Dodd says he's "still confident" about having a financial reform bill passed including new consumer protection measures. However, see this criticism from Ariana Huffington on the compromises made in the bill to appease Republicans. When asked about health care and specifically on reconciliation, which to my knowledge Dodd has not publicly supported, he said he would prefer not to go that route but also said "we have to get this done".
cross-posted at yourct.com There is a lot in the press about Linda McMahon the last couple days. McMahon's campaign has, relative to what one can meaningfully spend on a statewide political campaign in Connecticut (about five million dollars will do the job, and its maybe eight million dollars tops), an unlimited amount of money. Her fortune comes from the family business, the very definition of stage-managed storytelling media companies, World Wrestling Entertainment. People tend to go with what they know and, sure enough, McMahon's pursuit of the Senate seat vacated by Chris Dodd is a tightly controlled marketing campaign, with the star act's every move - and everything in her vicinity - meticulously attended to by her handlers.
But McMahon and her campaign are not escaping scrutiny. From the cutting edge of online local media right here in Connecticut, to the original innovator that brought us the 24-hour news cycle, Linda2010 is generating controversy.
i know it's probably bad form to just do a diary to provide a link, but you really must read this post on balloon-juice.
It looks like the corruptionist wing of the Republican Party is getting the band back together. This kind of fundraising work was always a big part of what Jack [Abramoff] did for the GOP so it is not a surprise that [Susan] Ralston has started a DC-based firm to do the same.
look at the list of candidates who will be attending. hm...
Nine health care reform activists were arrested this morning while staging a sit-in inside Senator Joseph Lieberman's congressional office in Washington, D.C.
The activists were there representing an organization called Mobilization for Health Care For All.
Explaining their reasons for their actions, student activist Jason Ortiz said, "we staged a sit-in at Senator Lieberman's office this morning in order to ask him to return the $65,000 campaign donation that he recently received from the Aetna health insurance corporation and to ask him to represent the people of Connecticut, not the insurance companies."
The group was also there to protest Senator Lieberman's announcement last week that he will filibuster any health reform bill in the Senate that contains a public option.
In total there were 9 arrests made at approximately 10:15 a.m. EST, Thursday, November 5.
At 9:15 this morning the group requested a meeting with the Senator and refused to leave until they were given a chance to meet with him. They were told by Senator Lieberman's staff that they would not be given a meeting with the Senator, and that if they did not leave they would be arrested. Senator Lieberman's staff subsequently contacted law enforcement, and 9 activists were physically removed from the building and arrested.
Some members of the group went to a meeting of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (which Senator Lieberman chairs) to stage a protest in the presence of Senator Lieberman. They were asked to leave and did so without incident.
Of those arrested, one, Brittney Florio, is currently a University of Connecticut student, and one, John Mohrbacher, is an alumnus.
For more information, please call Jason Ortiz at (860)639-8101
See below an email those of us on the info@barackobama list just got from President Obama...please note that this email was sponsored by Organizing for America, the organizing arm of the Democratic National Committee:
EMAIL FROM THE PRESIDENT:
Jennifer --
For too long American consumers haven't had many of the protections they need and deserve. And some of the biggest problems have been in the credit card industry.
But today -- thanks to the extraordinary efforts of your senator, Chris Dodd -- I signed a bill that restores a sense of fairness and transparency to the credit card industry.
As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Dodd was the driving force behind this bill. He's the one who built the bipartisan coalition that passed this crucial reform by a huge margin -- 90 to 5.
Will you take a moment and join me in thanking Senator Dodd for his outstanding work on behalf of families in Connecticut and across the country?
Thank Senator Dodd
At some point, nearly every credit card user has been affected by unfair and abusive practices. That's why I asked Congress to send me a bill that would make sure that families and businesses have access to the credit they need -- and that they have the full weight and protection of the law on their side.
The new legislation does exactly that: it provides strong, reliable protections for consumers and stops lenders from blindsiding ordinary people with unfair rate hikes and confusing fine print.
Millions of American families have already been struggling since the financial downturn last year. They cannot afford to worry about crippling penalties or "any time, any reason" interest rate hikes.
Now they don't have to.
Please join me in thanking Senator Dodd for his exceptional service:
Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
On Thursday night the other Democratic candidate for Chris Dodd's senate seat, Roger Pearson of Greenwich, addressed his hometown Democratic Town Committee. Here's who he is and what he said.
Roger Pearson served as the town's first selectman from 1983 to 1985, his election largely resulting from dismay at the dismal handling of the town's traffic problems by Republican first selectwoman Rebecca Breed after the collapse of the I-95 bridge through the town in 1983. That collapse led all of that traffic to be rerouted through Route 1, clogging local roads, and leading to the curious consequence of drug dealers using the town as a new market for their wares. At the end of his term, the town Republicans promptly voted him out of office. Mr. Pearson gained some unwelcome notoriety after his term ended by pulling over and ticketing motorists without the authority to do so.
Apparently Roger Pearson's father Samuel Pearson was a partner of Dreyfus Funds founder Jack Dreyfus in the 1960's. Roger Pearson graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. At AU he worked for the university newspaper and recounted covering the return of President Kennedy's body to the White House in the middle of the night after Kennedy's assassination. After university, Pearson worked on Capitol Hill for Congressman Michael Feehan, who he said was notorious for not proposing legislation. Pearson decided not to challenge for McKinney's congressional seat in 1987, but did challenge new congressman Chris Shays unsuccessfully in 1988.
Pearson began by talking about Kennedy's assassination and then spent a good deal of time discussing the legislative accomplishments of Lyndon Johnson, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which he noted Barry Goldwater opposed, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He stated that the Voting Rights Act "gave us this president", President Obama. He also listed Johnson's accomplishment in passing the Fair Housing Rights Act of 1968, which outlawed discrimination in housing. According to Pearson, Lyndon Johnson would have gone down in history as one of America's greatest presidents, had it not been for the Vietnam War.
Pearson then went on to his history with Greenwich, saying that he moved to town in 1974 when Democrats "weren't even an afterthought." He ran on the ticket with Ruth Sims, who won in the famous "tie vote". He listed his accomplishments in town government as being the conversion of the old Town Hall into the current Greenwich Arts Center, the creation of the Nathaniel Witherall Nursing Home, the creation of the police department's pistol range, and the addition of between 300-400 new parking spaces by "re-striping".
He then rhetorically asked, "Why am I challenging Chris Dodd?" He answered, "I think (Dodd)'s become the "bank senator'. He is one of the prime culprits." He continued that "Dodd shepherded through the Graham-Leach-Blyly Bill that repealed Glass-Steagel." Pearson explained that when Chris Dodd voted for the repeal of Glass-Steagel in 1999, just 5% of all mortgage loans were "sub prime"; in 2007 when the housing decline began, 30% of all mortgages were sub prime."
Pearson went on to criticize Dodd for running for president in 2008: "he announces he's moving to Iowa. Then he comes in seventh, behind 'uncommitted'. He has lost his way." He also stated that he is against "professional politicians" and that "thirty years is enough, and it's time for a change."
Pearson also emphasized that he is committed to campaign finance reform, and criticized Dodd for taking substantial sums from the banking industry and from AIG.
Pearson also revealed that he was not his own first choice to challenge Chris Dodd, but that he had urged Ned Lamont to run against him. Pearson added, "I think that Lamont will have trouble running for governor in 2010," and that he'll have trouble against Lieberman in 2012. He added that, "I don't think Lieberman should have gotten a free ride, a free pass. I don't think that Dodd should get a free pass to the nomination."
Pearson then admitted that, "I'm not going to trounce (Dodd). If anything, he's going to trounce me."
Returning to campaign finance reform, Pearson remarked, "It's a bit obscene how we elect people to office today."
He then remarked that he has been having a good time in retirement, and that he has four young children. But, he continued, "I think I have something to say. I think the president has it right on health care." He also said, "I think you see the passion I have."
Pearson revealed that Jack Trout is advising him on his campaign, and that Trout is also advising Nancy Pelosi.
When he completed his remarks, Pearson took questions, the first of which dealt with Joe Lieberman. Pearson acknowledged that he had backed fellow Greenwich resident Ned Lamont in the Democratic senatorial primary in 2006, but that he had switched his support to Lieberman in the general election. He complained that he had tried to call Lamont campaign manager Tom Swan three times, but had not been able to get through to him. On the other hand, Lieberman had spoken to him and assured him that he supported establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. He continued, "But Lieberman has disappointed me."
Concluding his remarks, Pearson stated, "I think Chris Dodd has done all in his power to turn this into a red state." Then he said that he will formally announce soon that he is running for U.S. Senate.
Even in Connecticut, I'm sure you've heard plenty about what's going on with the still-unsettled Senate race in Minnesota.
While Republican Norm Coleman prolongs his endless and pointless appeals, cementing his admission into the Sore Losers Hall of Fame, progressive organizations Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee have introduced a new effort: NormDollar.com, "A Dollar a Day to Make Norm Go Away." Very simply put, commit to contributing just one dollar per day for every day that sore loser Norm Coleman refuses to concede.
This is exactly the correct approach to take in order to provide Republican leadership in Washington with adequate disincentive from continuing to fund Coleman's endless appeals. The GOP bigwigs funding Coleman's appeals see value in putting their money toward keeping progressive Senator-elect Al Franken from being seated. This grassroots-powered effort will make them think twice by generating many thousands of dollars for progressive candidates for every single day that they fund the Coleman circus.
If you feel so inclined, you can certainly chip in a bit of change directly to the Franken Recount Fund, as well.
We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain.
Today, the Senate Banking Committee passed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act - legislation I wrote to stop abusive and deceptive credit card practices once and for all. Indeed, 2009 may well prove a watershed moment for credit card reform.
For people like Samantha Moore, a paralegal from Guilford, Connecticut I met a few weeks ago, it couldn't come a moment too soon. In January, she was three days late on a credit card payment - the first late payment in 18 years. For that seemingly minor transgression, she had her interest rate raised from 12% to 27% and her credit limit slashed from $31,400 to $4,500 - told that the reason for the severe penalty was that she hadn't been paying enough to other creditors and that their high credit limit exceeded their income.
Samantha was a victim of "universal default" - where credit card companies use unrelated information, like a late utility bill, to increase that family's rates.
Universal default is one of countless abusive practices credit card companies regularly engage in today that my legislation would put to an end.
Here are a few other practices the Credit C.A.R.D Act ends:
"Any Time, Any Reason" interest rate hikes. Issuers often unilaterally change the terms of a credit card contract before the term is up. One issuer "voluntarily" eliminated these hikes after Congress exposed them. They even ran ads stating that "a deal is a deal." But there is nothing binding them to that commitment, and most issuers have already gone back to the practice - one a Pew Charitable Trusts survey found in 93% of 400 cards issued by the country's largest banks and issuers. This bill makes that practice illegal.
Penalty Rates With No End. Let's say you've been a customer in good standing, and you have a reasonable interest rate of 12%. You pay your bill three days late, and you get raised to a penalty interest rate of 29.9%. Once that penalty rate increase is triggered, there is no limit on how long it will last. From that point on, you continue to pay your bill on time, but despite that, you continue to pay the penalty rate for the life of that card. The amount and duration of the penalty rate is entirely determined by the card issuer. My bill says that after 6 months of on time payment, your rate has to go back down.
Double-Cycle Billing. Say a few months ago, you had a credit card debt of a thousand dollars - and that since then, you've paid off $900 of that debt. It's not uncommon for credit card companies to keep charging interest not on a hundred dollars but on the full $1,000 for another cycle or two. The Credit C.A.R.D Act prevents that practice.
Aggressive Marketing to Young People. Recently, my seven year-old daughter received a credit card solicitation in the mail. Jackie and I laughed it off, but it brings up a serious point: young people are faced with an onslaught of credit card offers. And just as we saw in the mortgage crisis with lenders and borrowers, too often, issuers offer cards to young people without verifying any ability to repay whatsoever. This is particularly true for students, who are flooded with offers the second they set foot onto a college campus - in fact, industry officials have testified to Congress that simply being a college student is considered a "positive factor" toward the ability to pay. This bill simply says that credit card companies must take into account a young person's ability to repay before allowing them to take on what is all too often a lifetime's worth of debt.
The truth is, I've been working with advocates and consumer groups to reform credit card company practices for 25 years. For much of that time, our efforts have fallen on deaf ears. But I think this time is different.
And as we learned in this housing crisis, when companies lure people into deceptive, abusive and predatory financial agreements, it not only means mountains of debt for families, bankruptcy and financial ruin for too many - it can also prove catastrophic for our economy.
That is why I have said again and again that consumer protection must be at the forefront of our efforts to modernize our financial regulatory system. There are so many things we must do to make that possible. But none will be more important than reforming the practices of our nation's credit card companies drive so many families deeper and deeper into debt. It is one issue that quite literally touches every family in the country.
UPDATE 3/25 : Kudlow has announced he will not run against Chris Dodd in 2010.
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Larry Kudlow, "esteemed" CNBC host and noted destroyer of wealth, is thinking of running for Senate against Chris Dodd in 2010. Despite his potential candidacy, he has continued to appear on CNBC as a commentator, even criticizing Sen. Dodd on the air. Kudlow should not be able to use this platform to denigrate a potential opponent.
Media Matters for America has posted an open letter to CNBC, regarding its "obligation to its viewers to assure them Kudlow's reporting is not being compromised by his political aspirations" I've reprinted the letter's text in the extended entry.
Sen. Chris Dodd looks to have a difficult enough reelection campaign ahead of him; potential challengers should not get to campaign against him under the guise of (semi-)informed punditry.
Bysiewicz and legislative leaders call for special election to fill future U.S. Senate vacancies in Connecticut
By Secretary of the State's Office
Secretary of the State Points to Senate Vacancies in Illinois, New York as Evidence of the Need for Long Overdue Election Reform.
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz today joined the incoming House Chair of the Government, Administration and Elections Committee, State Representative James Spallone (D-Essex) in calling for the adoption of a law designating a special election to fill any future vacancies in Connecticut's U.S. Senate seats. In the case of a Senate vacancy, current law provides for the governor to appoint a successor to fill out the remainder of a term or until a special election can be called on the date of the next even-numbered general election.
(Make your voice heard and urge your local DTC and State Central to censure Lieberman. - promoted by ctblogger)
Last night the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee voted overwhelmingly to
"publicly censure and repudiate the words and actions of Joe Lieberman and to ask that he resign from the Democratic Party of the state of Connecticut."
It also overwhelmingly adopted a resolution criticizing Senate Democrats for not stripping Lieberman of his committee chairmanship. The votes were all the more significant since they were taken in full view of speaker of the state house of representatives Jim Amman, who was sitting in the front row.
This writer urged members to remember that it is sometimes up to the grass roots to guide our leaders, rather than the other way around. And I urged the members to remember that it was Greenwich's own Ned Lamont who sparked the Democratic Party's revival in 2006 that culminated in Barack Obama's victory and the booting out of Fairfield County's faux-moderate Republican Chris Shays. And I reminded members that Lieberman not only refused to endorse Greenwich's Jim Himes, but actually praised Shays. Debunking Lieberman's own spin that he was guilty only of making some statements "in the heat of the campaign" that he regretted, some recalled that Lieberman ran for both vice-president and senate in 2000, which, winning the former, would have resulted in the Republican governor's naming a Republican to his seat.
Jim Amman, who supported Lieberman even during the general election, sat quietly in the front row as we raked Lieberman over the coals.
Frankly, President-elect Obama is making a mistake in extending an olive branch to Lieberman. Someone like Lieberman will never do the right thing, he can never be trusted, and restoring him to a leadership position is asking for trouble.
I urge every other Connecticut DTC to stand up against Lieberman, pass the petition to censure Lieberman and demand that he resigns from the party. Harry Reid and his fellow Senate Democrats were just plain wrong to pander once again to Lieberman. We Nutmeggers do not have to knuckle under like that. We know Lieberman only too well, and we know that it is time to call him the disgrace that he is, not to reward him for his dishonesty and disloyalty.
The Chairman's responsibilities and Jurisdictions will include real oversight concerning failures of the Bush administration in providing security to our nation during times of war, illegal invasions, ongoing occupations, and natural disasters, as well as overseeing the bloated budget and operations of the largest branch of government ever to be created in the US governments' history through legislation authored under the Republican controlled Senate and House, and signed by the Republican pResident of the time.
Your main and immidiate responsibilities will include holding the needed hearings, directing sub-commitees and legislation needed to avoid repeating the previous disasters, corrupt practices, and failures that will be found with the propper direction and oversight of a NON-PARTISAN and ethical Senate leader.
(1)Minorities such as moderate Republicans having no ties to far-right-wing radical organizations like the Neoconservative movement, the American Enterprise Instute, The Heritage Foundation, Energy Corporations, or the Bush administrations most recent policy proposals that are doomed to failure, are encouraged to apply to Senator Harry Reid for any consideration concerning this soon to be available position.
(2)Note to applicants: Please mark the subject of the Email as "Homeland Security" and refer to this x-posted Blog diary in the opening paragragh of the application. You will be contacted shortly before I post an "I told you so!" diary covering the flawed positons, election statement lies, and propaganda of the far-right-wing radical Neoconservative Joe Lieberman.
Just wanted to make sure this got mentioned here, even though it's not a strictly Connecticut issue, although it certainly effects many people here. The employee free choice act, one of the top priorities of labor in this year's congressional session, is dead. This bill would have allowed workers to form a union by card-check. The Senate did not reach cloture to end debate and vote. (51-48. They needed 60 votes to force a vote)
The bill would have given workers the right to insist on a procedure, known as majority sign-up, that allows employees at a workplace to form a union as soon as a majority of them signed cards saying they wanted one. Under current law, an employer facing a unionization drive can insist on a secret-ballot election. The bill fueled a feverish lobbying battle between business and labor. Corporate lobbyists and their Republican allies asserted that the bill would infringe on workers’ rights by denying employees the right to a secret-ballot election. Union officials and their Democratic allies said the bill was needed to help reverse labor’s decline, because employers often defeat unionization drives by intimidating and firing workers during secret-ballot elections.
60 Million Workers would join a union if given the opportunity. But this bill didn't even get the chance to get a presidential veto. And those 60 million workers can continue to get harassed and intimidated, and never have the option to gain a measure of job security, fair wages, decent benefits, and self-determination in the workplace.
This is an ad made for Katrina Swett, a first draft maybe as it's still a bit crude. But you get the idea of why New Hampshire should be able to do better than this.
The Chairman's responsibilities and Jurisdictions will include real oversight concerning failures of the Bush administration in providing security to our nation during times of war, illegal invasions, ongoing occupations, and natural disasters, as well as overseeing the bloated budget and operations of the largest branch of government ever to be created in the US governments' history through legislation authored under the Republican controlled Senate and House, and signed by the Republican pResident of the time.
Your main and immidiate responsibilities will include holding the needed hearings, directing sub-commitees and legislation needed to avoid repeating the previous disasters, corrupt practices, and failures that will be found with the propper direction and oversight of a NON-PARTISAN and ethical Senate leader.
(1)Minorities such as moderate Republicans having no ties to far-right-wing radical organizations like the Neoconservative movement, the American Enterprise Instute, The Heritage Foundation, Energy Corporations, or the Bush administrations most recent policy proposals that are doomed to failure, are encouraged to apply to Senator Harry Reid for any consideration concerning this soon to be available position.
(2)Note to applicants: Please mark the subject of the Email as "Homeland Security" and refer to this x-posted Blog diary in the opening paragragh of the application. You will be contacted shortly before I post an "I told you so!" diary covering the flawed positons, election statement lies, and propaganda of the far-right-wing radical Neoconservative Joe Lieberman.
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling said US generals had failed to prepare their troops properly and had misled Congress about the resources needed for the war.
Writing in the Armed Forces Journal, he said the US had repeated the mistakes of Vietnam and so faced defeat in Iraq."
More excerpts BELOW... But I suggest you read the entire thing here at the Armed Forces Journal instead of the BBC "Readers Digest" version.
On my way to the gym this evening, I heard a radio report that senator-turned-actor Fred Thompson is considering a run for president. No, I don't mean sometime in the future; I mean in 2008. When I got home, teh Googlez quickly pointed me to more on the story.
Thompson was elected in 1994 to serve the unexpired portion of Al Gore's senate term, and left the Senate in January 2003 (he won a full term in 1996 but didn't run again in 2002) to return to acting... specifically to play DA Arthur Branch on Law & Order. (Actually, he's the NYC DA in the L&O universe, which means he's technically a character on all 3 shows, but he mostly appears on "the mothership.")
Apparently Thompson is the latest entry in the "these frontrunners aren't conservative enough for the base" sweepstakes: He's pro-war (or at least, pro-surge), "pro-life" (how's that for an ironic juxtaposition? But wait, it gets better!), pro-gun, anti-gay (well, anti-gay marriage, at least), pro-Bush, and pro-Scooter (he's said he would pardon Libby). In the radio bite I heard, he says he's going to watch what the other candidates do and say on the campaign trail as he makes his decision. He's been a good Administration footsoldier even after leaving the Senate -- he was the designated shepherd for the John Roberts confirmation -- so maybe his "considerations" are just a way of putting right-ward pressure on the Republican field.
If he's serious about running, though, I don't know what I think about it: On the one hand, I think the Republicans are already to the right of the electorate, and anything that moves them farther right probably helps us with independent voters and anti-war moderate Republicans. OTOH, while Arthur Branch is my least favorite of the three L&O DAs, he does have a combination of intelligence and good-old-boy charm that can be appealing. If Thompson can bring that to the campaign, he might just charm voters into believing he's less right-wing and more compassionate than his positions on the issues would suggest... and that could never get anyone elected president, right?.
I received two emails from our junior and senior Senators. By coincidence they arrived in my inbox within hours of each other. While both emails sound stale, like they were written in January, I couldn't help but not the contrast.
Lieberman:
In 2003, I supported the use of force in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power because I believed that he was a grave threat to our country, his people, and the world; and I continue to believe that decision was right. Since then, I have often disagreed with how the war has been run. And I have not hesitated to speak out about the mistakes the Bush Administration has made, mistakes that have made this war more costly than it should have been. But I have worked hard to stay away from partisan political attacks because that is unacceptable when our nation is at war. And I continue to believe that how we end our involvement in Iraq will have a significant effect on our security for a long time to come.
The Administration was wrong for not: (1) securing the support of enough of our allies in the run-up to the war; (2) having enough troops on the ground; (3) having a sensible plan to win the peace and establish stability in Iraq after Saddam fell; and (4) sooner putting the Iraqis in charge of their government and their economy, including their oil supply.
Note Lieberman does not include the administration's lying about the intelligence in the lead-up to war.
Dodd:
The President's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was an enormous mistake. I regret my vote in 2002 to give the President the authority to do so. It was a terrible mistake. I intend to do everything possible in the coming days to put pressure on the President to change course in Iraq.
While he doesn't lay out the case that the administration was deceiving the public, at least Dodd acknowledges his mistake, and if you want you can read into it that Dodd thinks Congress had a duty and failed to act as a check on the President.
Sen. Joe Lieberman is now saying that joining the Republican Party is now "a very remote possibility" for him. In an interview with Time, Lieberman does not rule out tipping the balance of power in the Senate back to the Republicans.
The Chairman's responsibilities and Jurisdictions will include real oversight concerning failures of the Bush administration in providing security to our nation during times of war, illegal invasions, ongoing occupations, and natural disasters, as well as overseeing the bloated budget and operations of the largest branch of government ever to be created in the US governments' history through legislation authored under the Republican controlled Senate and House, and signed by the Republican pResident of the time.
Your main and immidiate responsibilities will include holding the needed hearings, directing sub-commitees and legislation needed to avoid repeating the previous disasters, corrupt practices, and failures that will be found with the propper direction and oversight of a NON-PARTISAN and ethical Senate leader.
(1)Minorities such as moderate Republicans having no ties to far-right-wing radical organizations like the Neoconservative movement, the American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Energy Corporations, or the Bush administrations most recent policy proposals that are doomed to failure, are encouraged to apply to Senator Harry Reid for any consideration concerning this soon to be available position.
(2)Note to applicants: Please mark the subject of the Email as "Homeland Security" and refer to this x-posted Blog diary in the opening paragragh of the application. You will be contacted shortly before I post an "I told you so!" diary covering the flawed positons, election statement lies, and propaganda of the far-right-wing radical Neoconservative Joe Lieberman.
We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain.
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