He didn't ask her, "Will you vote for me?" That is a very different question.

Molly endorses Chris Bell

The Texas Fighting Dems were not amused.

More - with podcast linky goodness - in the extended.

While the article is basically about Reed and his lobby troubles, the narrative manages to bring in connections to Rep Michael McCaul, staff members in Lt Gov Dewhurst's office, Channel One, eLottery, Norquist, Laura Bush etc etc. Lots of threads to follow and stuff to chew on. And this nice graphic...

Band of Brothers sound familiar? Rick and his three brothers all served in VietNam at the same time, the only four brothers to do so. LBJ recognized them for their service as did the Texas Lege in the recent session. Active in both Democratic and veterans affairs, Rick is a strong candidate to take on former news talking head and DeLay rubberstamp Henry Bonilla.

Announcement @ 1 today in San Antonio, Omni Hotel, 9821 Colonnade. Be there.

Energy

Radnofsky: Promote a national policy of energy independence
Hutchison: Who Loves Ya, Baby: Liberal tax incentives for Big Oil campaign donors, foreign energy dependence

Ethics, Honesty, and Corruption

Radnofsky: Work for transparency, honesty, and integrity in government
Hutchison: Birds of a feather: Scandal and corruption

Veterans

Radnofsky: Honor our promises, stand by those who stood by us
Hutchison: Hawk Abroad, Chicken at Home: Deserting our veterans

Immigration

Radnofsky: Fairness and effectiveness
Hutchison: Barney Fife at the Border: Wacky, expensive, unworkable

The full gory detail after the flip...

Tough Name, Smart Dame

Dallas--November 15: SMU Young Democrats host Barbara Ann Radnofsky, mediator, educator, lawyer, and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006 from Texas as she officially announces her candidacy on Tuesday, November 15, 3140 Dyer Street, SMU Student Center, Hughes-Trigg Theatre, Dallas, from Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Fort Worth--November 16: Radnofsky will officially announce her candidacy on Wednesday, November 16, at the Fort Worth Club, 11th Floor Library, 306 W. 7th Street at 11:30 a.m.

Radnofsky will be available for media interviews in both English and Spanish.

Campaign and Media Contact: Robert Andrews, 512-567-6518, randrews6@austin.rr.com

A press kit is available on-line at www.radnofsky.com, on the right-hand side of the page. Campaign travel/blog are at "rad-note-skys" http://radnofsky.com/...

But the way things are going, shouldn't we perhaps let DeLay pick his own jury? He'd go for that. I mean, why should he have to put up with the mercurial nature of the general public?

Here are some criteria that I think DeLay would like to use to choose who will sit in judgment of him:

Each juror should own his own riding lawn mower.

Each juror should have a Botoxed wife who has a membership at the golf course and turns up the air conditioner high so she can wear furs in the summer.

More below

The gist:

In a letter delivered to the House leadership on Tuesday, 25 GOP lawmakers requested that the refuge drilling approval be removed from the budget bill that is designed to help defray the costs of hurricane relief.

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House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., conceded Tuesday that the budget measure would fail if all the GOP lawmakers who opposed drilling vote against it.

Don't know how much more insight I can add to that, whether speculation on Bush's power swirling the drain, ANWR becoming a third rail in politics, etc, so I'll just say this is a welcome development.

Scary!!!!!!

Radnofsky insists, "Lying to a grand jury is a crime."

Whole press release below

Texas Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Barbara Ann Radnofsky called on her Republican opponent to resign if she tolerates perjury. "No elected official should tolerate or excuse perjury. I call on Kay Bailey Hutchison to renounce perjury. She should resign if she tolerates it," Radnofsky said.

On October 23, Kay Bailey Hutchison said in televised comments concerning the Plame investigation that, "I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime..."

Brutal

Not a single state has a higher 'right direction' rating.

Overall, 29% say 'right' and 66% say 'wrong'

56% of regular church going Texans say 'wrong direction' compared to 43% in the summer.

Texas Democrats have dropped from 21% saying 'right direction' to only 10%.

Texas liberals buck the trend, going from 12% 'right direction' to 15% 'right direction.' I was confused, but then I agreed. Muricans are waking up, and that is a step in the right direction.

They have a long term strategy that meshes with the 'build the farm team' concept Dean has pushed. It is well documented that governors are the most likely candidates to become president, so CNM wants to work towards having as many strong Democratic governors as possible, so that we have lots of good presidential candidates and not just blowhards like Joe Biden.

Hybrids increase efficiency by capturing energy wasted when a vehicle brakes. That's great in the city, but not very useful on the highway. Plug-in hybrids can further reduce oil usage by 'tanking up' on electricity when not in use, but have long range capabilities through their gas powered engine.

That's great for commuters, but not feasible for transport of goods. Trucks would need massive batteries for pure electric and do their miles on the highway so hybrid technology is no benefit.

The Aggies have a solution.

GOTV kids.

Newman grew up in Shaker Heights, a eastern suburb of Cleveland, so this morning he came to speak to the ACT volunteers in Cleveland Heights and then went door to door in Shaker Heights to canvas with other ACT volunteers.

My wife is really really jealous.

[Ed] - Pic below the fold.