Head of the Household

Two Heartbeats from the Presidency
Gender-baiting Pelosiphobics had better just get over it.

Responding to comments below:

Beach, you are right. Macaca looking for a new job is good news for America. That he be replaced by James Webb makes it a specially savoring turn of events.

On the other side, the temporary loss of Harold E. Ford Jr's leadership from national politics is a major disappointment. Congressman Ford's concession speech was a heart-wrenching promise that he would be back. Ford, the victim of a savagely dirty and racist advertisement, recalled that his experience on the campaign trail led to a discovery of

a hunger...a great appetite on the part of the American people for something much better and far more dignified and greater than what we've given them over the last several years.

And, quoting from the Scriptures (Ephesians 6:12):

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Still, if Webb has clinched his seat, and if Jon Testor is in solid in Montana, we look pretty good. As things stand now, The Hillbloggers are right to observe that we are within a breath of attaining objective # 1 on the agenda (above-right).

What Does the "D" in D-Day Stand For?

Michael Moore has 5 Good Reasons to Vote Today. And he asks us to bring a broom and a camera.

Andrew Sullivan offers up a poem for the day, an abridgment of A.R. Ammons' Corson's Inlet.

Election USA - 2006

What's at Stake?

• Oversight
• Reversal, Redress and Repeal
• Investigations, Subpoenas, Sworn Witnesses.

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What Can You Say?

Saddam wasn't elected? (Twice!)

Three Days to Go

Spent the better part of the day on the phone to Pennsylvania, getting out the Democratic vote. Hard work. Boring work. Unrewarding work. It’s what the Repugs are legendary for, so I guess Progressives have to delve into retail hand-to-hand, digital politics sometimes. No point in walking my precincts, here: everyone around where I live - most anyways - knows what’s what and who’s who. The central fronts in the war against anti-terrorist-terrorism are in other states. God Bless our soldiers there.

The George W. Bush Legacy, Part II

According to an ICM survey has been carried out by the Guardian in Britain and leading newspapers in Israel (Haaretz), Canada (La Presse and Toronto Star) and Mexico (Reforma), using professional local opinion polling in each country: George W. Bush is enemy #2 to world peace and security.

Bush is ranked with some of his bitterest enemies as a cause of global anxiety. He is outranked by Osama bin Laden in all four countries, but runs the al-Qaida leader close in the eyes of UK voters: 87% think the al-Qaida leader is a great or moderate danger to peace, compared with 75% who think this of Bush.

Some of the findings:

• The US leader and close ally of Tony Blair is seen in Britain as a more dangerous man than the president of Iran (62% think he is a danger), the North Korean leader (69%) and the leader of Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrallah (65%).
• In Britain, 69% of those questioned say they believe US policy has made the world less safe since 2001, with only 7% thinking action in Iraq and Afghanistan has increased global security.
• In our immediate northern and southern neighbours, Canada and Mexico, with 62% of Canadians and 57% of Mexicans saying the world has become more dangerous because of US policy.
• Even in Israel, which has long looked to America to guarantee national security, support for the US has slipped. Only one in four Israeli voters say that Bush has made the world safer, outweighed by the number who think he has added to the risk of international conflict, 36% to 25%. A further 30% say that at best he has made no difference.
• Voters in three of the four countries surveyed also overwhelmingly reject the decision to invade Iraq, with only Israeli voters in favour, 59% to 34% against. Opinion against the war has hardened strongly since a similar survey before the US presidential election in 2004.
• In Britain 71% of voters now say the invasion was unjustified, a view shared by 89% of Mexicans and 73% of Canadians. Canada is a Nato member whose troops are in action in Afghanistan.
  
• Neither do voters think America has helped advance democracy in developing countries, one of the justifications for deposing Saddam Hussein. Only 11% of Britons and 28% of Israelis think that has happened.

Millions of people throughout the world, sympathetic to our people and the future of our republic, consider themselves as major stakeholders in the decision we Americans make on November 7th.

But forgetta'bout dem! Let's do it for ourselves. Let's get that Progressive vote out!

Ripe for the Picking?

Captions Please!!