an independent Democrat running in the 2/5/08 primary to replace DINO Rep. Dan Lipinski (aka "Danny" aka "The Accidental Congressman") and one of the main things he asked about was how to connect better to the blogosphere. I of course said, well you have to, um, connect to the blogosphere.

He's going to pull together a short piece about himself, put it up on YouTube, and invite people to come to his blog - which he's adding to what he admits is a site in its infancy - and ask, well, you.

This guy seems like the kind of person many out here could really get behind, even more than Christine Cegelis, for example.

I will be blogging more about this - and Mark will be, too. I've told him about the upcoming YearlyKos Convention in Chicago and that he should take that opportunity to connect with as many Kossacks as possible - but that in the meantime he needs to get OUT HERE!

More about Mark below...

And the hits just keep on comin'. The ability of this White House to make George Orwell's 1984 come true is truly astounding. Thank the Lord for the 22nd Amendment.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/...

Maybe historians will end up calling this the Fox Guarding the Henhouse Presidency. Polluters or their shills running the EPA. An anti-union head at Labor. (insert your favorite other example in the comments) Now a failed mine exec at the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

We here on the left and/or in Kossack Nation often trap ourselves in our echo chamber. If we are to be both effective and just, we need to look outside this box of our making from time to time. This (below) is a way for you to do this in terms of what is - and will be - really going on in Iraq, from a geopolitical point of view.

More below the fold - it's an outstanding, even-handed geopolitical analysis from Stratfor.com. It's outside our own filter on the left and we need to understand this if we are to understand what He Who Should Be Impeached is really up to.

Let's watch out the next few days for a "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" effort from the White House.

It seems that eventually, despite stupidity and malice, the media has finally stumbled upon what the Bush agenda truly is. A story popped up today, an "off" news day, that pulls back the veneer so that ordinary Americans can see what 51% of them really voted for:

Congress turns its focus to business agenda

Having been completely taken in by the fraudulent reasons for the Iraq war, after spending months missing the point that it's oil-driven American POLICY that Muslims hate, not Americans, and now after the misplays on Schaivo, DeLay and Social Security, the mainstream press seems to have noticed that what Bush I and Bush II are really all about is big business. Oil money ("energy legislation"), worker exploitation ("Central American trade treaty) and escaping responsibility ("asbestos litigation relief").

Sorry, but some of the posts above are fiddling while Rome burns.
We on the left need to start coming to grips with the real struggle that is underway. Please feel free to share this, by the way.

It is not about Democrats v. Republicans
It is not about left v. right
It is not about this year's budget, or next year's
It is not about who is going to control Congress in 2006
It is not about who is going to be President in 2008

What we need to understand is that we are as-of-yet reluctant warriors in the battle to save Western civilization.

The part we are not understanding is that it is not an external struggle, it is civil war.