Fellow Democrats:

Just in case you haven’t seen Alan’s new ad on TV yet, you can check it out on-line at the DailyKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/25/155020/561/340/556978

It's been a year since we last awarded our highly-coveted Cojones Award. But Rep. Dennis Kucinich has definitely earned one for informing House Democrats that he will soon introduce Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney.

Kucinich knows full well that he is defying Speaker Pelosi and the overwhelming majority of House Democrats who are terrified of Cheney, Bush, and especially Karl Rove. But Kucinich is driven by an even greater fear, that Bush-Cheney-Rove will start yet another disastrous war, this time in Iran.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi unloaded on George W. Bush - and earned a coveted Cojones Award! Here's the video; transcript courtesy of Atrios.

"If you want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and therefore improve our national security situation, you can't do it if you're a Republican because you are too wedded to the oil companies. We have two oilmen in the white house. The logical follow-up from that is $3 a gallon gasoline. There is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect.

After 28 years of surrendering to the Republican Right, Democrats.com wants elected Democrats to finally show some cojones. So today we are announcing a new award: the Cojones Award for Democrats who show some.

Our first Cojones Award winner is Rep. Lacy Clay (MO-1).

How did he earn our prestigious award? Simply by telling it like it is.

Rep. Clay calls for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq