After a few reads of various blogs, I find that I'm not alone when I say I'm angry as hell that Joe Lieberman was allowed to give the Democratic Response today. But it's symptomatic of where the party is and will have an effect on fund raising. I won't be the only one refusing to give to the Democratic party in the near future.

Just where in god's name are Progressive Democrats (aside from Pelosi) in leadership positions? Why would Harry Reid want to piss off those of us who wanted Lieberman gone and recognize that he held on to his seat via the Republicans? Are our leaders so afraid of Loserman's threat to go where he belongs (to the Repugs), that we don't care that our entire agenda gets trashed?

Did the Grammy Awards make a political statement last night when they awarded the Dixie Chicks with five Grammy Awards? Yes, but it was not the statement right wingers believe.

The Chicks win was a matter of artists standing up for artists. We all thought that artists being blacklisted for their politics had ended with Joe McCarthy.

I think the Grammy voters realized that if it could happen to the Dixie Chicks it could happen to them as well.

WAY TO GO CHICKS.

Interesting that A&E is showing “Wedding Wars” so soon after the elections – it’s funny, but deals pretty heavily with gay marriage. Has anyone heard about this?

The Chicago Tribune says the health insurance industry has a plan.

[America's Health Insurance Plans] called on the federal government to spend an additional $300 billion over 10 years to expand public health programs for poor Americans, offer subsidies to working families to buy medical coverage, and support state health reform efforts. But there are no specifics on how the proposals would be financed or provisions for taming rapidly escalating costs.

Sounds more like a plea than a plan, doesn’t it? I have what I think is a better idea, which I’ve already sent to my congressman. What do you think?

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In an op-ed published in the LA Times, Jonah Goldberg attacks Democrats for hypocrisy for moral outrage over recently "retired" Republican Mark Foley's predatory sexual cyber-stalking and possible statutory rape of Congressional Pages. Using a recently coined term, Ephebophile, to flaunt his supposed intellectual superiority to describe Foley's predilections instead of the "casually" used term pedophile. In light of this semantic hair splitting I think a vocabulary lesson is in order. So class, it's time to sharpen your pencils.

While not technically a pedophile, Foley's Pederasty is not what one could say is acceptable behaviour in most modern societies, let alone George Bush's Amerika... more

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

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