Open Thread

12 Comments

1. 

   Indianadem on April 29, 2006 at 9:21 pm

   You go Ned! Move ’em on out.

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     Brementown Musician on April 30, 2006 at 12:19 pm

     I spent some time talking to Ned Lamont about a week and a half ago.  He was in between fundraisers and came and spent about an hour at a rather hastily convened Oakland Drinking Liberally.  What a great guy!  He is confident, poised and unabashedly progressive, and he’s feeling pretty good about his chances.  Apparently, Joe’s threat to run as an independent has had huge repercussions within the state Dem Party — I guess for some strange reason, they think that party loyalty should maybe be a two-way street.

     One thing that was pretty funny, he was headed to LA for a fundraiser the next night at Norman Lear’s house, and he was going to meet Kos for the first time there.  He sort of kept scratching his head and saying, “Geez, these blogs are just AMAZING!  Every single time they write something about me on the front page of Daily Kos, my website gets an extra 1,000 hits.  It’s incredible!”

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   Knoxville Progressive on April 29, 2006 at 9:29 pm

   According to the AP, organizers said 300,000 turned out, and the crowd stretched for 10 blocks marching down Broadway.  Police did not release an estimate of the crowd size.  Has anyone else heard any news about the protest?  

   My son in college is there today. 🙂

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     BooMan on April 29, 2006 at 9:30 pm

     there are two photo diaries about it.  One from ask and one from clammy.

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   Renee in Ohio on April 29, 2006 at 9:50 pm

   Lonesome diary that needs some attention. We have a primary in Ohio this coming Tuesday, and Subodh Chandra is one of the Dem candidates for Attorney General. That is actually the only major race on the Dem side that is actually contested.

   The birth of “Flat Subodh”
   http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2006/4/29/1347/10829

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   KNUCKLEHEAD on April 29, 2006 at 10:33 pm

   Right now on tv the idiots are yukking it up. How ashamed I am right now, that Bush`s media are having a nice big sitdown dinner & joking about how stupid Bush is while soldiers are dying, dead bodies are still buried in NO rubble & civilians are being tortured overseas. I`m not part of them, but I`m very ashamed.

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     idredit on April 29, 2006 at 10:47 pm

     OF course they’re yukking it up. Lots to celebrate.

     Fox News just moved its offices into the White House, making it official.
     Iraq now has a goivernment. Everything is ticket boo.

     Like yor JB take.

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       idredit on April 29, 2006 at 11:12 pm

       At the WH correspondence dinner, the yukking included

       At the Reuters’ party you could get a drink called The Cheney Shot–made with Wild Turkey

       And Valerie Plame, when asked why she cametonight and what would she say if she met the president? Her reply,

       I’m sorry, I’m wearing Armani”

       (h/t: Huffpost)

5. 

   Nanette on April 29, 2006 at 10:59 pm

   I really hope Ned wins, not only because he would make a much better senator, but because Lieberman is so tone-deaf that if he wins, I’m afraid that he won’t say “Whew! close shave, I’d better listen more to my constituents”, but will instead believe, like Bush, that he had his “accountability moment”. And become much worse than he is now.

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   idredit on April 29, 2006 at 11:00 pm

   This from The Sunday Times, UK

   US wants it both ways – closed borders and cheap labour

   From An invisible army of workers strikes for the right to be seen

   America’s reliance on illegal immigrant labour — to keep the economy buzzing, prices low and the standard of living higher than anywhere else in the world — is the worst-kept secret in the US economy.

   [.]The US Government finds itself in the peculiar position of spending huge amounts of money to police a vast border, ineffectively, in order to keep out the cheap labour on which the US economy depends.[.]

   American conservatives now want the millions of illegal immigrants in the US classified as felons and a fence built along the Mexican border.

   In the meantime, many of those same conservatives, like everyone else, will continue to employ those same immigrants to cut their grass, look after their children and scrub their lavatories.

7. 

   KNUCKLEHEAD on April 29, 2006 at 11:04 pm

   I`m not ashamed of Steve Colbert. He shredded Bush hard.
   Thanks idredit.

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   Ed J on April 30, 2006 at 2:45 pm

   Party leaders were so rattled by the challenge that Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called Lamont asking him to back off.

   “Some of the party brass said, ‘Ned, don’t jeopardize a safe seat,’ ” Lamont recently told students at Southern Connecticut State University, who gathered for a meet-and-greet session. “But you’re not going to lose a senator. You’re going to gain a Democrat.”