If you are a registered Democrat, living in New York State and believe that Bush and Cheney deserve to be impeached, this may be your last, best chance to get action. Adam Sullivan is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler for the right to represent the people of New York's 8th Congressional District.

Michael Moore wrote the following about Hillary Clinton in a letter to his mailing list today:

You and Joe have been Bush's biggest Democratic supporters of the war. Last night's voter revolt took place just a few miles from your home in Chappaqua. Did you hear the noise? Can you read the writing on the wall?

Abraham Lincoln was reputed to have once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time." And that certainly seems to have been Senator Hillary Clinton's intention with her scripted, stage managed dressing down of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week.

Today, Jonathan Tasini will be delivering to the New York State board of elections in Albany, two to three times the number of signatures needed to qualify as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate primary in September. New York Democrats now have a real political choice between two competing visions for the future of the party: one with backbone and devotion to core principles and another based upon spin, polls, triangulation and the pursuit of power for its own sake.

Anti-war activist and Gold Star Mother, Cindy Sheehan spoke on Jonathan's behalf last night at Exhale, a downtown New York City pub that was once the home of Monroe administration Vice-President Daniel D. Tompkins. Sheehan recounted the details of a forty-five minute meeting with Hillary Clinton where she "poured out her heart" to New York's junior senator, pleaded with her to take a stand against the war in Iraq and consider how she would feel if her own daughter had been sent to die in combat in a foreign land. At the meeting's conclusion, Mrs. Clinton told Sheehan that they would both have to do what they thought necessary and that she believed that the war would have to be seen through until, "the mission was completed." Sheehan told the crowd at Exhale that such a statement was "straight out of the Republican playbook" and asked rhetorically "what the mission was" in Iraq at this point.

The past two weeks have been a heck of a ride for Hillary Clinton's Democratic senate primary challenger both figuratively and literally.

Thank you Susan. Thank you for having the courage to stand up for a candidate that you believe in even though his campaign is clearly a longshot.

Last Friday, NY's junior senator informed a Republican leaning audience at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's annual convention that America's young adults, "think work is a four letter word."

Come on now. Let's have it. Let me hear all the exuses fellow Democrats have been making for a woman who is rapidly beginning to resemble Phyllis Schlafly a hell of a lot more than Eleanor Roosevelt. Let me hear how smart she is for tacking to the right and acknowledging the (supposed) electoral realities rather than having the courage to use her enormous stature to LEAD America away from the path of right-wing devastation.

How dare she. How dare she question the work ethic of young people who are busting their tails waiting tables, bagging groceries and doing hundreds of other menial,low paid tasks and, most of whom, undoubtedly have plans to WORK their way into a better future. This is shameless and unnecessary pandering that borders on the obscene. Democrats should be reaching out with both hands to our debt laden young people by giving them reasons to get active in Democratic party politics and to vote for us.