That's what Glenn Beck says. Sounds better then $25 for the whole summer. $28 might make a difference. So let's do the math.

I spend about $60/wk on gas a short 20 minute commute up 95 from Philly to Levittown. But for Glenn's sake we'll round that up $100. Gas is $3.56/gal with a bullet heading way up the charts but I'll round that down to 3.50. Because I like round even numbers.

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I go to work and when I get home this is the shit I have to read about. It's sickening. She has no chance of overtaking the pledged delegate lead that Obama holds. So why is she doing it? I don't know.

Let's ask her to stop the attacks.

Is there any chance of a response? Maybe if we get enough people to send along the following comment:

Hillary stop the attacks on a fellow Democrat Barack Obama.

Choose the topic under comments, suggestions. Add more to the message if you like.

Go to: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/...

The Right Wing is becoming unhinged over SCHIP expansion.

Mark Hemingway says that they "went on to have a baby anyway." He argues in a later post that "a married couple that has been talking about having kids for years, but has failed to sacrifice financially or make basic economic preparations to pay for their first kid, is acting irresponsibly." Meaning working class married couples shouldn't have kids.

He goes on to say, "How many people are in less than optimal jobs because of good benefits for their dependents?" I thought nobody was in less than optimal jobs in the Bush economy with all those tax cuts for the working class. How does the middle class move up in America if they are chasing less than optimal jobs with healthcare? I guess married couples should find "less than optimal jobs" with health insurance before having kids. And unless these jobs are found married couples should not have kids.

On Meet The Press in the deabte between Ben Cardin and Michael Steele, Michael Steele just said that embryos in fertilty clinics should be adopted instead of destroyed. That's right. Blastula in petri dishes that will never develop into human beings should be adotped.

When asked if funding for fertility clinics should stop and these fertility clinics shut down, he said he didn't know enough about this issue and again reiterated his point about adoption of embryos.

Ben Cardin didn't laugh him off the stage or even attack him for this utter nonsense because honestly he is not very good debater. But this Steele statement should easily be used against him and the anti-stem cell research anti-science crowd.

Well Oprah caved under the pressure of Bill O'Reilly and will have him on her show.

I think there are two things that Oprah should do on her show on friday with Bill O'Reilly 1) invite Al Franken on as well and 2) since her show is based on the empowerment of women she should ask him about his sexual harassment of Andrea Mackris.

Join the disussion on Oprah's message board or email the shows producers to offer my suggestions.

Michael Smerconish, a local rightwing radio show host in Philadelphia on the big talker 1210, had Kevin Kelly on at the end of his show around 9:00AM. Not to talk about his swiftboating of Patrick Murphy but rather to defend himself against all the evil liberals who are "attacking" him by calling him a swiftboater.

Kevin Kelly will be on the Michael Smerconish show tomorrow morning at 6AM.

on tax cuts for the super wealthy. I've read other diaries on this subject and I know the Warner people are reading and defending Mark Warner.

For those that don't know what Warner said in Iowa here's the headline at Polticial Wire:

Warner Says Kerry Shouldn't Have Targeted Bush Tax Cuts

 

UPDATE: MSNBC reports that Clinton will not be satisfied unless ABC pulls the show UPDATE II: ABC says that the editing process is not done and any reporting on the docudrama is false because the final version willnot be aired until Sunday night. UPDATE III: Boycott MNF. I've changed my mind. Changing the name of the diary. I got better ideas from commenters.

There's an ad on this blog about this powerful documentary and I haven't seen any discussion. So I thought this would be a good forum to start one about it. What a powerful fucking film.

Tonights epsiode, which is the third, starts out hard on Bush and the media. Talking about Kayne West's statements, the guy who told Cheney to fuck himself with his personal footage and interview of the behind the scenes, and the media and politicians calling Americans refugees.

We all know now that Joe Lieberman and his campaign are going to lose. The fact that they are crying about their website joe2006.com being down has cost them the election is proof.

But this is probably his launching pad to an independent campaign on the Lieberman Party of one ticket. Funny that he claims that the internetz is made up of far left wing radical blogs but his website is now the cornerstone to his getting re-elected. Why is Joe courting the far left wing blog crowd that he so despises?

What the fuck is up with these DLC centrists that beleive in the 90's style of politics?

Rendell is an egotist in the Clinton mold and when the light seems to shine too brightly on others he is quick to pull the plug and resort to Lieberman foot in mouth fox news democrat blurbs that help the Republican party.

Rendell confounds party - again - in Senate race

Just read a great post at a blog called the next direction through a link on http://www.leftyblogs.com/... which has a collection of lcoal blogs for each state.

It's titled:

it is OK...we accept that virginia has three senators and pennsylvania only one...until november 2006

This is a great idea. Perhaps someone like Mike Stark or the Roots project could coordinate this. Or if Democrats in Congress started asking for Republicans phone records live on C-Span.

A reporter for the York Daily Record, Mike Argento, called Rick Santorum's office and the following happened.

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George Bush's will appear on Colbert Report on Tuesday. In the wake of Stephen Colbert's homage to George W Bush and smackdown of the DC Press Corps, the Colbert Report will be interviewing George Bush as the President promised on Tuesday.

Frank Rich could not be reached for comment. He was last seen headed north on the New Jersey Turnpike around the East Rutherford exit.

The question remains which George Bush will show up? Will it be the George Bush who has a sense of humor and can take a joke or will be it be the George Bush who says what he really thinks?

Tune in....

What a great a candidate that the Democratic establishment has given us in PA. No mention of the debate from Bob Casey. There isn't much discussion of anything on Bob Casey's website.

Alan Sandals has a blog. Chuck Pennacchio claims to have won the debate and has links to live blogging of the debate. Bob Casey has no blog and the debate doesn't exist in Mr. Casey's world. We the netroots don't exist in Bob Casey's world. I can't wait for all the Casey supporters to come on the attack(especially Adam).

I got an idea for the Casey supporters below...

It seems that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times has just gotten the story of a lifetime and have decided that they want to trumpet Republican propaganda and spin.

The story is being covered by Kathyrn Garcia(she received the call when Armstrong was looking for Powell) and Jaime Powell.

The headline on the Caller website is Whittington had not made presence known

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All candidates responded except Bob Casey, jr.. Remember this line because it's becoming all too familiar.

Bob Casey's campaign strategy of running, ducking, and hiding will get him nowhere. Casey was also a no-show at a debate sponsored by the league of women voters in Harrisburg PA.

PA is a clear as the sky blue state. And this poll proves it and proves that contrasting yourself from Republicans and giving voters a choice is a winning strategy. But all candidates responded except Bob Casey, jr.

But the DC establishment wanted a name candidate while ignoring what is necessary to win against far right wing extremists. Like the establishment getting rid of Dean for the eventual loser Kerry, it's deja vu all over again.

How to run a winning campaign strategy straight from a hollywood movie. And who said that Bob Casey wasn't a liberal?  "You know the name". Whether it's ducking debates with Chuck Pennachio and Alan Sandals in the primaries after telling Michael Smerconish that he was going to debate his primary opponents(although he didn't name them by name) or his ducking debates with Santorum who is calling him out.