We locally are fighting Dow Chemical and the Bushist EPA and our own Hillary Clinton (Moderate Democrat Jennifer Granholm) in their efforts to keep us living in the toxic pollution of from Dow Chemical's headquarters in Midland Michigan.

How bad has it gotten?

The Lt. Governor just told the Department of Environmental Quality to butt out on requiring permits and the Bushist EPA just pushed out the Great Lakes administrator of the EPA for daring to test for more contamination!

This issue has gotten practically NO local airplay and what we have gotten solidly backs the polluters, politicians and blames the Michigan DEQ for 'ruining the local economy'.

We need more exposure! We are living in a cesspool of moderate democrat and hard right fascistic republicanism and the resulting toxic pollution... My neighborhood was dubbed 'worse than Love Canal' for the levels of dioxin being found and a major Superfund site and yet the politicians still dance to the tune Dow is paying for...

Two websites to check out the action: dredgeitright.org (click 'Updates' and read the updates) and www.trwnews.net which has covered this from the beginning.

In a time where 'Support the troops' is about supporting war profiteers, 'Support the environment' is about letting corporations dump whatever they want to increase their profits.

It ought to be disgusting but these politicians have no shame...

Thank you.

They've been working the seamy side of Congress since the democrats 'won' the last time and now some cleverly worded bill will come out and be voted on in the dark of night and then the conversion to the dark side will be complete.

We won't have ANY rights to be private from our government but they and those that run it are ensconced in privacy that would make anyone jealous. Especially when you take into account that the vast majority of the media and coddled 'journalists' are in on it up to their necks.

Being a dictator, a 'god among swine' is a damn good job. It's great to be the king...

Now watch this drive...

BB As much as I would love to see any ad targeting Carney for his alliances, I fear it may be too late. Carney ran in the PA Democratic primary unopposed. The two Republicans running in their primary were remarkable only for their vying as to who was the most conservative, a word featured prominently in all of their advertisements.

Clearly, Carney's opponent would be no better. But at least he'd be a Republican, and so his support for such things would be less significant than Carney's.

What Democrats like Hoyer and Carney count on is that you will never challenge them or fight against them because you'll be afraid that, by doing so, you'll weaken them and help flip the district to the Republicans. They need to know that this fear won't protect them or else they have no reason to do anything but take you for granted and ignore you.

The Democrats have a large margin in the House. It's going to get larger this year. The benefit of a campaign of this sort and the message it sends (and the potential to change behavior) vastly outweighs the risk that it will end up defeating a single bad Democratic House member and replacing him with one bad Republican.

I've wondered that myself concerning the Michigan governor elections.

I was told to my face by Jennifer Granholm herself that she was very sensitive about the environment and she ran on a n environmental platform and also the fear of what RNC tool Dick DeVos would do.

Well, after the elections it looks like we know what DeVos would have done. Same as Jennifer...

She is pushing 7 new coal power plants. She is pushing a reduction in the Department of Environmental Quality power to enforce environmental laws in Michigan and has just ok'ed a cesspool of toxic waste in my neighborhood. (I will never vote for a 'moderate democrat' again)

We know what the repubicans will get us. We can't be afraid of a republican getting the office when the gutless coward democrats can't be trusted to do the right thing.

I sat for a while before the election wondering who to vote for as Jennifer had started her turn to the dark side already. I almost voted for DeVos. Now I see little difference.

If these people want in office, they have to be held accountable! No excuses!

It might be hard but if Carney and other democrats want the job, they'd better act like the party that they claim to represent. (And I sure hope that November turns a whole bunch if the republicans and the DINO's out on their asses)!!!

If there were an intelligence test that you had to pass before voting, perhaps we'd have better leaders.

If there was a current issues part of that test I know we'd have better leaders.

But the GOP can't let the lack of voter intelligence get in the way of their winning...

America is a joke. America is a despotic failed state. America is a shell filled with puss and profiteers and bully politicians and pansy shills for those in power. Just look at FISA and the great 'bankruptcy bill' and the war on the American treasury in Iraq and Afghanistan soon to expand to Iran. And we are talking about someone's pastor? We're so screwed that we don't realize how screwed we are.

The enemy isn't Al Qaida, it's US. How do we fix this? Attack the media!