Kathy in IN posted over the weekend, how distressed and discouraged the Dems in IN were, that there are only 4 Dems running for office, and 45 un-contested seats in her area.

Somehow, we have to help these states encourage Dems to run.

This is so clearly stated, it makes my heart sing. Look for Plain Talk in the West. We all need to learn plain talk - not talk down or talk that leaves anything out, just plain statements of truth, with subject, verb, object. I love this guy Gary Trauner and his web site. He gives me hope because the he shows the best way to get the message out is to tell the truth and explain the rules. Explain the Constitution, our rules, and explain how the people running the government now are breaking the rules and thus breaking faith with Americans. Or as Howard Dean, Mr. Plain Speaker says,

"In our nation, the people are sovereign, not the government. It is the people, not the media or the financial system or mega-corporations or the two political parties, who have the power to create change." - Howard Dean

Here's Gary Trauner:

"Folks, the words “trust me” are nowhere to be found in the Constitution of the United States of America! Our founding fathers didn’t even trust themselves with power – that is why they wrote checks and balances into the law of the land. The President is not a king. No one, not even the President, is above the law. We are a nation of laws, not men, and we put everything we have built at risk if we ignore that."

Is the DNC helping campaigns with web sites? There are so many great sites for Dems this time.

It is so nice to see Wyoming hard at work. It would give me great pleasure to see Wyoming turn blue.

Gary Trauner is our man in 2006. He's home grown, he's articulate (something Barbara Cubin has never been), and he makes me proud to be a Wyoming Democrat. His web site is crammed full of common sense. What a breath of fresh air. If you want to help take back the house this year, jump on his web site and send him some money. I plan to max out my contribution this year! Go Gary!

Is someone talking to the folks on the Wind River Reservation to get them to spread the word?

Wyoming needs to turn blue. Wyoming is down there with West Virginia as far as abuses by the mining and petroleum industries go. A lot of former Republicans are getting fed up.
We hear a lot about this in Montana, because the mining industry keeps holding up Wyoming as the perfect example of how Montana voters should "behave" in regards to mining regulations.
Our reply was electing Brian Schwitzer as govenor.

Why hasn't there been more discussion on the colossal weakness of the reasons for going to war in Iraq? I understand the pivotal document in the proported yellowcake purchase contract had an obvious forgery of a high Niger official who had been out of office for more than a year when the fake contract was created. Any modestly qualified business clerk would have discovered such a phoney document; why did anyone in our government give it any credibility?

A colossal weakness? Heck, it's outright and provable lying. It's also the one of the many reasons that Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet. Lot's of people now know Bush lied and people died.
The problem, however is that until the Republicans loose control of the Congress, there will be jack done about it. The Republicans keep goose-stepping along with the adninmistration and will never investigate (impeach) anyone in the uBush administration.
We need to win this legislative election with enough margin to not only get a majority, but to shake the moderate Republicans and the Republi-lite turn-coats in the Democrat party loose from their "Let's go along with the Bushies" stand, so we can get something done about it.

Brian:
If you think that all I've talked about is impeaching Bush, you haven't been paying attention. But that's OK, answering you may be as effective as dripping water on a rock, but hopefully, somebody will get all this:

As I have said before, impeaching Bush is the start. This administration has been the most secretive, and agressive in attacking critics of any administration ever. We need to find out what is going on that they are hiding, before we get into too many detailed plans, in those areas.

For a start, though, and I have said this before too, we need to tax the rich, and take the burden off the working people.

We need to restore proper funding for the Veterans' Administration and keep the promises which have been made to the military personnel, particularly to the young men and women who are currently serving this country and then getting shafted for it. We need to do away with targeted pay raises for these kids.

We need to re-negotiate the "Free" trade agreements which has cost not only our working people, but working people around the world so dearly.

We need to curb the multi-national corporations and their corrupting lobbyists, and clean up our government.

We need to find an honorable way to get out of the immoral morass that we are in in Iraq.

We need to repair the infrastructure of this country which the rich multi-nationals demand to use, but refuse to pay taxes to maintain.

We need to adopt fiscal responsibility and try to get the national debt under control, but NOT on the backs of the poor and the workers.

We need to do away with government subsidies for rich, profitable mega-corporations, especially in the fields of agriculture and petroleum. The family farmer has been the backbone of this country for generations, they need our help now.

The elected officials need to listen to the people of this country and not to the rich and greedy.

All this would be a good start. A lot of it is intermeshed. And a lot of this mess that this country's in is because of under the table deals that the Bush administration and the leading Republicans have cut. We need to know about and deal with those betrayals of the American people as a first step in repairing this country.

Yeah thinking of role models like good ole Limbaugh make me really wonder how anyone could even consider voting "R"

How about the Air National Guard deserter who now happens to be our fearful leader?
Or is that our care-less leader, because he sure cares less about what happens to the kids he is sending over to Iraq once they've signed the contract because they believed his false promises of decent pay and benefits, and Veterans' benefits if they are disabled.