This is it

When I see these faces, I admit to a visceral reaction; kinda like I get when I see a snake. I want them to be placed in check because they are damaging my country and if we don't stanch the bleeding now, there may not be a country to save come 2008. (another graphic courtesy of Doc Larry. Hat tip and crisp salute to you, Sir, for all the graphics you have been kind enough to share the last couple of weeks.) This sign was spotted in Springfield, MO - no bastion of liberalism. So c'mon those of you in the rest of Missouri - lets help our brothers and sisters mount a comeback in southwest Missouri. It looks like the seeds have been planted for a grassroots open rebellion against the assumed. What can I do to help you guys? Big hat-tip to Granny Geek for leaving that sign laying around where I could co-opt it.

Election Day

This is it folks, the day we have been waiting for, the day we take back our country from those who have stolen it from us and trashed our liberties, all the while decreasing our stature and making us less and less safe.

Go to the polls if you have not already, and cast your vote. Remember to use the optical scan machines and not the touch-screen vote-flippers. Optical scan ballots can be hand counted in the event of a recount. We have worked and networked, we got out the vote and we phone banked. I posted like a woman obsessed. Okay, I am a woman obsessed, but still...

It is so an election in a politically active household. Newspapers and pizza boxes are taking over the joint. The dumpster is handy, but being Democrats we recycle, so we are just dealing for now.

Today is the most significant election day of my lifetime. The day we finally get to issue a stinging rebuke to this president and his failed policies and pogroms. As he hit the campaign trail, limiting his appearances to supposed friendly territory, his popularity dropped and the opponents of the candidates he campaigned for got the post-presidential appearance bump.

Here in Missouri, it is going to be a long night. If the margin of victory is less than 10,000 in the senate race between Claire McCaskill and Jim Talent there will be a recount. It is possible that we will not know the outcome for a day or two. We may see lawsuits filed by noon.

I have never lived in the Kansas 02 a single day of my life. But I have issued a lot of units in the VA hospital in Leavenworth, and we are a military family. I want what is best for that district and I fervently believe that that is Nancy Boyda. That is a race I will be watching. The members of the military who have kids vote where they are stationed because they have kids in school. The military is ready for change. This is the biggest disention in the ranks that I have seen in my entire life. What is happening is historic. Both Leavenworth and Fort Riley are in the Kansas 02. (As to that dissent among officers...I told you so...months ago). There is also a blue wave washing over Kansas that is going to lift the Boyda boat.

Dennis Moore in the Kansas 03 and Kathleen Sebelius are sailing to reelection, and Phill Kline and Paul Morrison are set to switch jobs. Paul is going to win the Attorney Generals race, and he will have to vacate his position as Johnson County Prosecutor. Phill Kline will be able to secure that gig, and he lives in Shawnee. And he will fuck up there too and that will hopefully be the end of his political career. On Wednesday we start looking for a candidate to unseat that Bush appologist Pat Roberts. He has abused his spot on the intelligence committee and it is time for him to go. Slattery, you out there? Come home. Kansas needs you, because we want Dennis Moore to stay right the hell where he is. No other Democrat can hold the 03 so securely, we are not sacrificing a senior congressman for a senate seat, put that notion out of your mind right now! In 2010, Kathleen Sebelius is going to unseat Sam Brownback. But we'll get back to that in two years. Right now, we need a Democrat for 08. Anyone have any ideas besides Slattery? Yeah me neither. Jim, back to Kansas with you.

Here in Missouri we need a new governor. Jay Nixon is the leading Democratic contender, he has won statewide elective office consistently since 1993. He will unseat Matt Blunt, should Blunt survive the coming primary challenge by Sarah Steelman. She declared her intent to challenge him during his innaugural address. And more power to her. I can tolerate a Republican who isn't insane.

We need Robin Carnahan to stay where she is, in the Secretary of State's office. We have faced to many election problems in this state to risk that position to a Republican. So who is going to be our candidate for Attorney General? No Republicans. Never again, not after that damned Ashcroft. We learned our lesson.

Let's concentrate on holding the seats that matter to Missouri. If we hold the offices of Auditor, Secretary of State, Attorney General and quite possibly governor, we are grooming our candidate to knock Bond out on down the road, if not in 2010, then in 2016. Politics is a long-range game, my friends, and victory goes to those who look anead, not behind. Politics might be a zero-sum game, but it is also never ending. There is always another election to plan for and that planning starts tomorrow.

And can we please pretty please get somebody out of the Ozarks that it ain't just a cryin' damn shame they weren't strangled in their crib? Y'all gave us that gaggle of Blunts, Rod Jetton and John Ashcroft. C'mon. Give us a break up here! We were issued a limited number of Charles Wheelers, Ike Skeltons, Emmanuel Cleavers, Susan Montees and Claire McCaskills to counter them, and Dr. Wheeler is retiring. Dr. Dean has some battle plans to help you out with party building. Let's turn those red ridges purple by 2010, okay?

Cast your vote today. Continue your GOTV efforts. This one isn't over until the polls close this evening. Which is precisely when the game-clock starts running for the next election.

Because a picture is worth a thousand words

This is the final journey home of a Kansas City area native, PFC Shane Austin, who died saving his brothers in arms, throwing a grenade out of the Humvee he was riding in. I have had enough of these. How about you? Vote Tuesday.



How many more are you willing to accept? As for me, not one more. Bring them home. Alive.


In just over a month, 105 shots echoed out in the Kansas City area as five soldiers, marines and guardsmen have been laid to rest in our area. That is 105 too many. Have you had enough 21-gun salutes? Vote Tuesday.


Mr. President, they are not just commas, you feckless thug, you dry-drunk bullying little BITCH.

Those are some mighty short coattails you got there...

Those of us in the Reality-Based Community have known for years that the President is a tool with limited utility, but even the Publican Party has started to figure it out.

Facing a harsher political climate than the Democrats faced in 1994, the President has taken to the campaign trail in an effort to boost some of his fellow Republicans.

He is hitting the campaign trial...From Georgia to Texas and back to Georgia again, the President appeared before three pre-screened audiences in two days, trying just to stem the tide as dissatisfaction with his administrations management of Iraq grows. That we are on a fools errand is painfully apparent, and the fool who sent us on this errand is our own president.

The war in Iraq has become the defining issue for the country. Over a hundred American military personnel have lost their lives this month alone. Violence in Iraq has spiked, killing scores every single day. Yet today, Bush stubbornly insisted that "terrorists win and America loses" if his political opponents rule the day in one week.

There is one week to the midterms, and there are a mere 812 days remaining of the Bush administration.

I am beyond being insulted by the bilge he spills. Now I'm just embarassed by him.

I've had enough. And you know the rest.