I’M GONNA PICK MYSELF UP DUST MYSELF OFF AND START ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!
Jim Pence February 17th, 2008
(cross posted at Hillbilly Report)
I’ve been all over
Yes we have progressives here in Kentucky, I know because I’ve seen moms, dads, preachers, priest, sisters, college kids, blacks, whites, straights, gays, Hispanics, veterans, Muslims, Jews, Atheist, Christians and more protesting for a better America, against George W. Bush and Senator Mitch McConnell. The progressive protests throughout Kentucky, have been so effective and weaken Senator Mitch McConnell’s approval ratings so much that he, Senator Mitch McConnell, had to start spending his money and airing political ads early. The weakening of Senator Mitch McConnell’s approval ratings didn’t go unnoticed by those wanting to replace Senator Mitch McConnell, and all of our hard work produced some unexpected results, eight Democratic Primary Candidates.
A few days ago one of the most beloved men in all of
I don’t know who will win the Senatorial race here in
Most of us remember how bad we felt in 2004, when George W. Bush, Anne Northup and Ron Lewis got elected and how good we felt when John Yarmuth beat Anne Northup in 2006, I’ll take that 2006 feeling every time.
So where do we go from here? I don’t know, I’m not a Dr. Phil and I’m not giving advice, but a song from the movie “Swing Time” came to my mind as I pondered the dilemma we are in, here in
ps The Daily Kos don’t know jack shit about
- 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , Andrew Horne , Mitch McConnell
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McConnell promises misery for eventual opponent
LEXINGTON KY-The Comedian Mitch McConnell broughthi stand -up comedy routine for the crowd of several hundred at Saturday night’s Republican Party of Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner in Lexington when he promised misery for his Democratic opponent in the fall.
“Whoever runs against me is going to have a perfectly miserable experience,” McConnell promised.
The state’s senior senator said he expects his opponent to argue that Kentucky needs a “fresh face” in the Senate. “I’m going to argue that I give us a competitive edge in a highly competitive environment.”
To drive home the point, McConnell played a lengthy video highlighting his efforts to bring back big bucks for tobacco farmers, universities, parks, the Bluegrass Army Depot and workers sickened at Paducah’s uranium enrichment plant.
( Funny he didn’t mention $8.3 million for Chinese made IPODS for Afghani war lords, or $25 million for BAE sysytems , The british denfense contractor under investigation for bribery by the British and American authorities)
Louisville Democrats Bruce Lunsford and Greg Fischer are the two leading contenders to challenge McConnell.
McConnell started his speech by noting that “spirits are a little bit higher this year,” a clear reference to the group’s contentious gathering in Louisville a year ago when former Gov. Ernie Fletcher faced a primary challenge from former congresswoman Anne Northup.
He said he spoke recently with Fletcher, who is adapting well to his private life and following recent news accounts about Gov. Steve Beshear with “some detached amusement.”
McConnell pointed to Secretary of State Trey Grayson’s ability to draw 51 percent of the vote last November as “the first indication that Republicans weren’t going to fold their tent or go away.”
Then came “a game changer” earlier this month when Republican Brandon Smith won the Eastern Kentucky state Senate seat formerly held by Democratic Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo.
“I couldn’t go to sleep I was so excited about it,” McConnell said. “I thought it was enormously significant.”
State Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, emceed the event. He took the opportunity to throw a few barbs at Beshear and noted that the Democratic governor’s approval rating took a tumble this week, particularly in Eastern Kentucky.
As for Beshear’s proposed constitutional amendment allowing casinos in Kentucky, Williams offered this advice: “He can stick a fork in it. It’s done.”
Congressman Ron Lewis, KY-2nd, used his time at the podium to promise he will do “everything I can” to get state Sen. Brett Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, elected to the seat he is vacating.
“I’m leaving, but we have a fine and wonderful young man in Brett Guthrie to carry on the work,” Lewis said.
He also pledged to turn over “most” of his campaign war chest, which stood at more than $400,000 at the end of 2007, to the state party.
Lewis has repeatedly apologized to the party in recent weeks after secretly attempting to have his chief of staff, Daniel London, be the lone GOP candidate to replace him. London dropped out of the race earlier this month.
STEPP MAKES SPEECHES AT LEXINGTON DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISER, AND AT FRANKFORT STUDENT CONVENTION.
On Saturday, February 16, 2008, U.S. Senate Candidate Kenneth Stepp of Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky was a special guest at the $100.00 a plate Fayette County Democrats fundraising banquet in Lexington, Kentucky at the Red Mile Clubhouse. Speakers at the Banquet included Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jennifer Moore, and Candidate Kenneth Stepp. Special guests at the banquet included Candidate Kenneth Stepp and sons Carson Stepp and Conrad Stepp, and wife Wilma Stepp.
Earlier that day, Stepp was a guest speaker at the Kentucky Student Democratic Convention at Kentucky Democratic Party Headquarters in Frankfort, Kentucky. Other speakers to the Convention included Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jennifer Moore.
Thanks Jim (and Fred Astaire), we all needed this message to pick ourselves up.
Thanks Mitch for working so fast SNARK…how long has it taken???,most of these worker are dead now,and how long has the ground water been contaminated around the plant??
look at the year this was wrote
Uranium Plant Enriches Kentucky City, but at the Cost of Health
Published: October 26, 2002
A half-century ago, Western Kentucky was so thrilled about the opening of a cold war uranium enrichment plant that it named a community Cimota — ”atomic” spelled backward.
Decades later, angry, scared and dying workers file into the Sick Workers Office in Paducah, pulling oxygen tanks and fighting incurable tumors.
As they marked the 50th anniversary this week of the opening of the enrichment plant, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, residents of this city pondered a mixed legacy: The plant turned the city into a pocket of wealth in a poor region, but at a cost.
Workers were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, and scores slowly became sick with diseases that the federal government only recently admitted responsibility for.
”People come in here very sick,” said Stewart Tolar, site manager at the Energy Employees Compensation Resource Center. ”They feel like they’ve lost their dignity.”
In 1999, then-Energy Secretary Bill Richardson issued an apology in Paducah after the government reversed decades of denial and conceded that many workers did get sick because of exposure to cancer-causing radiation and silica or beryllium, which can cause lung diseases.
An entitlement law later provided lifetime medical care and a tax-free lump sum of $150,000 to those made sick by their work.
Since the program began last year, about $62.8 million has been distributed to former and current workers and their survivors through the resource office in Paducah, Mr. Tolar said.
But recognition came too late for many. One former worker, Joe Harding, was denied compensation even though his bones contained 34,000 times the expected concentration of uranium before he died in 1980.
In addition to the health disaster, the Energy Department estimated it would take 10 years and $1.3 billion more than the $400 million already spent to clean up environmental contamination.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E1D71E3CF935A15753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=
Good to see you’ve made contact with the 43% of the state that will vote against him.
As for the %57 that will vote for him, we’ll be laughing at you the night of the election!
Herodotus, would that be the same 43% that knocked off Flecther and Ann Northup?
maybe so Herodotus but it’s because of one issue, but i guess it’s ok for all the one’s that have died in the bush wars ..
are you lonely why you come over here and post??
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Generic Congressional Ballot
Democrats 44% Republicans 40%
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if the Congressional Election were held today, 44% of American voters say they would vote for the Democrat in their district and 40% would opt for the Republican
Surely I don’t have to tell you that a “generic congressional ballot” is never an indicator of a “specific” race. Plus, in case you haven’t figured it out, Republicans are more likely to hang up on a pollster then Dems so they’re always skewed a bit to the left.
Could someone translate kilowat’s post for me? His deranged reasoning and overuse of sentence fragments is very hard to understand (and I grade Freshmen’s papers for a living!).
Nope Seth Hall, that would be the 43% that lost to Mitch last time, and the time before that, and the time before that. But hey, maybe if there is a big Dem wave this fall you’ll get lose only by 53-47%. Will you proclaim it a moral victory? Nope, I forgot your party is steadfastly against anything remotely “moral”.
Herodutus, really using the word moral for Republicans? You really are a kidder.