(As noted at American Prospect, Ohio's 15th district has had an increase in population. However, as a resident of the 15th congressional district, I can also state that there is more racial diversity in the district. The 15th was once a predominately white district, but now is more multicultural. That is a good thing!)
*An up-to-date list of the 145 Ohioans killed in Iraq can be found at http://icasualties.org/oif/USMap.aspx?hndState=Ohio
*Have you seen Kelly Croy's political cartoons? There is a cute one about dogs and Rudy Giuliani here.
(Poor little doggies will have nothing to fear, as long as Rudy and Judy stay out of the White House!)
* The Buckeye State Blog has an interesting bit of information on Republican Rep. John Boehner:
Dave Harding over at Progress Ohio had a great blog post this week about how hypocritical John Boehner was in the House debate regarding the supplemental military funding bill. Here's what the House Majority Leader said this week:
"We can look it up and we can walk out. We can walk out on Iraq just like we did in Lebanon, just like we did in Vietnam, just like we did in Somalia and we will leave chaos in our wake." (emphasis added.)
As David pointed out, John Boehner apparently was in favor of "mandatory surrender dates" before he was against him as he voted multiple times to speed up the timetable to bring the troops home from Somalia (House Roll Call Vote #179, 5/22/93 and House Roll Call Vote #555, 11/9/93) and voted against funding the war effort there. (House Roll Call Vote #188, 5/26/93)....
I see. Boehner was for troop withdrawal when there was a Democratic President, but against troop withdrawal when there is a Republican President. Hmmmm.
Yahoo News has an opinion piece by Ron Fournier that explains that Bush's pals, advisers, and appointees appear to be nincompoops (my word):
Alberto Gonzales and Paul Wolfowitz could be poster boys for what's wrong with politics today — cronyism, incompetence and a brazen lack of accountability that has voters craving change....
Are Gonzales, Wolfowitz, Goodling, Harriet Miers, 'Heckuva Job" Brownie, and others, all examples of the losers associated with this administration? They all seem to be completely incapable buffoons who are willing to blindly support Bush, even if it means that they break the law and destroy common decency.