Tell Democrats to Freeze Out Fox News

The Nevada Democratic Party is planning to have Fox News Channel to host the debate with all the Democratic Party presidential candidates here in Reno this August. How stupid!

You can read more about it here and, if you agree that the Nevada State Democratic Party should partner with a different media organization, please sign their petition.

After you do that, be sure to also sign this petition which will be sent to Nevada Democratic Party Chair Todd Collins, Nevada Speaker of the Assembly Barbara Buckley, Nevada State Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, U.S. Representative Shelley Berkley, and Senator Harry Reid.

You Go To War With the President You Have, Not the One You Wish You Had

Ehud Olmert: "Iran can be stopped without violence"

Despite what the neocons would like you to believe...

There is no need for military action to stop Iran from moving forward with its nuclear program, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Tuesday night.

Underhanded Republicans and their DLC influenced enablers

On Iraq, "It's Us vs. Dems' Washington Consultants" by David Sirota

In the above blog posted by David Sirota, there is a link to a three-minute audio excerpt of a conference call that was recently held by Senator Russ Feingold.

In that conference call, Feingold talks about how this is a battle between so-called "centrists" from the Clinton administration and other quarters, who largely supported the war from the start, and the rest of the country.

Feingold is SPOT ON.

Clearly, timid DINOs are choosing to follow the DLC "Playbook" regarding how to react to the escalation errr "surge" ... right to the "T."

... [Democrats] should use Congress as their bully pulpit -- to pass a resolution expressing their lack of confidence in Bush's new plan ... Democrats could also usefully press the White House to start planning for the worst -- large scale ethnic cleansing, refugee flows, and regional intervention -- should Iraq spiral deeper into chaos.

That's right, only oppose Bush's "new plan" but not the war itself. We certainly wouldn't want to bring attention to the fact that we should have never gotten into this war in the first place nor that so many in the party voted enthusiastically for this insane war now would we???
And, of course, while it is good to blame the President for all that is going on, we certainly shouldn't do anything to actually stop him:

Some Democrats would like to go further -- by withholding funding for the additional troops. For a variety of reasons, however, this is a bridge too far. First, where Democrats (joined by some Republicans) would unite behind a resolution disapproving the Bush plan, many will be loath to cut off funding for troops that have already started deploying to Iraq. Why put the party's disunity on public display?

If these people were back in elementary school and trying to deal with the school bully, they'd say that, while we of course oppose him, we'd better continue paying him a part of our lunch money and let him continue to beat up those who don't - otherwise we might appear to be weak!

Makes me wanna puke!