IntLawGrrls: A Tale of 2 Platforms is a comparison of the two parties' platforms on the issues of torture and the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
I know that when a candidate is weak in his own party like McCain, or faces a powerful minority like Obama did with Clinton, platforms often are at least as much a reflection of the party activists than of the candidates' own views, but even so it's pretty telling.
They're having a contest at Act Blue: Blue America Candidates and Annette Taddeo is only (at this writing) TEN contributions short of taking the lead.
The contest is for the number of donors, not the amounts, so even a $1 contribution helps — though of course several dollars would be nice too.
How about $1? Right now?
UPDATE (8/3, 2:30pm): She's ahead, but only by a hair — please help keep her there.
My Friday McBush Bashing is growing out of control as the news world goes all Palin all the time (and as she hides from the media in a secret undisclosed location — in the best GOP Veepish sytle).
Do I let it keep growing, or do an interim edition?
('Soulmate' reference for those who came in late)
I think only celebrities make the cover of US magazine, don't you?
Here's what incumbent GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-18) said about McCain's impulsive choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin,
“I thought 'wow, what a great ticket'. I think it was needed for our Republican Party to reach out to women, to those independent voters and I think the governor of Alaska is an independent thinker just like John McCain has been.”
Apparently, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (DINO-FL), who is chairing the DCCC’s Red-to-Blue program but somehow has neglected to throw a single dollar of her money to Annette Taddeo, doesn't share her good friend Illeana's analysis of the virtues of the Palin choice. She said,
Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton….Women in this country don't want a candidate on the ballot just because of the parts that she has….It's not just electing a woman for the sake of getting a women over there.” Instead, she said, women want equal pay for equal work, protection of reproductive rights, access to affordable health care for their children etc.
Which sounds right to me. But it just raises the question — again! — as to why Debbie Wasserman-Schultz refuses to support Annette Taddeo, a great local candidate running against Ileana who is just a hard-core Republican candidate, one who routinely opposes all those things that Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she is for.
Send Annette that check Debbie! And tell your friends they should too.
Economic sage Alan Blinder asks Is History Siding With Obama's Economic Plan?
The stark contrast between the whiz-bang Clinton years and the dreary Bush years is familiar because it is so recent. But while it is extreme, it is not atypical. Data for the whole period from 1948 to 2007, during which Republicans occupied the White House for 34 years and Democrats for 26, show average annual growth of real gross national product of 1.64 percent per capita under Republican presidents versus 2.78 percent under Democrats.
Like they say, “If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.”
Jotwell Blenderlaw