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[OzarkDem]

Re-posting Molly Ivins column for a reality check. We're dealing with one of the most corrupt administrations in Ohio history. Virtually every Republican candidate for statewide and state level office in Ohio is linked to GOP money scandals. And all we can do is whine about whether we're being pro-business or pro-gun enough? Make every last candidate run with Tom Noe hanging around his neck like an albatross and that includes Blackwell, Petro, Montgomery, DeWine, all of them. And put so much pressure on every media outlet that refuses to talk about it wish they'd never started up in business.



http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/20/ivins.hillary/

What kind of courage does it take, for mercy's sake? The majority of the American people (55 percent) think the war in Iraq is a mistake and that we should get out. The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it. The majority (86 percent) of the American people favor raising the minimum wage. The majority of the American people (60 percent) favor repealing Bush's tax cuts, or at least those that go only to the rich. The majority (66 percent) wants to reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.

The majority (77 percent) thinks we should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment. The majority (87 percent) thinks big oil companies are gouging consumers and would support a windfall profits tax. That is the center, you fools. WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

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Bush, Cheney and Co. will continue to play the patriotic bully card just as long as you let them. I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. The MINUTE someone impugns your patriotism for opposing this war, turn on them like a snarling dog and explain what loving your country really means. That, or you could just piss on them elegantly, as Rep. John Murtha did. Or eviscerate them with wit (look up Mark Twain on the war in the Philippines). Or point out the latest in the endless "string of bad news."

[geiger]

1. Good article

Hillary supporters or fence-sitters should also read: The Case for Hillary Clinton," by Susan Estrich (not Dick Morris, who is indeed one of the biggest dicks running around the country).

Unless we come up with a stronger candidate, I will be voting for her, while holding my nose.