Hello Senator Macaca.

George Allen for President

Out with the red hair dye, in with the macaca…

I’m more interested in John Bolton’s prez campaign. /s

On a somewhat more serious note, it’s hard to imagine that the U.S. senate could get any worse, but the next one is stacking up to surpass this coming one by a country mile.

Webb musta been bought out and I agree, this sets the stage for the return of the macaca.

That’s gonna be nice. Just think of all the money we’ll save by not paying someone to wash all those windows in the UN building.

Jim Webb is no loss. He is just giving into the fact that Blue Dog Democrats are dead meat.

The new U.S. mission to the U.N. in NYC hardly haz any windows, and none at all for about the first 9 floors. It’s one of the ugliest buildings I’ve seen.

Blue Texan’s regularly scheduled post is up: Tea Party Caucus Demonstrates Its Reverence for Freedom and the Constitution by Overwhelmingly Supporting PATRIOT Act

Ding.

NOW that the TPers have taken over the right, you’ve got to be a real R to run on the D ticket.

Does this really matter? Thanks for the post, but I’m so depressed by “Senators” like Webb that it’s hard to gin up some sort of interest at this stage. No doubt VA will revert back to “red” territory. whatever…

I don’t think so. He seems like a pretty straight-up guy, old-line Republican, which puts him slightly to the left of the current administration. I think he just got fed up with the shit he has to shovel just to raise campaign funds. He’d be a good pick to replace Gates, given that Democrats are ineligible for the position.

And if the democrats had any principles they would realize that if they ran someone with some, they could get elected.

Could be. Private sector could also mean non-elected position. Gates is gonna leave at some point…unless he’s waiting for Jeb.

I’m not so sure. Who has the time anymore with Football and NASCAR being so important?

Well folks:

That is the Democratic Party. They went Republican-lite after winning a majority in both Houses in 2006, with the mandate to do something. Did they help re-create the social safety net that has been chisled away at since the Reagan Era? No! They talked about job creation and a return to civility. John Kerry talked of rebuilding America and then spent $8million to have a yacht built in New Zealand instead of MA, had it put in a LLC under the Heinz Corp and avoided taxes by mooring it in Rhode Island. Caroline Kennedy talked of healthcare and social security and yet provided neither to her own employees. Harry Reid talked of green technology and then handed over $48million in tax breaks not to an American firm but a Chinese company to build wind turbines. John Edwards talked of (2) Americas and then took hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions from Bunny Mellon to pay off his baby mamma, Reille Hunter. Did the Democrats dismantle Homeland Security, return FEMA to a cabinet level position and instead use the monies saved to work with our European Allies and fund Interpol; which works, no. Instead Wellpoint, under so-called Democratic leadership crafted this so-called health care reform legislation, which provides no public option and in a down-turned economy actually penalizes people for not spending money on something they can’t afford, and which probably provides they nominal healthcare access and coverage in the first place because a hangnail is now a pre-existing health condition; for which they (the insurers) can charge a higher premium while assuring you that they will never drop you….you will just have to drop yourself! The so-called Democrats come not to vilify Reagan but to praise him…
Now, all these bastards can collect their cushy pensions (no 401k’s for them) and will be eligible for 100% of their salaries and full medical coverage!

So many thought Clinton was a Republican. If he was, wouldn’t more of his own so-called sellout party be praising his acumen? Instead, it is as if those years never took place because all they can remember fondly were the Reagan years!

I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that Webb’s leaving means that Allen is a shoo-in. Felix Macacawitz Allen basically lost that race much more than Webb won it. That view shouldn’t be taken as a slam on Webb. It’s just that incumbent Senators in ideologically neutral to friendly territory, as VA was to Allen, are so widely thought to be such shoo-ins, that they practically have to disqualify themselves before most voters will even give the challenger a looking over as a potential alternative.

That’s exactly what Allen did, systematically disqualify himself. So, sure, we might get a D candidate who manages to do a better job than Allen already has at disqualifying himself, and then we could be in for a major league, vicious battle for the cellar over who is even more disqualified than who, from which Allen might indeed emerge the winner. But don’t count on it until we see the D candidate.

He’d be a good pick to replace Gates, given that Democrats are ineligible for the position.

:)

Man, reading some people here, we’ve got some real pessimists on our hands.

I think Webb stepping down is GREAT news. As someone in the 5th district, I’m hoping to see Tom Perriello run for the seat. He won our heavily Republican district by kicking out corrupt Republican Virgil Goode in the 2008 election by 700 votes, then went on to support health care, cap and trade, and other policies. Then, when reelection time came, he ran on his record, rather than away from it, going so far as to have a rally with Obama. He lost by 3 points, but outperformed in the district by 14 points.

He held tons of town hall meetings, was always civil and thoughtful, honest about his beliefs and opinions, and willing to do what he thought was right even if it wasn’t popular. And I’m not just saying that as feel-good language, these things have been proven through his actions.

I never thought I’d be lucky enough to be represented in the 5th by someone like him. If we’re really lucky, we could have him in the Senate next! =)

Tom Perriello, is that you?

Nope, just an unapologetic and enthusiastic supporter. =)

Watch out. Terry McAuliffe might be warming up in the bullpen.

Can I ask why your account was set up 6 minutes before posting your love letter?

Gates might have acquired common-law tenure, in which case he can stay forever if he so chooses.

Because I’ve never felt a need to post here before, and it was annoying to me seeing people write Virginia off immediately as unwinnable when we currently have two Democratic senators, the state went for Obama last time, and the population of Democratic northern Virginia continues to grow.

Jim Webb would have a tough race even if he did run again. He doesn’t like fund-raising (I don’t blame him) and he squeaked by in the last election. I don’t think any Democrat would just breeze into victory in this state, but I’d like to see someone like Perriello, if not Perriello himself, take the chance, rather than have a blue dog or something in the race.

If you’d spent so many years with Virgil Goode as your representative, you’d love Tom Perriello as well.

Thank you for answering my question. Hope to see you posting more as the race there develops. It’s nice to have another progressive voice from VA.

I try to stay away from contentious debate, which is mostly because I’m so bad personally at debating, but I just feel so strongly about politics in this state where Republican votes wind up with lunatics like Cuccinelli in office that I couldn’t let the writing off of Virginia just slide by this time. =)

Webb is way too conservative to be my preference, BUT I listen when he speaks and I believe he abides by far greater core values than Obama. Because of this I’d campaign, raise money & happily vote vor him.
As for “Clarence Thomas” Obama, I bought into his line of crap about “hope & change” & I did vote for him in 2008. Now, if saw him coming my way I’d cross the street. He’s that bad. Obama squandered a once in thirty year opportunity to right a few of the more calamitous wrongs shaping our future. Shame on me for believing he was anything more than a short-sighted opportunist.

Tom Perriello voted for the Stupak amendment. I don’t live in Virginia, so this is not my fight, but I sure am tired of netroots raising up these women haters for us to support.

Thanks, were I in Va. that’s all I’d need to know – forget him! Thanks!

In retrospect, it now becomes clear why Tim Kaine has been so oddly conservative and restrained in his tenure at the DNC. He was preparing himself for the 2012 Senate race in Virginia.

The new U.S. mission to the U.N. in NYC hardly haz any windows, and none at all for about the first 9 floors. It’s one of the ugliest buildings I’ve seen.

Is this a new building, or simply one the US UN mission has moved to? The reason I ask is, I wonder if the absence of windows on lower levels is a security-related item? (To protect against damage from McVeigh type truck-bombs on nearby streets, drive-by shootings, or for structural intergrity against parking-garage type bombings.)

First off, Jim Webb was a Marine captain, a combat veteran of Vietnam with a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. His novel Fields of Fire, was one of the earliest personal accounts of Marines in combat in Vietnam. The only time he spent in the Navy was while he was in the Naval Academy.

He was Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy in 1987, lasting less than a year.

He became a Democrat and ran for the Senate when he became fed up with what Bush and his band of thieves were doing to the country. Now he’s fed up with what Obama and his band of merry men have been doing. I don’t blame him in the least.

I thought being in the Marines meant that you were in the Navy? Isn’t the origin of the Marines that they were seagoing soldiers under the command of the Naval officers?

I didn’t think he was that great. He was useless on the railroad committee. Completely clueless on rules changes and the FRA interpretation. Considering a major railroad was in his district you’d figure he’d have a clue.

His excuse on FISA vore was pathetic. He kicked the can saying the House would never pass it. Uh guess what Senator Webb? They passed it. Apparently supporting and defending the Constitution applied when he wore the uniform.

If him and Periello are the best Virginia can do I guess I better get used to being stuck with indifferent Republicans(as opposed to cowardly and clueless Democrats).

Yep. As far as I’m concerned I’ll stay home if the DNC decides to run an anti choicer. I’m done being told that my gender’s health is a backseat issue.

Why doesn’t the Dem. Party demand every candidate pledge to do his/her best to force the Gov’t. to stop reimbursing Viagra purchases?

Waaaaaayyyyyyyy late to this thread but heard the news earlier and just haven’t been near a puter all day long until now.

I know it’s less than a hundred names, but I’d like to think my little bit of “activism” led to this.

I’ve emailed and phoned his office so many times I can’t count, always keeping them informed of the number of voters I had pledged to not only NOT vote for him next time, but to vote for whatever Republican ran against him due to the health insurance profit protection act. ALL of us had voted for him last time (at least they claimed to, I do know I did).

I’m sure it had ZERO affect in reality, but damn I can at least feel good about a fantasy for a bit, right??

LOL, the cool thing is that as things have moved along, almost every single one of those that made that committment were still backing it as of the last time I sent out an email.

Now we won’t have to vote for the Republican since Webb won’t be on the ticket.

Still sucks though. They get to serve 6 years, don’t give a shit about reelection, then leave and get paid even bigger bucks by the corps they’ve been serving the last 6 years.

Jim Webb, you’re an asshole. No less of an asshole than any Republican I’ve ever known. In fact, more so. At least they had the courage to put the damned R after their name.

Another vote I wish I could have back, asshole.

I don’t begrudge the menfolk their drugs for erectile dysfunction. I say we go more radical and suggest that we do away with antibiotic coverage for the male half of the population. Let’s see how truly anxious they are to test “God’s will. I’m sick of people who have zero chance of ever becoming pregnant weighing in on the issue as if they have an equal stake in the issue of reproductive choice. The Vatican doesn’t want to cover birth control because pregnancy is not a disease. Well Archdiocese does gestational diabetes qualify as a disease? How about preeclampsia? Can you guarantee that a woman won’t lose kidney function as a result of their expanding uterus? What about sepsis? Because one medical condition does not preclude having others and until you can guarantee me that maternal mortality is zero you have no right to tell her what her acceptable risks are. Additionally I’m done with the idea that women have to accept pregnancy risks as God’s will. I know next time you get a bacterial infection Mr Pope how about abstaining from antibiotics. After all if God wants you to be cured then He’ll heal you without medication. What? You’re not willing to play Russian Roulette with your life? Too bad. Oh and don’t even get me started on “rape-rape.”