Al Franken
Mar 1, 11:22 AM
ch: MVP News
A Message from the Honorary Chairman
From the Desk of MVP’s Honorary Chairman…
Welcome to Midwest Values PAC. Growing up in Minnesota I was taught never to gloat. That’s why we at MVP are not making a big deal out of the incredibly low approval ratings for President Bush and Vice President Cheney. When you’re in the opposition, you want the
President and Vice President to make a few minor mistakes so they’re not too popular. But no American likes to see the string of mistakes, tragic and comic, that this Administration seems to make every day or so.
The latest CBS poll has the President at a 34% approval
rating. Which is almost twice that of Vice President Cheney’s, which
stands now at 18%. That’s right. 18%. That’s unbelievably low. I
mean to get an approval rating that low you’d have to shoot somebody.
Al Franken
As a fellow Minnesotan, also raised under the notion that gloating is uncouth, let me be one of the first to toss off the ‘couth chains’ of my birth, point at the president and Shooter McCheney and say HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Tell me that fairy tale about the mythical ‘mandate’ again! It isn’t as scary as it used to be.
— AliB Mar 1, 08:13 PM #
Dems are sad. I mean really sad. For six years the party just keeps slinging mud on the poor guy and it just falls off. Yes, he’s an idiot. yes, he can barely form any coherent words. But they still voted for him. These low poll ratings mean nothing. In the next election it does not matter who we put on the ticket, whether it be a Narnian-esque ice queen, or a policy wonk like Al, they will put some feeble minded bufoon talking about Jesus and family and hope and and America, crap like that. All we have is washed up, has-been Hollywood carrying our water. We can beat our shoe on the podium all we want with the latest scandal per our friends have come up with, and we will fail. Like the liberals in Canada and Germany, we are a dying breed. The population shift to the South, with its electoral points does not help. The only way the Reds will lose in ‘08 is if they pick someone worse than Dubbya. I don’t think that’s possible, but we can hope.
— Isa Mar 2, 07:13 PM #
Isa,
I respectfully disagree. I do not think that the Dems have been flinging shit at the man, they have simply been pointing out the shit that is already there.
This country took a giant nationalistic shift to the right post 9/11, due to anger and fear. The administration has played upon that fear and anger to get whatever their little hearts/pocketbooks desire for a long time now, and I think the public is slowly starting to sit up and take notice of that fact. The little pats on the head from BushCo while they say ‘don’t worry your little heads, just trust us’ is wearing a bit thin.
As for who they will run in ‘08, I suspect it may be slim pickings, no one from the current administration will have a chance considering how they have bungled things and quite a few of the party leaders have been tripping over their ethics a bit too much.
— AliB Mar 3, 11:30 AM #
Proud to be a liberal. In the dictionary the word liberal means progressive thinker. Kind of like thinking out of the box. Rather than, thats the way we’ve always done it. We need to let the people know that the term liberal is not a dirty word. And we are proud to be thinkers not sheep with no brain power. The revolt is coming if things don’t change.
— gail getscher Mar 3, 10:06 PM #
Will my son be able to get a good job?; will the IRS go after me?; will I get on the Bushmachine s—- list if I dare say what I think about how this country is falling apart?
— martha coulter Mar 5, 09:01 PM #
I think the Honorary Chairman got the formulation right in the Buzzflash interview. He was talking about Wellstone, and spent a lot of time on Wellstone’s authenticity. That’s what we as Democrats need. Bob Kerrey, one of the most authentic Democrats I’ve ever known, got bad advice back in ‘92 … every issue was about health care. Gore had his “lock box”. Dunno what happened to Kerry in ‘04 except that he got the bad advice from his handlers to ignore the Swift Boaters. Instinctively, the authentic response to something like that is indignation, not quiescence. So throw of the shackles of Party ‘handlers’ and ‘strategists,’ and speak the truth. The condescending approach to the public is a major turn-off.
Hey Al – Hope this isn’t just for Minnesotans. I lived there for seven months after graduating from college, and froze my ass off. Resettled in balmy Nebraska, Lower Midwest.
— Bob Mar 7, 10:19 PM #
My problem is; If the average Joe were to make as many blunders, cause so much confusion, and take part in as many murders as occured as a result of the lies; any one eles out side the dynasty would have been shot on the spot.
— Lydia Mar 7, 11:20 PM #
Hey Bob,
MVP will help not only Minnesotans, but all of the country. E.g., we’re involved in campaigns in California, Vermont, and recently gave money to Kent Conrad
— eric Mar 8, 08:15 AM #
AL:
Saw this news headline, and thought you might be interested. “Christians Have as Many Abortions as Everyone Else, Catholics Have More”. Full story is available at.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb357377.htm
Also try, http://www.CenterForReason.com

Dems should not beat up on ourselves. It’s doubtful that we really lost the last election. Until voting machine operations are totally transparent we will never know who really wins. A paper print-out is not enough. It would be easy to program a voting machine to print one thing and count another. This could be done by remote while the count is in progress. Read and weep at
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
The erroneous belief that we lost is making dems vulnerable to “electability” strategists likely to be barking up the wrong trees.
— jonathan Mar 14, 09:42 PM #
34%... really? It’s been two weeks, I wonder where he’s at now.
It’s a good thing Mr. Bush doesn’t pay attention to the polls. God knows (and I really mean just God, because God’s the only one Bush seems to talk to), how this is going to turn out. I think the best course of action might be to bomb someone else. Then, once the enemy is thoroughly bombed, Herr Bush will claim “look, there’s people that hate us, hate our freedom, hate America, and the only one who can protect you is me!”
— Kid Hobo Mar 15, 12:44 PM #
isa,
“The only way the Reds will loose in ‘08 is…”
if we use paper ballots. PERIOD.

we are told that the anti-christ will show as 666.Ronald Reagan almost fit the bill but George walker Bushes fits the description.Bush dropped the es when they came from Germany 120 yers ago.
— vince Mar 27, 01:18 PM #
Two quick points.
1. Why all this talk about low approval ratings, when we are not a parliamentary form of democracy, and can’t easily change governments except on an election cycle? Mr Bush’s approval rating could be zero, but he and his friends would still be in office. Since Congressional elections are held every two years, the rational thing to do would be to focus on changing the composition of the House. Spend less time looking at polls which have no direct effect, and more time working to get people who have some grip on reality into the next Congress. That way, Mr Bush and his friends might still be in office, but they would no longer be in power.
2. I don’t think the real problem is liberal vs conservative. I think the real problem is realist (with maybe a dash of humanity thrown in) vs idealogue. Do you think that real conservatives like the idea of spreading democracy with B-52s, financed by tax cuts to those who don’t need them? Mr Bush and his crowd are only millionaires. People who have three orders of magnitude more wealth than mere millionaires (i.e. billionaires, such as Warren Buffett) have publicly said that giving tax cuts to the wealthy doesn’t make any sense. So, the problem isn’t with the super-rich; the problem is with the super-rich wannabes who sacrifice principle and public policy so they can get out of the lower middle classes of the wealthy, or at least pretend that they have – it’s called crony capitalism, and it has nothing to do with spreading democracy or even maintaining the democracy we have here.
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