Rochester Turning says this kind of corporations-over-people is unbelievable coming from a Democrat. The Albany Project wants to know what Schumer meant by that remark.

An important announcement from Dave Johnson:

Donating a dollar to a progressive infrastructure organization like Speak Out California and Commonweal Institute today is like giving ten dollars to EACH progressive candidate in every local, state and nation race this November, two years later, and every election following.  Read more 

John Morgan reminds to watch what politicians fund rather than listen to what they say; he also gives us the happy news that the Pennsylvania House has voted to expand access to healthcare. Susie tells us that universal health insurance is not the same thing as universial health care. Greg Palmer reports that religious leaders are supporting Rendell’s health plan.

West Virgina Blue quotes Kevin Drum on the case for single payer. Dancy Communications Network alerts us to a meeting on single payer that was held last December. The Bridge reports on the Single Payer movement in Kentucky. In Indiana they tried to establish a study commission to look into single payer, but don’t seem to be getting very far. Democracy for Monroe County tells us that their local Central Labor Council has endorsed Conyer’s bill.  Read more 

So what do local bloggers think of the FISA sellouts?  Read more 

South Texas Chisme cries shame. PrairiePundit says that Reyes Sivestro Reyes insults our intelligence on intelligence.

Check out the local bloggers in your area.

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Progressive Ohio thinks we all deserve Cheney Care. Ohio Daily Blog alerts us to a conference sponsored by Single-Payer Action Network Ohio. Racy Mind in Texas points to the public health implications of the under insured. Susie thinks we may be ready for single payer.  Read more 

Bessemer in Alabama talks about a healthcare forum. redeye in Alabma is sick and tired of being sick and tired. In Arizona Man Egee calls for solidarity with the United Auto Workers. In California the Boi from Troy relates healthcare and partisan redistricting. The California Nurses’ Association suggests that we avoid serious mistakes in the future.  Read more 

Exhibit A: The Fuckup. Exhibit B: One Texan Blogger’s reaction. Another Texan Blogger with a totally different take. I don’t have an opinion or dog in this hunt. But I am interested to hear/read what he says today. I expect the FDL crowd to be fairly gentle, so he’s got a chance to smooth this over. FWIW: I’m willing to cut him some slack, even if he wasn’t just tired and fumbling. Everyone makes mistakes, and this is what the primary season is all about, getting out the kinks and learning to run a smooth, lighting fast reactive campaign (among other things). Texans, what do you think? Netroots, has this offended you so greatly he’s dead to you? Politics is often ’dancing with the girl you brought.’ Is this such a case?

Ok, this is funny. Via the Act Blue page about who the netroots have given to so far, this gesture of support and respect:

Fundraising Page
Donors

My 2-cents for Hillary
The MSM Loves Hillary

Total Raised

$1.00

Edwards seems to be the ActBlue choice thus far. Sorry Lambert, I don’t mean to break the rule of not talking about them, but it made me laugh.

Jim Downing at Smart Mobs caught this article on semi-automatic marketing based fund raising in politics.  Read more 

This is one of the best and most complete recitations of why Rahm sucks goats that I’ve read since the elections. Save it, and throw it in the face of everyone who parrots the “victory for centrists” and “moderate mandate” crap. Here are some highlights:

The failure of Emanuel’s strategy can be demonstrated by the numbers. Of the 21 “first wave” picks announced on April 27th, only nine have been declared winners, with one (Joe Courtney in CT-02) holding a 170 vote lead over the incumbent, and three others losing by 1400 (Madrid, NM-01), 2700 (Kilroy, OH-05) and 3600 (Burner WA-08) votes in races that are still considered “too close to call.” Four of Emanuel’s “first wave” picks lost by over 10,000 votes (Busansky, FL-09; Lucas KY-04; Derby NV-02; and Cranley, OH-01).

Only three of Emanuel’s picks received support by the two largest ActBlue organizations (Murphy, PA-06; and Gillibrand, NY-20 both supported by Blue America, with Burner supported by NetRoots.) At least three of the DCCC’s “first wave” picks were against incumbents who were directly implicated in the Abramoff scandal (Hayworth, Taylor, Sweeney), and a fourth (Nick Lampson) was running against a write in candidate for Tom Delay’s old seat. (Lampson did not run for Delay’s unexpired term, but his Write-In opponent received more votes in that contest than Lampson received in the general election.)  Read more 

Lambert and Chris are doing a little well deserved back patting, pointing out that without the Netroots, yesterday’s victories would’ve been a lot less momentous. I basically agree. If there was record “voter anger” and tremendous potential in the electorate, it’s still the case that Netroots activism helped the mostly clueless Dems take advantage of that. That’s the good news. Here’s the bad news: starting tomorrow, the job for the Netroots community just got harder, more important, and requiring of even greater effort.  Read more