A Letter to My Teabagger Congresswoman

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 7:27 AM PDT

2011/08/01 · 07:27

So my freshman teabagger, talking-points-spewing, Congress creature will almost assuredly be voting FOR the debt-ceiling deal today. She's been all over Fox and CNBC touting the tea party line, but she's not PURE tea party like Michele Bachmann. She'll do it.

I decided to send her a thank-you letter this morning in advance of her vote.

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 7:01 AM PDT

2008/03/20 · 07:01

I can't stand it when I open my morning paper and get right-wing spin masquerading as a news story in my local news. Today:

Returning vets form a political surge

Five years in Iraq is a long time.

Long enough to spend $600 billion and lose nearly 4,000 uniformed lives.

Also long enough for rank-and-file to deploy, come home, discharge and run for office. Come November, an unprecedented number of Iraq war veterans will battle on ballots. From coast to coast, they're running guerrilla-style campaigns against career politicians.

Can they win?

"I'll be the youngest member of Congress," said 28-year-old Lee Zeldin, an Army reservist courting New York's 1st District, on the east end of Long Island. The JAG-attorney-turned-private-practice-lawyer is one of a dozen candidates who have joined a Republican coalition called Iraq Vets for Congress.

Since its inception in January, the group has enlisted candidates from key states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and California.

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 6:26 AM PST

2006/10/29 · 06:26

The endorsements keep piling up for John Hall in this suburban New York district. This morning I was very happy to read that The Journal-News, the major daily in NY-19 and a Gannett newspaper, endorse Hall and the change that he will help bring to the 110th Congress when he is elected.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/...

This leaves just one area daily, the most conservative one--The Poughkeepsie Journal--that has not yet made any endorsement in this race. I hope they do the right thing. Read More

NY-19: Times-Herald Record Endorses John Hall

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 6:01 AM PDT

2006/10/22 · 06:01

I woke up this morning to a very pleasant surprise from my local paper (in this red county).

http://www.recordonline.com/...

The Times-Herald Record has endorsed Sue Kelly, the Republican, in the past, but is acknowledging her back-bencher, rubber-stamping of failed right-wing policies.

Kelly came into Congress a dozen years ago with the Newt Gingrich-led GOP sweep and its famous "Contract With America" that promised reform of how the House of Representatives was run by Democrats. For her part, Kelly reserved the right to pick and choose on the contract, but pledged to work for "a smaller, smarter government which is more accountable to the American people." The GOP-led federal government may be many things, but smaller, smarter and more accountable are not among them. Kelly's sin is not necessarily that her vision has not been realized, but that she almost unfailingly defends what has been delivered instead.

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 5:25 PM PDT

2006/10/20 · 17:25

Sue Kelly made a huge mistake in failing to show up at RNN's studio on October 17th. As Stephen Colbert said: "Like Velveeta, she melted at the slightest sign of heat."

John Hall has now had two televised fora to himself, one of them national on "The Colbert Report," to apprise voters of his agenda. And he got to remind us that he's a fair singer as well!

Someone requested in a comment on an earlier thread for a video on the entire "debate," and it's now available on Google video. Link is below the fold: Read More

NY-19: Sue Kelly lies about not voting for increase in debt ceiling

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 8:06 AM PDT

2006/10/17 · 08:06

There's been a lot of discussion over Sue Kelly's over-the-top self-righteous indignation over her possible implication in the Mark Foley Page gate scandal. http://www.dailykos.com/...

In another video of the same editorial board debate
http://www.recordonline.com/...
click on "Video: Sparks fly at Congressional debate"
Sue outright lies about never voting to raise the debt ceiling after John Hall remarks (truthfully) that she'd voted 5 times since 2001 to do so.

Evidence summarized after the jump: Read More

NY-19: Did Sue Kelly know anything about Foley?

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 11:35 AM PDT

2006/10/04 · 11:35

I just picked up this article from the Times-Herald Record website:

[http://www.recordonline.com/...]

which contains some very shrill denials by her spokesman of any knowledge of Mark Foley's actions.

Callahan said that most decisions about the program were made by the clerk of the House and that Kelly's two-year term (as Page Board chair) was preoccupied by efforts to build a new dorm for the pages.
"I don't see where you're going with this, other than on some witch hunt," Callahan told the Times Herald-Record. "I don't see what you're trying to do other than connect her to a sick man. All I can tell you is that no incidents came to her attention while she was chair."

Good to see that somebody's doing some digging. If anything comes up, she'll have a hard time reconciling the "I'm a mother and grandmother" thing she's always publicizing. The "no incidents came to her attention" part is interesting....

NY-19 What's Sue Kelly's Preoccupation with "Heaven and Earth"?

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 1:42 PM PDT

2006/09/21 · 13:42

So now I've received two emails from the Kelly campaign, and boy were both of those wacky. The woman is totally freaking out over John Hall's campaign!

Her latest screed has her worrying about "President Pelosi." The Republicants' straw man of a Democratic Congress impeaching both Bush AND Cheney. A wonderful fantasy, but something that'll never happen and something for the R's to use as a boogeyman to their base. And she mentions Moveon.org a lot, too. Hilarious!

But the weirdest thing I noticed in BOTH the emails was Read More

NY-19 So now we know what Sue Kelly's going to focus on

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Thursday September 14, 2006 · 6:19 AM PDT

2006/09/14 · 06:19

So I got the first email from Sue Kelly's campaign this morning and she's definitely scared, scared, scared.
I'm certainly no campaign strategist, but I'm hoping that John Hall will not only counter her arguments, but go on the offensive right away. Read More

Oh, Snap! on Sue Kelly (NY-19) by Times-Herald Record

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Sunday August 20, 2006 · 12:22 PM PDT

2006/08/20 · 12:22

This morning's Times-Herald Record (Orange, Ulster, Sullivan counties, NY) had a great in-your-face story on Sue Kelly's (R-NY-19) latest visit to Warwick, NY, to check out how small businesses were doing and to give some advice. The paper had an awesome picture of our "small business owner" congresswoman earlier this week walking right by a closing small bookstore in the village. Great advice, eh?

Well, some reporters talked to her and asked her where she buys her books. And she gave the name of a small shop in her hometown of Katonah, NY, that had recently closed--she gave the name of the shop--though she did admit to buying some books from Amazon. Today's paper has a story with the headline "Didn't think we'd check?" Somebody actually did some reporting and checked out this supposed small bookstore in Katonah, and guess what? I don't think Sue bought too many books there since it was a furniture store! Snap! Read More

Making Neighbors Like Me Feel Bad

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 8:35 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 08:35

Because the right works so hard to make me feel that way.

I've been turning a recent experience around in my head for a couple of days and would like to relate it here. My first diary, I'm nervous. The village I live in in upstate New York (about 50 miles from NYC) has an annual festival called "Great American Weekend" on the weekend closest to Independence Day. I've only lived here for two years, and this is the first time I've actually been able to attend some of the festivities. Craft and antique vendors, carnival, face-painting, food, typical stuff. I was looking for Stuckeyville when we decided on our town.

The closing program on Sunday night, July 2nd, was a show of trampoline acrobats, music by Jimmy Sturr (the Polka King, who's hometown is nearby), and a laser-light show (no fireworks here because insurance is too expensive). Sounded like good fun since I have an 8yo and a 7yo.
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A Letter to My Teabagger Congresswoman

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NY-19: Major Local Newspaper Endorses John Hall

NY-19: Times-Herald Record Endorses John Hall

NY-19: The "Empty Chair" Debate

NY-19: Sue Kelly lies about not voting for increase in debt ceiling

NY-19: Did Sue Kelly know anything about Foley?

NY-19 What's Sue Kelly's Preoccupation with "Heaven and Earth"?

NY-19 So now we know what Sue Kelly's going to focus on

Oh, Snap! on Sue Kelly (NY-19) by Times-Herald Record

Making Neighbors Like Me Feel Bad