Hey all – enjoy this clip from last week’s appearance* on Russia Today. It’s long, so if you want to skip to our piece, fast forward to minute 47:00 – 58:08.

*Check out the crazy hairstyles the awesome makeup woman gave us before the show!

This morning, NPR’s Allison Keyes profiled the effort by Democratic candidates to secure the female vote. This is an interesting piece and one that should garner lots of attention. The female vote will be the key to the presidency in 2008.

Harry Reid (D-NV) is planning to have an all-night Senate session to force an Iraq withdrawal vote. Bob Geiger has more.

(AKA King George) has defied the American people, the Congress and the world and has vetoed the Iraq supplemental spending bill which would give American troops on the battlefield much needed equipment and support.

to Moveon’s Virtual Town Hall on Iraq happening right now. You’ve got a whole lot of presidential candidates and thousands of listeners around the country. Check it out.

I can’t tell you how damn good it feels to be on the right side of history.

Republicans:

“Get ‘er Done” from ThinkProgress.org.

Democrats:

Today, the House of Representatives began debate on a non-binding resolution on the Iraq War troop escalation. Below is the text of that resolution.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That —

(1) Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States Armed Forces who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq; and

(2) Congress disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.

Each member of the House has been given five minutes to speak on this resolution. The Democrats have made this resolution as straightforward and as easy to grasp as possible. What does a non-binding resolution do, you may ask? It sends a clear message to the White House that Congress (via the American people) reject Bush’s policy of sending more troops to referee a civil war in Iraq.

NPR’s Morning Edition has more on this great debate.

Good morning, America…

It has been a little while since I last blogged here at DoubleSpeak. I have been busy moving, job hunting and re-acclimating to my life in our nation’s beautiful capitol city. However, I plan to increase the blogging in the coming weeks and months and we as a team hope to add some new faces to the blog team in the lead up to 2008.

There is an article from Cox Newspapers this morning on the marital status of the 2008 presidential candidates. When all is said and done, it seems that the party of family values (the Grand Ol’ Party) doesn’t really value their families too much.

The GOP has long touted itself as the party of family values, but its developing 2008 presidential field has recorded four divorces and one annulment, compared to three divorces among the Democrats.

Yeah, Democrats get divorced too, but you just have to love people like Rudy Giuliani (divorced twice) and Newt Gingrich (also twice divorced) who tout values and can’t seem to keep track of their own.

Will the hypocrisy ever end?

is the new Speaker of the House, the first woman to ever hold the job, and now the third in line for the presidency. DoubleSpeak wishes Nancy all the best and much luck as she and her Democratic colleagues set about pointing our country back in the right direction.

A sad milestone yesterday as the 3,000th American soldier was slaughtered in Iraq. No event was more significant this past year in America than the Democrats taking power in Washington, D.C again. Finally, we have leaders who are in a position to stand on principal and stand for history and bring our brave men and women home from the failed war in Iraq.

If I have to write a similar post on New Years Day 2007 then all of our political leaders have failed.

Today is a sad day for America. The New York Times has a very solemn and well-done interactive feature listing the names of soliders who have died since shock and awe.