Help the Democrats win Georgia!

The Republican Party’s newest mouthpiece, Newsmax, is calling for Georgians to stop Obama’s “liberal agenda” by voting for Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss against Democrat Jim Martin in a historic Senate runoff which could hand control of Congress to President-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

“The Dec. 2 special election comes on the heels of the Nov. 4 election in which incumbent Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss outpolled liberal Democratic challenger Jim Martin. But Chambliss fell just short of the 50-percent margin that Georgia law requires. Already, a tsunami of cash from across the country is pouring into both campaigns. ”

Americans overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama for a reason: Change! If he is going to be able to make the big changes needed to overturn eight years of mismanagement and corruption, he is going to need the support of the Congress. Help Obama get the support he needs by helping elect Georgian Democrat Jim Martin to the US Senate. You can do this by voting for him (if you are from Georgia) as early as Nov. 17th or send a campaign contribution to https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.aspx?X=NqjXO81IXYZntPaqXypreP1LqSo0CHUy

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Four More Years of Secrecy? Palin, The Incredible Hidden Candidate

by Tom Price

The McPalin faction hasn’t fixed the election yet, but already the cult of secrecy so characteristic of the Cheney-Bush cabal is in full swing.  In more than a month since Sarah Palin rode the chill north wind into the hearts and addled minds of America’s right wing, she hasn’t given a single press conference. In fact, the crypto-VP, who might be one heartbeat away from taking over for a septuagenarian president, is so shielded from public dialogue you might think it was her son who got knocked up.

Maybe the Republicans thought they could shield Palin from the media, and that the rubes would blame the media. That might be backfiring. Palin is down in the polls, and the more the republicans hide her, the further down she’s likely to go. And McCain didn’t win any praise in choosing a vice president so woefully under qualified that she still believes Bush invaded Iraq to stamp out Al Qaeda or take down the nukes or whatever. Maybe she really doesn’t know about the oil.

What would the corporate media ask her? How about this: Do you believe the world was created 7,000 years ago? Is it flat? Or: As president, would you continue the Cheney-Bush policy of ignoring subpoenas and believe the Executive Branch to be above the judicial and the legislative branches? Do you still believe in faith-based birth control? Would you have someone write signing statements for you saying what parts of laws passed by Congress you would ignore? Would your secretary of the treasury walk into Congress and ask for a blank cheque for $700 billion and the plenipotentiary authority to slip it into the pockets of his buddies on Wall Street? Might your treasury secretary be former senator Phil Gramm, McCain’s economic advisor who authored many of the de-regulation bills that helped collapse the economy? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Even the conservatives want to help her into a parachute. Here’s what Kathleen Parker said in the arch-conservative National Review Online:

“As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion. ..Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League…If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”

Then Parker suggests Palin bail out.