Plunderbund

via SherrodBrown.com:
“We shouldn’t solve half the problem, we should solve all of it,” Brown said. “The insurance industry doesn’t want to extend the enrollment deadline, so Republicans won’t extend it. Why are insurers calling the shots?”

(from Strickland’s blog) The Insider Strikes
It was hard enough to believe Ken Blackwell was a political “outsider” when you took into account his twelve years as one of the top Ohio Republicans, the over $1 million the Ohio GOP has given to his various campaigns and the various Bob Bennett-inspired concessions Ken Blackwell has […]

Marc Dann continues to pound away on the Taft/Coingate thing. I’m glad to see it. I want to see he and every other Dem. candidate in any race give absolutely no quarter to these corrupt and incompetent fools. Go get ‘em Marc!
from CantonRep:
Reasonable request
Thursday, May 18, 2006 — Is state Sen. Marc […]

Good move. Great to see some candidates who get it, it really is.
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I am running for Congress in Ohio’s 15th congressional district because it’s time for a change in Washington. Under the leadership of Deborah Pryce and the Republicans, Congress has rubber-stamped […]

(via email) Strickland Statement on Blackwell’s TEL Flip-Flop
Columbus, Ohio - Ohio gubernatorial candidate Congressman Ted Strickland today offered the following statement in response to Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s flip-flop regarding his TEL amendment.
“This is one for the history books. I suppose Mr. Blackwell will be able to say he was for the TEL […]

You may have noticed the survey ad before and now the greenish coin ad now in the upper right hand corner of PB. I’ve signed up PB to the Meet The Bloggers Ad Network and will be donating any share of this site’s take in the short term to getting MTB fully off it’s […]

The Kilroy campaign has been blowing up my RSS reader with new stuff. It is all worth a look, but I wanted to highlight a couple:
Pryce Angered Over Low House “Power Ranking” (from The Hill) - This one is a hoot. Poor Deb is like that overtold consultant story about boiling a frog […]

from SherrodBrown.com:
…DeWine, who was flying to Washington from Ohio Monday night, was unavailable to discuss the president’s speech. But a spokesman said he wanted to take a “hard look” at deployment of the Guard along the border because the Guard is “already stretched thin.”
At least one Ohio Democratic lawmaker pounced on the speech.
“Under the Bush […]

from CQPolitics:
Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), has long argued that this year’s elections for partisan control of the House will hinge on how well incumbents are attuned to issues in their districts — and not on the national political environment, which presently strongly favors the […]

Tim says he has nothing to say on the matter, but ends up saying a helluva lot!
Normal, loving, caring Americans suddenly allowing the darkest corners of their deepest most hopefully buried inner hatred eclipse everything else they do, believe, in life. Suddenly they are no longer your mother, or your father, they are a […]

Some of you may be aware that Dave Hickman has been sending out a plethora of emails to, from what I can tell, just about everyone! I have been chewing on this a bit in addition to deleting email after email and I’ve decided to rally the troops to try to help Dave […]

(via email)
White House and Congress refuse to extend Medicare sign-up deadline
Columbus Ohio: Former Congressman Bob Shamansky, Democratic Candidate for Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, today chastised the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress for failing millions of American seniors by not extending the sign-up deadline for the Medicare Part D program.
“Both […]

Note: problem with the file upload…it’s incomplete…trying to fix! Working now!
Finally here! Plunderbund Podcast Episode 4. Sorry for the injury delay, but show number 4 is finally here! I think you’ll like.
Episode 4 (44:25) includes:
Me on Bush poll numbers and the ODP
Getting to know Jill Miller Zimon of writeslikeshetalks
Richard Martin […]

I injured my hand over the weekend, which makes it tough to do much on the computer. I’m going to take a small break and will hopefully be back to normal soon. Episode 4 of the podcast has been recorded and just needs to be produced into one segment. It will feature […]

This one is a hoot (via MSNBC hat tip Think Progress) Fox News Press Secretary Ton Snow has not been quite programmed correctly yet:
“You’ll forgive me, but I’ll do the talking points on this as the new kid on the block. I’m not fully briefed into everything.” And then he said, “I hate to […]