"Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was slated to be the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach County Democratic Party's annual fund-raising dinner next week. Given her weak-to-wavering support for health care reform, local party leaders decided to pull the invitation."

Excellent. I consider Blue Dogs and Conserva-Dems as members of a third party, not as bad as the Republican Party, but to be aggressively challenged in every Democratic primary.

BTW productivity was way up third quarter 2009 as noted at Brad DeLong's joint (visit often!) So when are the media whores like Dana Milbank going to give some credit to Obama and crew, instead of jerking off: a VA Governor's race where a Repub won in a purple, conservative-leaning state that often falls to the opposition party; and the loss in NJ of a Goldman-sacks guy who was seen as corrupt and not "very liberal"? Then the MSM mostly buried the Republican loss of NY23 and another Dem pickup in the House. (And there were some minor pickups like Charlotte NC Mayor.)

Also how many dumbdits are noting that "independents" often vote against one-party domination whoever the party is. So they often fear "the [redemocans] have it all in DC, we better push back."

BTW, see this counter-CW populist take on why Deeds lost here:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/12875

About the Media, again: time for OPs to say outright that the corporate Media owners (even if not the J-school pawns) prefer Republican rule and will press to spin it on their behalf. Yeah, Faux Noise is worse but the big story should be: they are all whores except maybe outfits like Huff-Po etc. (and see how The Atlantic went bad, etc.)

Third shot and I'll rest:
I made a boo-boo and skimmed DeLong too fast in my lunch-time blog whirl. The real point is that productivity went up but the companies are making do with fewer workers and/or paying them less. OK, I get that now. It is still normally an "accomplishment" in the broad scope of history, in that "we" are "better off" because "we" can make more out of a given man-hour than in the 18th century, Middle Ages etc. But of course it should be the same people doing more, or doing the same in less time etc. Sorry.

Hi! I'm running for Governor of Vermont 2010
and I want to see President Obama's
original long form birth certificate
with the name of the attending physician
and hospital,
or taxi cab driver who certified back seat delivery.

President Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
did not know that he was adopted until he was sixteen.
He was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
At age two, his parents divorced
and his mother later married Gerald Rudolff Ford,
who legally adopted the boy.
Allegedly, this secret was kept until the boy was in high school.

Now, however emotionally trying it may be for President Obama to share with us,
it is time to do so.

If he is a natural born citizen,
then Barack Obama Sr.
was not his biological father.

Cris Ericson
2010 VOTE CRIS ERICSON
VERMONT

If he is a natural born citizen,
then Barack Obama Sr.
was not his biological father.

Anyone is born in America is an American citizen with the sole exception of the children of foreign diplomats.

Barack Obama Jr was born in Hawaii. The Republican Governor of Hawaii says so. The Constitution says all states have to accept the official act of another state. All the 50 states did an let Obama on their ballots. He won. He won the Electorial College vote. He was ignagurated. Roberts redid the oath of office to get it correct.

Barack Obama is President of the United States of America.

Good Grief.

Being from Wisconsin the Barrett thing is interesting. My sense is that Barrett will not run for governor. He got beat by Doyle years ago in a primary and was happy to get the job as Mayor of Milwaukee. I think he was really happiest when he was a member of the House, but that is another story. Anyway after the Doyle debacle--lots of new taxes AND revenue shortfalls, but lots of favors to the special interest groups of Democrats -it is going to be very difficult for a Democrat to win the governor's office next year. Barrett would have the best chance, but as noted I do not think he is going to take that chance. The real unfortunate thing is that the GOP candidate likely to win will be an idealogue and the GOP primary will only determine whether it is a semi competent or incompetent idealogue.

Steve: "Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who assumed the office after Janet Napolitano joined the Obama cabinet, will run next year for a full term. Given Brewer's low approval ratings, she is widely perceived as vulnerable, and the Democratic establishment seems to be lining up to support state Attorney General Terry Goddard."

"Low approval ratings"? The woman's held the position less than eight months! How could she have done much of anything to piss people off? Are you sure that you don't mean "low name recognition"?

Look, we ARE talking about Arizona, where Maricopa County voters regularly re-elect that cretin Joe Arpaio as Sheriff, apparently beased solely on his notoriety. Name recognition appears to be the primary criterion for holding public office in that state.

CRIS ERICSON: "Hi! I'm running for Governor of Vermont 2010. ... Now, however emotionally trying it may be for President Obama to share with us, it is time to do so. If he is a natural born citizen, then Barack Obama Sr. was not his biological father."

And all this time, I thought Monty Python's "Silly Party" was just an old comedy skit ...

trust me, donald from hawaii, brewer has done PLENTY to piss people off, including the legislature, where her party has a majority.

Nathan Deal - Do white men from the south always use those words in polite conversations? When it comes to race relations, he is a uniter not a divider, right? But maybe he thinks he only represents the white populous and the rest be damned.

The meal Deal should join forces with Orly taitz, he is a closeted Birther. Oh wait what this;

Judge Land and now judge Carter, smack down the crazies (case dismissed), poor little Birthers.

Not even “Fake News” Bill O’Reilly believes the crazies, how funny.

http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/10/29/bill-oreilly-slams-orly-taitz/

To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up.

In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that is who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.

I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).

I wonder if she is a mail order bride, just like her law degree? She is perfect reporter material for “Fake News”, where unfounded rumors and innuendo reign supreme , unlike a our US courts of law, where you need to present documented facts, not half baked lies (prepare for more failures).

A lawyer, dentist, realtor and black belt, WOW I must say a JACK of all trades master of none.

Preston@3.31p - if you think Orly Taitz is "interesting", go look at the website of Cris Erickson, who posted above you a few spaces. She's running for both Senator AND Governor of Vermont next year, as an independent.

And, she's suing a whole bunch of people for a whole bunch of different things. Including "celebrity actor Patrick Swayze" who she seems to be accusing of giving her late husband cancer. The court suit seems to have been thrown out of court because everybody involved was "corrupt". There seems to be a lot of other court cases she's involved in.

ALSO, she is offering a way for "foreign investors" to gain US citizenship by investing in some company she's set up in Vermont. Seems somewhat illegal, but then what isn't these days?

She's kinda next in line to Orly Taitz in wanting to make a big deal out of Obama's "birth certificate", as she writes above. Where do these people come from?

Oops, that's "cris ericson".

ltl: "trust me, donald from hawaii, brewer has done PLENTY to piss people off, including the legislature, where her party has a majority."

Like what, specifically? I mean, has Gov. Brewer:

(a) Offered free porn, condoms and a bottle of Astro-Glide for all Arizona middle school students who agree to be taught exclusively in the Spanish language for at least half the school day?;

(b) Erected a replica of Stonehenge on State Capitol property and subsequently declared Winter Solstice a state holiday to honor the Earth Goddess;

(c) Mandated that all unattended children in public areas under the age of ten are to be given a double espresso and a free kitten prior to reuniting with their own parents; or

(d) Simply not been nearly as cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs as the mad raving looney caucus of her own Republican Party would otherwise require of her?