RK ARCHIVE - Bush=Allen

This photo from late yesterday, courtesy of the AP's Charles Dharapak, pretty much sums it all up. As much as George Allen desperately tries to claim that the hasn't voted 97% in lockstep, rubberstamp with George W. Bush's disastrous policies the past six years, there they are together, just 2 1/2 weeks before Election Day. What more do you need to know? Here's the bottom line.

*If you love Bush and think things are going great in the country, then vote for Allen.

*If you don't love Bush and think it's time for a change in this country, then vote for Jim Webb.

By the way, I love how Allen is trying, after 6 years of following his master, George W. Bush, in everything...desperately trying at the last minute, when he knows he's about to lose the election, to pretend he's a Born Again Independent. Well, sorry George, but it isn't working. Here are the words of George W. Bush last night, with George Allen standing loyally by Master's side:

I presume that George Allen stands behind his master, George W. Bush. Right? Doesn't he? He has for 6 years, why change now? Hmmmm...

Lowell Feld is Netroots Coordinator for the Jim Webb for US Senate Campaign. The ideas expressed here belong to Lowell Feld alone, and do not represent those of Jim Webb, his advisors, staff, or supporters.

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Bush=Sherwood Too; Does Anyone Think Bush Has Any Shame? (PM - 10/20/2006 7:21:01 AM)

From Dana Milbank's article in the Post today:

During National Character Counts Week, Bush Stumps for Philanderer
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So it has come to this: Nineteen days before the midterm elections, President Bush flew here to champion the reelection of a congressman who last year settled a $5.5 million lawsuit alleging that he beat his mistress during a five-year affair.
"I'm pleased to be here with Don Sherwood," a smiling president told the congressman's loyal but dispirited supporters at a luncheon fundraiser Thursday. "He has got a record of accomplishment."
Quite a record. While representing the good people of the 10th District, the married congressman shacked up in Washington with a Peruvian immigrant more than three decades his junior. During one assignation in 2004, the woman, who says Sherwood was striking her and trying to strangle her, locked herself in a bathroom and called 911; Sherwood told police he was giving her a back rub.

Milbank's noted the President's disengenuous use of the word "distract":

The president otherwise kept his talk in the comfortable realm of terrorists and taxes. "As this campaign gets closer to the stretch, you will hear a lot of rhetoric and a lot of partisan charges coming from the other side," Bush warned. "Their goal is to distract you."
The nature of the accuser's allegations -- she said Sherwood gave her "facial lacerations, bruises about the head, neck and other portions of her body, head injury, injuries to her teeth, mouth and gums, back and neck strain, injuries to her scalp" -- makes it more than a distraction. Sherwood continues to deny abuse after reaching the secret settlement.

Creepy is a Mild Word (Gordie - 10/20/2006 9:45:37 AM)

The pictures displayed here certainly are not a Wonderful cast of Characters and they go far beyond creepy. I can not figure out how any party including the Republican Party could indorse a cast of Sleeze bags.

Ladies and Gentlemen what is displayed here is part of our Government. The Government I want to "Cut and Run" from. No more sleeze bags, slimy perverts in our Government. Throw the true "cut and runners" of our constitution out of office, along with all the Lobbist in DC. At one time I believed we needed Lobbists, but they are so corrupt we need to change our government from the top down and all the corrupt baggage that is paying them off and keeping them in power.

This November I am looking forward to a large buch of WONDERFUL new faces in DC and my main prayer is they clean up our Government and let the chips fall where they fall.

Enough soap boxing, I got to go put up more signs.

Sad Commentary : CNN Poll done by Opinion Research Corp. (PM - 10/20/2006 9:38:02 AM)

"As you may know, most states now use electronic voting machines, which rely on computers to record and count all the votes cast on election day. How likely do you think it is that technical problems created on purpose by computer hackers or people working for political candidates will cause a significant number of these machines to produce inaccurate results on election day? Do you think that is very likely, somewhat likely, not very likely, or not likely at all?" Half sample (MoE ± 4.5)

done 10/13-15/06

Very 32%
Likely

Somewhat 34%
Likely

Not Very 23%
Likely

Not Likely 10%
At All

Unsure
2%
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Virginia Voting/Re-count (Gordie - 10/20/2006 10:08:09 AM)

I was always glad of the opitic scanner voting machines and the paper trail we have in Nelson County. I was convenienced the Recount of Creigh Deeds election which he lost by 300 votes was a fair recount.

Saturday, Oct.14 I had a rude awakening. From a reliable source at the Nelson County Dinner I was informed of how that recount was done.

Some how/some one decided that to do a recount on these voting machine is all they had to do was check the paper tapes that count the votes. It was felt that to look at the actual ballots was a waste of time. All that had to be done was make sure the person writing down the figures wrote the correct numbers. For some unknown reason it was assumed the person/persons who program these machines would not put in a virsus type program to alter the election. These machines are programed at the state level and then sent to each polling place. It is believed that no one in VA would do what was done in FA or OH. When I heard that I was totally amazed and let down that any one could be so trusting of an atmosphere that is corrupt in ever way possible. As long as we are human there will always be one amoungst us who is not on the same ethical level as the rest of us.

Although I am not a computer programmer I have worked repairing and trouble shooting this type of equipment and worked close enough with programmers, I am quite aware of what can be done to corrupt a machine such as these. It is one reason I only favor the Opitic sanner type machines, but if we have people in power so naive to not do a job properly when recounting, no system will ever be good enough.

Get involved with Virginia Verified Voting (vavv.org) (thegools - 10/20/2006 10:59:35 PM)

Even if all the ballots were optical scan paper in VA, which most are not, there is no provision in the law to allow for the actual re-counting of paper ballots that do exist.

There are bills in the state-house to:
1. require verified hard copies for every vote cast,
2. random audits (limited re-counts) every election to guaruntee election accuracy year to year, and
3. provide provisions for what exactly to do (I.e. actually recount the ballots) when an election is contested.

See: http://www.vavv.org/

Tom Davis=George Allen=George Bush (Andrea Chamblee - 10/20/2006 11:13:13 AM)

Be sure to tell all those cross over voters that remember a moderate Tom Davis that "Moderate Tom is long gone." Davis and Allen have almost identical voting records. Keep in mind this is a record that earnes Allen 100% rating from the Conserative Union,

1. 7/11/2006 HJRES 88 Proposing an amendment to the US Constitution relating to marriage. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
2. 6/16/06 Vote 288: H RES 861: This vote pledged support for the War in Iraq and rejected a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
3. 5/10/06 Vote 135: H R 4297: Extended the Bush tax cuts. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
4. 2/1/06 Vote 4: H RES 653: Cut nearly $40 billion from Aid to Families with Dependant Children, child support, and student lending programsin the federal budget. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
5. 12/16/05 Vote 661: H R 4437: This bill would clamp down on illegal immigration and toughen border security. It does not include any new avenue for current illegal immigrants to gain legal status. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
6. 7/28/05 Vote 445: H R 6: Offered tax breaks and incentives in what supporters said was an effort to spur oil and gas companies to provide innovative wasy to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil, conserve resources and reduce pollution. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
7. 7/28/05 Vote 443: H R 3045: Established a free trade zone between the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua; a separate agreement with the Dominican Republican was also included in the measure. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
8. 6/22/05 Vote 296: H J RES 10: This vote approved the proposal of a Constitutional amendment to ban the desecration of the American flag. The same bill was later defeated in the Senate. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
9. 6/15/05 Vote 258: H R 2862 This vote temporarily stopped federal law enforcement officials from being able to easily seize library and bookstore records. The authority to get the records without a traditional warrant was one of the provisions of the original 2001 Patriot Act. Davis and Allen voted the GOP position.
10. 3/21/05 Vote 90: S 686: Gave federal courts jurisdiction in the Terri Schiavo dispute.
Davis voted GOP position, and signed the subpoena
3/20/05 S 686 - Voice vote – no record but in a statement 03/17/05 Davis supported the effort
13. 1/4/05 Vote 6: H RES 5: Instituted a number of changes in the ethics rules that govern the conduct of individual members of Congress. Davis voted the GOP position.