A post by Peter Slutsky

Bill Clinton Nails It

Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton was out in Colorado speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival and he affirmed what we all believe. The Democrats will do well in November if they stick to the message and talk about issues that Americans care about.

Clinton also believes that the GOP strategy is weak; the whole idea of pandering to the GOP base by introducing legislation that is is bad for America is not going to do the job in the fall.

The Republican strategy is weak, he said.

“Let’s forget about global warming and talk about flag burning and gay marriage,” Clinton said. “I don’t know how long you can milk that old cow.”

Democrats, he said, need to focus on their differences with the GOP and on promoting what they stand for. One of those things should be fighting climate change, he said.

Clinton said America is losing jobs and its economy is suffering without investment in the future of energy.

“This decade’s new jobs are in clean energy, and we haven’t seized them,” he said. “We have a short time in the life of the planet to turn this around.”

He said Democrats should seize on the opportunity to stress the national security angle of clean energy. He said climate change is a far more important issue than he thought when he was in office.

The Republican plan for America = stay the course in Iraq and ban gay marriage. I guess Americans will really have a BIG choice to make.

Read the Democrats plan for America

A post by Matthew Slutsky

So You Wanna Burn the Flag?

The United States Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made it illegal to “desecrate” the American flag. The effort, led by the Republicans in the Senate, marked another failed attempt for the Grand Old Party to throw red meat at its base in an attempt to make them forget that, well, they’ve failed at leading this country over the past six years.

From the WaPo:

The 66 to 34 vote fell just short of the two-thirds majority required to approve a constitutional amendment and submit it to the states for ratification. It marked the latest setback for congressional attempts to supersede Supreme Court decisions in 1989 and 1990. Justices narrowly ruled that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech under the First Amendment.

Personally, I am glad that the GOP is standing up and trying to make it illegal for Americans to deface the flag. The flag, after all, is a symbol of freedom and freedom (as you know) is on the march. It’s the Democrats who are the ones who want to burn their bras, flags, and bibles and that is just wrong.

Wait, hold on. One second…

Oh, ok. Breaking news from the GOP…

Ah, turns out they’re against defacing the flag UNLESS it’s Kid Rock who was invited to perform at the 2004 RNC convention in New York City!

Hypocrites.

A post by Joshua Skaroff

This Man Makes No Sense

Can you spot the sentence? How does one become leader of the most deliberative (hah!) parliamentary body in the world when one can’t form a complete sentence? Transcript from Raw Story:

O’Brien defended CNN, “We are covering but I think there is — a lot of what you say there — Americans are not hearing that particular message. As the majority leader, isn’t that part of your job?”

Frist replied, “Well, you know, it’s part of my job and your job and your whole coming into this was, again, saying [from] Harry Reid that we are spending all of our time on marriage — which is important. That we’re spending all of the time on flag without mentioning what we’ve done of the floor for six weeks. Iraq, the war on terror, making you safer… where’s your coverage of that? What you do is concentrate on things that are spun to you from the other side of the aisle and that’s why that message doesn’t get out.”

The Gay Bashing Amendment

that was proposed by the bigots in the Republican Party has been rejected. Now the Senate can start debating matters on REAL national importance, like, for example, an amendment to ban flag burning.