in trying to bring our troops home from Iraq.

That's why the Senate bills to accomplish this have been called "Feingold-Reid" since April 2007.

http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/rel eases/07/20070402.html

the Eric Cantor headfake.

He's an untelegenic guy no one outside his district has ever heard of - how could he possible be a credible VP?

But floating his name makes sense if the GOP wants to get buy-in from the GOP base for the idea of a conservative Jewish candidate...

... who ends up being named Joe.

McCain can't choose Ridge because he's prochoice and James Dobson - who can't stand McCain to begin with - would cut McCain's nuts off.

which primary candidates are you supporting this year?

the biggest problem.

Air America's ads are awful - I'd call them "bottom feeder" ads because I hear so many sleazy "debt relief" services.

I rarely hear "quality" ads from national brands, so I doubt they are making much money. I'm sure their salespeople do their best to get those accounts - I wouldn't blame them.

I heard this was because Air America was "blacklisted" by Corporate America but I don't know if that's accurate.

actually had decent ratings for MSNBC, which is historically trailed FOX and CNN in every time slot. he was fired because he dared to question the war when the White House and FOX made that treasonous.

Donahue's producer Jeff Cohen wrote a book about it called "Cable Confidential."

Here's his Q&A with Amy Goodman:
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/11/c able_news_confidential_fair_founder_jeff

AMY GOODMAN: And then, of course, Donahue was forced off the air. Was it because his show was failing ratings-wise?

JEFF COHEN: Well, think about it. When his show was taken off the air three weeks before the Iraq invasion began, it was the most watched program on the channel. And it’s very rare in TV news, where the most watched program—or TV—where a most watched program gets cancelled.

And, you know, the day after Donahue was terminated, that memo leaked out. It was never supposed to get public. An NBC internal memo about MSNB, it said: “Donahue represents a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are antiwar, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administration’s motives.” What they really worried about is we had—we tried to get dissenters on there that would say, “You know, this might not be about weapons. This impending invasion might be about oil or military bases or empire.” And to question motives is almost a cardinal rule, to say that the motives of U.S. foreign policy might not be pure, that’s not something they want.

And, you know, that NBC internal memo that leaked a day after Donahue was terminated, it went on to describe their nightmare scenario: “Donahue would become a home for the liberal antiwar agenda”—I’m quoting—“at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity.”

Now, I know what you were doing in that period, and I know what independent journalists were trying to do, which was ask the tough questions before our young men and women are sent to kill or be killed overseas. They wouldn’t let us do it, and they wanted us waving flags. And what I saw inside the mainstream at MSNBC and elsewhere is when journalists are so busy waving flags, they don’t have the energy to do their jobs, which is to ask the questions before the bombs start flying.

I can't find them on her web site, including her "blog."

I just made it really easy with a petition to Biden, Boxer, Clinton, Dodd, Feingold, Kennedy, Kerry, Obama, Reid, and Schumer:

http://www.democrats.com/hold-the-wireta p-bill

but Feingold needs to be smacked occasionally just like the others - remember he was the deciding vote that let John Ashcroft's AG nomination out of the Judiciary Committee in 2001, because Ashcroft once gave him a ride home in the rain.

... we'll never pass a single progressive bill if we give our elected Democrats a pass for voting against us 50% of the time.

every elected Democrat should always live in fear of a progressive primary. it does wonders for their voting records - just look at Al Wynn, proud co-sponsor of Kucinich's impeach Cheney bill, H. Res. 333
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z? d110:HE00333:@@@P

we don't have 40 votes for a filibuster - we can't even get 30 votes for the Feingold-Reid amendment to set a deadline for getting our troops out of Iraq,
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/ro ll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?con gress=110&session=1&vote=00362#p osition

even though Americans support that position by 73%-22%
http://www.democrats.com/iraq-poll-1

why can't Dodd (or some other Senator) just put a hold on the bill?

Republicans hold bills all the time.

in theory, SCHIP should divide the anti-abortion movement because true pro-lifers don't believe life begins at conception and ends at birth, the way "pro-life" political pimps like Ralph Reed do.

true pro-lifers also oppose the death penalty and war.

Because of the crucial role of sex education, Republican anti-abortion policies increase abortions, while Democratic pro-choice policies decrease abortions.

But evangelicals don't analyze using facts, they rely on theology which is why they fall for GOP rhetoric rather than Democratic results.

Kucinich is the only candidate who wants to get completely out of Iraq AND impeach Cheney and Bush AND adopt single-payer health care.

But Kos and the Big Blogs refuse to take him seriously so we're all looking for the next most progressive, which is a tough call.

Meanwhile Hillary keeps pulling further ahead of the others in the polls so it's hardly worth struggling to make the right decision.

that's absolutely right.

Republicans know all about the "gender gap" and they have their own strategy which is to get men out to vote.

1992 was famously the "year of the woman," the furious reaction to the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings in which women voters elected Bill Clinton as well as Senators Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Patty Murray, and Carol Moseley-Braun.

But Hillary's health care debacle in 1993-94 helped make 1994 the "year of the angry white man" which elected Newt Gingrich and the Republican Revolutionaries. The Republican Revolution was fueled by misogynist Rush Limbaugh, who was famously made an "honorary member" of the GOP class of 1994.

Newt is gone but Rush is more powerful than ever, and his vintage Hillary-hating is now amplified by an entire army of talk radio hosts, male AND female. You can expect to see a whole lot of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Melanie Morgan, Kate O'Beirne, and Karen Hughes on your teevee as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy lets their women do they heavy hitting against Hillary.