Dr. Victoria Wulsin is as good a candidate as I've run across in this whole election cycle-- and she's running against one of the worst Republicans in the whole congress:
Mean Jean Schmidt. Her
voting record is as ugly as... well, you know. The Good Lord was unkind to Mean Jean in many ways and she has certainly thrown her lot firmly in with Mammon. Simply put, Mean Jean takes money from Big Business and then votes for their interests. End of story. Well... almost end of story. They don't call her Mean Jean because of her sweet disposition.
Her... disposition came to the attention of the nation when she launched into a vicious and truly psychotic attack on decorated war hero and military expert Jack Murtha from the well of the House last year. She was booed off the floor of the Congress and has been, more or less, laying low since then. Now she has to face the voters in Ohio's 2nd CD in November-- and these voters are not in a great frame of mind. In a district Bush carried with 64% in 2004, his approval rating is a dismal 41%. But even Bush's 41% is something Mean Jean aspires to; her approval rating is down at the bottom of the toilet with Cheney and Paris Hilton: 33% of the people in the district think Mean Jean is doing a good job.
And that's where Victoria Wulsin comes in. Today Dr. Wulsin will be a live guest at Firedoglake's Blue America series. The show starts at 2 PM Eastern (11 AM on the West Coast) and everyone's invited. The preview is up at Down With Tyranny now.