges I?ve read.
If righteous indignation is your thing, well, Heather?s got it in spades. Blogging from halfway around the globe, Heather brings the perspective of a mom, a member of a military family, and a religious Catholic. It?s compelling, and her posts are funny, well-written, and only sometimes political. Give her a look.
Heather adds some classic Coulter that left me wondering?
She [Coulter] once said, in reference to terrorists, “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
If I may?our conservative friends have defended THIS type of speech, and then, with straight faces, suggested anti-war sentiment and criticism of the president embolden our enemies and threaten our armed forces? Really? But I thought they hated us for our freedom.
George picks it up and reaches 32% approval in Illinois.
2 months in a row above Keyesland!
A while back Roll Call ran a story (for those of you with Roll Call subscriptions) about how excited a Georgia Republican named Jack Kingston was to get interviewed by Stephen Colbert for his “Better Know a District” series.
Kingston was so enthusiastic that his office sent out an e-mail to some of his GOP colleagues encouraging them to appear. He also offered Colbert a ticket to the State of the Union address, which Colbert declined. Kingston even took advantage of his interview to get his daughter, Betsy, a college senior, an internship on the show.
Boy should Lynn Westmoreland not have listened to him.
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As you can see, for the next week or so, I have some help from some great guest posters who I want to thank. Be nice to them.
I also know a bunch of links are FUBAR, but for now, I don’t have the time to deal with it. I’m grading Advanced Placement Government & Politics exams for the week and it’s simply too exhausing to try and blog. On top of it, I have a cold from St. Louis.
Also, my E-mail access is FUBAR. If you need to get a hold of me, use the Yahoo! account (s). Even then I’ll probably be slow to respond. If I can, I’ll pass the interesting stuff on to the guest posters.
I do have two posts coming up that I’ve been meaning to do, but after that I’ll be pretty quiet for several days and let them have at it.
Finally, remember to support Rich’s proposed invasion of Missouri. Save me.
John Pavich is apparently doing well in online voting at both Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC (link to the right in the blogads section) and the DFA contest so go vote for him if you haven’t already. Also David Loebsack, my college advisor is running for IA-02-especially in the Warner poll consider him since he won’t be competing with any Illinois candidates this round.
“Peter L.”
Larry, I didn’t know you were a gay activist…
…now it all makes sense: the finger, etc. Hope in the future you can criticize my ideas without resorting to sophomoric putdowns. Best–pl
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Consider this an open thread—my biggest concern is that this is Petey’s desperate way of getting attention, sort of like boys in about sixth grade pestering the girls. Mostly that’s really icky, not because it would be gay, but because it would be LaBarbera.
Second, someone has to tell Ms. ArchPundit, I guess.
The oddest thing about this is that putting up a picture flipping off Petey for his little attempt to out someone who says he is not gay and only seems to be suspicious because he is middle aged and single, but voted differently than Petey liked is called by Petey as sophomoric, while the entire outing someone who says they can’t be outed was perfectly rationale and grown up.
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