HELL TO PAY: SEALS V. KIRK MAIN EVENT
Hell to Pay: Seals v. Kirk Main Event
Update: Dan Seals has transcribed a very special video, just for Daily Kos, and just for Hell to Pay:
Let’s give him some more extra special love tonight …
Earlier tonight, SusanG kicked off the Hell to Pay fundraiser for Dan Seals:
There’s hell to clear tonight, my friends. And this week it’s personal.
Yes, our Orange to Blue politician Dan Seals, who’s facing down incumbent Mark Kirk for a re-match in IL-10, is commendable in his possess correct of support, but this time week the Kirk crusade lost its mind and unintelligible us–US! Daily Kos!–in its attempts to smear Seals.
And for those of you not familiar with Seals, analyse discover his latest ad:
Obviously Seals is willing to improve a little hell of his own. So donate to this unpaid O2B candidate and help get his voice to Washington. We’re actuation for 2,600 donors for Dan Seals, so jump in and make sure Republicans know there will be Hell to Pay when they go after Democrats.
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MO-09: O2B politician Judy Baker leading
Orange to Blue politician Judy Baker’s focus on inexpensive health care, renewable energy and getting our tanking economy employed again appears to be reverberating in her standpat district.
So, too, are the latest program of DCCC ads, which eviscerate politico Blaine Luetkemeyer for supporting the privatization of Social Security (a brilliant idea, I staleness say, especially as Wall Street collapses around us).
And it belike has not helped Luetkemeyer that digit of his key cronies - the man who drafted his speech announcing his crusade and outlining his papers - has been indicted for distributing smut to minors.
The latest enquiry for the DCCC in Missouri’s Ninth District shows the proportional Democrat leading her politico contestant by four points:
Global Strategy Group for the DCCC. 10/5-7. Likely voters. MoE 4.9%.
Baker (D) 40
Luetkemeyer (R) 36
Pre-meltdown, a Sept Research 2000 enquiry showed Baker trailing 49% to 40%. It’s difficult to study drawing crossways pollsters, but it’s commonsensible to adopt that Baker has made momentous gains since the economic meltdown - and ergo, that she’s in good function to win this race.
It was never going to be easy for a Democrat to win a vie in a standpat district such as this digit - Dubya got a healthy 59% in MO-09 backwards in 2004, and McCain will undoubtedly action well there this year. It’s doubly difficult for a Democrat who doesn’t separate from proportional ideals, a Democrat such as Judy Baker.
But by streaming an honest, thoughtful and forward-thinking campaign, she has place herself in a function to do just that…and you crapper help her accolade the deal.
Throw the Republicans an anvil. Help Judy Baker vex backwards a carbon-copy Republican, and help beam her to Washington.
On the web:
Judy Baker for Congress
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More on What Makes Troopergate So Dangerous
A month ago, we were asking What Makes Troopergate So Dangerous and noting that there was a noticeable half-assed Cheneyist calibre to wife Palin’s move to “governance.”
The promulgation of the Branchflower inform on Troopergate lays it every bare, and Palin’s response to it makes the housing against electing her:
“If you feature the report, you will wager that there was null unlawful or unethical about exchange a compartment member,” Palin said as boarded her crusade charabanc in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “You got to feature the report.”
But as the very incoming declare of the CNN inform cited above says:
Palin violated state ethics law by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator’s inform for the nonpartisan Legislative Council over Friday.
Palin says there was null unlawful or unethical, just feature the report. And the inform says? It was unlawful and unethical.
That, under connatural circumstances, would tell you every you requirement to know: the politico Vice Presidential politician is a insane loon, dangerously disconnected from reality.
But wait, there’s more!
Even if you had some think to grant her this fantasy that she’d done null illegal — and it’s difficult to do when Branchflower cites the very land of the Alaska cipher she violated — this would still go to the very essence of what makes something that is not by itself illegal nonetheless an abuse of power.
The McCain camp’s spin here is that since the inform makes no congratulations that malefactor charges be leveled, it’s therefore a housing of “no harm, no foul.”
But abuse of noesis is very real, even though sometimes it’s not by itself a violation of the law (notwithstanding the fact that, again, in this housing it actually is). It’s the function of the grouping the governor and her husband pressured as subordinates that creates the difficulty here. Anybody else occupation the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety this many times after existence told repeatedly that such contacts are illegal, create liability, and staleness cease — and having the germane law locution so feature to them — just gets hung up on. But there was no stopping the obsessive, vindictive Palins, even as Commissioner Monegan warned them explicitly that this could eventually create an enormous semipolitical difficulty for them. Instead, the Palins desirable and indeed insisted on delivering the message behindhand Monegan’s dismissal: respond to do this governor (and her husband) illegal favors and you will be fired too.
Did she have the legal dominance to fire Monegan for no reason? Yes. Did she have the legal dominance to do so for individualized gain? No.
That is what abuse of noesis is. Doing it anyway.
Consider today how every of this squares with the fact that wife Palin in her debate with Joe Biden said she thought the noesis of the vice tenure could be increased even beyond where Darth Cheney already has brought it.
Add to that the fact that Palin today stands before the advise and public, and lies squarely to our faces that the inform doesn’t feature what it says in black and white. This is perhaps no great feat for her, given that she continues to this day to insist she didn’t support the Bridge to Nowhere, despite the fact that that lie has embellish a domestic joke.
What might this mean, that a McCain/Palin brass would essay to increase her powers as Vice President beyond Cheney’s already insane overreaching, and that at the aforementioned time she insists that her stark violation of the law was no violation at all?
When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.
Yes.
That’s what you get when you hand a ham-fisted idiot the keys to the city state country, folks.
Elect these nutbars, and Todd Palin will be renditioning grouping who cut him soured in traffic.
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