Liberal Conspiracy to Get Weldon
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I’m real glad that we have such serious people covering the news.
If you watch the movie–compare it to Daley Sr. who laid it out that of course he helped his son.
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That Would Be A Good Start
I wanted to keep Dusty since it’s not his fault Hendry gave him a half ass team, but hey, I could live with A-Rod
The Ghost of Bill Bidwell
It’s all so clear now.
Because I Missed It Previously
Normally I’d tell you to go donate to make a point, but Fritchey is pretty safe so just go over and give him some love for having to deal with loons. Then go donate to a worthy Illinois House Candidate to show your support
IA-2 Go Directly There
New Polling, lots of new polling. IA-2 is a dead heat–and David Loebsack has had little support to date.
Majority Watch has a new series of polls coming out and it’s pretty amazing according to Bowers.
Click on IA-2 and see the results:
Loebsack (D) 48%
Leach (R) 47%
1006 surveyed 3.09% MOE
Help Dave out–this race is fully in play. This was a Dem leaning District with a long serving incumbent Republican and Dave has made a race of it on a shoestring. Time to ramp up to bring him home.
It’s like out of the Catholic Church’s playbook
And because this is sensitive, I’m not talking about the Catholic faith, but the institution of the Catholic Church as a bureaucracy.
Repubicans are on a witch hunt for the Gays.
ou may know that Kirk Fordham was ousted today as Tom Reynolds’s chief of staff after allegations that he tried to cover for Mark Foley’s inappropriate behavior. (In fact Fordham insists he sounded the alarm.) Fordham, as I think the Plank was first to point out, is also a former chief of staff to Foley. Today ABC News notes, in passing, that Fordham is “openly gay.” (I had heard this several times myself but chose not to publish it until now.) Why is this significant? Because it’s becoming clear that some people on Capitol Hill are promoting a storyline that involves gay Republican staffers–apparently led by Fordham–covering up for Mark Foley. Gloria Borger hinted at this on CBS News last night, saying:
Trying to solve the probem by making it about gays misses the entire problem–there was a serious breakdown in oversight of the program. It could have been heterosexual Members hitting on women in the program. And in fact, in the past that did happen.
That list is going to make this very, very ugly and every staffer on it or who has a friend on it will be bitter and angry and they know a lot about what has been going on in this and other scandals. This can only end badly for Republican pursuing this strategy.
It’s not about the Adults
Shimkus acknowledges feeling bad about the situation, but he becomes angry when questioned whether he should have done more. ?I don?t know of a single thing I would have done differently,? he said. Shimkus seems more interested in raising the specter of Democratic dirty tricks than of second guessing his own actions. He repeated to the editorial board what appear to be Republican talking points, questioning why the salacious e-mails were leaked to ABC so close to the election.
I’m somewhat surprised by Shimkus’ response more than many others. He was a teacher. He should understand the problem here. It’s not about the political consequences here–though he’s creating huge ones. It’s that he screwed up and left kids vulnerable. I can be pretty forgiving for that if someone owns up to it. This scandal could have largely gone away on Friday with Hastert and Shimkus saying—we screwed up and feel horrible about it and we are going to try and fix it with all of our colleagues. It’s not about the Republicans or Shimkus, it’s about high school kids.
As we now know, it wasn’t Democrats, but even if it was, so what? They protected a guy who is a pedophile. Perhaps they didn’t get that he was a pedophile, but two high school teachers should have thought about that possibility immediately when the original issue came up. If a Democrat had sent the information out–good. Someone needed to do that to protect kids. Saying it’s a dirty trick suggests this isn’t a real issue. It is and every parent not involved in the scandal knows that. That’s why Shimkus’ colleagues on the Republican side are largely mad at Hastert. If it had been there kid….
Dirty tricks are dishonest. Pointing out a problem isn’t a dirty trick.
The Basic Confusion Between Pro-Life Folks and the Pro-Life Movement
Pro-life folks are neighbors who often have strong beliefs on abortion, but are usually concerned about how to prevent unwanted pregnancies and worry about taking care of babies born to disadvantaged parents.
If you want access to contraceptives where can one most easily get such access and high quality health counseling? Planned Parenthood.
Not Birthright.
What is unclear about this point to people like Wil Saletan?
Where was I?
Chicago. Travelling with a computer for the first time in the last four years probably. Figures. I had to be filled in at the Red Lion on Friday night as I know very little about the whole thing until then.