Sen. Webb blasts Lieberman/Kyl Amendment: This
proposal is Dick Cheneys fondest pipe dream

post from Crooks and Liars on 25 September 2007 03:30:53 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Sen. Webb went on the offensive today and denounced the Lieberman/Kyl amendment as warmongering and a big fat, wet kiss to the “William the Bloody” Kristol wing of the GOP—including the star of the Neocons: Dick Cheney. Lieberman is setting the stage with all his Iran amendments that have the sole purpose [...]

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Global warming conference

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 25 September 2007 03:30:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

I was reading about the global warming discussions at the UN yesterday, and I couldn't help but wonder, why on earth does this meeting matter? The major nations aren't interested in doing anything real, and in particular the US still has over a year left of an administration that's allergic to environmental progress.

Fortunately, Mark Goldberg helpfully explains the relevance and the context:

[T]he significance of today's meetings needs to be understood in the longer term. In 2015, Kyoto will expire. As the thinking goes, it will take two years to negotiate a successor to Kyoto, then another four years for member states to actually ratify the treaty.

In December, the process of negotiating a successor to Kyoto will kick off with a meeting in Bali. This meeting will be largely technical in nature, i.e. what sort of carbon emissions targets should be achieved and how to set up a global carbon credit market. The purpose of today's meetings was not to talk about those technical issues, but to inject some desperately needed political will into the Bali meeting.

So it's going to take a while to get this thing rolling, and even longer to get ratification, and it's important to start building toward that all now despite apparent intransigence. Well, then. That does make sense.

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CLIPS: NY's WABC interviewed Harlem restaurant
patrons about O'Reilly's comments

post from Media Matters for America on 25 September 2007 03:27:50 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the September 24 edition of Eyewitness News on WABC in New York City, co-anchor Liz Cho introduced a segment in which reporter Jeff Pegues spoke with patrons of Sylvia's, the famous Harlem restaurant, about Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's comments following his recent trip to the restaurant with Rev. Al Sharpton. Cho stated: CHO: Shock tonight over comments made by conservative and controversial talk-show host Bill O'Reilly. On his daily show, O'Reilly made disparaging[...]

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Voters Deserve to Know: Would Giuliani, McCain,
Romney, and Thompson Stand with Bush and Veto Children's Health Care

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 25 September 2007 03:22:48 PM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

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Voters Deserve to Know: Would Giuliani, McCain, Romney, and Thompson Stand with Bush and Veto Children's Health Care?

Washington, DC -- The leading Republican presidential contenders have stood stubbornly behind President Bush on issue after issue and now they also appear to be standing behind his threat to veto health care for low-income children. America's voters deserve to know: Would Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson veto the children's health care bill that Congress will likely pass today?

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DFA behind Donna Edwards

post from MyDD on 25 September 2007 03:15:46 PM. © MyDD

This is great to see:Burlington, VT-- Earlier today the political organization founded by Howard Dean, Democracy for America, endorsed Donna Edwards for Maryland's 4th Congressional district. Donna Edwards ran against Rep. Al Wynn in the 2006 Democratic[...]

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NJ-Sen: Lautenberg's crappy poll numbers

post from Daily Kos on 25 September 2007 03:14:10 PM. © Daily Kos

Quinnipiac. 9/18-23. All voters. MoE 2.8% (July 9 results)

If the 2008 election for United States Senator were being held today, do you think you would vote for Frank Lautenberg the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate?

Lautenberg (D) 39 (40)
Generic Republican (R) 36 (33)

What a dilemma for the GOP! New Jersey voters hate all their politicians, and routinely give them terrible numbers. But they hate Republican politicians more than they hate Democratic ones. Yet every cycle it seems that Republicans sink millions into this horrifically expensive state, only to see a seemingly vulnerable Democrat win election easily.

And in a year where they won't have enough money to wage a proper defense of their embattled seats, could they really afford to sink their limited funds into what would be yet another quixotic bid in the Garden State?

Still, Lautenberg is 83, and the state has no shortage of great Democrats who could easily retain the seat.

Perhaps it's time for him to move on and give Reps. Rush Holt, Rob Andrews, or Frank Pallone, or even (one of my favorites) Newark Mayor Cory Booker a chance.

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John Doolittle member of the Get Lost Caucus

post from Dump Doolittle on 25 September 2007 03:13:00 PM. © Dump Doolittle

Doolittle gets zinged twice by writers on Politico. First, this item titled Scandals take a load off Craig, others:

Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.), who also lost his committee post following an FBI raid, have been consigned to the Get Lost Caucus ? a highly unofficial, exceedingly exclusive, nobody-chooses-to-enroll kind of club. It is four members strong, with potential for growth.

The guidelines for qualification: First, you hit a few legal snags (a raid, an indictment, an arrest), then you lose your committee assignments (or, in the case of Craig, your ranking status).

Lacking clout and commitments, you are the congressional equivalent of walking pneumonia, wounded and worn but still showing a pulse. (read more...)

And then there's this, GOP expects to lose more House seats:

Furthermore, allegations of corruption are threatening additional members? standings. Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) has been under federal investigation over his ties to imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Doolittle, who won only 49 percent of the vote last year, has stubbornly refused to step down even as Republican strategists privately concede he cannot win reelection.

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Virginia IS on the Map for the Democrats in 2008

We've been watching Virginia turn more blue for a long time, and no doubt this is an exciting development. Indeed it seems clear that Virginia is, at least right now, the Democrats' best pick up opportunity in the Senate, that the Democrats have a chance[...]

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Pile On

Don't forget to give all your money to Donna Edwards through this link. If the kossacks beat us, the terrorists will have won!

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David Shuster Throws A Wingnut Barbecue

Last night David Shuster produced a brilliant 78 seconds of tape that underscores the truly loathsome, soulless hypocrisy of the modern GOP. Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee was on to do the honors castigating MoveOn with scripted[...]

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