[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Republican contenders for John Doolittle's seat exchanged barbs at an Auburn forum yesterday."McClintock accused Ose of being a champion of pork-barrel 'earmarks'during three terms in Congress representing Sacramento's neighboring3rd District. Ose depicted McClintock as a career politician helpinghimself to regular pay raises and legislative financial perks."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sparring with the Pentagon to allow domestic partners of members of Congress to travel on military flights. Pelosi intervenedwith Defense Secretary Robert Gates to allow Rep. Tammy Baldwin'sdomestic partner (D-WI) to travel on a congressional fact-finding tripto Europe.

The Speaker has also taken a stand in advising President Bush to consider boycotting the opening of the Beijing Olympics. "[Pelosi] said she regrets that China ishosting the Olympics but she is not advocating a U.S. boycott of thegames."

There's more...

 Image courtesy Sacbee.com

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

How's the tension at your favorite national blog community? Take a break from all the nastiness and drop by your favorite state blog for a change. Look in on our statewide and local races.....just stay away from the presidential primary threads. They bring a whole new meaning to March madness! Here are a few posts from last week and the roundup for March 14, 2008, over the flip...

Illinois
   Barack Obama's ad endorsing Bill Foster for Denny Hastert's abandoned seat in the 14th District caps an exciting week of new endorsements and good news in the polls

Wisconsin
   mal contends argues that as a superdelegate, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin should reject Hillary's burn-down-the-house strategy and throw her support to Obama

Indiana
   7th District special election news includes coverage of the latest debate

by Kevin Shaw [courtesy of Blog for America]

Please visit   WexlerWantsHearings.com and sign the petition.

The following is a message from Representative Robert Wexler originally posted on Crooks and Liars: 

The tremendous response to my call for impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney confirms that the Bush Administration and Vice President Cheney must be held accountable. I have been overwhelmed by the netroots support for my call for impeachment hearings and for my website - WexlerWantsHearings.com. As of Monday afternoon - after only four days - over 80,000 people have signed up to show their support for impeachment hearings.

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by David Reiter [courtesy of Blog for America]

50,000 PETITION SIGNATURES NEEDED TO COUNTERACT NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT
      

Rep. Robert Wexler (FL-19) and two other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee - Luis Gutierrez (IL-04) and Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) - today called on the committee to begin impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney.

They declared, "The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unneccesary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings."

The three Democrats wrote an op-ed to announce their position, but none of the nation's leading newspapers would publish it - just as they refuse to include impeachment in their polls, and just as they refuse to publish their own investigations of the crimes of the Bush Administration. Why? Because the Corporate Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party, as it has been since the Reagan Revolution of 1980.