Jen Kirkman - comedian

If you are like-minded but unaware of what’s happening - please take a minute to read and if you have a spare $5 - help the grass roots campaign to defeat Feingold’s opponent for the Senate race. We can’t afford to gain a senator who wants tax cuts for the rich and to cut Social Security.

REPRINT FROM HOWARD DEAN
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold needs our support right now.

For months, polling has shown Russ neck and neck with his right-wing opponent Ron Johnson and Johnson has already spent over $4 million on slash-and-burn television ads to mislead voters and scare up votes. In fact, he’s been out spending Russ on T.V. by 3 to 1 and as of this week, it appears to be working. The most recent polling shows Senator Feingold down by 7%.

This is unacceptable.

Senator Russ Feingold is one of the strongest progressive fighters in the Senate. Time after time Russ has delivered for America and Wisconsin. It’s up to us to make sure he has the resources to fight back and win.

Contribute $5 now and give Russ Feingold the resources to fight back

Ron Johnson is a multimillionaire right-wing Republican who wants to cut Social Security, repeal the entire healthcare bill, and extend all the Bush-Cheney tax cuts for wealthy millionaires instead of helping middle class Americans. He’s already committed to spending at least 15 million of his own money to win. When asked how much more of his personal fortune he’s be willing to dump into his own election, his response was “all of it.”

The good news is we can beat Ron Johnson and re-elect Russ Feingold with people-power.

Russ is running a real grassroots campaign. They’ve already contacted 228,696 Wisconsin voters, opened 22 field offices across the state, and his most recent T.V. ad is playing in heavy rotation. Russ will win not just because he has a strong record of delivering for Wisconsin, he’ll win because he has the best volunteers and supporters working to get out the vote.

In short, Russ will win, because of you.

Contribute now and send a real progressive back to the U.S. Senate

Let’s face it; elections are going to be close all over the country this November. It’s up to us to make sure we take great progressives like Russ Feingold over the top on Election Day.

Working together, we’re unstoppable. That’s why I know I can count on you today.

-Howard

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
Founder, Democracy for America

I was pulling into the parking lot - where I was picking up my dry cleaning. (I’m sure you’re immediately charmed. I’m fancy enough to have warrant dry cleaning and down-to-earth enough to pick it up myself.)

I was trailing behind an SUV. It was a more compact SUV. It wasn’t a hybrid, just regular. It had a few earth-y bumper stickers, environmentally aware in the bigger global picture and some local wildlife federation types as well. I thought that was weird to drive a gas-guzzling car and it seemed he didn’t notice the irony of his bumper-stickers. Maybe he does. Maybe there’s something I don’t know. Maybe this car is the only thing he does that’s un-eco friendly. Maybe he composts and makes soil from his own pee. I didn’t judge. Who am I to judge? Last time I checked dry-cleaning isn’t exactly environmentally friendly. The place I go to says they are and I choose to believe them but….come on.

I started to judge when I noticed he was on his cell phone (illegal) when he was parking and pulled into a spot that would have fit a compact/mid-size car (like the one I drive) better. He pulled in without really adjusting and his wheels crossed over the dividing line. I couldn’t pull in to the spot next to him. I could if he parked normally.

He got out of his car - still talking on his phone. I rolled down my window and really, I mean reaaaaly passive-aggressively said, “Hey. I was going to park next to you, but I can’t because you parked your gas-guzzling car without thinking of over people.”

He quickly hung up his phone call with whoever he was talking to, without saying bye and said to me in the nicest most sincere voice, “Uh, I—I’m sorry…” He turned to go back to his car. He was going to move it. I was so ashamed of talking to someone like that - that I drove off.

I could have just asked nicely. So I didn’t get my dry cleaning. Any offers?

Mid-term elections are coming up in November and I’m terrified of some of the people running. Our country is so quickly devolving into this sound-byte nation. Nobody has time to pay attention to anything. I make time to pay attention and I swear I’m not in the bag for any particular party because it’s my identity. But right now there are some scary Republicans who want in to the House. It’s not because they are Republicans that they are scary - it’s because they’re scary. The Democratic party as well as the Republican party are being co-opted by big business. But right now the Republican party also has this rogue, extreme, fringe element that won’t go away. They disguise themselves as Independent and want “small government” but it’s just a quick sound-byte. They don’t mean what you want them to mean when they say small government.

Either way - I’ll never convince the lovers of these loons to stop loving them. But as a plea to my disenfranchised Dem friends - vote this November. Block the House from becoming a Republican majority because the Republicans that want in do not want to create jobs. The House has impeachment ability and they want to start up hearings to investigate Obama on whether or not he’s an American. President Obama didn’t even want to draw up an investigation on former President Bush for war crimes because he knew what a heavy burden opening up this kind of thing is - it diverts media attention from immediate social problems in the U.S. and eats up a lot of resources. The nutjobs that want in to the House in November - couldn’t care less.

Everyone register to vote and get out there in November! Congress is an important part of our democracy and we need to pay attention to who we elect (or elect by NOT voting).

Check out this opinion article regarding the misleading thought that Congress “does nothing.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41701.html