To say that this has been a banner three days for Eclectablog would be an understatement. Since I posted my entry on Rachel Maddow on Sunday afternoon, this blog has had 6,883 hits. That’s a bit more than a quarter of all the traffic it’s gotten since I started it in July 2008. Nearly half of the traffic this blog […]

You could write a book about what’s already happened in the race to be the next governor in Michigan. But the fun never stops. Last week the former state treasurer under Democratic governor Jim Blanchard, a man by the name of Robert Bowman, got into the race that currently only has two Democratic candidates (Rep. Alma Wheeler-Smith and Lansing Mayor […]

Dang it. I’m just sayin’…

Jumping Hay Zooz on a pogo stick. Open Left spells it out. First the Republicans DEMANDED that President Obama put any health care plans up for discussion at the February 25th summit online for everyone to read. If the President intends to present any kind of legislative proposal at this discussion, will he make it available to members of Congress […]

Heh, heh… “I don’t owe [John McCain] shit,” Wurzelbacher continued. “He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.” Uh, Joe Sam? I think you have that backwards. I ran into Joe the Plumber Sam Wurzelbacher at the Brighton, Michigan Teabagger extravaganza last year. And, as far as who was using who, I’d say Mr. Plumber Wurzelbacher […]

Wahoo! 1,010 hits and it’s not midnight yet. I’d like to thank my mom and my wife and Rachel Maddow and Reddit and… I’m just sayin’… ===============UPDATE: Final count is… 2,163! Wow.

Rachel Maddow has been on FIRE this week. I’ve been a fan of hers since I started listening to her Air America podcasts three years ago. Smart. Funny. Brilliant. Incisive. Genius. Awesome. All of these words describe her well. When she’s on a panel, she’s the smartest person there. When she’s on the radio, she has no peer. When she’s […]

Happy Valentines Day. Appropriately represented by my wife’s awesome photo ;) Pucker up!Originally uploaded by Ånne

Sopranos on DVD, popcorn and martinis. Happy Saturday ;) I’m just sayin’…

How do you motivate a Republican whose Congressional seat is being threatened? Well, if you’re Incumbent Retention Czar Mike Rogers (MI-08), head of the NRCC’s “Patriot Program”, you give ’em a colonial soldier bobblehead. I’m totally not kidding. Rogers uses not just the stick, but also the carrot. Make that the bobblehead. He gives a Colonial soldier bobblehead doll to […]

As you know by now, David Plouffe is back in action with the administration and Organizing for America (OFA). Evidence of this came in my email this morning. I got this message from OFA today and it’s proof-positive (to me) that Plouffe is back at the helm: As we head into an election year, the new strategy for killing reform […]