The Funny Papers

Nick Anderson, John Cole, Bill Day, Clay Bennett, Nate Beeler, Scott Stantis, Dave Whamond, Mike Luckovich, Steve Breen, David Horsey, Jim Morin

The Funny Papers

Nick Anderson, Steve Breen, Clay Bennett, Michael de Adder, Jim Morin, Mike Thompson, Bill Bramhall, Jack Ohman, David Horsey, Kevin Siers, Steve Sack

The Funny Papers

Jack Ohman, Nate Beeler, David Horsey, Ben Jennings, Michael de Adder, Nick Anderson, Ed Wexler, Mike Luckovich, John Cole, JD Crowe, Clay Bennett

South Carolina Could See A Blue Change

In good news for the state, but bad news for Lindsey Graham, his Democratic challenger for US Senate, Jaime Harrison, has been rising in the polls and raising all kinds of money.

To be fair, it’s still kind of a longshot, but … Graham is trending downward and has an historically low approval rating for an incumbent: 35%. In addition, some 58% of South Carolinians say they want someone other than Graham representing them in the Senate. 

Why? Well, maybe it’s because Lindsey Graham backs _____’s trade war 100%, even though he admits that South Carolina businesses will get hurt, and then told those owners to “accept the pain”.

Lindsey Graham defended _____ immediately after mass layoffs at Chemical manufacturer Archroma U.S., Inc. caused by _____’s multiple trade wars.

And while South Carolina is dependent on export income for soybeans, corn, and cotton, and while farming bankruptcies are skyrocketing, Lindsey Graham has done nothing to help.

This past week, Lindsey Graham angered his fellow senators when he pitched a letter pledging total fealty to _____, and promising that the GOP caucus won’t vote to remove him, no matter what crimes might be uncovered. 

But this is about Jaime Harrison, the complete opposite of Graham: the former chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, the first black man to hold that position, Harrison is a Yale-educated attorney who taught high school. He is the son of a single teenage mom, raised by his grandparents so he knows the struggle those who live in poverty; he knows what it’s like for a family to have to choose between paying the electric bill and putting food on the table. Living in a poorer area, he’s seen what happens when a rural hospital closes, or coverage for pre-existing conditions is threatened, the health of all South Carolinians is put at risk.

That’s who he is, and this is how that’s working out for him; he now trails Miss Lindsey by just seven points, but he’s also bringing in money; this quarter, Harrison raised $2.1 million, the largest amount a Democratic Senate candidate has ever raised in South Carolina, and that breaks the previous record of $1.5 million, set by … Jaime Harrison in the last quarter. More importantly, completely unlike Miss Lindsey and her big checks from corporations and the 1% and Russian oligarchs, most of Harrison’s funding comes from small donors with over 60,000 donors giving an average donation of $26.

It’s the people supporting Harrison. But we have work to do down here if we want to send Miss Lindsey home permanently.

Look! Up in the sky! It's a plane: 57 Anti-Equality GOP Members of the House

Well, well, well, color me not surprised at all.

It seems that 57 Republican members of Congress — including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Never-Gonna-Be-President Ted Cruz — have decided to team up and urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold state bans on same-sex marriage because, you know, The Gays.

These 57 Asshats even bring up the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade — seriously, they use an abortion argument in a same-sex marriage argument — saying the nationwide ruling on abortion was “widely criticized” for departing from incremental change. Oh, so Roe v Wade was criticized, and so will a pro-marriage equality decision, so, yeah, don’t do that. Sound argument.

Check to see who signed it and, well, maybe let them know that this is the 21st century, not the 19th, and it's time to move on; I’ll remember, Tim Scott of South Carolina.

On the upside, the Teabaggers are furious with the hundreds of Republicans who didn't sign.

via Washington Blade

Filed Under: Please Let It Come To Be

It looks like openly gay Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat from Wisconsin, will very likely run for the US Senate seat now occupied by Senator Herb Kohl, who has said he will not seek reelection in 2012. 

If Baldwin runs and wins, she would become the nation’s first openly LGBT member of the US senate. Seriously? The first? How is this 2011 and we have no openly gay senators in this country?

Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund:
“This would obviously be a top priority for us. Tammy Baldwin has been an outstanding congresswoman, and she’d be an outstanding senator. This would be a remarkable milestone for LGBT Americans. Congresswoman Baldwin is one of the most admired public officials I know. She would have the strong support of those who want to see our economy work for all Americans, and who believe that all voices deserve a place at the table.”

Yes, all voices deserve to be heard.

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