Matt Stoller did an analysis of League of Conseration Voters endorsement patterns of incumbent Democrats and Republicans. The result: it looks as though Democrats must reach a higher lifetime LCV score to receive an endorsement than Republicans. Does LCV include Republicans, even though their voting patterns aren’t as strong as Democrats, just to appear bipartisan? Is there a similar trend with other single-issue advocacy groups? CONservative groups aren’t shy about discriminating against Democrats. Think of the NRA. A Democrat would have to be very conservative before the NRA endorsed them in a race. Now think of NARAL. They continually endorse Republicans that are anti-choice. The progressive movement needs to do some serious self-examination moving forward. A progressive agenda cannot be fought for and enacted when advocacy groups get behind people who don’t believe in that agenda. LCV asks activists for money. Activists would do well to keep track of how LCV operates when deciding whether or not to donate. A table of Colorado officials can be found after the fold. The LCV Scorecard can be found here.
Sarah Palin is a super-socialist. She’s touring the country trying to scare voters into believing Barack Obama is a socialist because of his tax policy. What kind of tax policy does Sarah Palin believe in? A policy that dispenses tax money from oil and gas drilling to Alaskan citizens. Is that oil and gas exclusively sold to Americans? No, it’s sold overseas. The rest of America then pays more for oil and gas that we buy from overseas. So mainland U.S. consumers are paying more at the pump to give every Alaskan a $3,200 check every year. There’s no way I’m voting for this hypocrite.
I’m voting for Barack Obama in spite of Colin Powell. Powell continues to demonstrate he’s more interested in power than standing up for what he believes. If Obama was behind in the polls, I doubt very seriously Powell would have endorsed him. Powell wants Obama’s ear. I hope Obama doesn’t give it to him.
Vote for McCain. The last 10 seconds are hilarious!
Talk to your parents about McCain. Some really clever videos are being produced this election cycle.
Proponents of “drill or bust” purposefully leave out an important part of reality. In ten years time, off-shore drilling, for instance, will produce ~200,000 barrels of oil per day. OPEC is holding an emergency meeting this Friday (three days from now) and they’re proposing to cut current production by 2,000,000 barrels per day. OPEC wants oil to cost $70-$90 per barrel, which this year meant $3.00-$4.50 gas in America. Any gain in supply from the U.S. will be met with cuts in supply from OPEC. There will be no cut in oil or gas prices if we drill more.
Do you enjoy “Are You Smarter Than a 5th-Grader?” Sarah Palin shows she can’t answer a 3rd graders’ question.
How the Banksters Made a Complete Killing Off the Bailout is a good article. Much was made in the corporate media about how strong the oversight over the Bailout was going to be. I didn’t trust that it would be there and the details in this article validate that view. The Democratic-led Congress is going to own the fallout from the financial crisis. I really hoped they would make a hard push for tough oversight. They still can…
