Now let’s pass it with or without the party of NO. Democrats are in power, start acting like it.
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Hosenpheffer went to Austin, TX last weekend and saw The Cult (see below) she also got to see roots country legend Charlie Sexton and befriended the drummer of Babes in Toyland who is organizing South by Southwest this year (and I am freaking going).
Also, the ‘2 Marks’ from the famed Sioux Falls roots country band ‘Violet’ were in town a couple of weeks ago visiting from Seattle. This is a picture of SF poet Charles Luden with them.
Charlie Sexton, below
I had to laugh about these two quotes from Levi Johnston in the latest Vanity Fair article about Governor Moose Drool (the story has been taken down).
“I was at the hospital when Sarah had the baby a little after six A.M. on
April 18, 2008, two weeks before we told her we were pregnant. He was given
the name Trig Paxxson Van Palin because Paxxson was Todd’s favorite place
to snow machine in Alaska, and because of the rock band Van Halen.”
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“After Tripp was born, Sarah would pay more attention to our son then to her
own baby, Trig. Sarah has a weird sense of humor. When she would come home
from work, Bristol and I would be holding Trig and Tripp. Sarah would call
Trig – who was born with Down syndrome – “my little Down’s baby.” But I
couldn’t believe it when she would come over to us and sometimes say,
playing around, “No, I don’t want the retarded baby-I want the other one”,
and pick up Tripp. That was just her-even her kids were used to it.” – Levi Johnston
Dodd to Remain Senate Banking Chairman
By COREY BOLESWASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) is to remain as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, having decided not to take the gavel of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, according to two sources.
Dodd won’t succeed Kennedy as committee chairman
Washington Post
Updated: 09/08/2009 11:50:17 PM EDTWASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., has decided against succeeding his close friend and mentor, the late Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., as chairman of the Senate’s health committee, a senior Senate aide said Tuesday night.
Dodd has scheduled a Wednesday news conference for 11 a.m. to announce his decision. His aides did not respond to questions about the decision Tuesday evening.
While Kennedy battled brain cancer for 15 months, Dodd, Harkin and other Democrats on the committee divided up the chairman’s responsibilities, with Dodd overseeing the panel’s health-care legislation. When the Senate takes up that critical legislation later this year, Dodd is expected to continue being the public face of that committee’s effort, a decision that might give him a boost in a tough reelection battle in 2010.
By remaining as banking chairman, Dodd will now oversee a complex rewrite of the regulations overseeing the financial services industry.
Okay, Pity Pat Powers @ the Wuss College beat me to the punch on this post (knew I should have posted it earlier in the day), but I wanted to point a couple of things out in the interview;
One of President Barack Obama’s former top campaign advisers is “losing patience†with the White House, he told POLITICO Tuesday morning, as frustrations among the president’s liberal allies crest over issues from health care legislation to gay rights.
Obama, he said, “needs to be more bold in his leadership.â€
Like I have said before, I couldn’t stand GW, but one thing I liked about his leadership style was when he said he was going to do something, he did it (usually it was wrong) but nonetheless it got done. I think Obama is tough when he wants to be. He needs to stop worrying about 2012 and start thinking about America.
Hildebrand was a singular figure as Obama’s campaign bus rolled through the hills of Iowa, a goateed, soft-spoken, and sometimes mischievous gay man who lived in sleepy Sioux Falls, right across the state line.
WTF? Mischevious? What does that mean? I’m still puzzled by that statement. I have never met Steve personally, but know who he is, he lives close to me and I see him quite a bit around town. He often has a half-cocked smile on his face, but I have never thought of him as ‘mischevious’. In fact, he often looks like he is deep in thought. Maybe I need to talk to some local ‘Gays’ who know him. As for the statement about Sioux Falls being ‘Sleepy’ that couldn’t be more true. It is the number one word I use to describe this town, that and ‘boring’. There are some benefits to that though, don’t ask, I’m still working on that list.
Hildebrand said in San Diego that he had demanded that his own congresswoman, South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, return his contribution after she voted for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and that he would vote for a Republican against her next year.
What’s the difference Steve? We all know Steffy is a Republican now, doesn’t matter who you vote for.
But this statment gave me a good chuckle;
Hildebrand, who worked for a stretch for Rep. Kendrick Meek’s bid for a Florida Senate Seat, is no longer working on that campaign, and said he’d returned home to focus on issue campaigns, rather than candidates.
So what is Mike Heuther? A CANDIDATE or an ISSUE? Just curious.
l3wis