The business/corporate community in this country is extremely well organized and obviously well heeled.  It guards its interests, at the expense of the rest of us, night and day, 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year.  So if you thought the Sarbanes-Oxley law, or the incredible corruption revealed in the stories of Enron, Global Crossing, and more than a dozen other gigantic corporate rip-offs, had permanently changed the regulatory landscape, guess again.

Although quite happy to ignore the real possibility of massive electoral fraud via manipulation of electronic voting and vote-counting machines, not to mention the disqualification of eligible voters via bogus "scrub" lists, conservatives have been up in arms over claimed armies of ineligible voters casting ballots.  In fact, several states have "tightened" registration and/or ID requirements for voters.  And the tighter the requirements, the fewer eligible people vote.

Now comes a bipartisan report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission which finds "little evidence" of this type of vote fraud.

A slew of "attack ads" has hit airwaves across the nation as rival candidates seek to claw back points in the polls. And one key theme has emerged in many of them. It is not Iraq. Or terrorism. It is sex.

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.

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