Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C001135 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 11/9/2010

Richard G. Miller

P.O. Box 777

Pittsburg, KS 66762

11/8/2010

$10,000.00

I’m so looking forward to the television commercials in October 2012.

Previously: Peter Kinder (r): who needs Twitter when you’ve got friends like these?

The campaign of the master of the twitterverse, Lt. Governor Peter Kinder (r), raked in some more big bucks today – via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf] 11/8/2010

Apex Oil Company, Inc.

8235 Forsyth Blvd.

St. Louis, MO 63105

11/8/2010

$15,000.00

[emphasis added]

Oil. Why is no one surprised?

The pollsters start talking about 2012:

Monday, November 8, 2010

The 2012 Senate Class

There were a ton of competitive Senate races in 2010 and the playing field could be even wider in 2012. Since the beginning of August PPP has polled on the approval ratings of 18 Senators who are up for reelection next time around…

…The three least popular and conceivably most vulnerable Senators up next time that we’ve polled on are Joe Lieberman, Claire McCaskill, and Debbie Stabenow….

…Missouri was extremely brutal for Democrats this year and McCaskill has not built up a lot in the way of crossover support from Republicans and independents during her first term in the Senate…

Claire McCaskill

Approval [%] 40/53

Spread [%]-13

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): try as you might, you can’t do much when you’re in the minority party (January 29, 2010)

Uh, Claire, you got to dance with them what brung you (January 21, 2010)

What do Democrats stand for? (January 20, 2010)

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): take the job for a spin and see what it’ll do (January 1, 2010):

…A question. If the only two Democratic U.S. Senators to the right of you by voting record are Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson, and the right wingers and teabaggers in Missouri won’t vote for you anyway, and you’re not overly concerned about re-election, why don’t you take the job for a spin and see what it can do rather than cater to all the fear mongering obstructionists and the inside the beltway cocktail weenie circuit…?

Those teabaggers will never vote for you, Claire. They never have, they never will. Work on turning out your base.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – because insurance company profit margins need to be protected (September 17, 2010)

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): open forum in Hillsboro – photos (August 11, 2010)

Rude, loud, and obnoxious. And to think that there wasn’t a dirty anti-war hippy anywhere in sight.

After driving five hundred miles (in eight and a half hours) round trip I had time to reflect and process the event at Jefferson College in Hillsboro. The seemingly impotent rage coming from some of the people in attendance was stunning in its force.

They’re pissed that Obama is president. They’re pissed that McCain isn’t. They’re pissed that Jim Talent isn’t their senator. They probably voted for George W. Bush twice (and probably his daddy twice). They’d probably be pissed if you pointed out that dubya is and was a monumental screw-up – it reminds them that they made that particular choice. They didn’t vote for Claire. They’ll never vote for Claire. They’re outraged that their sense of entitlement about calling the shots in what others should believe and even how the open forum should have been run isn’t accepted or catered to.

To them a late entering African American woman breaking the “sign rule” is an outrage upon civilized society and is pointed out instantly. It is enough of an outrage so that some jerk can jump out of the stands and try to rip it away (for God’s sake, it was a Rosa Parks poster). Yet, a bunch of people can stand after that with their “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and there’s not a whisper from the crowd.

They’re pissed that Claire asked how many of them were on Medicare (several hundred) and then asking how many wanted off (a handful) – pointing out the crowd’s hypocrisy about government health care. No matter what anyone does they’ll be pissed and stay pissed. And they ain’t voting for any Democrats. Ever.…

[emphasis added]

What did we tell you?

Previously: It’s time to recharge the republican cash machine

This morning at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C000953 MO REPUBLICAN PARTY [pdf] 11/8/2010

Citizens for Brad Lager

5920 NW 96th Terrace

Kansas City, MO 64154

11/8/2010

$25,000.00

[emphasis added]

And last week at the same place:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C000953 MO REPUBLICAN PARTY [pdf] 11/4/2010

Citizens for Brad Lager

5920 NW 96h Terrace

Kansas City, MO 64154

11/2/2010

$35,000.00

[emphasis added]

Fancy that.

Heh.

…Man, republicans move around more money than a casino in one of those wealthy little European principalities ensconced on the Mediterranean….

It’s old media’s inside the beltway cocktail weenie circuit world and they don’t want any of us barbarians to live in it.

…[laughter] And finally, new rule, if you’re going to have a rally where hundreds of thousands of people show up, you might as well go ahead and make it about something. [applause] Now, with all due respect to my friends Jon and Stephen, it seems to me that if you truly wanted to come down on the side of restoring sanity and reason you’d side with the sane and the reasonable and [applause], and not try to pretend that the insanity is equally distributed in both parties. Keith Olbermann is right, when he says he’s not the equivalent of Glenn Beck. [applause] One reports facts, the other one is very close to playing with his poop. [laughter]

And the big mistake of modern media has been this notion of balance for balance’s sake, that the left is just as violent and cruel as the right, that unions are just as powerful as corporations, that reverse racism is just as damaging as racism. There’s a difference between a mad man, and a madman…

…Now, getting over two hundred thousand people to come to a liberal rally is a great achievement, and gave me hope. And what I really loved about it was that it was twice the size of the Glenn Beck crowd on the Mall in August. [applause] Although it weighed the same. [laughter]

But the message of the rally, as I heard it, was that if the media would just stop giving voice to the crazies on both sides then maybe we could restore sanity. It was all non-partisan and urged cooperation with the moderates on the other side. Forgetting that Obama tried that and found out there are no moderates on the other side. [applause]

When, when Jon announced his rally, he said that the national conversation is dominated by people on the right who believe Obama’s a socialist and people on the left who believe nine eleven was an inside job. But I can’t name any Democratic leaders who think nine eleven was an inside job. But Republican leaders who think Obama’s a socialist? All of them. McCain, Boehner, Cantor, Palin, all of them. It’s now official Republican dogma, like tax cuts pay for themselves and gay men just haven’t met the right woman. [laughter]

As, as another example of both sides using overheated rhetoric Jon cited the right equating Obama with Hitler, and the left calling Bush a war criminal. Except thinking Obama is like Hitler is utterly unfounded, but thinking Bush is a war criminal? That’s the opinion of General Anthony Taguba, who headed the Army’s investigation into Abu Ghraib. [applause]

Republicans, you see, Republicans keep staking out a position that is further and further right and then demand Democrats meet them in the middle which is now not the middle anymore. That’s the reason health care reform is so watered down – it’s Bob Dole’s old plan from nineteen ninety-four. Same thing with cap and trade – it was the first President Bush’s plan to deal with carbon emissions. Now the Republican plan for climate change is to claim it’s a hoax. But it’s not. I know that because I’ve lived in L.A. since eighty three and there’s been a change in the city. I can see it now. [laughter] Yeah. All of us who live out here have had that experience. Oh look, there’s a mountain there. [laughter] Governments led by liberal Democrats passed laws which changed the air I breathe for the better. Okay, I’m for them. And not for the party that is, as we speak, plotting to abolish the EPA. And I don’t need to pretend that both sides have a point here. And I don’t care what left or right commentators say about it. I only care what climate scientists say about it. [applause]

Two, two opposing sides don’t necessarily have two compelling arguments. Martin Luther King spoke on that Mall in the capitol and he didn’t say, “Remember folks, those Southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German shepherds, they have a point too.” [laughter] No, he said, “I have a dream, they have a nightmare.” This isn’t Team Edward and Team Jacob. [laughter]

Liberals, like the ones on that field, must stand up and be counted, and not pretend that we’re as mean or greedy or short sighted or just plain batshit as they are. And if that’s too polarizing for you and you still want to reach across the aisle and hold hands and sing with someone on the right try church….

[emphasis added]

That’s why we’re here.

Somebody else gets it:

Pelosi’s Triumph

Democrats didn’t lose the battle of 2010. They won it.

By William Saletan

Posted Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, at 8:19 AM ET

….We’ve become so obsessed with who wins or loses in politics that we’ve forgotten what the winning and losing are about. Partisans fixate on punishing their enemies in the next campaign. Reporters, in the name of objectivity, refuse to judge anything but the Election Day score card. Politicians rationalize their self-preservation by imagining themselves as dynasty builders. They think this is the big picture.

They’re wrong. The big picture isn’t about winning or keeping power. It’s about using it….

[emphasis added]

Heh, we’ve said that before.

We’d have ham and eggs, if we had some ham, and if we had some eggs.

Friday, in the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal:

11/5/2010 11:04:00 AM

House chooses leader

Warrensburg – Rep. Denny Hoskins said he is positioning himself to one day, perhaps, chair the House Budget Committee, but not this year….

….Hoskins said part of his plan included taking no action to seek a House leadership position this week, such as caucus leader.

“I decided not to run for any leadership position because I would like to be a chair of a committee,” he said. “If you hold any leadership position you cannot be a chair of a committee. In the Senate, because there are fewer of them than of us, they can hold a leadership position and be a chair of a committee….”

[emphasis added]

Spoils, what spoils?

Heh. They had a plan. As in, see how you can spin it when you got nothing.

So much for plans:

[paraphrased]…Woody [the interviewer] asked Hoskins why he would be singled out for missing a vote. Hoskins replied that the Democratic leadership was under investigation by the FBI (mentioning Representative Paul LeVota by name). Hoskins went on to say that he was being picked on because he’s in the leadership of the freshman class, and that he’s considered future leadership [in the House]…

[emphasis added]

The best laid plans…

Via Yellow Dog at They gave us a republic…:

Time’s a wastin’. Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C010407 FRIENDS FOR MUNZLINGER [pdf] 11/5/2010

MAJORITY FUND INC

PO BOX 754

JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102-0754

11/5/2010

$25,500.00

[emphasis added]

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C091263 LAMPING FOR SENATE [pdf] 11/5/2010

Majority Fund Inc.

P.O. Box 754

Jefferson City, MO 65102

11/5/2010

$33,000.00

[emphasis added]

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C071094 MAJORITY FUND INC [pdf] 11/5/2010

MISSOURIANS FOR MAYER

PO BOX 571

DEXTER MO 63841

11/5/2010

$10,000.00

DEMPSEY FOR SENATE

TWO WESTBURY DRIVE

ST CHARLES MO 63301

11/5/2010

$10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Man, republicans move around more money than a casino in one of those wealthy little European principalities ensconced on the Mediterranean.

It’s gotta be a nice living for the let’s make billionaires millionaires twenty-something republican consultant industrial complex and wingnut welfare society.

We never get out of junior high school.

Via our good friends at Fired Up!:

Cynthia Davis

I outlasted Keith Olbermann! I’m still in public office and he off the air. I owe him a debt of gratitude for propelling me to national fame and for getting me on the Steven Colbert Show. The lesson is that good people win in the end and mockers go by the wayside. He may never understand how God used him to demonstrate the truth of Proverbs 22:10.

I don’t believe Cynthia Davis understands the premise of Stephen Colbert’s show.

“…mockers go by the wayside…”

I wonder if McDonald’s is hiring.

Previously:

Wecome to post-racial America (August 10, 2010)

Wecome to post-racial America, part 2 (August 21, 2010)

The 2008 election will never be over.

Today, found stuck to the front door of the now closed Johnson County Democratic headquarters in downtown Warrensburg, Missouri:

This is across the street from the Warrensburg municipal building and a block further away from the police station.

Now what?