In Houston and Waco, Texas, local Democrats are all in a flutter about a comment that Nancy Pelosi made in an interview with Newsweek magazine that Chet Edwards would be a great vice presidential pick for Barack Obama. Edwards is a Congressman who represents Waco in the House of Representatives.
The idea is absurd, which means, of course, that it just might happen.
Chet Edwards is just the kind of Democrat who could turn other Democrats off, and keep them from showing up to vote on Election Day if he is picked for Vice President. In the Progressive Patriots legislative scorecard, Chet Edwards has a right wing score as high as his progressive score. Chet Edwards has voted for almost every bad idea that George W. Bush ever proposed to the U.S. Congress.
I found a bumper sticker - political button set that expresses the problem with Chet Edwards perfectly. It tickles me with its way of expressing political dissatisfaction in a relatively folsky way, so I thought I’d share it with you: Chet Edwards is a Democrat like a catfish is a cat - in other words, Chet Edwards is a Democrat in name only.
“Significant questions have been raised about Mr. Clemens’ truthfulness,” said Congressman Henry Waxman, with an air of gravity.
About what was Roger Clemens truthfulness in question? About how he plays baseball.
The truthfulness of George W. Bush, on the other hand, has been in question for years on topics like sending America into an unnecessary war, obstructing legal investigations, destroying criminal evidence, violating the Constitution, torturing prisoners, spying against Americans, and on and on.
So, who is Congress investigating? Roger Clemens, of course. This is pathetic. Pardon me, Representative Waxman, if I don’t stand up and applaud your courage for taking on a baseball player.
“When I was a little kid, my friends and I played war…”
Bill Durston knows the difference between war and play. He’s been to war, and knows that war is not something to be entered into as easily as a childhood game.
Unfortunately, not everyone has had the same realization. Some people seem to regard war as a kind of plaything, like a ball that can be kicked around to score points. They forget that lives are at stake.
One of those people is Congressman Dan Lungren, the incumbent politician against whom Bill Durston is campaigning for a seat in the House of Representatives. Lungren voted in favor of rushing off to war in Iraq before the need for war was clear and before adequate preparations could be made.
Bill Durston opposes that kind of reckless endangerment of American soldiers, because he’s been one himself, and he knows what’s at stake when soldiers are sent off to war. To restore a balanced, mature approach to American government, elect Bill Durston to Congress in 2008.
There’s a new system we’re fiddling with as a way to make congressional campaign gear available for many different districts across the United States, but in a way that doesn’t make it unwieldy. It’s called Zazzle, and one of the things it does that makes it better than CafePress is give us a way to present multiple campaign items in one box, with the items rotating through it.
Here’s a sample, with a few of the actual congressional campaign gear we’ve provided for some of the more progressive members of Congress, and their re-election campaigns.
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