Separated at Birth?

One is a discredited Secretary of the State who gained national notoriety by presiding over a pathetic attempt to count ballots, and the other one is from Florida.

Florida goes West, Michigan makes a Doctor's Appointment

I've been a fan of LtCol West since he ran unsuccessfully in 2008. This year the voters in FL-22 saw fit to send him to Washington. Michigan voters have seen fit to have Dr. Dan Benishek make a cross country house call to Congress. I hope he's got the right medicine in his bag. As a health care provider I hope he has pride of place as the Republicans start their attempts to modify Obamacare.

I think LtCol West's leadership skills will huge in Congress. But I don't think he'll be very popular in the Congressional Black Caucus...


LtCol Rep. West's victory speech:

Release the Kraken

It's election day... You know what to do.

Uh, you DO KNOW, don't you?

Update:Apparently Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air had the same thought as I did... but of course he did it better...

Here's the video he used:

Anonymous Advertising is Killing Democracy, or something...

From the fine folks at reason.tv:

Jobs for Vets...

Well, someone has to be in Congress, why not Veterans of the GWOT and first Gulf War?

Go to the Iraq Veterans for Congress, see the candidates and select at least one to support. You don't have to live in a candidate's state or district to donate.

I'm supporting LTC Allen West, FL 22 and Justin Bernier, CT 5.

And yes, I still wish LTC West would run for POTUS.

The Man Who Should Be President

I really wish LTC West would run for POTUS in 2012... but he's running for Congress in 2010. LTC West ran for the same seat in 2008 and I posted about his campaign then and I link to his campaign site again. Please consider giving what you can to help send this hero to Congress.

Here LTC West answers a fairly complicated question in a straight up manner.

Finally

Damn... Plugs all most screwed this up:

More Change at change.gov

Vinnie at Ace of Spades points to another cleansing at change.gov... The Agenda.

Here's what it looks like now:



Here's a partial screenshot of what it looked like on Saturday:



And the google cache of the whole thing...

Astute readers will note that the first screen shot is for a generic "Agenda" section, while the second screenshot reflect the 'urbanpolicy' agenda. The generic agenda is all that's left. I tried to navigate directly to http://change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy, however all I got was a page not available

Why would they put something up, then take it down? Could it be that The One doesn't want the mask to slip before the Inauguration?

The Memory Hole. Not just internet slang anymore... now it's a component of Executive Privilege.

Democracy, every 20 years

I live in Connecticut. Every 20 years our constitution requires the following question on the ballot:

Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the state?

That's it. A simple Yes or No. But it's not so simple. The group leading the charge for Yes wants to bring initiative and referenda to the Land of Steady Habits. The groups opposed say that initiatives and referenda will lead to outside money coming into Connecticut. And to prove it they are bringing in outside money by the bucket load. According to news reports, the "no" folks - as of the end of September - had collected over $800,000... some $300,000 was from the National Education Association. The "yes" folks had raised all of $12,000.

It seems everyone who's afraid of the voters clearing their throats in order to be heard is arrayed against this vote. Take a look at the list of organizations who oppose the question. It runs from the ACLU of Connecticut to the Windsor Democratic town committee. In between there is a slew of unions (including mine) and other groups, including some you've never heard of. "Queers without Borders?" "Liberals Like Christ"? (is that as in "similar to Christ" or as in "we like Ike" like?). The Connecticut Trial Lawyers association is there as well. Just perusing the list would have made me want to vote Yes.

These groups are concerned that initiative and referenda would make Connecticut - one of the bluest of Blue states - a hot bed of conservative nuts. You know, just like California and Massachusetts, two of the 31 other states who have initiative and referenda.So I say vote Yes. Let's have a full up, no kidding Constitutional convention. A convention could be dangerous - anything could find it's way in or out of our current constitution. Scary things like term limits even.

Astroturf

Michelle Malkin reports on a crew of bloggers who have smoked out an anti-Palin smear job... that MAY be connected to The One's campaign.

The main report is at The Jawa report. Read it.

Go here asap...

#DONTGO

`Nuff said.