Author: Cho

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The ePluribus Media Community site (except here, I put the frog first, in honor of Booman).

One of the four frogs of the Frog Bridge

By my count, there were a little over 100 who showed up to stand on the corner across from the Frog Bridge.

More photos below the fold.

Looking toward the full moon and the streetlight

Assembling

A portion of the crowd from across the street

Young, old, in-between.

Okay… short version:

I have been waiting for Frog Marching all summer — but not just the “Rove out of the White House” variety.

I have also been patiently waiting for the artists’ frogs to come to Willimantic.  Finally, a few have started to show up.

And this revolutionary frog (below) alludes to the real story of the “not at all famous” frog battle of Willimantic.

Nathan Hale

All the good photos above are compliments of the Better Half, from whom I stole them.

cross posted at Dkos

This week’s The New Yorker (not apparently on line yet) has a Comment, Name Calling by George Packer, that pretty much telegraphs  what the GOP package is that they will be use to sell Americans just in time for the 2006 elections.

“The President’s chief of staff, Andrew Card, once said of the war planning for Iraq, ‘You don’t introduce new products in August,’ but the rebranding of the war formerly known as the G.W.O.T has all the earmarks of a full-blown summer marketing campaign.  What’s going on here?”

No surprises… Packer speculates… the pull out of American Troops from Iraq.

“It seems likely that the Administration will begin to withdraw American forces from Iraq early next year, well ahead of the midterm elections in November — regardless of the realities.”

Just received this email from Emily’s list and thought its findings rather intriquing.

Hope ya’ll don’t mind my using my maiden diary writing here at Booman as a “cut and paste” of their Monitor’s finding… which is basically an increasing gender gap.  It also seems, that women who supported W in 2004 are defecting.  

Key grafs from the email are below the flip:

EMILY’s List Women’s Monitor shows widening gender gap

Democrats have a tremendous opportunity to win women in 2006, according to the latest EMILY’s List Women’s Monitor – “Women at the Center of Political Change.” The gender gap stands at a whopping 16 points, largely because women are deeply dissatisfied with the Republican agenda.

Republicans have failed to hold on to the support of the women who helped re-elect Bush in 2004, with one-third of female Bush voters saying they plan to vote Democratic or are undecided heading into the 2006 congressional elections.

News coverage of the Women’s Monitor has been extensive, with stories by in the Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, and Slate, among other national media.

The results from the Women’s Monitor are just one indication that Democrats have an opportunity to make great gains in 2006, with EMILY’s List leading the way to victory.

“From the intrusion of government into private family decisions, the risk created by efforts to privatize Social Security, and the `my way or the highway’ foreign policy of the Bush administration, the Republicans’ own agenda is driving women away from their party.”
EMILY’s List President Ellen R. Malcolm

The report is here: Emily’s List Report