Democratic Convention 2008

Democratic Convention stumbles in Democratic fashion;
Update: Howard Dean responds
posted at 12:50 pm on July 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

The woes of the DNC continue in Denver, and even the New York Times has taken notice. In some ways, it provides an excellent manifestation of Democratic governance. Underfunded, overspent, and chock-full of unrealistic mandates, the entire enterprise appears on the brink of failure — and Team Obama has six weeks to attempt a rescue:
Some of the Democratic missteps started soon after planning for the event began. The Democratic National Convention Committee decided not to take cheap office space and instead rented top-quality offices in downtown Denver at $100,000 a month, only to need less than half the space, which it then filled with rental furniture at $50,000 a month. And in a costly misstep, the Denver host committee, early on, told corporate donors that their contributions were not tax-deductible, rather than to encourage donations by saying that the tax-exempt application was pending and expected to be approved.

CLICK HERE TO FINISHING READING ABOUT THE DENVER SHIT SHOW…and we thought Mayor Menino and the Boston Democratic Convention Committee made a mess of things - HA you gotta another thing comin’!

Does anyone even give a shit anymore….BOOM BOOM OBAMA?

So hows the RNC doing???

Well it’s amazing…Here it is!
Just fresh off the press - Plucked this off Human Events - THANK YOU!

Interesting take on the VP race…as if it really matters after the wonderful fireworks set off by the douchebags in Iran!

ENPR: Ranking Vice Presidential Contenders
by Robert Novak and Timothy P. Carney
Posted: 07/09/2008

Presidential Running Mates: A look at the vice presidential prospects in both parties in a rough order of how their chances rank:

Democratic:
1. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine: The logical choice is a moderate Southern governor, and Kaine is the only one who fits that description. His negatives are multiple: only been governor for two and one-half years, with few accomplishments; an absolutely zero profile nationally with low charisma to match; hard to imagine him as President of the United States. But he’s popular in Virginia, which hasn’t been carried by a Democrat for president since ‘64, but would be possible with Kaine on the ballot.

2. Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.): He is qualified to be President, and gives foreign policy expertise to Obama. He adds experience and age to the ticket, is a Catholic and was impressive as an unsuccessful presidential candidate (much better than in his disastrous ‘88 run). The downside is that he talks too much, but who listens to vice presidential candidates anyway?

3. Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.): He adds moderation and is presentable as a future President. But a fellow senator from the neighboring state of Indiana doesn’t add much balance. If he could really bring Indiana into the Democratic fold, it would be worth putting him on the ticket. But that’s a stretch.

4. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell: He is very able and very experienced, a ticket-balancer: age 64, Jewish, Clinton supporter and pins down a state that Democrats must win to elect a president. The problem is that he just doesn’t look or sound much like a president.

5. Al Gore: Back again! We don’t think he would do it, but it’s possible. The question: Does he drive off more independents and Republicans than he attracts?

6. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (Pa.): He’s only 48 years old and elected to the Senate just in 2006, so it doesn’t make much sense to have two young first-term Senators on the ticket. Also, he would be an insult to his blood enemy, Rendell. But otherwise he’s a ticket-balancer: Catholic, pro-life, pro-gun. He endeared himself to Obama campaigning against the Rendell organization in Pennsylvania.

7. Sam Nunn: The former senator hasn’t run office since ‘92, so it’s doubtful how much he would help in the probably unwinnable state of Georgia, and he would be 71 years old when elected. He is still anathema to the gay community for his opposition to “don’t say, don’t tell”. Nevertheless, his national security experience makes him attractive to some party insiders.

8. Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y): Immensely improbable if only because it brings Bill Clinton back into the picture.

Republican:
1. Mitt Romney: He’s on top of the picture with backing from Bush White House, many conservatives and money-raisers. The negatives are that he still is not first on McCain’s dance card and never has polled well nationally.

2. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty: McCain likes him, and he is one of the few eligible GOP governors. But it’s hard to see what he brings to the table. He’s not considered very conservative, and he can’t carry Minnesota for the ticket.

3. Rob Portman: He looked much stronger a month ago. But now his background as a Bush Cabinet official is hurting him. Also, polls show his background as congressman from Cincinnati does not help him much in the rest of Ohio. Still, he is an extremely able, attractive conservative.

4. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist: He might seem the most improbable president since Chester Arthur. But McCain likes him, and he owes him big for his endorsement that may have decided the Florida primary—and the nomination. He erased one question mark last week when he announced he was getting married.

5. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: The 36-year-old first-year governor always was a long shot, but the steam went out of his balloon when he promised state legislators he would sign their pay raise (Mistake No. 1) and then vetoed the bill (Mistake No. 2). Still a favorite of many conservatives.

6. Sen. John Thune (S.D.): A late starter, who is still revered in party circles as the man who defeated Tom Daschle in 2004. But he is an earmarker, and running with anti-earmark McCain would be difficult.

Personally, since I’m some sort of a blend of demopublicgreen thing….and at this stage of the fright fest does anything really matter???
Okay so go with Biden Obama…its a nice square off to a MckillerCain and Mittens Romney…

Thats my two cents…this was a nice sidetrack given I’m absolutly pissed at the Bush administrations staged Iranian Missle test today.

What could possibly be next?!?!
Stayed tuned as the Democratic Convention may be chock full of Bomb Threats, assassination attempts, and Bush and Clinton admininstation meanderings

Well, it has been sometime since I have felt the nudge in me to Blog about the election.

Thank god HRC is done lollygagging and realized that her power mongering herd of Terry, Billy Boy and the like were just plain out of skullduggery and trickery or they all just may have wanted to go out and shoot a round of golf or relax on a 300 foot yacht in the tropics - Who knows?

I for one think Hil will resurface and do great harm to the Democratic party prior to the convention - I’m sure there is one last breath of self important deliverance left in her troupe.

Is it unfortunate that McCain will win this election by default? We all have some soul searching to do. Is there a leader among them or us able to cultivate a grass roots revolution of sorts or is one already in the making?

We spend billions on the fight to protect the oil fields while the Bush and Bin Laden families nest eggs grow by leaps and bounds.

Prices for everything are skyrocketing.

The US dollar is at the weakest of my lifetime.

United States Citizens - We are all mongrels and are about to become the worlds newest immigrants. Watch our general population flee to Ireland, Europe and Asia to put our hard work and genius into another economy - all hail the largest migration or should I say retreat from the US in our history.

Everyday, I hear sad stories from usually light hearted, hard working and once prosperous friends and business acquaintances - there is a general tone of dismay as our country frustrates us in its failure to launch.

What was once a inspiration for me as turned into a wasteland of fiber and bandwidth - the site Obama has launched is Fight the Smears - Are we in a schoolyard or playground here, middle or elementary….this is ridiculous ARE ANY OF THE CANDIDATES dealing in the same realities that we are?

Hello anyone out there???

Okay folks..LADIES HELLO?

This is absurdness to the highest degree…Really? NAH not at all!

Change- Ideas- and an enormous reduction in the luggage filled with favors and promises department to be carried to the oval office upon election.

We know Billy boy would be the catalyst behind the Clinton Presidency - While Clinton did well when he was in office ( wink wink) Do we really want the US to speak and point to the Bush and Clinton families as the catalyst for our country we hung our hats on for so so many years…I HOPE NOT! I saw Live Free or Die Hard - we are about as close to the real deal Fire Sale happening as ever before…you know its true..go ahead stick your head back in the sand..nice right.

God Bless the people who actually decided this year is the year we are finally going to vote - the year we are as mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore..RISE UP, RISE UP - RISE and shine and give Barack your glory glory…Corny YES!

So with Barack hammering Iowa will he pull it out in NH - hmmm

Don’t be surprised by a strong outcome for Edwards.

I took a break from this blog because my energy level to respond to the ignorance of our nation and the people was exhausting me. Where are the rebels the free thinkers, the leaders of the next revolution..Hello is anybody out there that has truly had enough of all of this yet?

June 25, 2006

As the 2006 midterm congressional elections approach, Republican President George W. Bush’s popularity in the polls has reached historic lows.

Gas prices are at historic highs. Public health care is in crisis. The war in Iraq has become a quagmire.

In Congress, the Jack Abramoff scandal and the fall of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay are at the top of a stack of scandals that has sullied many GOP incumbents and a few Democrats as well.

The Republican Party - now in control of the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and the White House - looks as politically vulnerable as it has ever been in the battle for midterm congressional seats later this year.

The polls show Democrats in a position to gain significant ground in the midterm congressional elections.

Even more intriguing for Democrats is the prospect of the 2008 presidential election. Given the problems that confront the country and Bush’s plunge in the polls, Democratic Party operatives are salivating over a chance to heap the blame for Bush-era problems on the back of the 2008 Republican nominee.

With runaway government spending, growth in government bureaucracies and the lack of a plausible exit strategy from Iraq now tied around the neck of the Bush White House, it would seem that happy days are here again for the Democrats.

Yet despite that backdrop, Democrats are - as usual, it seems - fighting among themselves over the party’s position on the war in Iraq, energy policies, and social issues like gay marriage.

Democrats need to make the next two election cycles a referendum on the prosecution of the war in Iraq and about whether the Republicans have been good and competent stewards of taxpayer funds during this long period of holding absolute sway over the federal government.

There is great infighting among Republicans from the conservative and moderate wings of the party over social issues like abortion and gay marriage and the politically connected issues of appointing federal judges who reflect conservative views on those wedge issues.

For their part, Democrats face an internal battle between the more liberal members of their party for whom abortion and gay rights are bedrock issues and party centrists who want to avoid polarizing issues and concentrate on making the war, the economy and energy prices the key campaign issues.

Democrats will need a net gain of 15 House seats and six Senate seats in the midterm elections to claim majorities.

The outcome of the midterm elections will serve as a barometer of whether voters in both “red” and “blue” states respond better to moderate Republicans or centrist Democrats or to liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans.

Both parties will spend the next two years leading up to the 2008 presidential showdown honing their party’s message to suit what the voters indicate that they want.

Recent history suggests that another liberal/conservative confrontation awaits the nation in November 2008.

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As Bush Crimes Mount, Why are Democrats Retreating?

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
www.GP.org

Friday, April 14, 2006

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org

Greens accuse Democratic Party leaders of ignoring new revelations of Bush high crimes and misdemeanors, citing Dems refusal to pursue impeachment

White House obstructed a grand jury investigation if it withheld evidence about Bush’s leak authorization in Plame case, say Greens.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Party candidates and leaders faulted Democrats for refusing to hold President Bush and his administration accountable for a mounting list of high crimes and misdemeanors.

“Hardly a month goes by without major new evidence that the Bush White House has lied to the American people,” said Byron DeLear, Green candidate for Congress in California’s 28th District . “Democratic leaders and moderate Republicans in Congress have hardly mustered a peep of collective protest. Rep. John Conyers [D-MIich.] has introduced a House resolution calling for investigation and possible impeachment; Sen. Russell Feingold [D-Wisc.] has prepared a motion for censure. But their fellow Democrats have declined to join them.”

The Green Party of the United States called for impeachment of President Bush initially in July 2003, citing widespread and deliberate deception in making the case for invasion of Iraq, as well as numerous violations of the U.S. Constitution and international law to which the U.S. is signatory . As further evidence of White House deceit and crimes have surfaced, Greens have reiterated the demand for impeachment. See and .

Among recent revelations

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Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby’s April 6 testimony that President Bush himself authorized the leak disclosing Valerie Plame’s CIA employment indicates that Mr. Bush knowingly withheld material evidence from the grand jury investigation of reporter Judith Miller. The White House has not denied Mr. Libby’s allegation; the obstruction of evidence — a possible felony — was clearly motivated by politics rather than national security.
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In 2003, President Bush continued to allege that two trailers captured in Iraq were mobile biological weapons laboratories, even after Defense Intelligence Agency had informed the White House that the facilities had nothing to do with biological weapons. (Reuters, April 12, 2006, )
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According to a confidential memo from Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office revealed in The New York Times on March 27, 2006 (http://www.nytimes.com/…), President Bush told Mr. Blair that he was determined to invade Iraq without a second U.N. resolution and regardless of whether arms inspectors failed to find Saddam Hussein’s purported WMDs. The report confirms evidence in the Downing Street memo that Mr. Bush was set on an invasion and that intelligence and information fed to the public were “fixed”, i.e., manipulated to support his intentions.

Greens note that these revelations are consistent with President Bush’s assertion that he had the right to order the National Security Agency to engage in surveillance against U.S. citizens without a warrant in accord with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Fourth Amendment.

“These new crimes are hardly surprising to those of us who recognized the fraud behind the war from the very beginning and the vote obstruction in the 2004 national election,” said Michael Berg, who is seeking the Green nomination for Delaware’s lone seat in the House of Representatives . “As the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors has grown, so has the cowardice of the Democratic Party leadership.”

“It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is criminal that they continue to support an illegal war,” added Aaron Dixon, Green candidate for the U.S. Senate in Washington .

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193

Green Party responses to the 2006 State of the Union, including a call for impeachment
http://www.gp.org/video/2006stateofunion/

“The Case for Impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush”
By Lewis H. Lapham, Harper’s Magazine, March 2006
http://www.harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html (excerpt)

“Gangster Government: A leaky President runsafoul of ‘Little Rico’”
By Greg Palast, Buzzflash, April 9, 2006
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=490&row=0

This gas crisis is not necessary - there are other alternatives - please tell me why the machine we call government for the people has actually stopped looking out for the people that support it!
DAMN THE AGENDAS!

Somebody please tell us all why Teddy stopped the windfarm …enough BS
Can’t Teddy’s buds and cronies see the ocean well enough. At best we’lll lose 20 -30 seagulls a year - whats the big deal!
Next thing Teddy is in Alaska thwarting all attempts at the US supplying themselves with oil and found dancing at Bin Ladens Welcome home party …and I thought the Bush brigade was bad…HA