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Sean Braisted recognized where Rep. Jim Cooper was trying to lead reporters on a recent conference call ostensibly about lobbyist influence on John McCain:

Yesterday on a conference call with reporters and myself, Reps. Jim Cooper and Steve Cohen discussed a new ad out by the Obama campaign which puts the focus on John McCain's ties to lobbyists.

Why on earth Lieberman caucuses with the Democrats is beyond me. He's a turncoat who has gone beyond his typical self righteous indignation to fear mongering, taking pages right out of the Karl Rove/Dick Cheney/W. Bush play book.

Lieberman is yet another reason we have to send more Democrats to the Senate, starting with Tennessee.

Citing their legendary off-the-field player personal development program, the moral titans of Dallas are thinking about putting five on a twenty-sack of Pac-Man Jones. Hit this:

This is the other thing I’ve been thinking about in terms of the whole Obama-Farrakhan thing and what the TNGOP flaks are up to in this press release.

And here is my question:

Do you think that the Beatles are responsible for what Charles Manson’s followers did?

Lobbyist, lobbyist, Who wants to be a lobbyist? People with close ties governors and top ranking legislators seem to get all the plumb jobs.

From the scene article...

Not to get too political on you, but I participated in a cool little project by Sunlight Foundation today that I thought I’d tell you about. Sunlight Foundation is all about bringing transparency to Washington (the government) and they are doing some very innovative things to do it.
The project I helped with is called ‘Where Are They Now?’ and the website describes it as:

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