After being reportedly certified as the first president of the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) yesterday by elections commissioner Katie Vogel, Jay Bundy had a few words for the student body.

"If the students are stupid enough to vote for someone so inappropriate and retarded as I am, then they deserve a president who is going to give the worst performance to the best of his ability," he said, adding that he wants the "lowest approval rating in history."

Bundy continued on a lengthy tirade, calling his upcoming presidency "a fucking shitshow," without offering any explanation.

"You voted for me, bitches," he said. "That was a bad idea."

Finally, an honest politician!   Inappropriate, retarded, lowest approval rating in history -- wait, did I accidently pull an old copy of the Yale Daily News talking about George W Bush???

Anyway, he was responding to a letter published from a fellow member of the grassroot progressive group VoteBluePA, and I just had to respond to it on our blog Little Blog Blue.

Santorum's letter and my repsonses after the jump, along with a picture that needs to be made into billboards across Pennsylvania.

This Associated Press article came out today about Sen. Sentorum (R-VA):

This is a perfect opportunity for us to keep this issue alive in the minds of Pennsylvania voters.  I strongly encourage all Pennsylvanians to write a letter to the editor about this issue.  Santorum cost the hard working taxpayers of Pennsylvania 100,000 dollars, and we need to make sure his chicanery costs him at least 100,000 votes.

The paper changed key phrases in my letter, which I believe completely changed the tone of it.   I no longer feel that it adequately conveys my disdain for what Santorum has done.

Below the fold are my original letter as submitted to the paper, and how it was published.   What I want to know is: why was it changed?   Was it to protect the paper from libel?  Or for another reason?

Also, I plan on talking to the head of Pennsylvania's State Democratic Party to see if he can set up a fund for the eventual Democratic candidate against Santorum.  I know I'm willing to make a contribution today, but are enough other people out there interested in doing so?  If anyone wants to make a pledge in this thread, I'll show this diary to him when I talk to him to show there is demand.   Ideally, I would like to see us raise enough money first just through entries in the Kos Diary and Atrios Comments sections so that we could then put up blog ads to raise some serious money.   I think it would be awesome to have $100,000 or more just waiting to be turned over to our candidate the day after the Primary election.

We had a great organization with great leaders, and fantastic downticket candidates.    While only Tim Holden won, we made impressive gains in what one magazine called the most Republican area in the country.  (yes, more so than Utah, or Oklahoma, or Texas!)

Maybe this can be the start of a nationwide movement by young people, sort of like how Gay/Straight Alliances have swept high schools across the country.   I think these 3 issues ( the debt, the environment, and fear of the draft) cut across party lines and are shared by most young people.   Young people standing up for their future; it's a beautiful thing.   What can we do to help?  I think the demand has to come from the students; but we can certainly help with the resources.

So if you're sick of the polling threads, etc. and want to take a few minutes to read the original to see how twisted the minds of the wingnuts really are, and then read my rewrite of the little tale, it is in the extended copy.

The Stick is a yardstick of how the race between Paterno and Congressman Tim Holden is going.   According to the Harrisburg Patriot-News:

In a head-to-head match-up, Holden leads Paterno by more than 40 percent, according to their late-June poll.

The Paterno campaign also has conducted polling but declined to share the results.

This is the district that Republicans gerrymandered to take out Holden with fellow incumbent George Gekas in 2002.   It is strongly Republican, but Blue Dog Democrat Holden has a higher approval rating than Bush.   Unless Holden has a dead girl/live boy moment, I think we can move this race into the "Strongly Leans Democrat" column.   In fact, my father, a life-long straight-ticket Republican who was more upset when I changed my registration to Democrat than when I told him I was gay, isn't even going to vote for Paterno.  (That's not to say yet he's going to vote FOR Holden.)   Holden is too conservative for my liking, but he's a great Representative and I respect him because when he defeated Gekas in 2002, the Republicans offered him everything including the kitchen sink to switch parties, but he declined.  And as so many said, he is a vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker.    

Finally, the Thick-as-a-Brick Chick is in the extended copy.

I understand the importance of Congressional candidates getting money early, but with Kerry accepting matching funds I can't contribute anything else to him after the Convention in July.   So I was looking for some advice from the kossacks.

BTW, I want to give in $50 increments because I don't want credit card fees to eat up too much of a percentage of my donation. (Financial institutions are a pet peeve of mine - support credit unions!)

And if it matters, I've already given 2 months to Kerry, 2 months to Joe Hoeffel, and 1 month to Allyson Schwartz (PA-13 candidate). Please take the poll:

If you're going to burgle Bush, provide an itinerary

I highly recommend you follow the link above to read his entire article, which is not posted in the extended copy because I'm already pushing the boundaries of Fair Use

On this evening's newscast (Friday, January 2, 2004), anchor Charles Gibson refered to attacks in the "town of Fallujah", and moments later refered to the earthquake relief effort in the "city of Bam".   Yet the population of Fallujah is 232,600 while the population of Bam was 90,000.   According to the Aerican Heritage Dictionary:

town - noun - A population center that is larger than a village and smaller than a city.

So why is Fallujah always refered to as a town?  Everytime I heard of the uprising in the town of Fallujah, I pictured a minor hotspot in a small town.  (In Pennsylvania, the definition of a town is a municipality with less than 10,000 people.)  It wasn't until today that I learned the population of Fallujah is greater than the population of Akron, Ohio.   Was it a mistake to call Fallujah a town?   Or a mistake to call Bam a city?   This seems like a minor point, but the fact that Fallujah has consistently been refered to a town influences Americans' listening of the news, and I would like to know why ABC News always refers to Fallujah as a town.  Thank you for your consideration in answering my question.