The voice of reason: What's going on in Washington

Our blogging leader, Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, was on the tube Sunday morning, and I'm just catching up. Here's his take on where we are, and like Paul Krugman in the NY Times, he thinks the filibuster has to go/change.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/21/817344/-Markos-on-Meet-the-Press

Joe Garcia endorsed by Kos/Blue Majority

This was another strong development for the Democratic surge in South Florida: The Kos of DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas, endorsed Joe Garcia for the U.S. House in Florida’s District 25, which puts Garcia up on the Blue Majority top tier of endorsed candidates in the nation.

Not long ago it was Democracy for America urging his election. More recently it was the DCCC – Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – publicly offering strong support for him in a letter signed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four of her top colleagues in the House Democratic leadership. That was a roll, and it extended, too, to Raul Martinez’ candidacy in District 21 against Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Annette Taddeo’s challenge to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in District 18. They are included, too, in the Blue Majority/Kos endorsement as "sister districts."

My friends, we’re looking at sweep city now in Miami-Dade County. But it won’t happen without our whole-hearted work and donations. And it won’t happen if the Miami Herald is correct in predicting that a quarter of Democratic voters might stay home in November because of the early-primary fiasco. I know, they had a poll saying it – not exactly a prediction – but somehow the poll was bogus. I mean, are there really so many small-minded people out there that they’d withhold their vote because the Republicans connived to have that primary too early. The question was a little loaded, I think. Another in that category is their poll saying that Florida Democrats aren't going to vote for John McWar -- McCain, I mean -- even if he picks Charlie Crist for vice president. Who's dumb enough to pay a pollster to ask that question?

So I urge you now to do what I did: romp over to that Kos diary and click on the link to donate to Joe Garcia’s campaign. And while you’re feeling generous, remember Raul Martinez and Annette Taddeo, too.

Surf's up: Joe Garcia wave hits Kos of DailyKos

The Draft Joe Garcia movement got a nice boost today from DailyKos. Markos Moulitsas -- Kos himself -- wrote a post about the movement and opined that Joe would get into the race for the U.S. House in District 25. Here's a link to the post.

The comments there are an interesting spectrum, and if you scroll down pretty far you'll see what I put up late in the day, to quote it:

It's great to see Kos taking the lead on Draft Garcia. We progressives in South Florida have been ignored by national media for a couple decades. The 2008 election cycle will be different. DailyKos will be watching. Swing State Project is watching. Maybe even the Miami Herald will pay attention to congressional races for a change. I put down $5 (may have done it twice accidentally) for Joe Garcia, and why don't a lot of you do the same thing, too?!

Re our party demographics in Miami-Dade County:
Current figures on www.miamidade.gov/elections show a total of 1,071,350 registered voters
Democrats 451,820
Republicans 359,743
No party affil. 214,787

So it's a travesty of gerrymandering that we have three Republican members of the US House and two Democrats instead of the other way around -- or even all five Democrats.

This is the year for Democrats around the country to pile on to help us in Miami-Dade and create a landslide.

* [new] It's great to see Kos by Larry Thorson, Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 11:02:50 PM EST (0 / 0)