I had an ominous dream last night in which I was watching the results of the midterm elections fill out on CNN. While we won four seats in the Senate, we only won six in the House. And it was entirely believable.

My dreams often come terrifyingly close to reflecting reality, and this one was very realistic. It even had Fox News spouting bullshit about some "Republican Rally" in the last week of October. Everyone was talking about what a victory it was, but I couldn't help thinking about how meager a margin that would be after six years of Bush's shit.

I hope this doesn't come to fruition. We need to throw everything we've got at the GOP in these last few weeks.

In an incredibly rare and overt moment for the mainstream media, Lou Dobbs absolutely eviscerates the Bush administration's "free trade" policies:

Yesterday I responded to Chris Bowers' entry regarding a potential Al Gore candidacy for president in 2008. In his rant, Bowers made the flimsy case that Gore is supposedly too unpopular, too lackluster a candidate to win the White House. Significantly, he based his entire piece on data that is more than three years old, roughly equivalent to a century when converted to media cycles.

We now see that the lines have been drawn--not by the grassroots but by those who inform them, and it is apparent that 2008 will indeed be Hillary Clinton vs Someone Else. But I believe, as a Democrat, that this potential civil war is entirely beside the point. My fervent advocation of an Al Gore presidency has nothing to do with stopping Hillary Clinton, as Bowers and Kos have pitifully attempted to illustrate. No, I have an entirely and siginficantly more important reason for endorsing Gore.

For me, this ain't about Hillary. This is about America.

I'm not a big fan of Hillary Clinton, but Good Christ, what a bunch of fucking sissies.

Surprise, surprise. The equivalent of the Catholic Church's old boys' establishment candidate is the new pope.

Edit: Sorry for the double entry--I posted this right after someone else did.

From good ole Faux News itself (ignore the "slightly").

"The number who think the country is headed down the wrong track increased from 51 percent to 58 percent in the past month."

The Republicans are preparing for a massive personal attack against Howard Dean after he becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee. This is obviously an attempt to discredit the Democratic party as being "out of touch," which we all know is ridiculous bullshit.

While Howard prepares for this onslaught, we must help him by writing letters to local newspapers.

Get the good word out about Dean as soon as you can.

I apologize for the link-whoring and brevity of this post, but I feel that is important to spread the word considering what the Republican Noise Machine has done to Democrats before.

From Hardball with Chris Matthews:

Matthews: Wait a minute. When you say--Judy, when you say administration, do you mean the alliance party leadership or Allawi over there, the current prime minister? Who are you talking about?

Miller: We are talking about the administration officials who have been reaching out to ...

Matthews: You mean Americans? [Italics in the MSNBC transcript.]

Miller: ... [Ayatollah] Sistani's--yes, American officials who have been reaching out to Sistani's party. Because Dr. Chalabi is on that list.

Matthews: So where--so we have an election over there. And the same day we're holding an election, the same week, we are plotting which ministries to give to Chalabi, the guy who talked us into the war in the first place.

To those who speak those words--"get over it"--I say this:

Is that what you're going to tell the mothers of our soldiers?

I am very alarmed that BlogPAC, in its effort to combat destruction of Social Security, has once again played into the hands of the Republicans in creating a weak motto like "There is no crisis."

This is absolutely the wrong path to be taking. And it is absolutely what the enemy wants us to do.