NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Fans of porn star Stormy Daniels are drafting her to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana now held by Republican Sen. David Vitter. And it's no racy gimmick, they say.
The Draft Stormy Web site says that "2010 presents the Pelican State with the opportunity to start with a clean slate -- to elect a representative that we can be proud of, who will work tirelessly, and who will challenge the status quo. We at the Draft Stormy campaign feel that Baton Rouge native Stormy Daniels is best suited to fulfill these duties."
Vitter is famous -- or infamous -- for his link to the "D.C. Madam," the woman who ran a prostitution ring. Elected to the Senate in 2004, he admitted to "a very serious sin in my past" in July 2007 after his phone number turned up in records of an escort service run by the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the D.C. Madam.
Daniels, 29, isn't affiliated with a party but is embracing the idea of a possible candidacy. She said she's planning a "listening tour" oooh goody another 'listening tour'
around Louisiana to talk about a range of matters, including the economy -- which along with women in business and protection of children are the three issues listed on her Web site. When told Vitter can be a tough opponent, she said she's "always up for a good fight." she is probably no newcomer to mud wrestling slinging
"I think anyone that knows me ... is more than aware of that," Daniels said. "Politics can't be any dirtier of a job than the one I am already in."
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Hmmmmm. I'll have to study this very carefully...... Yes, I do believe I could vote for her. But not a Louisiana resident. But, Glenmore is. He can represent the Burg on our behalf.
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Now we gotta play "Name That Party" with candidates?
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Vitter's Republican. Daniels is independent. Not sure if she'd challenge him in the Republican primary, the Democrat primary, or the general election. Vitter's such a creepy hypocrite I could easily vote against him - but not if it meant increasing Reid's hold on the Senate.
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And I must admit, she would increase the eye appeal of the Senate by several orders of magnitude (even as only 1% of a weighted average!) She seems to have employed a very gifted 'enhancement' surgeon.
A top United States senator called Monday for the creation of a "truth commission" to probe alleged abuses under former President George W. Bush, including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment, and wiretapping without a warrant.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he wanted to heal what he called sharp political divides under Bush and to prevent future abuses. "I'm doing this not to humiliate people or punish people but to get the truth out," he said.
Obama said at the first press conference of his young presidency that he had not seen the proposal from Leahy and would have a look at it--"but my general orientation is to say let's get it right moving forward."
"If there are clear instances of wrongdoing...people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen," said the president.
Leahy compared his proposed panel to South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and stressed, "We need to come to a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past."
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With the current economic uncertainty upppermost in the minds of people, Senator: Trust me. You don't want a truth commission of any type.
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Right along with the 'truth' commission that hauls various MSM up before it to reveal the CIA et al personnel who released classified information during time of war.
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South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Firearms and property seizure soon followed the TRC blame game. South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) looks and performs quite a bit like the my way or the highway party in control here now.
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Of course the Bush admin. was constrained by some secret magic directive from nearly ever defending or explaining its policies (it's greatest failure, along with fiscal insanity). But all of the issues listed have been exhaustively investigated and/or adjudicated, by Congress or the courts, with results to date totally vindicating Bush, of course.
Leahy is a loathsome creature. Where oh where is the GOPer (or donk with a brain, like Bayh) to stand up and b-slap that idiot in public, citing the actual record on those issues? And add in some personal color on Leahy's outrageous cowardice and irresponsibility as well.
To the ghettos wit yuz.
President Obama was back on the road today to garner support for the economic stimulus package that passed the Senate early Tuesday morning. He was speaking today at a town hall forum in Ft. Myers, Florida, and near the end of his hour-long session, a city councilwoman asked him about transportation and infrastructure in the stimulus.
Here's how he responded:
It's imagining new transportation systems. I'd like to see high speed rail where it can be constructed. I would like for us to invest in mass transit because potentially that's energy efficient. And I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally...
The days where we're just building sprawl forever, those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats, everybody... recognizes that's not a smart way to design communities. So we should be using this money to help spur this sort of innovative thinking when it comes to transportation. That will make a big difference.
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There will be sprawl as long as humans keep reproducing. Unless he has a depopulation program in the Pork Package as well [unlikely with the effective repeal of welfare reform], somebody has to park their ass someplace. They get nasty when when you stack them up [excepting some circles in Hollyweird]. And depopulation usually hits urban centers hardest, the core of the Donk power base. More talk. More government. Less solutions.
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Phueching bloody prophetic....water is also wet. NOBODY is building now, or likely to build anytime soon! Futurist, truth-sayer, economist, military expert, community disorganizer. I knew Wakan Tanka, and you're no bloody Wakan Tanka. (How did we make it so long without this Cook County genius?)
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The history of Chicago area suburban development can be summed up as 'running away from Democrats'
In NE IL everytime the Dems took over a local government unit the taxes went through the roof. Businesses, industry, and people moved to more tax friendly areas, causing growth (or sprawl). And of course the Dems followed them, took over again and the people, businesses, and industry moved yet again... ad infinitum.
Stopping sprawl is simple, stop Democrats.
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Ask Boulder how well that worked. Prices jumped through the roof and almost all the building are crumbling and falling apart because they are "historic". Give Boulder another 20 years and people will be living in tents.
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Bright Pebbles, we should be so fortunate that the notorious late sleeper should be awoken every 5AM. That building across the street is the KAM Isaiah Israel Temple. Fooled me the first time I saw it.
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President Obama is shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush administration to open much of the U.S. coast to oil drilling, including 130 million acres off California's coast from Mendocino to San Diego.
On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered the plan be put on hold while his agency conducts a 180-day review of the country's offshore oil and gas resources. Salazar's critical comments about the plan signaled that the new administration will seek to rewrite it if not completely scrap it.
The Bush proposal "opened the possibility of oil and gas leases along the entire Eastern seaboard, portions of offshore California and the far eastern Gulf of Mexico with almost no consultation from states, industry or community input," Salazar said at a news conference in Washington. "In my view it was a headlong rush of the worst kind."
Not true, bubbo. Everyone knew what was going on. We've been debating this for three decades. The states know. The communities know. The industry certainly knows.
He said his agency will hold four public meetings over the next few months - one in Alaska, one on the West Coast, one along the East Coast and one near the Gulf Coast - to hear from governors, local officials, industry groups and environmentalists about the plan.
Especially the environmentalists. Expect the oil industry groups to be treated as the enemy.
Salazar did not directly address the bigger question: Whether Obama will seek to renew the three-decade-old presidential moratorium on drilling off most of the East and West coasts, which Bush lifted last July amid growing public anger over soaring gas prices.
He echoed comments made by Obama during last year's campaign that the administration would be open to more offshore drilling,
"We also need an enemy and a scape-goat."
but only as part of a broader energy policy focused on producing more renewable energy from wind, solar, geothermal as well as tidal and wave power. "For those of you from the oil and gas industry ... I pledge to you that you will have a seat at the table," Salazar said. "We need your expertise and your resources as we move forward. But as President Obama has said and as I believe ... a drill-only energy approach, onshore and offshore, is not enough."
Drilling now would start to bring oil and NG on line in a few years. It would be a wonderful boost to the economy. These are high-paying jobs, and in case he hasn't noticed, California and the other coastal states could use those.
The congressional moratorium on offshore drilling also expired last year, and the Bush administration moved quickly to forward a lease sale plan that would open areas off most of the U.S. coast, from the Gulf of Maine to Chesapeake Bay and the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico, plus the Pacific Coast. The plan also opened new areas of Alaska's Bristol Bay and the Arctic Ocean. Bush's top Interior officials released the plan on Jan. 16, the final business day of the Bush administration, knowing the new president was likely to rewrite the plan.
Oil industry leaders were disappointed by Salazar's announcement. Barry Russell, president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America said, "This unnecessary delay will hold America back, at the precise moment when we need to move forward the most."
But environmentalists praised the move, calling it a sharp break from the pro-drilling policies of the Bush administration.
Of course they did.
In California, the Bush administration's plan would open three major areas, one in Northern California and two in Southern California, which it claimed had "known hydrocarbon potential." The plan would have allowed drilling on 44 million acres of federal waters off Humboldt and Mendocino counties, and 89 million acres off San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and San Diego counties.
One of the leases would have required special directional drilling equipment to reach oil beneath the Santa Barbara Ecological Preserve. In Southern California, there are 79 existing leases with 43 producing and 36 undeveloped.
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By and large the industry took no action when Bush opened these waters; we knew full well it would be wasted effort, as the Dems would surely re-close them at the first opportunity.
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Memory is bad, but I thought that Gov. Palin was going to take the EPA/feds to court about the right of States to determine how to use their resources.
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Oil prices are rising. Little notice but they are headed to their July levels. Believe me.
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Jack, oil prices will rise again. Could be by summer, or might not be for several years. They are not rising right now. Roughly $40 per barrell.
Gasoline prices have been rising. Partly because refineries were offline for mainenance. Partly because of some labor action fears. But that's not enough - not sure what else is doing it. But it does help our downstream profits.
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Having seen how Ken Salazar has operated in Colorado, I knew he'd be a disaster as head of Interior. If there were ever a man that ought to be sent to the bottom of Hoover Dam to do an onsite investigation - without an airtank - it's Ken Salazar. Him and his brother in the House, and his cousin in New Mexico, along with the two Udalls, should all be held accountable. Unfortunately it's going to be extremely hard to do.
I thought, back when he was elected, it would take ten years to clean up the mess Obambi will make of this nation. My current prediction, with whom he's selected to be in his cabinet, is more in the range of 50 years or a revolution, whichever comes first.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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