On The Second Tier

Richardson keeps saying things like he thinks it's wrong to raise taxes, but that he'll take all that Iraq war money that's going overseas and use it for domestic issues. That is a tax raise. The war is off budget, and every supplemental bill just increases the debt. If you're going to use that money, you're endorsing deficit spending. Is that what Richardson really wants to convey, or does he not want people to think about it too much? He's off my list.

Biden didn't care enough to come to California, probably because he knows that the party rank and file know about his vicious sellout to credit card and banking interests on the bankruptcy bill. He's out.

Gravel wants a national sales tax. Apparently this level of inequality isn't enough. He's out.

Kucinich's Department of Peace infringes upon all sorts of other government agencies' jurisdictions and would be a bureaucratic nightmare on par with the Department of Homeland Security. He couldn't run Cleveland, and even if it was because the energy companies outflanked him, I don't want them to be able to outflank a President. No.

Dodd dated Bianca Jagger. He's in. (Plus there's a sweet picture of me with him, which I'll put up when I can get it off my computer.)

...found one...



(me with the dude who dated the girl who bagged Mick Jagger. This makes me a rock star.)