Karl Rove, You Got Served
Karl Rove was served with a subpoena Sunday, Oct. 24th, 2010, as he arrived at CBS studios to appear on "Face the Nation." The subpoena was to compel Rove to provide a deposition in a lawsuit that...
View ArticleMONDAY is the Day We Win - With GOTV !
I'm making this diary short and sweet. We've almost halfway to victory and proving the Washington D.C. pundits and pollsters wrong. Since the spring of this year, we've heard about the 'enthusiasm gap'...
View ArticleEquality Maine endorses Cutler!
Sort of...Just got the E-mail this morning. I will post it in its entirety below the fold. In a nutshell they say that Cutler is coming in 2nd and that he is not a religious zealot so vote for him...
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Morning Feature:OH-Gov-What enthusiasm gap?
I hate polls. I hate polling. I am not fond of newspapers or TV "news." The questions are who is registered to vote and who actually votes. We’ll know the answers tonight, but to paraphrase Ted...
View ArticleHey You Guuuuuuys! Let's Not be Hasty.
Ok, so I'm mixing Goonies and the Lord of the Rings, but with this election why not? Pippin and Chunk couldn't win votes for small dog catcher and tree top remover. Just look at them! Pippin is...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Cedric Richmond
Good morning, Mr. Congressman-elect, and congratulations. I was happy to vote for you and I'm very happy you won your race in our extremely Democratic district. But I'm also sad that, for you to win,...
View ArticleOhio: A Bigger F-ing Disaster
With all due respect to another diarist, Ohio has been probably thee number 1 big fucking disaster of this evening. We not only lost the 3 US House seats that 538 projected us to lose, but we also lost...
View ArticleME-Gov, A Truly Sad Day For Maine
The voters have spoken. A committed and loud minority of teabaggers combined with a few angry independents have elected Paul LePage as the Governor of Maine with 38% of the vote (independent Eliot...
View ArticleSneak Preview: How the GOP Plans to Govern in 2011
Ohio has the dubious distinction of being the laboratory for GOP government. Since the early 80's, the GOP has made it the testing ground for dirty campaign tactics, election stealing and corruption,...
View ArticleIt only took Kasich 12 hours to kill Ohio train project- 8000 jobs gone
Kasich: Passenger rail is 'dead' "Passenger rail is not in Ohio's future,'' the Republican said at his first news conference after Tuesday's win over Gov. Ted Strickland. "That train is dead." Guess...
View ArticleUpdate: Obama cuts cost of high risk insurance program
Some interesting and hopeful news from HHS today says the WH has decided to cut the cost of premiums in the HIR Plan's new Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan. Recent news reports showed little more...
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New House GOP plans... something!
It's true! The GOP's transition committee, led by Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, is holding its first meeting Monday evening in House Minority Leader John Boehner's office and is looking for ways to change...
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The Night Train: The Path for Ohio High Speed Rail
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence One of the consequences of the 2010 General Elections was the election of RepubliCorp Governors in Ohio and Wisconsin who politically neutralized...
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The Snowe conundrum
Sen. Olympia Snowe is proud of her moderation. So proud, in fact, that she thinks it'll protect her relection chances in 2012. And looking at her approvals in Maine, her 56-34 are among the best (if...
View ArticleIf Pictures Speak Louder...
Republicans in the House are determined to keep tax cuts for their wealthy friends, and I want to share a graph I put together based on recent statistics gathered by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
View ArticleNew Maine GOP House Speaker Stole $1.6M from Taxpayers
This month Maine voters elected a Tea Party governor (thanks to a 3-way race) and turned control of the State House over to the Republicans for the first time in 30 years. Governor-elect LePage got a...
View ArticleDid The Maine Twins Just Teabag Themselves?
I was trying to think of a pithy title and if there is a better one, I'll change it. But the title marks something disturbing that has happened. It's not so disturbing that the Maine Twins won't vote...
View ArticleBob Nutting: Turning down a silver platter
As Democrats, we tend to be accustomed to recycled paper plates from which we select our cheese. It is understandable, then, why we were unable to recognize a real silver platter when it was presented...
View ArticleThe financial scandal you haven't heard about, part 1
This is a story that needs to be told. It is yet again another story of a businessman screwing the public to make himself richer. It is the story of thousands of people who thought their financial...
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