Just arrived in Vegas for YearlyKos

post from AMERICAblog on 07 June 2006 11:52:00 PM. © AMERICAblog

About to run out to dinner with Atrios and some friends.

This is a crappy cell phone pic from my hotel room.

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DeLay gives his farewell address -- finally

post from AMERICAblog on 07 June 2006 11:26:00 PM. © AMERICAblog

This is a good one. Tom DeLay, the leading force behind the GOP's culture of corruption, urged his Republican colleagues to "stand on principle." Many of them, like Bob Ney, Jerry Lewis, Richard Pombo, John Doolittle, to name a few, are already standing on DeLay's principles. And, hopefully, like Duke Cunningham, they'll all be in jail.

Nancy Pelosi put her good-bye message to "the Hammer" this way:

Tomorrow, Tom DeLay officially resigns from the House of Representatives. His resignation brings to an end what the press has referred to as a ?criminal enterprise? run out of the former majority leader?s office.

Yet the widespread Republican culture of corruption goes deeper than one man and extends further than one office. Mr. DeLay?s departure under an ethical and legal cloud fails to extinguish that broader corruption.

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Can You Feel It [5]

post from Ned Lamont for Senate - blog on 07 June 2006 11:15:00 PM. © Ned Lamont for Senate - blog

Pouring rain. Strong Winds. And despite the elements, an unbelievable turnout to see a Ned in Willimantic, Connecticut this evening ? and it?s only the beginning of June. Here?s how the Norwich Bulletin advertised the event earlier today:

U.S. Senate Democratic challenger Ned Lamont will host a meet-and-greet today at 5 p.m. at Oobah?s Bistro, 861 Main St. Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, is challenging three-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman to a Democratic primary in August. Lamont qualified for the primary challenge on Aug. 8 by garnering 33 percent of the delegate votes at last month?s state Democratic convention.

A picture of a movement in progress is worth a thousand words though:

Picture #1

Picture #2

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Can You Feel It [4]

post from Ned Lamont for Senate - blog on 07 June 2006 11:15:00 PM. © Ned Lamont for Senate - blog

Pouring rain. Strong Winds. And despite the elements, an unbelievable turnout to see a Ned in Willimantic, Connecticut this evening ? and it?s only the beginning of June. Here?s how the Norwich Bulletin advertised the event earlier today:

U.S. Senate Democratic challenger Ned Lamont will host a meet-and-greet today at 5 p.m. at Oobah?s Bistro, 861 Main St. Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, is challenging three-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman to a Democratic primary in August. Lamont qualified for the primary challenge on Aug. 8 by garnering 33 percent of the delegate votes at last month?s state Democratic convention.

A picture of a movement in progress is worth a thousand words though:

Picture #1

Picture #2

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post from Ned Lamont for Senate - blog on 07 June 2006 11:15:00 PM. © Ned Lamont for Senate - blog

Pouring rain. Strong Winds. And despite the elements, an unbelievable turnout to see a Ned in Willimantic, Connecticut this evening ? and it?s only the beginning of June. Here?s how the Norwich Bulletin advertised the event earlier today:

U.S. Senate Democratic challenger Ned Lamont will host a meet-and-greet today at 5 p.m. at Oobah?s Bistro, 861 Main St. Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, is challenging three-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman to a Democratic primary in August. Lamont qualified for the primary challenge on Aug. 8 by garnering 33 percent of the delegate votes at last month?s state Democratic convention.

A picture of a movement in progress is worth a thousand words though:

Picture #1

Picture #2

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Coming Up...

post from Ned Lamont for Senate - blog on 07 June 2006 10:50:00 PM. © Ned Lamont for Senate - blog

Here?s a few things you can expect from the blog in the days and weeks ahead?

1.) Aldon will be posting pictures and commentary from the MoveOn/DFA event tomorrow (Thursday). It should be quite a turnout, and quite an entry on the blog.

2.) I?ll be in Vegas this weekend for Yearly Kos. I have all types of Lamont gear to give away and will hopefully have some video/pictures up from the events, including testimonials from bloggers and participants on why they are pulling for Ned. Oh? one of the panels I am presenting on will be on CSPAN Saturday morning at 10:10 AM (and I really hope that is Pacific Time).

Photo: Lamont Gear Ready to Go

3.) When I get back, I see it as the homestretch, and I hope you do too. As such, I am going to be EVERYWHERE, giving a real window into the campaign. And that also means we will continue to count on you in the grassroots that have provided that good video/photos from the road as well. This is truly a team effort?we only win this together, but I know you feel that too.

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Panic in Liebermanland

post from Crooks and Liars on 07 June 2006 10:34:04 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Panic in Liebermanland

"Why doesn't Joe, instead of continuing to insist that we are winning in Iraq, come up with a plan either to win (yes, that would take more troops but his friend John McCain is for that option) or to get out?--The whole point of being Joe Lieberman used to be decency, dignity, and thoughtfulness. Lieberman's attack ads look like the appeals of just another sleazy, desperate pol, grasping madly to hold on to office. As one citizen, a Republican, said: We have always held him to the high standard he set for himself. We expected more of Joe."

The Lamont Blog has more on Holy Joe.

Go Ned...

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Specter angry about getting snubbed by Cheney.

In a three-page letter to Cheney, Specter complained about the Vice President’s unwillingness to cooperate on NSA eavesdropping oversight. ?I was surprised, to say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the Committee without calling me first. … This was especially perplexing since we both attended the Republican Senators caucus [...]

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Announcing a Foreign Policy Panel for Yearly Kos

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Cross-posted from MyDD

I am happy to announce that I will have the honor of moderating a terrific foreign policy panel on Saturday morning at the Yearly Kos convention in Las Vegas.

The a panel, which will feature Lakshmi Chaudhry, formerly of Alternet.org; Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post; Ari Melber, a former Senate staffer and writer for online and print publications; and Alex Rossmiller, a former intelligence officer for the Department of Defense, will focus on how U.S. foreign policy is created, implemented, reported on and influenced by the emerging netroots. The panel is scheduled for 11:20am Saturday, June 10 at the YearlyKos Convention at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Hillary blasts Coulter for "vicious,
mean-spirited attack"

Coulter, who has no sense of decency anyway, went way over the line when she attacked the widows of 9/11 victims. She's so not worthy of our attention, but she deserves our contempt. And, Hillary Clinton pointed out just how contemptible Coulter is:

"Perhaps her book should have been called 'Heartless,'" the senator said. "I know a lot of the widows and family members who lost loved ones on 9/11. They never wanted to be a member of a group that is defined by the tragedy of what happened."

The New York Democrat and former first lady said she found it "unimaginable that anyone in the public eye could launch a vicious, mean-spirited attack on people whom I've known over the last four and a half years to be concerned deeply about the safety and security of our country."

Ann Coulter speaks for the GOP. She's one of them. They own Coulter and her rhetoric of hate.

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