Glenn I'm afraid you don't understand the kind of pressure these blue dogs are under, and might have even missed the fact that one of the worst deficiencies of the Dem Congress is not keeping a key promise that could have innoculated them for us.

The Blue Dogs live in redneck areas where AM talk radio is the public information square. On every major talk station there is 100% far right disinformation 24/7 with no chance of a response. The Annenberg School of Communication study showed that most of the 50 million listeners who are duped into utter "False Certainty" on every issue live in these areas. They not only get the far right position drilled into them with no balance, there is a complete blackout of any opposing views and hence any Dem attempts to frame an issue are absent.

So if a Blue Dog was to vote to hold the telecoms accountable, it woudl immediately be framed on their local talk radio stations as capitulation to the terrorists. All day and all night on every station, the frame would be that Congressman Carney is supporting the terrorists by not allowing our intel to spy on terrorist phone calls. No one would even mention that this could be used to spy on political opponents to Bush, in fact the substantial evidence that this has already happened has never even been mentioned to these listeners.

The Dem Congress had one window of opportunity to remedy this, and I believe that they knew this as Reid, Pelosi, Feinstein, Kucinich and others promised on Air America that there would be hearings to pressure ownership to bring balance back to our AM airwaves. It wouldn't even require a "Fairness Doctrine" since the pressure alone would cause ownership to reconsider operating a far right disinformation operation. Yet what little discussion of this occurred immediately was subsumed into the red=herring issue "Fairness Doctrine." No hearings were held in which ownership was called. Kathleen Hall Jameson has still never been called to testify about the 15 years Annenberg research, in fact it is only taught in most Universities outside the country that a Goebbels-like disinformation project was used by rightist tricksters to takeover the U.S., is absent any pushback will continue to frame every issue, dupe a critical mass of voters, and lead to an ugly end to the America as we know it.

I was raised by rednecks and escaped for civilization, only to find they had taken over the radio dial and installing redneck rule. To try to be nice about it allows them to preen like idiots and convince themselves they are more moral and have some unseen kind of "common sense" that really makes them smarter than the real smartypantses.

They should be shamed for their willful ignorance, the kind that would have 30% of the country say Obama is a Muslim even after weeks of firestorm over his Christian pastor.

A candidate like Barrack who doesn't have a mean bone in his body, but isn't understood by people who don't want to have any understanding of a black man or potential "Muslim" can outwit the fools by taking up where Bobby left off in places like W.Va. campaigning against "poverty," which is understandable by anyone and a way to lead them to understand better class inequality and the deliberate GOP plan to wipe out the middle class. Take a look at some of the old news clips of Bobby bringing the cameras into the deepest poverty pockets of W.Va. while talking about healing poverty and joblessness. It is a way to engage these people which even they cannot fault.

Hope they included my favorite and surely the ugliest scene from the coup. A disgusting fat pasty sweaty slob shambled into the Dade County Elections Board screaming like a mental patient: "I´m from the Bush campaign and I´m here to stop the counting." He was waving a court document that later was proven to be unrelated. The Sheriff was called and he was preparing to detain the guy for psychiatric evaluation when it was discovered he was top Bush campaign official, and soon to be the most despised U.N Ambassador from ANY country EVER in history, John Bolton. This began the parade of hideous porky pigs that sowed our country´s destruction.

There are a lot of 700 pound hick red(state)necks waddling around this board today.

"She [Nancy Reagan] was escorted out of the hall by Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, and president and CEO of The Politico"

When Glenn revealed this last year, it should have put to rest any idea that the Politico was anything other than a right wing hit tool.

It isn´t that good, either. The hottest topics are always piggybacking on the big news story of the day, or some other better blog´s actual reporting. Then you have to slog through a squatter´s nest of commenters lying in wait to call you a liberal, while taking up most of the comments space with vapid chitchat that sounds like wingtipped Repuke flirting.