BSRH jr –who will talk to anybody in all classes with great effect, and has done so from the heights of Tibet to the (the mother shivers) North Korean border, reports that people of all sorts don’t understand primaries but they do understand there is an obama and he represents a chance to change their view of America.

I am off for the weekend. Keep the constitution in one piece for us, EW and crew.

my thoughts exactly as I read the letter… and a tiny flame leapt up momentarily
perhaps the congress is getting some messages, a slow move toward the force…

Nonetheless I’m with bmaz–I suspect that voter turnout in Dem vs GOP primaries has gotten their attention even more than Donna Edwards. But I’m perfectly happy to give as much credit as possible to her.

hillary is beginning to fade away

the repuglitards had their bluff called

Donna Edwards probably should be remembered as the first pebble

by July, this sucker is really gonna be moving, so we should recognize the roots early, before we start sufing this wave over the grave of the repuglitard party

I once saw a documentary about a festival, similar to the Palio di Siena and the The festival of San Fermín. The principle feature of this festival was a game, played on a mud “court” (twice the size of a tennis court) surrounded by a 3 foot high fence, with 1 foot high goals at each end, above the fence and stretching the width of the court. There were about 30 men on each team, and a team only had to score ONE goal to win the game. The only rule in the game was that YOU CAN’T KICK AN UNCONSCIOUS MAN (which leads me to believe that HITTING an unconscious man was legal). for the first few hours, it was a free-for-all. it was even BETTER THAN FOOTBALL (if I’m sayin that, you KNOW this was good)

this political season kinda reminds me of that festival

with one exception:

KICKING AN UNCONSCIOUS REPUGLITARD IN THE HEAD IS NOW PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE

I might be a bleeding-heart-liberal and a proud DFH, but I ain’t no pacifist

don’t get jealous or anything ew, it’s not like she’s my muse or anything like that …

best 10 bucks I ever spent …

my donation list is 2 and 0

I sent 10 bucks to 8 different candidates challenging bluedogs or repuglitards, and 10 bucks each to Digby and Atrios. Might not sound like much, but the election is a long way away, and I got some extra money coming from working the election.

one thing though;, I might have to send my bluedog congresscritter some money too. I promised to donate if the Democrats could give the repuglitards a hissy fit next week too

I don’t actually know that this sudden outbreak of spine and seemingly coordinated messaging among Democrats is the result

of their reading Empty Wheeler, but I sure as hell like to think that it did.
Happy Bluevantine day all and especially EW. St. Valentine lost her (her?) head, but we gained a spine to match the head at the head of this blog.

What a great blue day. Except in Illinois. prayers to the students and their families.

I’ve long said when they fear the electorate more than they fear the bully pulpit, we’ll get things done.

We should roll every capitulatory head we can find in the primaries to show these people that they will do the bidding of the people, or they will have to find a real job.

It was a good day, way too little, way too late, but finally a peep of promise. The message may be starting to get through, but it needs to be driven home. ROLL HEADS IN THE PRIMARIES! That is and will always be the key. Accoutablilty starts within our own party – this is a lesson Republicans are far, far, far from understanding, and this is why they have such deep malignacy.

We must hold our own accoutable first.

If the Dems think it is simply about becoming a majority party again, rather than fundamentally altering the institutions, priorities, and inequalities, they’ll drown in the same tsunami that seems headed for the GOP.

My 2 cents.