Keep Your Eyes Open

post from LamontBlog: Ned Lamont (D) for CT on 01 November 2006 11:58:00 PM. © LamontBlog: Ned Lamont (D) for CT

It's the final days of the campaign, and Lieberman - with whatever six-figure "petty cash" fund he has lying around nowadays, or with help from his Rove-backed friends, or both - likely has some really slimy stuff up his sleeve.

The guy who ran google ads comparing Ned to Osama bin Laden gave Joe another $1,000 last week.

And one report has surfaced of a mailer to Republicans attacking Daily Kos.

Joe is the worst kind of Republican, and he will use the worst kind of right-wing smears in the coming days in order to hold on to and fire up his far-right base.

(FYI, he also has until 12 noon tomorrow to re-accept the invitation to the debate he had originally agreed to attend but then backed out of.)

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A new investigation commences against the Bush
Administration; this time, it’s about the President’s ‘global warming coverup’

post from Gun Toting Liberal on 01 November 2006 11:51:00 PM. © Gun Toting Liberal

Back in June, 2005, the GTL was there, pounding upon President Bush for his conspiracy involving the coverrup of scientific documents and studies warning the President and the People under his so-called “care” about the horrific danger we were in from global warming, and the “human” effect upon it. An excerpt to remind [...]

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Marathon

post from Eschaton on 01 November 2006 11:46:00 PM. © Eschaton

Yeah, I know it's more than a bit silly to complain about the stresses of running this blog. It's a privilege to be compensated decently for the equivalent of ranting away on the street corner, and I certainly appreciate the support I've received from Chevron, The Bestest Oil Company Evah, and MSNBC, The Bestest Cable News Network Evah, but when the silly season arrives, as it has, it's a struggle to keep paying attention to all the nonsense. What I'd love to do is go take a nap for the next 6 days.

I suppose we should remember that all the stupid news that's going to come out over the next few days really doesn't matter. I'd like to be able to ignore it, but this blog has always been about seeing how politics is portrayed by the media. Maybe I'll ignore it all and go all wonky until the election.

Who's up for a brief Econ 101 course?

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Late Nite FDL: All Aboard!!

post from Firedoglake on 01 November 2006 11:27:44 PM. © Firedoglake

This was the scene in the parking lot outside Lamont HQ in Meriden today when I arrived. The Big Bad Bus Tour kicks off tomorrow at 12:30pm at the University of Connecticut student center. Here's the itinerary: Event[...]

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 01 November 2006 11:24:08 PM. © Daily Kos

(Tonight's diaries are brought to you courtesy of the wonderful Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

Need a little help recovering from post-Halloween candy overdose? Here are some meaty diaries to sink your teeth into: we have polls, we have parallels, we have parodies. Enjoy!

Today's Rescue Rangers are tlh lib, buhdydharma, Get A Grip, Elise, msobel, Dump Terry McAuliffe, Erika, and Avila, with pico as editor.

A week until the big day! In Listen to your mother: GOTV, imthepope's diary reminds us that politics should be a family affair; (Erika) and Dispatches from the Front Lines! An uplifting, well written and entertaining piece on exercising our most precious right! Voting early, in Denton County, TX by MuffledDrum (buhdydharma)

Paul Rosenberg takes apart the claim we live in society divided by red and blue lines in Beyond Red & Blue---Underpinnings of a November Sweep. I'm not sure I agree, but his analysis is thought-provoking. (Erika)

In yet another glaring example of the vast gulf between real leadership and humanity and... whatever the hell George 'the torturer' Bush is doing, YatPundit brings us Mr. Truman and Mr. Banning (buhdydharma)

Enthusiatic praise using many adjectives! Urgent beseechings to read! Don't miss! Get the idea? What Gandhi said about Bush, pass it on by Sourmash. Can you tell i liked it? (buhdydharma)

After spending millions of taxpayer dollars on "secret" military hallucinogenic drug experiments, why can't these veterans get even nominal health care now? Check out testvet6778's Rumsfeld's new Billion dollar waste and MKULTRA lives. (Avila)

Democratic Momentum: Wave Builds to Tsunami by dreaminonempty gives us analytical hope with charts too. (msobel)

mole333 tells a very personal story about an inspiring encounter in I Met Bill Clinton Last Night: A Reminder of Hope, A Promise of Hope", as does Democrat about a scary plane flight in The House of Cards Economy (msobel)

For those of you who need car analogies, GTPinNJ complies with We've got a lousy car...The driver sucks too. (msobel)

Don't let the anti-choice movement get off with intellectual dishonesty! User dvogel1001's Go on the offensive in abortion debate takes us through some logical progressions that turn out to have chilling real-world parallels. (msobel)

In My family and John Kerry by RIP Russ, we get to see, yet again, the stark difference between the Chickenhawk-in-Chief and someone whose been there when it comes to supporting our troops and possessing a human heart. Regardless of the inundation of Kerry diaries here, this one deserves everyone's eyes as the diarist shares his family's experience with Kerry after losing his brother in Afghanistan. (tlh lib)

Looks like the Vietnam comparisons have set some people off. In Viet Nam versus Iraq sobieraj takes on warmonger Oliver North's pathetic attempt to, as with Vietnam, paint ~~our disaster in Iraq~~ any possible failure in Iraq on the anti-war crowd. The more things change......(tlh lib); on the other hand, Thomas Kalinowski makes an excellent historical analogy in Iraq is not Vietnam (msobel)

a lynn makes a fascinating comparison between the U.S. Ghost Army of WWII and the GOP GOTV machine in GOTV: Ghost Army aka my haunting Grandma... and calls on us to set aside fear and become part of our own pro-active ghost army. (tlh lib)

A diarist can dream, can't he? Maccabee did just that and when he woke up, he wrote an amusing account of his look at the near future in The News, One Afternoon, 2014 (Dump Terry McAuliffe)

President Bush's announcement that he's keeping his war cabinet outraged litigatormom to the point that she's considering a new sigline, Chaos Is Victory: Rummy and The Dick Must Remain Until End of W's Term (Dump Terry McAuliffe)

nonnie9999 has today's Top Comments.

Please add your favorite diaries from today and use as an open thread.

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Late Night

post from Eschaton on 01 November 2006 11:08:00 PM. © Eschaton

Rock on.

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How to stay on message

post from Transparent Grid on 01 November 2006 11:06:07 PM. © Transparent Grid

Earlier, between court appearances, I whipped out a post on the John Kerry thing where I offered three points on how to handle the controversy: (1) stop talking about Kerry’s flub; (2) don’t equivocate and stab Kerry in the back (unless[...]

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Republican House Leader John Boehner refuses to
take back comment blaming US military in Iraq for screwing up the war

post from AMERICAblog on 01 November 2006 10:56:00 PM. © AMERICAblog

Not so funny anymore when the Republicans are the ones blaming our troops in Iraq for Bush and Rumsfeld's fiasco.

Here is what Boehner's staff told Hotline:

Kevin Madden, Boehner's spokesman, sent this response: ?Democrats are quickly squandering any and all credibility by even attempting to equate Mr. Boehner?s comments with criticism of anyone in the military. It?s an obvious and weak attempt to deflect criticism from Senator Kerry?s awful remarks delivered earlier this week, remarks Mr. Boehner was highly critical of. Mr. Boehner commends our military and our generals for doing a heroic job each and every day in their fight against terrorists in Iraq and around the globe. He thanks them every day for their bravery and will continue to do so.?

Now here is what Boehner actually said:

House Majority Leader John Boehner: Wolf, I understand that, but let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld.

Wolf Blitzer: But he's in charge of the military.

House Majority Leader John Boehner: But the fact is the generals on the ground are in charge and he works closely with them and the president. [CNN, 11/1/06]

Then watch Boehner here, and tell me how Boehner is going to claim that he didn't blame the generals on the ground for Rumsfeld's mess. He said it directly. Now who's haggling over the definition of "is"?

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Election Race Diary Roundup (11/1 - 6 Days To
Daylight)

(From the diaries -- kos)

This Roundup Diary covers the period from 1:00 PM Tuesday, 10/31 to 1:00 PM EDT Wednesday, 11/1.

Wanna help on Election Night? Then please see FleetAdmiralJ's Election Day Liveblogging project. Looks like it's gonna be awesome. (Incredible thanks to volunteers Nightprowlkitty, Alma, Sevah, suejazz, randallt, edgery, cdale777, mkrc98, evap, eeff, drchelo, ukben, demkat620, anais, TruthOfAngels and bookmobile.)

Today's Menu Includes:
126 Diaries Overall
- 57 On House races
     - With 38 covering individual Districts in 22 states
- 32 On Senate races
    - Representing 9 different states
- 27 On Various election races
    - Encompassing Governor, Secretary of State, Local, and more
- 10 General election-related diaries

Over 5,700 diaries served to date!!!

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Schoolmarm-in-Chief Lectures Us on Free Speech

Puh-leeze:

First lady: World listening to Iraq talk
HILLIARD, Ohio --First lady Laura Bush cautioned Wednesday that Americans discussing the war in Iraq -- especially politicians -- should be careful what they say because other countries are paying attention....
"Responsible candidates understand that the men and women of our military are risking their lives for us, and that we must conduct our debate here at home in a way that does not jeopardize our troops in harm's way," she said, calling for "conversations conducted with civility and respect."

Enough already with the form over substance. Like this country's politicians and citizens critical of the war need a "cautioning" over language from the wife of the man who's condoned torture and who lied his way into a war of choice responsible for (at minimum) tens of thousands of deaths.

Millions of us are feeling quite ... well ... uncivil these days, Mrs. Bush, about the horror your husband has visited upon the world. Perhaps your attention would be better directed at the person whose actions are responsible for putting our troops in harm's way, and drop the vapors over words. Huh? Just maybe?

And by the way, I plan on taking a heap of disrespect with me to the ballot box next Tuesday. Just sayin'.