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DCCC Targets Terry on the Economy

Via the DCCC Press team:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), chaired by Congressman Chris Van Hollen, today announced the DCCC is launching a Putting Families First ad and grassroots campaign in 28 targeted Republican districts. The ads focus on the Republicans out of step priorities by putting bank bail outs and building schools in Iraq before the needs of the Americans in the struggling economy. The Putting Families First ads begin airing on Tuesday morning during drive time and will run for a week.

Couldn't find the audio, but here's the text according to the release:

Did you know Congressman Lee Terry voted to bail out big banks, but opposed tax breaks for 95 percent of American workers? Times are tough, tell Lee Terry to put families first.

Yglesias on Nelson and the Stimulus

Thought I'd add this for discussion purposes:

The stimulus bill is huge. It's huge because the macroeconomic situation requires a huge stimulus. The stimulus bill is also multi-faceted. And it needs to be multifaceted because it's so huge. Targeted tax cuts can be good stimulus, but you can't do $850 billion of well-targeted tax cuts. Infrastructure can be good stimulus, but you can't do $850 billion of good infrastructure projects. Long story short, the grab-bag character of the stimulus is a feature rather than a bug.

You can read the whole post here.

H/T to Neal Obermeyer who posted this at Nealo.com.

LJS Calls for Repeal of the Death Penalty

Awesome.

A more stark example of how dramatically and utterly wrong the justice system can be could hardly be imagined. Of all the problems with the death penalty, including the reality that it is handed out in arbitrary fashion depending on a defendant’s ability to hire a top attorney, the possibility of executing an innocent person is by far the most consequential.

This year, the Legislature has the opportunity to abolish the death penalty in Nebraska by passing LB306, introduced by Sen. Brenda Council of Omaha.

Senators, vote the bill into law.

Surely Nebraskans do not want the death of an innocent person on their conscience.

Anti-Choice Rally Draws 4K in Lincoln

...MSNBC reports.

As much as I disagree with him, I have to commend them for organizing.