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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 11:21 AM PDT

2006/08/01 · 11:21

Stoller has the latest in the Net Neutrality fight, including contact info for Senators who still haven't committed to net neutrality. Check it out, especially if you live in AR, CO, DE, HI, IL, IA, LA, MD, MA, MI, MO, MT, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, RI, SD, VT, WA, WI, and WV.
I sent an email to Evan Bayh's communicatins director yesterday asking for comment on Evan Bayh Day -- the day Bayh said we'd have to get out of Iraq if things hadn't gotten better.
I got no response.
Update: Okay, I got a response from Dan Pfeiffer, Bayh's communications director:

Does Bayh think we need to leave Iraq? Yes. Does he think the Iraqis have gotten their political act together? no. Does he think the Bush Administration has a plan to help the Iraqis do that? Absolutely Not. Does he support adopting a flexible timeline for leaving (like Levin-Reed)? Yes. He does, however, oppose a date-specific withdrawal and he opposes a policy of staying the course indefinitely.
Senator Bayh believes that the question is not whether we should be out, but how we should get out. He agrees that we need to leave, he just think we need a plan to leave as Iraq stable as possible, because that is in our national security interest.
Gross dishonesty like this is the reason conservative blogs get no respect by anyone except each other. Bowers has more. So does Sadly, No!.
Needlenose says "I told you so" on the Sunni insurgency.
Great advice from Frameshop to campaigns wanting to replicate the Lamont success and tie their opponents to George Bush:

It will not be enough to oppose the President on Iraq. Each Progressive running for the Senate or the House must combine a winning frame and a winning message.
If you are working on a primary to unseat an old-school, anti-Progressive Democrat or heading towards a close race to unseat a long-term Republican incumbent, ask yourself this question: What is "The Kiss" in our race?
Then find it and push it hard.
A behind-the-scenes look at the new unified Democratic position on Iraq. The effort was driven by Carl Levin (MI) and Jack Reed (RI).
Frist can't keep out of ethical trouble.
CT-Sen: A full roundup of the day's news at LamontBlog. Meanwhile, Digby wonders why pundits, like E.J. Dionne, insist on blaming the victims for Lieberman's transgressions.
PA-08: Patrick Murphy has a new web ad, "The Decider".
IN-07: GOP purging voter rolls. This is how they steal elections. They disenfranchise voters.
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Damn, YouTube is taking over the Internet.

YouTube has a 3.9% share of all Alexa Toolbar users' traffic compared with 3.35% for MySpace [...] BusinessWeek has some additional stats, including these doozies: the site now accounts for 60% of all videos watched online, 65,000 new videos are uploaded daily and 100 million are viewed.
CT-Sen: Ned Lamont has a new campaign commercial.

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