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06-20-2010
Sometimes We Forget What Speaking Truth to Power Really Means
Meet Keith Wagner, an Arizona high school journalist:
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06-18-2010
“She Hung Her Portrait in the Lobby . . .
and wanted HP to ship her yacht through the Panama Canal.” This video on Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in California is a must-watch. Its going to be a pretty interesting year in the Golden State.
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06-15-2010
Congressman Steve King
How much of a jerk do you have to be when Tea Party groups no longer want you at their events? This much, meet Congressman Steve King:
When you look at this administration, I’m offended by Eric Holder and the President also, their posture. It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race. And I don’t know what the basis of that is but I’m not a coward when it comes to that and I’m happy to talk about these things and I think we should. But the President has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race - on the side that favors the black person.
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06-15-2010
Meet Sharron Angle
Formerly of the “Independent American Party.”
For at least six years in the 1990s before she held statewide elective office, Angle was a member of the little-known Independent American Party, a right-wing party that combines elements of Ron Paul’s doctrinaire libertarianism — pro-gun, anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy, pro-states’ rights — with Christian social conservatism and fear of the “North American Union” and other forms of “global government.” The small party attracted considerable controversy in 1994 when it took out a newspaper ad titled “Consequences of Sodomy: Ruin of a Nation,” which suggested HIV could spread through the water.
Other than that, she’s just a common sense conservative, if by common sense conservative, you mean someone who makes Rand Paul look like Jerry Garcia.
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06-09-2010
The State That Keeps On Giving
Just when we thought South Carolina politics couldn’t get any stranger, here comes Democratic Senate NOMINEE Alvin Greene - a 32 year old unemployed military veteran who apparently raised no money and had no signs or website, yet still managed to beat former judge and legislator Vic Rawl in the primary. To make matters worse for the South Carolina Democratic Party, Mr. Greene was recently charged with disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity after showing obscene photos to a University of South Carolina student. Needless to say, the Dems are trying to push him out of the race.
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06-07-2010
More from South Carolina
As if politics in South Carolina were not strange enough already, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer (R) released the results of a lie detector test which he says proves he isn’t behind a string of attacks against opponent Rep. Nikki Haley (R) accusing her of marital infidelity.
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06-06-2010
Meet U.S. Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan of Missouri June 15th
UPDATE: We unfortunately must announce the postponement of our event with Robin Carnahan. Check back with us in the coming weeks for the announcement of a new date later in the summer. In the meantime, we would still appreciate it if you would consider showing your support in advance.
We are proud to announce that Generation Blue is wading back into the battle for our future with an event for U.S. Senate candidate and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. The required contribution is $150; however, substantial discounts remain available for public servants, recent graduates and students. Donate here if you would like to donate another amount or as part of our Partners program.
You may recognize the Carnahan name, Robin’s father was legendary Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who tragically died in a plane crash while running against then Senator John Ashcroft and still went on to win the race with his seat being filled by his wife, and Robin’s mother, Jean Carnahan. We think Secretary Carnahan is a far better choice for our future than Tom Delay’s former chief lieutenant, Roy Blunt.
Until the event, this announcement will remain at the top of our page, but just scroll down to read regular updates of our blog.
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06-04-2010
South Carolina
If you are not following this gubernatorial primary, you really really should. When we last left off, Nikki Haley, Republican gubernatorial candidate and endorsee of Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and perhaps ironically, Jenny Sanford, was fending off not one, but two accusations from married Republican operatives that she had had “inappropriate sexual contact” with them while she was married. Here is the latest (via TPM) from state legislator and Lt. Governor Andre Bauer supporter, Don Jake Knotts:
“We need a good Christian to be our governor,” he said. “She’s hiding her religion. She ought to be proud of it. I’m proud of my god.”
Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban.
“We’re at war over there,” Knotts said.
Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.”
This was after he had referred to her, as well as the President, as a “f#$%ing raghead.” Knotts later apologized if anyone took offense, noting the comments were, “in jest.” Perhaps Nikki Haley should take that tack and claim she slept with those two guys in jest.
It is very interesting that with the mounting evidence that Nikki Haley had these extra-marital affairs, this statesman is still stuck on the fact that she wasn’t born a white Christian. And while we’re on this, today’s news is that Jenny Sanford is standing behind Haley, on the grounds that it was an Argentinian woman, and not Haley, who had an affair with Sanford’s husband, Governor Mark Sanford.
By the way, we want our readers to know, that when we say Jake Knotts is a mentally feeble racist, we mean it “in jest.” (actually we don’t). This has been all the news about Republican politics we can stomach for today, everyone have a nice weekend.
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06-03-2010
Fiorina and the ‘Weather’
We have to take a bit of issue with Josh Marshall’s characterization of Carly Fiorina’s climate change attack on Barbara Boxer as “trying to set her sights on the general election.” Nor do we think the story here is her “flip-flop,” although that just makes this commercial even stupider than we otherwise thought. It is possible that, given Fiorina’s long record of gross incompetence, this is aimed at her general election contest, but more likely, Fiorina made this ad to send a message to the Republican right voting in the upcoming primary that she’s one of them.
This is another example of Fiorina’s incompetence as a CEO only being exceeded by her gross incompetence as a politician, because while every candidate plays to the party base in a primary knowing they will have to tack to the mainstream afterwards during the general, could not be a more artless was to do it than this. This isn’t advocating on an issue that is important to conservatives and no one else, like say property rights, or school vouchers, or repealing the 16th amendment, or the 17th amendment, or even the fourth, fifth or six amendments, or attacking trial lawyers, or just being steadfast on upper income tax cuts. This is taking a clear, memorable position on an issue that will quite predictably offend her swing voters, who are more upscale Californian suburbanites. It sends a signal to every educated voter with a higher income looking for better management, which is Fiorina’s (and Whitman’s) ENTIRE electoral rationale, that Fiorina is not a sophisticated manager who they can trust, but a buffoon or a cynic who plays to the same social conservatives that Californians have been too scared to elect to anything statewide in over 15 years- and due to demographics and the politics of immigration, won’t for decades to come.
If we were Barbara Boxer’s campaign staff, we’d pay to run these ads ourselves. The stunning thing about this ad is that it is entirely an unforced error. Fiorina’s way up in the primary polls, she didn’t need to go this far. She could have run a smarter, dog-whistle ad that no one would want to bother talking about in the fall. Or she could have just stood pat: Tom Campbell (himself a fairly incompetent politician), can’t even afford to stay on the air.
Haven’t we learned yet that having been a CEO is not prime facie evidence of competence, especially when the former CEO in question has been fired?
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06-02-2010
Question For Republicans
Will all the Republicans that like to blame trial lawyers for all of society’s ills vote for a federal law to stop SLAPP suits?:
The label [strategic lawsuit against public participation, or Slapp] has traditionally referred to meritless defamation suits filed by businesses or government officials against citizens who speak out against them. The plaintiffs are not necessarily expecting to succeed — most do not — but rather to intimidate critics who are inclined to back down when faced with the prospect of a long, expensive court battle. . . . Many states have anti-Slapp laws, and Congress is considering legislation to make it harder to file such a suit. The bill, sponsored by Representatives Steve Cohen of Tennessee and Charlie Gonzalez of Texas, both Democrats, would create a federal anti-Slapp law, modeled largely on California’s statute.
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05-29-2010
In Honor of Memorial Day
In memoriam, John W. Finn, age 100, last surviving Medal of Honor winner from the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Its an honor just to cut and paste from this guy’s obituary:
Amid the death and destruction, Chief Finn, on an airfield runway, was waging a war of his own against the Japanese. . .
A few minutes before 8 o’clock, Japanese planes attacked the Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station, about 12 miles from Battleship Row at Ford Island, hoping to knock out three dozen Navy aircraft before they could get aloft.
Mr. Finn, the chief petty officer in charge of munitions at the naval station and a veteran of 15 years in the Navy, was in bed in a nearby apartment with his wife, Alice. He heard the sound of aircraft, saw one plane flash past his window, then another, and he heard machine guns. He dressed hurriedly, and drove to the naval station. . .
When Chief Finn arrived at the hangars, many of the planes had already been hit. He recalled that he grabbed a .30-caliber machine gun on a makeshift tripod, carried it to an exposed area near a runway and began firing. For the next two and a half hours, he blazed away, although peppered by shrapnel as the Japanese planes strafed the runways with cannon fire.
As he remembered it: “I got shot in the left arm and shot in the left foot, broke the bone. I had shrapnel blows in my chest and belly and right elbow and right thumb. Some were just scratches. My scalp got cut, and everybody thought I was dying: Oh, Christ, the old chief had the top of his head knocked off! I had 28, 29 holes in me that were bleeding. I was walking around on one heel. I was barefooted on that coral dust. My left arm didn’t work. It was just a big ball hanging down.”
Chief Finn thought he had hit at least one plane, but he did not know whether he had brought it down. When the attack ended, he received first aid, then returned to await a possible second attack. He was hospitalized the following afternoon.
On Sept. 15, 1942, Chief Finn received the Medal of Honor from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, in a ceremony aboard the carrier Enterprise at Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nimitz cited Chief Finn for his “magnificent courage in the face of almost certain death.”
Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Try if you can, to find a moment to think of John Finn and those like him.
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05-26-2010
Latinos Say Adios to GOP
According to the latest NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo poll on immigration, Latinos have swung overwhelmingly for President Obama and the Democratic Party, and younger Hispanics are moving to the Democrats in even greater numbers.
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05-19-2010
Republican Congressman Mark Souder Did Video on Abstinence With Mistress
Four words: Worst sex tape ever.
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05-17-2010
Maybe November Won’t Be So Bad For Dems After All
A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows Democrats now leading the generic congressional ballot, 45% to 40%, a reversal from last month when Republicans led by three points.
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05-17-2010
Tea Partiers in a Classroom
This is a story about attendees caucusing in a school across the street from the Maine Republican Convention:
“We allowed them to use the space and I’m appalled that they would go through a teacher’s things, let alone remove something from a classroom,” [School Committee member Sarah Thompson] said Wednesday. “We want the public to use school spaces, but they need to respect that it’s a school and understand that they should leave it the way they find it.” […]
When [studies teacher Paul Clifford] returned to school on Monday, he found that a favorite poster about the U.S. labor movement had been taken and replaced with a bumper sticker that read, “Working People Vote Republican.”
Later, Clifford learned that his classroom had been searched. Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about “anti-American” things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Civil Liberties Union.
We think this speaks for itself.
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05-14-2010
So Maybe That’s Why McCain Always Liked Star Wars Analogies So Much
Have a good weekend everyone, and don’t forget to register for our June 15 Robin Carnahan event.
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05-13-2010
Meet U.S. Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan of Missouri June 15th
UPDATE: We unfortunately must announce the postponement of our event with Robin Carnahan. Check back with us in the coming weeks for the announcement of a new date later in the summer. In the meantime, we would still appreciate it if you would consider showing your support in advance.
We are proud to announce that Generation Blue is wading back into the battle for our future with an event for U.S. Senate candidate and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. The required contribution is $150; however, substantial discounts remain available for public servants, recent graduates and students. Donate here if you would like to donate another amount or as part of our Partners program.
You may recognize the Carnahan name, Robin’s father was legendary Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who tragically died in a plane crash while running against then Senator John Ashcroft and still went on to win the race with his seat being filled by his wife, and Robin’s mother, Jean Carnahan. We think Secretary Carnahan is a far better choice for our future than Tom Delay’s former chief lieutenant, Roy Blunt.
Until the event, this announcement will remain at the top of our page, but just scroll down to read regular updates of our blog.
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05-12-2010
What’s the Matter with Arizona?
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill targeting a school district’s ethnic studies program on Tuesday, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
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05-11-2010
Dems Closing On Burr
A new poll in North Carolina finds Elaine Marshall (D) and Cal Cunningham (D) have both gained ground on Sen. Richard Burr (R). Burr leads Marshall, 43% to 42%, and tops Cunningham, 44% to 39%.
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05-07-2010
Sestak catches Specter!
Dem primary in Pennsylvania is tied as Sestak catches Specter.
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