Frank Luntz is the guy who guides the Republican distortion of language in order to "frame" issues the way that will make the public accept the frequently destructive and bizarre ideas that the Republicans offer up on how to run this country.  Recent experience shows that he has played a large role in helping run the country into the ground by using semantics to artificially create support for policies that are adverse to the interests of a huge portion of the populace.

Last night I dragged myself and my head cold over to the local Junior High School for the last pre-election rally for Independent Senate candidate Bernie Sanders and a host of Democratic candidates running for federal or state-wide office.

Just a little more financial doom-n-gloom to remind you Rethugs are really getting us into hot water....

Poor old Rush Slimeball. Do we need doctors now to remove his foot from his mouth?....

I dearly love the political ads being hurled about as of late; if not about race, fear and corruption, the Rethugs still spout about how good the economy.....isn't...

But underneath it all I'm left with something I can't get past. Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, as I said, had no problem at all in speaking about me and my family on the floor of Congress. Yet she can't bring herself to even look at me. She has to seek help from the police to have me removed from a public debate.

It's crystal clear that Marilyn Musgrave not only can't admit she's wrong, she can't even face the consequences of her own actions. She must believe that if she runs away fast enough or surrounds herself with enough people who tell her she's great, it never happened.

Rush Limb-awww just won't let it go.  Now he's sent Katie Couric an e-mail about his claim that actor Michael J. Fox was faking symptoms in the ad he did for the Missouri Democratic candidate for the Senate, and now he's added the claim that Fox is just a partisan hack.

Today is a bumper day for crap & nonsense from the many White House denizens.  A few days ago it was the difference between "goals," "strategy," and "tactics."  Today, it's torture....

Quite a week for Republican campaign ads, boy, quite a week. Election as mud wrestling, mud slinging, and yes, once again, stupidity

Just this week we learned the promising news that Iraqi forces could control their own security within 12 to 18 months. As the president understands, working in concert with Iraqi leadership will win this war. I stand with the president and fully believe in this mission and our commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces who are serving in Iraq and all around the globe fighting everyday to preserve our own rights and freedoms.

[Two points: 1. Info about Iraqi troop readiness obviously travels much faster in Hastert's circles than info about the potential harassment of House Pages; 2. It sure is convenient that we "now" know that the Iraqi forces "will be ready" but that this readiness will not occur until well after the election.]

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