Tomorrow, Monday, is the last day of Blue America's fundraiser for Keith Ellison and Mike Obermueller, two Minnesota progressive champions. You still have time to click this link, watch a little "Policy of Truth," see a photo of the prize-- a rare and collectible RIAA-certified double platinum award for the Mode's Violator-- and help us make sure Keith and Mike win next year.
People in Santa Clarita are breathing a sigh of relief that after more than 2 corruption-marred decades Buck McKeon is finally retiring from Congress to further disgrace himself as a lobbyist for the arms manufacturers and military contractors who have funded his congressional career. Good riddance! But if it were only that simple!
I know this isn't going to go over well, but a deranged Jewess went ballistic on me the other day for mildly criticizing Israel and the Jewish congressmen who carry water for its harsh policies in Washington. She accused DWT of being a right-wing anti-semitic site. Ken and I are both ethnically Jewish. I recollect, in fact, that his pops was a rabbi.
Another poll came out yesterday, this one from the Public Religion Research Institute, showing overwhelming support by Americans for comprehensive immigration reform. Bottom line: 63% of Americans favor a path to citizenship-- including 60% of grassroots Republicans! Opposition comes from two places: overt racists and the Republican House leadership.
A few weeks ago Zbigniew Brzezinski, responding to another anti-Iran NY Times editorial, mused to his Twitter followers, "Do our Middle East "allies" really have our best interests at heart when they clamor for us to go to war for them?" Those allies are are Israel, Saudi Arabia and it's Gulf s
Buck'n'Schmuck- California anti-Latino RepublicansCA-25 is divided into three valleys: Simi Valley in the west, the Santa Clarita Valley in the center, and the Antelope Valley in the east. Last year, Buck McKeon lost the Antelope Valley third of his district (Lancaster, Palmdale, Pearblossom). Latino voter participation has exploded in CA-25, but especially in the Antelope Valley.
Santa Clarita Assemblyman Scott Wilk is the kind of commonsense, mainstream Republican from the old days-- not hopeless... and still worth reasoning with. Today he's the co-chair of elections for the Assembly GOP Caucus and he's worried that some of his sleazy colleagues, particularly the ones in Washington, are spoiling his party's brand even more than it has already been. He was optimistic about holding three Republican seats against strong Democratic attacks next year.
"The real scandal in Washington isn't what's illegal; it's what's legal." It's why I'm always writing about "legalistic bribes" and it's how 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft began his report Sunday on how congressmembers skirt the law to profit from their offices.
On Thursday Justin Amash (R-MI) told a crowd of libertarians at the Liberty Political Action Conference that Senators John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) "are on the extreme fringes of American society in terms of their views on war.” Amash is correct about McCain and Graham but this week he voted to slash $40 billio
