Before You Accuse Me...

Take a look at the Republicans...



As you can see, with a flailing economy, corruption infesting the Congressional Republican leadership and finally a Bush administration admitting that it has no plan to win the peace in Iraq, they are flip flopping away into oblivion. With just under two weeks left until the 2006 mid-term elections, the Republicans' true colors have been exposed for the country to see, and it is up to us to seize this moment and vote for leadership, change and sanity! I for one will be taking vacation time to visit Philadelphia to help out on a race in the suburbs.

This election cycle has brought us to point where we can change the direction of this country at the ballot box. My question is, have you all had enough of this vitriol, corruption and greed? Have you had enough:



This ad, which has been replicated in dozens of battleground races across the country and asks the most relevant question to all of us. I for one have had enough and I am inspired about the kind of leadership that is going to be coming to Washington to cleanup the Capital. Here are a couple of examples of what good ol' meat and potatoes, people-powered progressivism can bring to America.

Jon Tester for U.S. Senate, Montana:


And what kind of candidate does the Republican Party put up as an example of leadership? Try Tom Reynolds, head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, one of the many bozos involved in FoleyGate:



Nice try Tom, you can't clean your record protecting a child predator by surrounding yourself by a kindergarten class from Buffalo. There ain't any avoiding the inevitable, even Denny Hastert had to do a perp walk today.

The difference that lies between the Republicans and the Democrats is that they govern through fear and intimidation, they are bereft of principles and ideas. The saying by Lord Acton:

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Democrats govern from that Jeffersonian princple that all Americans shall be born with the power to achieve: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I leave all of you with Keith Olbermann, that great orator who paraphrases Franklin Delano Roosevelt in illustrating this stark difference in princple and leadership.



Take a look at yourself and see what you can do for America.