Disheartening

Out here in the heartland, it is really disheartening to see so many ignorant people who are zombies in the sputum of Fox News. The Iraq War, rampant inequality, christian extremism, environmental genocide, it's everywhere. There are 201 Republicans in the House. Who is voting for these people?! If they're not explicitly evil, then they're retarded. Stop voting for them! Republicans, what are you trying to do to this country?!

Rudy Giuliani, Candidate

Oliver Willis was noting that many of the Regressive factions within the Republican party believe that if Rudy Giuliani becomes the Republican't nominee, that the Democrats will win the election. I couldn't disagree more. Rudy Giuliani has a hard, crunchy, traditional Republican (fiscal responsibility) center, with a Progressive coating (nice social agenda). If Rudy were to win the Republican nomination he would win by a landslide. The only voters would refuse to vote for him would be the far reaches of either side. Moderates from both sides would vote for him in droves, no matter who he's up against.

With McCain, I think it would be a fight for the election. But I think that we would ultimately prevail, because he's shown his true colors via pandering to the religious right. Best scenario I can see, would be if another Bushite Regressive like Brownback took the nomination.

A 2008 Ticket Idea

I was thinking about this the other day. I've never really supported John Edwards. Ever. At all. But I thought, suppose we have an Edwards\Obama ticket. I really think that John Edwards and Barack Obama would be an unstoppable force. Traditionally, no non-southern Democrat has been elected President in fifty years. Edwards does the southern gentleman thing, and everyone else loves Barack. Then, after Edwards two terms, Barack is set up to take a run. I think it's a really powerful combination.

Hillary Clinton

I don't really want to say this, but I'm going to. It hinged on whether or not Hillary was going to run. I don't think bad of Hillary at all. I think she'd perform just fine as a President. That said, we, the heart of the party, can not allow Hillary to win this primary. I can promise you this right now, Hillary Clinton cannot win the general election. It doesn't matter who the Republican nominee is. Hillary is not electable. I'm not saying this because I think Barack would do a better job. I'm saying this, because it's true. I really don't want to lose another election. Lewis Black said it best in that, the fact that we couldn't find anyone to defeat George W. Bush, is beyond belief. Not to criticize Kerry, he was always my first pick. Hillary cannot win this election. I would love to see the first woman president, I really would. But it's just not possible in this case. I'm sorry, thats just the way it is.

You Can't Stop Me

The President is pretty much walking around telling Congress, "You can't stop me." It's really giving me hope. I'm hoping that he does something with this troop surge, disregarding any laws that Congress passes to stop him. Even Arlen Specter wouldn't let that fly. Maybe, just maybe, if this does happen, then Congress would realize that they have a duty to impeach. I know that Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid are trying to play to the center, but they do have a duty to impeach.

110th Congress

The first day, of the first session, of the 110th Congress has concluded. I sincerely hope, that the Democrats use these next two years very wisely, in order to preserve, and improve upon their majority in both houses.

• My hopes include (but are not limited to):
• Ending unchecked corporate power
• Aiding the middle class
• Raising the minimum wage
• Impeachment
• Repealing upper class tax cuts
• Repealing the Patriot Act
• Removing unchecked executive power
• Impeachment
• Repealing the suspension of habeus corpus for POW's
• Designating specifically, that Iraq is unrelated to the war on terror
• Making petroleum obsolete in at least 10 years
• Seriously working to end global warming
• Implement instant-runoff voting and vote-by-mail systems, and repeal of the electoral college
• Full disarmament of all nuclear warheads
• Total renunciation and withdrawal of aid to Israel and the Palestinian state until they can act civilized
• Impeachment
• Enlarging the House membership for a smaller representative proportion of the people
• Strengthening the separation of church and state
• A renunciationg of involvement in foreign executives overthrow (Leave the Middle East alone, and Central America)
• Ending corporate personhood
• Applying public funding of all elections
• Creating a solid, sustainable program to help those adversely affected by outsourcing, while not hurting the global economy
• Ensuring that social security always has monthly benefits
• Impeachment

Those are the most important things I can think of at the moment. If Congress could be ambitious enough to get this all taken care of, that'd be great. Keep me informed.

Enviro-friendly President

I was thinking about this. Our next President, (I mean "our" as in, the Democrats) needs to refuse to go anywhere in motorcade procession or via Air Force One or Marine One, until they run on something besides fossil fuels. I think that the President driving around in a biomass fueled car would change the entire country very quickly.

Saddam's Trial

I don't like Saddam Hussein. I'm glad he's out of power. That said, this trial of his, has been a total sham. He, like all the terrorists in Guantanamo, should be tried at the Hague.

Military Expansion

Bush and his cronies love to blame Clinton for everything, such as, letting the military lose some weight. The way I see it, if Bush and his cronies had performed their jobs as they should have, they wouldn't need any more troops. Oh, and just to reiterate... Iraq has nothing to do with the War on Terror. Deal.

Ahmadinejad Supporters Suffer n Elections

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's supporters have supposedly suffered a blow in Iran's elections. I have no idea what that means for our country while Bush is still at the helm.