BFL Roundup — Part Deu

Continuing the roundup…

Lil’ Miss Atilla isn’t pleased with GW. But that doesn’t mean she’s lost her head, either.

Mike is assaulting Feinstein’s assault on assault weapons. Yes, Mike, it is sometimes hard being a Californian.

Mr. Miller wonders how Hillary can be so out of touch with reality.

Molly has checked in (finally) to share that she’s checking out of CA.

Robert is still recovering from the Passion.

Martin says Bush has the advantage because this year’s election is all about jobs.

Happy Anniversary, Patrick! Slings & Arrows’ is right around the corner

Are you against religious discrimination? So is Patterico.

Why can’t we all (or at least one of us) just move on from Vietnam? asks Greg Ransom.

Speaking of Kerry’s Vietnam experience, Right on the Left Beach thinks that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Stefan Sharkansky reveals the backward superstitions of the unwashed, uneducated natives in one of the more remote areas of the nation.

The Southern California Law blog is the only BFL’er to follow trhough with covering the California grocery strike. I’m glad someone had the fortitude to stick it out.

The Accidental Jedi is finding out how wise her new husband is. I’m impressed. It usually takes husbands seven or eight years to figure out little things like this.

The Irish Las is hob-nobbing with big time California Republicans again. Hey! How about a review of the CAGOP convention?

The Lopsided Poopdeck points out yet another example that Kerry is informationally challenged. [If he were a Republican he'd be duwn-right dumb.]

Tom Smith has identified perhaps the worst job in history
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Mitch is back from his ski trip with plenty to say on everything.

That wraps up the review. Enjoy!

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Kerry’s 527 Ties: Stephanie Cutter and Debra Deshong

Stephanie Cutter is Communications Director and Debra DeShong is a senior advisor and campaign spokesman for Kerry. Both are pictured here talking with Emily’s list staffers. Again, Emily’s list is headed up by the Media Fund’s Ellen Malcom.
As if that isn’t enough, both the Cutter/Deshong photo, and this one of Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill were taken at Kerry’s campaign headquarters.

I believe this is smoking gun material. Here we see disciples of Media Fund mavin Ellen Malcom at the Kerry headquarters receiving direction from Kerry campaign staff. If this isn’t coordination with the Kerry campaign, nothing is.

Update: Welcome Instapundit readers. This post is only the latest of several 527 connections. There are more here, including direct 527 ties to John Edwards, Jim Jordan and others.

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Kerry’s 527 Ties: Web of Connections Round-up

As you know, since last week I’ve been tracking down Kerry’s connections to 527 organizations. I thought it might be useful if I rounded them out in one post to make them easy to get to. So here we go:

John Edwards: Vice Presidential nominee that has private lunches with ultra-rich playboy Steve Bing, who also happens to be major contributor to MoveOn.org.

Zack Exley: Former MoveOn.org employee now works for the Kerry campaign.

Gene Sperling: Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress which partners with MoveOn.org for multiple projects.

Jim Jordan: Worked as Kerry’s campaign manager, now works for the Media Fund.

Harold Ickes: A senior political strategist in the Kerry team and also the president and founder of the Media Fund.

Terry Edmonds: Kerry’s speechwriter and linked to Ellen Malcom of the Media Fund.

Minyon Moore: Kerry strategist and big-wig at America Coming Together.

Mary Beth Cahill: Worked with Ellen Malcom at Emily’s List. Malcom is a player at the Media Fund.

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It Must Be Bush’s Fault

She worked for four Democratic members of Congress but what does the headline in the Seattle Post Intelligencer say about the accused Iraqi spy?

Accused spy is cousin of Bush staffer

The woman charged with working for the Iraqi spy agency is a distant cousin of President Bush’s chief of staff, Andrew Card, and has held a variety of jobs in journalism and on Capitol Hill.

How distant? I read recently that Kerry is a distant cousin of Bush for crying out loud.

Looking again, I see this is an AP article and quite a few papers are carrying the same headline. My question is, how much work did someone have to go through in order to find a relationship between this woman and Bush?

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BFL Roundup * .5

I haven’t seen a BFL round up in a while, so I thought I would have a crack at one. Here goes:

Aaron’s Rantblog is still all about Blogopoly.
Ith weighs in on checks and balances.
The Angry Clam has some suggestions on things we can cut out of the state budget so we can keep more important things, like police and emergency services
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Baldilocks serves up a smorgesborg of topics from Bush and homosexual marriage to Howard Stern and censorship.
McGehee of BlogoSFERICS isn’t buying Brown’s apology.
Da Boi thumbs his nose at gay rights action groups.
CalBlog husband questions the Democrat’s commitment to states rights. They certainly supported states rights when it came to Texas sodomy laws, didn’t they?
Eric Hogue notes that San Francisco’s illegal marriage licenses are a stew of litigative trouble waiting to boil over.
Citizen Smash busts the ancient “Myth of the Golden Lock Box”.
Cobb asks the question, “Now really, where is the persecution?”
BQ hopes we’re doing a better job at watching the U.N. than the Brits. Me too.
Dale Franks points out who is really creating a “wedge issue”…
…while Edward Davis notices same sex marriage is creating wedge — inside the Democratic party.
Fresh Potatoes is rooting for Kerry!
Howard Owens correctly points out the purpose of the Constitution.
Jockularocracy does his own version of “Wrapper’s Delight.”

That’s about half the list, but I have to get to work. Stay tuned for the other half.

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Death of the Two Party System

Is the two party system an endangered species in the U.S.? Everett Ehrlich thinks so:

For all Dean’s talk about wanting to represent the truly “Democratic wing of the Democratic Party,” the paradox is that he is essentially a third-party candidate using modern technology to achieve a takeover of the Democratic Party. Other candidates — John Kerry, John Edwards, Wesley Clark — are competing to take control of the party’s fundraising, organizational and media operations. But Dean is not interested in taking control of those depreciating assets. He is creating his own party, his own lists, his own money, his own organization. What he wants are the Democratic brand name and legacy, the party’s last remaining assets of value, as part of his marketing strategy.

And this is exactly why he’ll win the primary in a landslide and lose the general election just as dramatically. Dean’s internet candidacy and electric personality has given him nigh unstoppable momentum in a party that currently doesn’t know it’s head from it’s feet. But Dean’s presence is based upon a very vocal majority of the minority. The aformentioned USA Today/CNN poll illustrates that less than one out of five people (18%) believe Bush “stole” the 2000 election. Betting that they are all Deanites wouldn’t even get Pete Rose in trouble.

While 18% of the total population does not a majority make, it does make up a significant block of the Democratic party. Let’s be generous and assume that half those polled at least lean Democrat. That being the case, the 18% translates into 36% of Democrats — and a very energized, cohesive, and motivated 36%. In a field of nine candiates, that is an overcomable block of votes.

But when the general election comes, the “Bush stole the election” crowd becomes once again less than one in five. Compare that to the one out of two that believe he won it fair and square (and thereby don’t think of Bush in visceral terms) and the Deanites have an altogether different game.

Update: Along the same reasoning Mort Kondrake also sees Bush winning:

But this doesn’t account for the blind hatred many Democrats feel toward Bush. A lot of it is visceral and cultural. Openly religious and anti-abortion, the signer of a concealed-carry gun law in Texas and regular executioner of convicted killers, Bush is anathema to secular, pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-death penalty liberals. [...]

Instead of looking in the mirror and trying to figure out what is wrong with them, Democrats vent at Bush. It’s a disastrous strategy.

Yep.

Update: Real Clear Politics has a real clear debunking of the “Bush stole the election” meme

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