Political Wire points out:

In Alabama’s 2008 Senate race, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is in a strong position for reelection, according to a new SurveyUSA poll. He is leading state Sen. Vivian Figures (D) by 22 points, 59% to 37%.

Therefore, we must assume that Alabamians have forgotten about this (below the fold):

Crossposted from The Carter Gilson ReportThe Carter Gilson Report

I'm in a bit of a quandary. You see, like many people here, I have a burning need to get out there and fix the country as much as I can, make it a better place and save the world.

I also have a full time job where I spend ten and a half hours each weekday making money but doing nothing to help save the world.

To try and combat this ten hours of daily inaction, I created a podcast and blog, and after six months of regular updates, I realized that if I were doing that ten hours a day, I would be far happier.

Which gets us to the quandary...

This is the script from my podcast from tonight at the Carter Gilson Report.

I'll probably regret this in the morning.  I try not to give the proudly evil the satisfaction of entering my brainspace for any length of time, preferring to fight the more banal evils of the world.  But some things cannot stand unnoted.

On Monday, in Blacksburg, VA, a gunman went on a rampage through the campus of Virginia Tech, killing 32 and wounding more than 50 before taking his own life.  Who he was we now know, though what triggered this, we may never fully know.

But what we do know is that this tragedy, this senseless act of destruction, will be followed, as an earthquake, by aftershocks of evil, from the Virginia pro-gun group that claimed that students should be allowed to carry concealed weapons, to virulently anti-good persecution-complex drama-queen Fred Phelps.

crossposted from The Carter Gilson Report. This is the script of my podcast for today.

It was four years ago today that the war in Iraq began. It’s amazing how anniversaries like this can creep up on you.

I had planned to do a run-down of the current Bush Administration scandals today, but I had forgotten that today is a special day. One of those days that really do stick out.

I’d forgotten, by and large because I didn’t want to remember. It’s just as easy to remember December 9th, 2000, the day that the Supreme Court handed the Presidency to the loser before all the votes were counted as the day that the American Democracy died and the Constitution was rendered irrelevant.

I have a new podcast, The Carter Gilson Report.  News and opinion, and music.  Updated three times a week.

I also have the scripts posted, so you can give it a read before subbing if you want.  A taste of the latest is under the fold here.

Thank you for reading, and for listening.

I have a new podcast, The Carter Gilson Report.  News and opinion, and music.  Updated three times a week.

I also have the scripts posted, so you can give it a read before subbing if you want.  A taste of the latest is under the fold here.

Thank you for reading, and for listening.

I am disappointed that ABC has produced the distortion-laced "Path to 9-11" miniseries, and also disappointed in Channel 5 for planning to air it.  As have been documented online and by those such as ABC's own Richard Clarke, many of the scenes depicted never happened, and the implication of the miniseries, that Osama bin Ladin's rise was due to President Clinton's inaction, is not supported by the 9-11 Commission report, upon which it is purportedly based.  I turn to Channel 5 for news every night, but if this miniseries airs without these inaccuracies being fixed, I will have to turn elsewhere.  I would hope that the news department would be able to pressure the programming department to drop the program, or at least to highlight the inaccuracies of the program.

Alas it was in their webform, so I wasn't able to say as much as I wanted to.  At any rate, their response, and my counterresponse, on the flip.

At any rate, nine weeks from today the issue is taken up again.  For more information, turn to MassEquality, a group with whom I have no affiliation other than being on their mailing list.

As though I were John Nash finding patterns where none were visible before, in the bathroom this morning things became clear to me.

President George W. Bush is not long for the Presidency.

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As Kos points out on the main page, Rep. Emmanuel's ennumeration of the issues Democrats are fighting for completely ignores the number 1 issue concerning Americans.  While I can almost understand the desire to play it safe in tough contests, there are many CDs in this country that are safely Democratic.  Many of them are represented by Congress-Critters who are nearly complete unknowns.

We need to write them, now, and tell them to make Iraq an issue.  We need to make them see that Rep. Emmanuel is missing the boat, and get them in front of the cameras.  The more Democrats in Congress who are speaking out, the more comfortable those in less safe districts will be in speaking out against the war.

Below, find the letter I sent Rep. John Tierney, MA-6, earlier today.

Like blood on a tablecloth, Gov. Mitt Romney has likened himself to "a red speck in a blue state".

As usual, Romney made this statement outside of his home state.  It's not unusual for a Governor to head out of state from time to time, but Romney has made a habit of this.  It's led many people in his own party to wonder if he has any plan to run for reelection, since he has no apparent interest in his current job.

A group called MassEquality has a great tool on their website that will automatically send email to you Senator and Representative, as well as the Senate President and Speaker of the House.

There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives.  They will all come up for re-election in 2006.  Reclaiming the Senate would be great, but even if we get six of the nine questionable Republican seats there, we'd just be in the same stagnant period we had after the 2000 election without the House to back us up.

The front page looks at occasional House races, but there isn't a concerted effort, from what I've seen, to look at all 435 races.

So, that's what I'm going to do.

I set mine up with Kos, MyDD, Think Progress, and Kicking Ass.  I'm sure more will add, but I think that covers a good part of the liberal blogosphere and more than enough for me over my morning coffee and email.

As an exercise in testing my stomach, I decided to find RSS feeds from the other side as balance.

Compare that to divorce rates in Massachusetts, where there are only 24 divorces for every 10,000 persons, and I think the implication is clear.

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