Scandal-hit Jefferson wins Louisiana runoff

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Jefferson, despite a current federal bribery investigation, wins re-election against a fellow democrat. Which makes me wonder two things, first how are the democrats going to deal with this, and second what type of primary system does Louisiana use that allows elections between two members of the same party? Just seems odd.

109th Congress winds down

Quite a bit of talk about how there was no annual budget set up so they're trying to iron out details to keep federal services working until February. The article pretty much says that Congress is leaving in disarray. Then there're a few other things too, but I guess you'll have to read it for those.

Kohl working for Wisconsin

I found this story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today. It talks about the recent jump of crime in Milwaukee, Wis. Bad news for Milwaukee, but at least our senator, Herb Kohl, is trying to get something done.

Senate approves Gates as defense secretary

Approved 95-2, but the two no votes were from Republicans who criticized Gates for wanting to talk to Iran, that is, diplomacy. Interesting.

Robert Lorge campaign

I wish Robert Lorge's campaign against Herb Kohl had had a little bit more press. If so, we would have been able to revel in gems such as these:

Cowboys

Astro Boy

Nuke Threat

Animals

Enjoy!

Bayh For President

Senator Evan Bayh, a democrat from Indiana has filled papers to form a presidential exploratory committee. The things going in faovor for him if he ran would be his heartland image, and moderate approach. I think this could be very important because it would be something different compared to strong possible candidates which he will be facing. His most likely strong opponents at this momemt would be Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, who are some what similar because they represent the liberal democrat states.