From the Algonquin Round Table that is TPM:
As you may know the Obama’s transition has now set up change.gov as the new transition website. And as TPM Reader SB points out there’s already signs of the radicalism McCain and Palin warned the country about.
I’ve clipped out this section of their organization chart of the US [...]

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MSNBC Just called the Chief of Staff job for … Democrat Rahm Emanuel.
I need to quit typing like that.
More to come …

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Feeling pretty good today.

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“But, you know the thing that keeps me up is not actually winning or losing, it’s governing. When I think about things when the lights are out and I’m tossing and turning in bed, its how do we make sure we fulfill the commitments to the American people that we’ve made throughout this campaign?”
– Sen. [...]

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Statement from Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng on the Death of Their Grandmother:

It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer.  She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility.  She was the person who encouraged [...]

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Swampland:

Word comes that Barack Obama’s grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, or having lunch in a coffee shop, with her grandson–way back at the turn of the 1970s, when such sights were [...]

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This is incredibly sad. It dredged up way too many memories of my grandmother and now I’m all bummed out.
From CNN:

(CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday.
She was 86.
“She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of [...]

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As I open this post, I have to state, that I was one of the original Utah hires for Dean’s 50 State Strategy. I agreed with it well before I even dreamed of being a beneficiary and in the 3 years since its inception, the only thing I’ve ever seen wrong with it is the [...]

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This. Is. WONDERFUL.

Send Some LOVE

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A nice catch from C&L:

This video was made by Senate Democrats last year. I was out of reach for much of the weekend and missed my chance to post a word of thanks for Sen. Wellstone.

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This needs little explanation aside from, wow, Rob Bishop really doesn’t seem to care how unethical he is, or, really, if anyone knows about it. I saw this whole debate and, yes, that was Rob Bishop bragging about his Energy Solutions haul while Morgan was talking about how to keep Utah from becoming the world’s [...]

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Ha ha! A good non-partisan jibe at the whole of Congress!
From Politico’s The Crypt:
The bailout exposed a fact most watchdogs already knew about Congress — it ain’t the London School of Economics.
So, the president of Andrew Jackson University, a small online school based in Birmingham, is jumping into this miasma of ignorance to offer a [...]

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This is my favorite part:
Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President
We thought this election would be a serious fight over the
future of this country, but only one candidate showed up.

Isn’t that grand? A good summation. How about this?

Read the endorsement HERE

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Bowen for Congress
morgan@bowenforcongress.com
http://www.bowenforcongress.com
Contact: Morgan Bowen – 435.770.1488
For Immediate Release | 10-02-2008
Pass or Fail: The Bailout Bill is bad for everyday Americans
Criticizes Bishop for Complicity and Self Preservation

HYDE PARK, UT: (UT CD-1) Democratic Candidate Morgan Bowen again today blasted what he calls “government run amuck.” On the day of the US House’s vote on whether the [...]

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