You beat me to the punch with Jeff-Beau Sessions.  He's an embarrassment to Alabama, the South and the United States of America.  

Here's another twist -- last Friday an Alabama Republican made up an attack on his child, apparently in an attempt to garner sympathy, ala Sarah Palin.  Naturally, the local media have so far let him get away with this charade.

Phil Williams falsely accuses Jenny Askins

Williams' attack on Askins is perfect example of "it's OK if you're a Republican" used in conjunction with "whatever I'm doing, I'll accuse you of doing it too" and even a dash of "when all else fails, lie."  Shades of Sarah Palin.  Accuse the mean old Democrat (falsely, if need be) of being ugly to little kids and get some sympathy votes and free publicity for yourself.  See, it's OK for Williams to use his son's name on doorhangers, but he screams bloody murder when he imagines the other side is using the boy's name.

I hope AL-03 will be among the shocking Democratic wins.  Josh Segall is a young candidate, quite progressive by Alabama standards and is working that (R+4) district hard. He's already on the DCCC's Emerging Races list but many of the traditional party types in Alabama have written him off.  I think he has a real shot at it, particularly if the Obama wave is a big one.

M*A*S*H is on TVLand.  Hallmark is chic flicks.

Those are all Republican leaning districts and I wonder if the Texas Democratic Party tries to discourage candidates who "can't win."  I've heard several stories from my own red state of how the party doesn't want anyone to run against GOP incumbents so those incumbents don't start raising and spending money and "swamp local Democrats with a flood of cash."

Sounds crazy to me, but that mindset is out there, dug into some state and local parties.  Makes it hard to get a challenger for every race.

How many people come in on the H-1B visas?  We've had a lot of local news here on the H-2B program and I understand the limit on those is currently 66,000 per year, but the total (including those previously approved) is quite a bit higher.  Of course the H-2Bs are low skill/low wage jobs.

A skilled position puts a much higher salary at issue, and large numbers of those are even worse for the economy.  Good to see Edwards and hopefully some other candidates "getting it."

I've heard this phrase all my life.  It means your family was poor, had no assets, probably no education.  For example, "Carl Albert came from nothing and rose to be Speaker of the House."  As someone who also came from nothing, it doesn't grate on me.

Republicans didn't like their 4th Amendment rights enough to vote that FISA bill down -- not the Republicans in Washington anyway.

Darn!  When I was looking for a Missouri story it struck me that you hadn't written anything this week and your blog looked different.  You get a rain check for double coverage in the future, and I'm obviously going to have to do this again.  Better next time.

Somehow I skipped over Washington and apparently no one submitted anything either.  Your state gets an extra mention next time I do the Roundup.

Another state that was missed is Mississippi, which is on the state blog list at MyDD, but not the one at Open Left -- that's the one I used.  Anyway, Mississippi has a fine blog in Cotton Mouth, so I'll mention their guest post on the Dwell Time Bill for U.S. Troops, plus a rain check.

Question for 50 state blog gurus:  Why are the state blog lists different, and is there an "official list?"

Is there no record of their expenditures?  

Too bad there doesn't seem to be an effective way to get some payback on Jeff Sessions for leading the charge to kill immigration reform.  Alabama doesn't have a very large bloc of Hispanic voters, although if we could come up with a strong challenger they might be enough to make the difference.

On the one hand, I will miss you at MyDD, on the other hand, I'm really looking forward to what you will be doing in your next incarnation.

Good luck.

We don't have another legislative election until 2010 in Alabama.  The Senate is very tight right now, in reality, with 5 Democrats siding with 12 Republicans to form a minority of 17 which generally blocks the other 18 Democrats.  Our biggest problem is that party label has little to do with progressivism.  The Democrats are all over the board from far right to left of center.