Tonight On The Randi Rhodes Show

Jess and I were watching American Idol late last night on our DVR and just as Ryan said “And the Winner of American Idol by 12 Million votes is David…” the DVR had stopped recording. Jess screamed so loud I thought something bit her! Like crazy people we ran to my computer to look it up! The winner was David Cook thank GOD or there would be no consoling either one of us.

So I’m hoping that since the 20 somethings are becoming involved in politics this year maybe Election Night will have THAT kind of excitement too!? I AM a sunny optimist eh? Well, this IS America and anything is possible. Could it be that we want it ALL this year? Idol and politcs? Liberty AND security, Church AND State, Obama AND Clinton?

What do you think of the Dream Ticket now? Yes? No? Maybe?

There will be an important meeting of the DNC Rules Committee on May 31st to try to find an acceptable conclusion to the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan. About a dozen of the committee members have endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton; eight have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Two members work for the Clinton campaign, including strategist Harold Ickes. The two chairmen—Alexis Herman and James Roosevelt Jr.–are neutral, but Herman served in the Clinton White House. OUCH.

For those who still don’t know what happened in each state…

FLORIDA:
In Florida’s State Legislature Republicans outnumber Democrats 2 to 1 and we have a Republican Governor. Keeping that in mind here’s what happened. Democrats wanted a piece of legislation to give voters a paper trail because we vote into BLACK BOXES. Republicans agreed to take up the legislation and then added in the new date for Florida’s Democratic Primary. In addition they added a long trail of new voting regulations that most Democrats were against. Democrats tried to amend that bill to prevent these items from being attached to the paper trail bill, but it failed by 2 to 1 and the Republican version passed with the new Florida primary date which violated DNC rules. The Governor signed the bill into law in 2007 and declared VICTORY for Floridians desperate to get their votes COUNTED. Ahahahahaha. Very funny.

MICHIGAN:
Moving the Michigan Primary up was the brain child of Senator Carl Levin. He was warned in 2004 by then DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe that if Michigan held their primary before Super Tuesday they would only get half their delegation seated. The same rules are in place in 2008, but the Michigan Democrats moved it up and of course the penalty for doing so was clear.

In order to show Party Unity, Hillary, Barack and John Edwards all signed a pledge which said they would not PARTICPATE in any way in the Florida and Michigan Primaries. The reason that their names were on the ballot in Florida is simply because in Florida State law says if you want your name removed from the ballot you must swear that you are no longer running for office. That was not the case, and so Obama, Clinton and Edwards were on the ballot on Primary Day.

Michigan was different. A candidate could move to have their name taken off the ballot. Obama honored his pledge as did Edwards and had their names removed, while Clinton chose to violate the contract she signed. She now claims that she was right to violate her pledge and that Obama was simply being a politician.

Edwards, Clinton and Obama each signed the following pledge:

I _______________, Democratic Candidate for President, pledge I shall not campaign or participate in any state which schedules a presidential election primary or caucus before Feb. 5, 2008, except for the states of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as “campaigning” is defined by rules and regulations of the DNC.

SO WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS? There are quite a few but after all of the primaries are said and done however, none of them will help Hillary secure a majority of pledged delegates. But that’s not stopping her from parading through Florida invoking the 2000 Election.

Meanwhile OUR LIVES go on and the COST OF LIVING IS KILLING US ALL!

The price of gas literally CHANGED before my eyes yesterday. While I was pumping the price changed from $3.45 to 3.71 a gallon! The GOP talking points? We should stop blaming oil companies and blame President Clinton for not building refineries and for not drilling in ANWAR? What? How long has Bush been President? How many years did he have a Republican MAJORITY? FREAKS.

Price per barrel yesterday? $139! Are we really going to see $200 per barrel crude prices? MAN. Here’s a thought. If the price of materials goes up surely the price of the product goes up. But HOW DO PROFITS increase if the cost of materials and price go up equally? Profits should remain the SAME.

THE PSYCHO PASTORS PARADE OF FOOLS MARCHES ON! Grandpa McCains’ favorite PSYCHO Pastor John Hagee now claims that GOD planned the Holocost…Crazy Hagee Video Below

And a new Zogby Poll has Obama beating Grandpa 47-37 in the General. Obama also leads McCain among Catholics, Jews, union households, and voters making less than $35,000 a year.

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HOMEWORK

FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN

DNC Rules Committee lay out the format for the May 31 hearing to decide how to seat Florida and Michigan. About a dozen of the committee members have endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton; eight have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Two members work for the Clinton campaign, including strategist Harold Ickes. The two chairmen—Alexis Herman and James Roosevelt Jr.–are neutral, but Herman served in the Clinton White House.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/21/d…ns/?mod=WSJBlog

Why did Floridians vote if they knew that their vote in the Presidential Primary wouldn’t count? There were several important State races on the ballots and a Property Tax question. Democratic Floridians are desperately trying to take back the State Legislature so they voted.
http://www.fladems.com/page/content/makeitcount-faqs/#q17

FLASHBACK 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…7100801511.html

SO WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS? There are quite a few but after all of the primaries are said and done however, none of them will help Hillary secure a majority of pledged delegates.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article…EWS07/805220382

HILLARY

Even with Florida and Michigan as is, Hillary can’t save her campaign from failure
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/16/…in4102589.shtml

The hearing is open to the public and will be held in Washington DC
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/05/rbc_meeting_inf.php

Clinton is in Florida invoking the 2000 Florida election mess
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05…s-2000-recount/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…8052001571.html

Will Hillary pull a Lieberman and run as an Independent? You tell me. Here are the State deadlines for getting on the ballot as an Independent
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2008pdates.pdf

OBAMA

Barack is 64 delegates from the nomination and is in Florida today
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obam…b052108.article

Obama receives endorsement of United Mine Workers of America – Can anyone say WEST VIRGINIA?
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politi…workers_en.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0107-06.htm

Obama and the White Vote – KNOW THE FACTS

Bill Clinton lost the “white male vote” in 1996, by a 49 percent to 38 percent margin, but he still won 70 percent of the electoral votes. Al Gore lost white men by a much wider margin, but still won the popular vote “by half a million.”
http://www.theweekdaily.com/news_opinion/u…hite_votes.html

STATES OBAMA WON WITH LARGE WHITE POPULATIONS

Oregon 86% WHITE
Iowa 93%
Missouri 84%
Alaska 69%
Connecticut 80%
North Dakota 91%
Vermont 96%
Wyoming 92%
Idaho 93%
Maine: 74%

THE GENERAL ELECTION

Latest Zogby Poll

OBAMA beats McCAIN 47-37
Despite losing four of the last six primaries over the last month to Hillary Clinton, Obama also leads McCain among some groups he has been losing to Clinton: Catholics, Jews, union households, and voters making less than $35,000 a year.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1511

McCain vs. Obama – what makes them so different? Go behind the numbers:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/

THE DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS

There are two John McCain’s
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/21/l…o-john-mccains/

McCain’s psycho Pastor Hagee now says that Hitler was fulfilling God’s will. Oh yes, God planed the Holocost. Quoting Jeramiah, Hagee informs us that God sent Hunters to Hunt the Jews and that’s exactly what Hitler did. He warned that if we are offended, too bad. CONDEMNATION WEDNESDAY? REPUDIATION THURSDAY?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24765469/

CRAZY HAGEE VIDEO
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/21/h…ling-gods-will/

THE ECONOMY

Gas prices continue to rise

Price per barrel yesterday? $139!
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds…afx5037883.html

Higher oil prices stump experts. WATCH VIDEO
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…8052100386.html

Top Oil Executives go before Senate Judiciary Committee. WATCH VIDEO

Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said Exxon’s annual profits increased from $11.5 billion to $40.6 billion in the past five years and there was no explanation for “why profits have gone up so high when the consumer is suffering so much.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/business…l-congress.html

American Airlines now has to charge passengers to check a bag because of the cost of OIL and travelers are FURIOUS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24761872#24761872

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

Senator SMEARS VoteVets Ad. VIDEO
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/21/s…-smearing-vets/

BUSH

Israel in talks with Syria – against Bush’s wishes
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/washington/22assess.html

Bush family Planning Appointee Resigns – called contraceptive “Culture of Death”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/21/orr-resign/

While all three candidates are in FL today, Cuba remains an issue on the campaign trail
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…8052100621.html