Theda Skocpol says it’s time for every Dem and progressive to get on board with Obama’s final push for Health Care Reform.
“We need to preserve traditional values for the future of our children. Children must be raised with morals and principles. As a society, we must provide them with a secured and loving environment that allows them to flourish.”
Those are words of California state Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) at a rally he sponsored to protest the dangers of gay marriage back in 2005.
Ashburn has now taken a “leave of absence” from the day job after getting picked up on a DUI after leaving a gay night club on Wednesday morning. Ashburn of course was a longtime opponent of gay rights and gay marriage in particular. So just how anti-gay was Ashburn’s public record? Justin Elliott’s tallies up the votes and positions.
Gun-rights extremists and survivalists are rallying around Bossier Parish Sheriff Larry Deen and his anti-terrorist, war wagon militia. “This will save lives!!!” writes one commenter at Gun Rights Forum.
Whatever Harry Reid is doing to raise his reelect numbers back in Nevada, it ain’t working.
We look at the latest poll numbers.
Wolf Blitzer just acknowledged on the air that yesterday’s “Dept of Jihad?” chyron was “offensive.” He also said, “CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism. Lawyers at the Justice Department are patriotic Americans.”
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The long and not very distinguished history of the filibuster.
If the Founders had believed in reconciliation they would have put it in the Constitution.
(JM, Smoking out the irony-challenged, one post at a time.)
New York Times reporters in Iraq are live-blogging today’s election.