Breaking News: Rahm Emaneul knew of Foley Scandel a year ago!!!!!

Write letters, demanding he resign as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Please copy to all three:

mailto:letters@suntimes.com
http://www.house.gov/emanuel/IMA/issue.htm
mailto:ctc-TribLetter@Tribune.com

This is an tremendous oppurtunity for us to get a MUCH better Chairman for the DCCC.
This will be good for progressives and good for America. Root out corruption!

On the Bias of the Media (or more correctly, The Grand Effectiveness of the Republican Media Influence)

The Republican "send spin"-to-receptive-media-outlet system is immensely effective. Here is a current example.
1. Every time Defense Secretary Robert Gates is mentioned, there is a comment on how he says "we are not winning in Iraq"(which it seems is the popular thing to say now, thank you polls. everyones saying this nowadays, when they all were for it not long ago (see WTO as well) I love Politicians who change with the polls.), but it is rarely mentioned that he was the #2 man in the CIA through IRAN-CONTRA!!.
GWU book about this:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB208/index.htm
The Final Report from the Independent Counsel Regarding Iran-Contra Affairs has a whole chapter devoted to him, Chapter 16:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_16.htm

Hmm politizing(v.) intelligence...isn't that what we need more of. Look at what good it has done.



2. CNN hired Glen Beck as a Special Report reporter! The first thing this right-wing talk show host did was, tell the newly elected Muslim Representative Keith Ellison, ""I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' ". No joke.


It's so much more satisfying to bite your nails off instead of clipping them.

Newsflash: Britian Withdrawing from Iraq

I remembered what I was going to say last week.
Great Britian, our staunchest allies in the Iraq Occupation, are withdrawing their troops from Iraq as is Italy and Poland.

Now the sad news, I know this is old but..
http://www.runrussrun.com/
Russ Feingold is not running for President like he should.

So so many thoughts on my mind

I had two less known large issues that I was going to post about a while ago, but I forgot what they were. Sorry.
Today I saw Oregon Sec. of State Bill Bradbury do Al Gore's presentation on Global Warming and our destruction of that only humans can wreak. I also had a good talk with Ashland City Council member, David Chapman. We talked about alternative energy investment proposals. He also said I should get on the Ped and Bike Commission. (I am currently filling out an application for SOU liaison to the Forest Plan Commission.)

Draft Gore for '08
draftgore2008.org/

Also, Thursday I saw the CEO of Lithia Motors, had a good talk with Jackson County Commissioner, Dave Gilmour about campaign strategy, and met a strategist named Kathy who wrote a book called Managing Campaigns? and is going to give a lecture at Stanford on campaign management. I also was elected Alternate Delegate to the Democratic Party of Oregon and will start a SOU College Dems club.

Another thought, too bad Feingold is not running for President!! He would have been the only candidate that voted against the war, against the patriot act and for a truly new direction, not money politics as usual. (He co-sponsored the fameous McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Refrom Bill) He is always ahead of the curve. He was against the war when it was unpopular. He was one of the first to speak up.

Viva Oaxaca! In solidarity

The oppression ends in Oaxaca. Finally hope that would power will not be held by a few rich elites that profit off labor but by the people that do that work. The indigenous people deserve to be in power again. The occupation and oppression against those who do not have concentrated wealth has gone on long enough! I and many across the world that yearn for hope stand with Oaxaca.

Dean deserves credit for dem win not Schumer, Emanuel

Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, chairmen of the DSCC and the DCCC respectively, do NOT DESERVE credit for the Democrats' wins of both houses of Congress. Consequently they have hurt the Democrats in this election by not just taking sides, but vigorously supporting candidates in the Primary and burning up cash and the purpose of party members, -to decide who represents them in the party. This is an insult to Democratic party members by violating our democratic process and taking it upon themselves to decide who should win the primary.


Dean's 50 state strategy is what is responsible for the Democrats taking control of the house. I will tell you why...
The house races the democrats won were in "surprisingly" competitive districts. Districts that got tight closer to election day.
This is because in the races that had been predicted close for a long time, the Republican get-out-the-vote machine was inplace and they saved many of these seats. (See Deborah Pryce -OH, Christopher Shays -CT, etc putmorein)
About a week before election day the districts deemed competitive expanded. This was most definitely aided by Howard Dean's 50 state strategdy. Winning in places that we never thought we would win. (senate: virginia, montana, Tennessee, missouri, //house Kansas, North Carolina, Wyoming, Arizona, etc.. )


Schumer and Emanuel atrocities
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=60271
-Recruiting Ultra-Rightwinger Bob Casey to run in Pennsylvania against other real Democrats such as Chuck Pennacchio

Also forcing Paul Hackett to drop out in Ohio