Weekend Quick Hits Open Thread
Terri Whitehouse January 5th, 2008
Gov. Steve Beshear appointed Eleanor Jordan as executive director of the Commission on Women. Bill Stone, former Jefferson County GOP chairman, opined:
Stone said he does believe that a separate commission for women is part of “government silliness.”
“I personally, and I think conservatives think, the Commission on Women is another wasteful government department,” he said.
Stone, however, said that he knows Jordan and that if there has to be a commission she is a “probably a perfect fit for that job.”
I guess being in the bottom third in just about every indicator of stability, health, and well-being, is A-OK with some bourgie city folk.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has shitloads of money. I know our readers must find this absolutely shocking. The Public Campaign Action Fund gets it right:
No one in Kentucky ought to see McConnell’s fundraising as anything but his mastery of a corrupt political system that places the interests of donors ahead of all Kentuckians.
Finally, Rep. John Yarmuth puts his money where his mouth is, donating his whole first-year congressional salary to the Louisville community as he promised. MediaCzech provides the Republican response.
What other interesting things have you read in the last few days?
- 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , Ditch Mitch , Economy , Health Care , John Yarmuth , Kentucky GOP , Mitch McConnell , Public Campaign Action Fund , Steve Beshear , fundraising
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Mitch McConnell wants us to think the war in Iraq is no longer an election issue.
A new report shows that 900 U.S. troops died in Iraq in 2007, the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq since the invasion. Over 16200 Iraqi civilians were killed, up from 12,371 the year before.
Once again most of the news media is ignoring this report, strengthening McConnell’s hand.
another 70 billion dollars down the hole, and no end in site.our military is being used as peace keeper that will never last
Our forces are not ‘keeping the peace’; they are structuring the violence and moving it around so that itis a slightly more difficult target to engage - if one is an embedded reporter.
Candidly, there is no real option to being embedded. All reporters who’ve ventured off on their own have eventually not returned from an adventure.
Soldiers & Marines are merely structuring the violence and moving it from one millieu to another.
No choice?
No democracy
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As we approach 4,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, we wonder what it takes to convince the American people that we have had enough U.S. military deaths in Iraq, and to Ditch Mitch and bring the troops home.