Food for thought before the election:
“I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”
- Dick Cheney, CNN, June 20, 2005
You've probably already heard about the race-baiting ad in Tennessee. Newsweek covers Harold Ford, Jr. in a better light than Republicans ever will, and discusses what Democrats may do if they succeed in recapturing both houses of Congress.
Ford, while not your most liberal of Democrats, does have a religious angle that may serve as a template for those Dems who believe but don't necessarily wear their religion on their sleeves. And the timing couldn't be better as evangelicals are wavering in their lockstep support for Bush and his ilk.
Meanwhile, Doonesbury lampoons the Republicans latest attempt at scaring people into voting Republican.
News flash: Bush says he isn't about "staying the course" in Iraq. Oh, really?
The U.S. Institute of Peace warns of grim outcomes to our war in Iraq. Fareed Zakaria discusses how we should be responding to the mess in Iraq, instead of how Bush is.
Telling information from our veterans, as polled by VoteVets.org. The public agrees that more needs done than Bush's bloviating, by very high percentages.
DailyKos carries some data by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), whom we've covered in the past. It shows the grades of Dems and Repugnican'ts in their support of our troops. At the IAVA site are the ranks by state and the legislation used as criteria. Thankfully my Democratic representation has done very well. Check to see how your's did, and throw out the Republicans that only say they support the troops and never follow through.
Case in point? John Boehner of Ohio, who says Rumsfeld is doing a marvelous job. Is that like doing a "heck-of-a-job"?
And Cheney swears that the terrorists are trying to influence the election. As if that's worse than his lying and fear-mongering. At least the terrorists fess up to the blood they shed. Cheney merely washes his hands of it and blames someone else.
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