Happy Birthday Gabby!

While watching the various news programs on MSNBC discovered today was the 41st birthday of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords  (D-AZ).  Considering what she went through just a few short months ago it's a miracle that she's still here to celebrate it.

She's rehabbing here in H-Town and according to the doctors charged with her care is making fantastic progress, but she still has a long hard road of rehab to go

Happy birthday Gabby!   May you have many more!

Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Head DNC

I've always loved 44 year old Rep Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL).  She's a kick azz liberal progressive who is a passionate advocate for issues of importance to us.   She's a frequent telegenic presence on the talk show and TV pundit circuit and isn't 'scurred' to call the conservafools out on their BS.

President Obama tapped her yesterday to become the head of the Democratic National Committee in the wake of Tim Kaine's decision to run for the US Senate seat of retiring Democratic senator James Webb of Virginia next year.

Rep Wasserman-Schultz will hold on to her Florida 20th Congressional District seat while tackling her new role as the DNC chair.

"As we look toward 2012 in particular, I'm going to be working hard every day to guarantee that President Obama and Democratic candidates up and down the ballot are in the best position to win their races," Wasserman-Schultz said in a statement released Tuesday. "That was my promise to the President and that will be my promise to every single Democrat across the country."

Alright!  the only news that would have made me happier is if he'd put Alan Grayson in that DNC chair.   

A Congressman Beat Watson-Guess What Party He Belongs To?

IBM has designed a Jeopardy! playing supercomputer named Watson who so far has easily taken out all time Jeopardy Hall of Fame champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter..

Had to chuckle when I discovered that a slightly slower version of Watson was rolled out for another exhibition match featuring it versus humans.

This time Watson went down $8,600 to $6,200 to a human who happens to be a US congressmember.   Can you guess what party he belongs to?


What is the Democratic Party?

Hee hee hee.   Kiss our elitist behinds, GOP!

As to the identity of this congressmember, I'll reveal who it is in the form of a Jeopardy question.


This five time Jeopardy champion and rocket scientist represents a district in New Jersey.  Name him.

Who is Rep. Rush Holt?

We're proud to have people in our party with brains.   That's more than I can say for the GOP, with is proud of its Ignorance.is Strength image.

But Rep Holt played the Jeopardy exhibition match with Watson to underscore the importance of doing basic research and development, especially in technology.

"The purpose of the exhibition game was “to highlight the importance of technology… science and math education and research and development are vital to our nation so we can out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world,.” said Rep Holt. 

He's right.  If we are going to stay competitive as a nation in a 21st Century world in which China and India are coming for us and ratcheting up their education efforts, we can't compete with them by cutting investments in education as GOP governors around the country are doing to give tax breaks to the superrich and corporations..

Alan Grayson For DNC Chair!

When the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee comes open again, I would love to nominate Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) for the job.

Due to an avalanche of special interest money he was unfortunately defeated in his reelection bid,  but in no way should he step off the public stage.   He needs to be kept around in some capacity to teach inside the Beltway e GOP political abuse victim Democrats how to fracking fight for working class Americans and call the Republifools out on a regular basis..

Take notes I-495 Democrats.   Class is in session again.  This is how you politically pimp slap the GOP and win the soundbite and messaging wars.




If y'all had done more of that since 2007, you'd still have the House.

Rep. Alan Grayson, We're Gonna Miss You!

One of the people I was hoping and praying would win reelection in these midterms was Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL).

Next to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), he was one of the GOP's major targets in this election cycle because he is the living embodiment of what we want all I-495 Democrats to become.  

We want and desperately need liberals who not only ain't 'scurred' to say the word, but have the cojones to back it up with progressive action and call out Republican stupidity on a regular basis.

We need the Democrats to go back to being the Party of FDR, Truman, JFK and LBJ  and be no quarter pugnacious warriors for working class people.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about and what will be needed from the remaining Democrats in DC for the next two years as Rep Grayson explains from the US House floor how the superrich can spend their Paris Hilton Tax Cuts.