DoubleSpeak with Matthew and Peter Slutsky

The Minivan Rolls On…

Day 14
5:20 PM ET.

Team DoubleSpeak just wrapped up disc one of Bill Clinton’s autobiography, My Life. I’m looking forward to hearing the rest of the book, read to me by the one and only, Bubba Clinton.

We’re stuck in traffic and are eager for things to clear up so we can get to Ohio by Monday Night Football. (Go Birds!)

In today’s Congressional Pedophile watch: Foleygate is really heating up. We are listening to news reports and it seems the fallout is continuing and really starting to spiral. It is beyond understanding to me why the GOP leadership covered up this story.

They had a pedophile in their ranks and instead of doing what was right for the country, they did what was right for their political party. They allowed Foley to get away with a free pass and now that they got caught in their web of lies, they are all back pedaling - trying to figure out a way to justify their unconscionable actions.

The Florida GOP has picked state Rep. Joe Negron to replace Foley on the ballot in the November election. This interesting thing is - Negron will have to run under Foley’s name. As the law stands now, it is too late to replace Foley on the ballot.

I wonder how they’ll end the TV commercials:

“What Rep. Foley did was despicable and beyond comprehension. As your Representative in Congress, I’ll never betray the public trust and I’ll stay off AIM, period! Let’s put this Foley debacle behind us - I’m Mark Foley and I approve this message.”

The Dems shouldn’t have any problem picking this seat up. You thought Florida voters were confused in 2000! Oye.

What a wild and crazy world we live in.

CT: Diane Farrell, Tim Tagaris, Nancy DiNardo

Dianne Farrell, Candidate for U.S. Congress
Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District

Tim Tagaris, Internet Director
Ned Lamont for U.S. Senate

Nancy DiNardo, State Democratic Party Chair
Connecticut

Music by John Vanderslice, Adam and Dave’s Bloodline and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

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A Quick Note From CT

Day 8
10:18 AM ET.

This first entry today won’t be long because we’re finishing up some work here in Cheshire, CT and then driving back to New Haven for some interviews.

Later this afternoon we’re driving due north to Rhode Island, home of one of the most closely watched Senate races in America between embattled Republican Lincoln Chaffee and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.

We had a great night sleep, some tasty (healthy) food and we’re all feeling good.

Tonight, more writing and producing!

Keep an eye out for our next episode with Joe Sestak (PA-07) and Lois Murphy (PA-06) - the episode should be up within the hour.

-Peter

Sep 26, 2006 by Peter Slutsky in
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Hot Enough For You?

From DoubleSpeak reader JL:

“Wow, right now the heat index is higher than Bagdad. Maybe we should have Congress march around the streets in full gear and see what it’s like there.”

Aug 2, 2006 by Joshua Skaroff in
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Mad Dog McKinney Going Down?

Cynthia McKinney

Crazed cop-beater/Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is once again in big political trouble. A new Insider Advantage Poll has McKinney badly trailing her runoff opponent, DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson.

After publicly suggesting that George W. Bush had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, voters in Georgia’s 4th Congressional District rejected McKinney’s brand of racial demagoguery in 2002 and instead elected Democrat Denise Majette to represent them. Luckily for McKinney, Majette left the House after just one term to wage an ill-advised, losing campaign for U.S. Senate in 2004, allowing McKinney to reclaim her House seat.

This year, the punditocracy thought McKinney would easily vanquish the lesser-known Johnson. The chattering class was wrong: after garnering less than 50% in the primary on July 18, Johnson and McKinney duke it out in an August 8 run-off.

Hank Johnson, on the other hand, promises “to restore respect to progressivism.” That’s a promise DoubleSpeak likes.

Jul 28, 2006 by Alex in
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In preparing for today, I found that it is customary in speeches such as these to reminisce about the good old days of political harmony and across-the-aisle camaraderie, and to lament the bitter, divisive partisan rancor that supposedly now weakens our democracy.

Well, I can’t do that because partisanship, Mr. Speaker, properly understood, is not a symptom of democracy’s weakness, but of its health and its strength, especially from the perspective of a political conservative.

Liberalism, after all, whatever you may think of its merits, is a political philosophy and a proud one with a great tradition in this country, with a voracious appetite for growth. In any place or any time on any issue, what does liberalism ever seek, Mr. Speaker? More. More government, more taxation, more control over people’s lives and decisions and wallets.

If conservatives don’t stand up to liberalism, no one will.

Elegant and sophisticated. Enjoy your life Mr. DeLay. We’re already enjoying ours a little more.

Jun 9, 2006 by Joshua Skaroff in
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