Politics: November 2006
Kick 'em while they're down, Nancy
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 22, 2006 10:23 PM |Whoa! What is this? A Congress that sets it's own agenda? Nancy Pelosi is one smart pol. In a move to set the tone in Washington, Pelosi has called the Congress to session starting January 4, 2007 and running for...Read More
Driving Home a Point to Indiana Republicans
Filed by Chris Douglas | November 22, 2006 7:56 AM |The voters have spoken in Indiana's Marion County, and it's important to understand one of their messages: The Republican Party, both locally and statewide, must now stop its attacks on the glbt community if it is to achieve an electoral...Read More
The best of Don Rumsfeld
Filed by Bil Browning | November 16, 2006 6:46 PM |*giggles* I saw this on Shakespeare's Sister and had to show it to all of you. We usually have Craig Ferguson on as we climb into bed, but we missed this one somehow. Well worth the watch....Read More
Setting the Bar High
Filed by Ed Team | November 15, 2006 12:28 AM |"My number one goal is not to go to jail." -- Newly elected Rep. Michele Bachmann on her agenda for her new job, as quoted on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Nov. 14, 2006. Michele was named 2nd in the roll...Read More
Do another line, Georgie...
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 14, 2006 10:23 PM |WTF?!?! I'm not sure about the diagnosis, but the difference is definitely striking. I think he's probably paying for the partying days. All that booze and coke ate his brain. It's catching up with him. What do you think?...Read More
The Quintessential Republican Watchdog
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | November 14, 2006 7:47 PM |"I couldn't begin to second-guess the president." -- newly elected Rep. Michele Bachmann on Minnesota Public Radio, November 13, 2006 (Hat tip to my cousin, Chris Truscott)...Read More
Michael Moore's pledge
Filed by Bil Browning | November 14, 2006 2:44 PM |Michael Moore has a snarky pledge up to our "Conservative Brothers and Sisters" that you should go read. I thought that it was very interesting that #2 was about same-sex marriage. Two? Hey, we're moving up the list, ladies and...Read More
Checks and balances
Filed by Bil Browning | November 13, 2006 3:26 PM |Copyright 2006 The Washington Post Writer's Group...Read More
Scoot over
Filed by Bil Browning | November 12, 2006 1:16 PM |Copyright 2006 Ted Rall...Read More
FedEx
Filed by Bil Browning | November 11, 2006 8:56 PM |Copyright 2006 Atlanta Journal-Constitution...Read More
Mission accomplished
Filed by Bil Browning | November 10, 2006 11:12 AM |Copyright 2006 Tribune Media Services, Inc....Read More
Jesus doesn't love Daddy anymore
Filed by Bil Browning | November 08, 2006 5:58 PM |Precious little pumpkin just realized that God wasn't on their side. Wait until she finds out what Santorum means now... That's something the grandkids will bless Grandpa for......Read More
And so it begins - CNN confirms Rumsfeld is stepping down
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 08, 2006 12:48 PM |Yup. Lame duck. No way Bush could keep Rummy around now that the Dems control Congress. 'Bout damned time....Read More
Quack quack - How lame is that duck?
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 08, 2006 10:59 AM |Pretty fucking lame if you ask me. With a 28 seat majority in the House and a likely 1 seat majority in the Senate (I predicted this privately 2 months ago) one thing is certain. George Bush is a lame...Read More
The Election of 2006
Filed by Chris Douglas | November 08, 2006 10:29 AM |Yesterday's votes are not fully counted, but already there are some important lessons helpful to progress within the Republican Party for the glbt community. First, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, who has been openly supportive of the glbt community in...Read More
The Election of 2006
Filed by Chris Douglas | November 08, 2006 10:29 AM |Yesterday's votes are not fully counted, but already there are some important lessons helpful to progress within the Republican Party for the glbt community. First, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, who has been openly supportive of the glbt community in...Read More
Women safe in South Dakota
Filed by Carrie Wooten | November 08, 2006 9:08 AM |By a vote of 55% to 45%, the people of South Dakota got the toughest abortion ban in the country off the books! South Dakota conservatives would have made abortion in every case, even rape and incest, illegal, except when...Read More
Cock-a-doodle-doo! It's been a good night! Hee Haw!
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | November 08, 2006 3:28 AM |2006 election update: Dems retake Indiana House, gay marriage loses strength as wedge issue, control of Congress flips, and more good news.Read More
Cock-a-doodle-doo! It's been a good night! Hee Haw!
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | November 08, 2006 3:28 AM |2006 election update: Dems retake Indiana House, gay marriage loses strength as wedge issue, control of Congress flips, and more good news.Read More
Polling Places Stay Open Late in Delaware County
Filed by Ellen Andersen | November 07, 2006 1:17 PM |Polling places in Delaware County will remain open until 8:40pm tonight rather than closing at 6pm. Delaware County Circuit Court Wayne Lennington ordered the extension after discovering that the voting machines in the county did not function properly until 8:30...Read More
Basham thinks she's Moses now
Filed by Bil Browning | November 07, 2006 12:16 PM |If you've kept your eye on Lafayette's battle for state representative, you know that LGBT-friendly Joe Micon has been facing off with challenger Connie Basham. Basham sent out an e-mail to supporters yesterday that's absolutely hilarious in it's uptight righteousness....Read More
Election day
Filed by Bil Browning | November 07, 2006 8:45 AM |Today is election day - go vote!...Read More
Election day
Filed by Bil Browning | November 07, 2006 8:45 AM |Today is election day - go vote!...Read More
A special message from Baron Hill
Filed by Bil Browning | November 06, 2006 11:14 PM |As a long-time Bloomington resident, I've watched the race between Baron Hill and Mike Sodrel with interest. Baron is a good man - and I think he deserves your vote. He recorded this video message for voters earlier today and...Read More
Weapons of Mass Disintegration
Filed by Bil Browning | November 06, 2006 9:21 PM |From last night's Simpson's Tree House of Horrors episode. I buy the DVDs of past seasons as soon as they're available, watch almost every episode live, and have Simpson's Uno, Simpson's Checkers, Simpson's Chess, Simpson's Monopoly, and Simpson's Clue....Read More
I have a headache.
Filed by Bil Browning | November 06, 2006 3:51 PM |Plaintiffs did not claim a right to same-sex marriage any more than they claim a right to same-sex equality.Read More
Military: It's time for Rumsfeld to go
Filed by Bil Browning | November 06, 2006 10:19 AM |It's not very often that I'll quote a whole piece from another source, but the following joint editorial - which ran today in the Army Times, the Air Force Times, the Navy Times, and the Marine Times - is a...Read More
Why I'm Voting for Melina Kennedy
Filed by Ellen Andersen | November 05, 2006 11:05 PM |LGBT people living in Marion County are fortunate in that both candidates for M.C. Prosecutor support comprehensive hate crimes legislation (including enhanced penalties) that covers sexual orientation and gender identity and both candidates have actively courted the LGBT vote. But...Read More
Home to roost
Filed by Bil Browning | November 05, 2006 2:45 PM |Copyright 2006 The Philadelphia Inquirer...Read More
On Conservative Judicial Activism and Election 2006
Filed by Chris Douglas | November 05, 2006 8:32 AM |Under an earlier post by Bil Browning, there is a debate going on which speaks directly to a type of Judicial partisanship that should dishearten every Hoosier, let alone those who are its victims. A fundamental guarantee of Indiana's Constitutional...Read More
Time to rake up
Filed by Bil Browning | November 04, 2006 11:15 PM |Copyright 2006 Jack Higgins This one reminded me of one of the previous toons that I titled "Fall Foleyage."...Read More
Mark St. John of Indiana Equality on CNN
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 03, 2006 7:37 PM |CNN interviews Mark St. John of Indiana Equality in a segment on gay marriage and the 2006 election in Indiana. Thanks to Don for the vid!! Congrats to Mark on his first CNN appearance. Hooray for IE for getting...Read More
And the hits just keep on comin' -- Queer political cognitive dissonance version ...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | November 03, 2006 6:41 PM |When asked about his sexual orientation at an Orlando rally today, recently outed Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Christ punted while Gov. Jeb Bush shot the questioner daggers: "Next question!", cried Christ. "Let's talk about the future of this state we...Read More
Non-partisan judge?
Filed by Bil Browning | November 03, 2006 3:33 PM |You might be wondering why I have a picture of a house advertising Cruella Deville, er, I mean, Katherine Densborne... Because of who lives in the house - S.K. Reid. That would be Marion County Superior Court Judge S.K....Read More
Sticks and stones
Filed by Bil Browning | November 03, 2006 3:19 PM |Copyright 2006 New York Times Syndicate...Read More
Ah, like, me too!
Filed by Bil Browning | November 02, 2006 3:33 PM |Copyright 2006 Tribune Media Services, Inc....Read More
Sick of it all
Filed by Sheila S. Kennedy | November 02, 2006 12:48 PM |I am so over this campaign season. I'm tired of the stupid ads--or more accurately, the ads that are so clearly aimed at stupid people, which is evidently what the "experts" think we all are. And I am doubly, triply...Read More
Russell Brown lays out legislative agenda
Filed by Bil Browning | November 02, 2006 10:58 AM |Today State Senate candidate Russell Brown continued to make the case for change in Senate District 31 as he recapped the series of legislative proposals he has made over the course of the campaign and plans to introduce the first...Read More
On Angela Cypress, Candidate for Marion County Recorder
Filed by Chris Douglas | November 02, 2006 7:31 AM |Once you dive down into offices below Mayor, Prosecutor, and Sheriff, and beyond City County Council, candidly I lose track even of the functions of the various elected offices. What does the clerk do? What does the Constable do? What...Read More
Latest polling - Bye Bye Count, Hello Donnelly
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 01, 2006 9:56 PM |The latest Zogby (via Reuters) polling shows Chris "Count" Chocola with a clear disadvantage in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District. (Hat tip to DailyKos for the link.) Rep. Chris Chocola of Indiana, behind Democrat Joe Donnelly 52 percent to 39 percent...Read More
Who likes football?
Filed by Jerame Davis | November 01, 2006 12:24 PM |Well, lots of folks like football, but how many of us like BEING the football? (Personally, I don't like either.) Seems like the LGBT community is firmly entrenched as this year's political football, doesn't it? We're the subject of any...Read More
Ken Mehlman parody ad
Filed by Bil Browning | November 01, 2006 11:48 AM |Surely, we've all heard about the ad that the Republican Party ran in Tennessee against Democratic challenger Harold Ford. The ad used race-baiting techniques by showing a white woman implying that she and Harold had a thing. The ad...Read More
Kerry should apologize
Filed by Don Sherfick | November 01, 2006 10:17 AM |When I first heard John Kerry's statement that has provoked all of the furor and given George Bush and others fresh fodder to distract from the basic issues of the current campaign, I grimaced. Clearly, I said to myself, he...Read More
Kerry should apologize
Filed by Don Sherfick | November 01, 2006 10:17 AM |When I first heard John Kerry's statement that has provoked all of the furor and given George Bush and others fresh fodder to distract from the basic issues of the current campaign, I grimaced. Clearly, I said to myself, he...Read More
