Electability

Todays Laugh,

More Drinking And Driving Fun
A policeman pulls over a driver for swerving in and out of lanes on the highway. He tells the guy to blow a breath into a breathalyzer.''I can't do that, officer.''''Why not?''''Because I'm an asthmatic. I could get an asthma attack if I blow into that tube.''''Okay, we'll just get a urine sample down at the station.''''Can't do that either, officer.''''Why not?''''Because I'm a diabetic. I could get low blood sugar if I pee in a cup.''''Alright, we could get a blood sample.''''Can't do that either, officer.''''Why not?''''Because I'm a hemophiliac. If I give blood I could die.''''Fine then, just walk this white line.''''Can't do that either, officer.''''Why not?''''Because I'm drunk.
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Todays Quote,
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."...Governor George W. Bush
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Report From Huffpo's Melinda Henneberger: Clinton Team's Testy Response To Edwards' Speech Against Sending More Troops...
Huffington Post Melinda Henneberger Posted January 15, 2007 04:43 PM
John Edwards had a hard time getting through yesterday's anti-surge speech at Harlem's Riverside Church, repeatedly interrupted by cheering from the pews. Standing where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached against American involvement in Vietnam 40 years ago, the former Democratic senator from North Carolina declared that, "As he put it then, there comes a time - not just for Dr. King, but for all of us - when silence is betrayal.''
It is a betrayal to quietly countenance widespread poverty in the richest country in the world, he told a crowd of 1,200, and a betrayal to stand silent in the face of an AIDS epidemic ravaging a new generation of African children. With a Clintonian comfort level at the pulpit, he drew the most sustained ovation of the day when he said, "It is a betrayal not to speak out against an escalation of the war in Iraq.''
Edwards, who is running for president in '08, has not only opposed the president's plan to send 21,500 more troops into Iraq but has argued that it is time to bring 50,000 home. The only senator mentioned in the speech was Arizona Republican John McCain, when Edwards called the plan the "McCain Escalation." Like Clinton, who has not yet said she will run, and declared candidates including Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, Edwards voted to authorize the use of force when he was in the Senate in 2002; all but Clinton have made clear that they now feel they were wrong to have done so.
And Edwards's second-biggest applause line at Riverside came when he again apologized for that vote: "The issue, brothers and sisters, is not only how we got into Iraq, but how we get out of Iraq. I want to say for anyone in this room that doesn't know it that I voted for this war and I was WRONG, and I take responsibility for that...The best way to make clear we're leaving Iraq is to actually start leaving.'And Senator Clinton's campaign team seemed to think she resembled these remarks; after the speech, one of her closest advisers, Howard Wolfson, complained to The New York Times that "In 2004 John Edwards used to constantly brag about running a positive campaign. Today, he has unfortunately chosen to open his campaign with political attacks on Democrats who are fighting the Bush administration's Iraq policy.''
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All the talk I hear about Obama and Clinton's being the front runners is just talk. Neither one are electable. Until the US. has a woman or black as vice president we will not elect one or the other as president. Edwards is the only current candidate who could be elected, he is personable, likable and from the south. The only Democratic candidates actually elected in recent times were from the south, Johnson, Carter and Clinton. Obama and Clinton might look electable east of the Delaware River, but west of it, no way.
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Lieberman refuses to hold Bush accountable for Katrina
by kos
Fri Jan 12, 2007
See, this is the problem with having a Republican in sheep's clothing heading up committees in our Democratic Congress.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
Lieberman’s reversal underscores the new role that he is seeking to play in the Senate as the leading apostle of bipartisanship, especially on national-security issues. On Wednesday night, Bush conspicuously cited Lieberman’s advice as being the inspiration for creating a new "bipartisan working group" on Capitol Hill that he said will "help us come together across party lines to win the war on terror."
But the decision by Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to back away from the committee's Katrina probe is already dismaying public-interest groups and others who hoped the Democratic victory in November would lead to more aggressive investigations of one of the White House’s most spectacular foul-ups.
Last year, when he was running for re-election in Connecticut, Lieberman was a vocal critic of the administration’s handling of Katrina. He was especially dismayed by its failure to turn over key records that could have shed light on internal White House deliberations about the hurricane, including those involving President Bush [...]
But now that he chairs the homeland panel—and is in a position to subpoena the records—Lieberman has decided not to pursue the material, according to Leslie Phillips, the senator’s chief committee spokeswoman. "The senator now intends to focus his attention on the future security of the American people and other matters and does not expect to revisit the White House’s role in Katrina," she told NEWSWEEK.
He lied to his constituents on Iraq. He lied to them on Katrina. It's clear he feels betrayed by the Democrats and intends to use these next two years to fuck with them every chance he gets. And if people get killed in Iraq, and if Bush remains unaccountable for the Katrina disaster? So be it. What better way to add salt to the wound than to carry Bush's water for him? Note the irony of this statement from his spokesperson:
"The senator is an independent Democrat and answers only to the people who elected him to office and to his own conscience."
Ironic because he promised them troop withdrawals before the end of this year and aggressive oversight over the mess in Katrina. He's not "answering" to them, he's giving Connecticut voters the middle finger.
We can't pretend to have operating control of the Senate until we take out Lieberman's "swing" role. We win a couple more Senate seats, and Reid will have the ability to toss Lieberman from his committee seats with little repercussion beyond Lieberman's predictable whines.
Lieberman stands in opposition to everything the American people demanded the last election -- an exit from Iraq and accountability for the administration. It is our job, in the next 21 months, to work toward relegating Lieberman to the dustbin of history.
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Senator Objects to Appointment Of New Forest Service Chief

On the day of her appointment, the first female chief of the U.S. Forest Service came under fire from a Senate Democrat who represents her state.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Montana forester Abigail Kimbell has shown she is "inclined to raise fees, close campgrounds and otherwise make it harder for people to access their lands to raise revenue."
Kimbell succeeds Dale Bosworth, who retired. Before her appointment by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, she supervised national forests through northern Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas, and she helped develop President Bush's "healthy forests" program, widely criticized by environmentalists as a giveaway to logging companies.
As the agency's 16th chief, Kimbell will be responsible for overseeing 155 national forests, 30,000 employees and a budget of more than $4 billion. The job does not require Senate confirmation.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil plunged below $52 a barrel Thursday to its lowest price since May extending a sharp decline that has been led by dampened heating oil demand, but which could save consumers money on a more widely used fuel: gasoline
Price of Gasoline hasn't gone down here in the East, Oil Companies will say the price remains high on gas because they are selling less heating oil.This effects their profits HO,Ho.
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Spicy food could provide compound to fight cancers
By Cahal Milmo
Published: 10 January 2007
The compound that makes spicy food hot and generates the heat in muscle strain remedies could be the key to a new generation of cancer drugs which kill tumours with no side effects, a leading scientist has said.
Capsaicin, the active component of chillies, has produced "startling" results in tests to kill a variety of tumour cells including pancreatic cancer, one of the most difficult versions of the disease to treat.
Dr Timothy Bates, who led the research at Nottingham University, said his team have discovered a potential Achilles heel for all cancers because capsaicin targets the "powerhouse", or energy source, of tumour cells. The discovery could lead to the production of drugs to cure a variety of cancers at a fraction of the £410m cost of developing conventional medicines, as capsaicin is already consumed daily by millions of people. Capsaicin is also commonly used as an active ingredient in muscle rub creams and the treatments for psoriasis.

Eat your Chili folks.
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