The gift that keeps on giving

Just when I think McLame can't get any more pathetic he proves me wrong.

Freddie to Seattle

No, not that Freddy this one. I think I might actually have a second MLS team to root for.

They know.

McCain going to Maine. Why would he do that? Maine is a SOLID Obama lock with a 17 point pollster.com aggregate lead. He's doing it to make sure Susan Collins wins Senate re-election. They need to stop the bleeding and try to keep the Dems from reaching the filibuster proof 60 seats. Expect to see McCain visits in the coming days to Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Minnesota. All states where a Democrat has a very good chance of flipping a Republican seat.

Stealing elections

Republicans only win when fewer people vote. Which is why they try so hard to disenfranchise people and suppress the vote. Too bad for them that this election will be a landslide. Can't steal this one from us.

Will we ever see justice for Don Siegelman?

Don't know who Don Siegelman is? He is the former Governor of Alabama, who was brought up on trumped up corruption charges, convicted, and immediately sent to federal prison for a 7 year sentence. Almost eight months later he was released pending his appeal. There are substantial questions about the case and specifically about the role of one Karl Rove.

Can't come soon enough

LIEberman to be removed from his Chairmanship. Anyone who reads this blog regularly (all 5 of you) knows of my utter contempt for the junior Senator from Connecticut. He needs to just get it over with and become a Republican, I might even be able to muster up some respect for him as a Republican... nah, he'd still be an asshat.

Whaaaasssssssuuuppp!

1 week to go. And then Jan. 20, 2009 can not come soon enough.

R.I.P.

6 years ago yesterday, Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash. As the self-proclaimed "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" he was one of my heroes. An unrepentant and unwavering voice of progressive politics and policies he was often a lonely voice in the wilderness. But today his legacy lives on. I wish he were here to see Obama win and the resurgence of the Democratic party and hopefully a resurgence of progressivism.

Boo hoo!

It's all over but the crying.

And the whining of Bill O'Reilly.

Props to the peeps.

Some may disagree with me but I don't see how Barack Obama would be on the verge of the landslide victory that is about to happen without the netroots. Peter Daou over at Huffington Post agrees.

ManchuCandidate for the win.

Over at Wonkette there is a post about Barack's incredible September fundraising, $150,000,000 (thank you Sarah Palin!). In the comments, ManchuCandidate has a funny observation:

"I wonder if Howard Dean doesn’t call up Harold Ford Jr and Rahm Emanuel every day and go: “50 State Strategy Bitches! Yeeeeeeeeeargh!”"

I bet he does, Manchu, I bet he does.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

Whoever wins Virginia, wins the election.

Which makes these polls especially sweet:
SUSA - 10 point Obama lead
Suffolk - 12 point Obama lead

MWAHAHAHAHA

Image courtesy Daily Kos user Kdoug

Speaking of travel...

1000 pictures from my recent Peru trip are here and here. These are unfiltered so there are some bad ones in the bunch.

Definitely going to Iceland next year

It seems that their economy is in even more of a freefall than ours. Which means Iceland might be one of the few European countries where the dollar is actually worth something. I guess that's a bit opportunistic but, hey, I ain't rich, gotta go where the deals are.