Some notes on CA-04

So I'm noticing from the comments section that some people are still drinking the Doolittle koolaid. Here's a few generic observations (and no, I don't have the direct line to the DCCC's efforts in that district):

Already, four tribunes of evil - or, as some people refer to them, republican Congressmen - have resigned in disgrace this year. Next on the radar screen of the Justice Department are Mssrs. Burns of Montana ... and Doolittle of California.

The overall numbers for the forces of darkness nationwide are awful.

This is not being helped by the fact that one of their tribunes just had to resign for propositioning young boys.

As an example of how bad it is for them - or, conversely, how good for us Americans - consider that Wyoming-At Large and the First District of Idaho now lean pro-freedom, that is, to Democrats.

Representative Doolittle has benefitted directly and indirectly from the public trust. His wife takes commissions on the money he raises. He is one of the most Abramoff-tainted figures in Washington. He supports each and every failed policy of this hated regime - the war, the tax cuts for big oil, sending troops into combat without body armor, mercury in your water supply, dominionists in your child's classroom, James Dobson in your bedroom, the list goes on. Most notably, via the Abramoff connection, Doolittle supported policies in U.S. territories that are anathema to any decent human being - sweat shop labor, forced abortions, that kind of family-values stuff.

Representative Doolittle got primaried, managing only about a sixty-percent-plus share of the vote. That's extraordinary in machine-dominated contests. Now, he has a strong and well-financed challenger in Charlie Brown, who is asking whether Doolittle is corrupt or ineffective. Oh, and he's a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Air Force, not like draft-dodger Doolittle.

If you're looking for the worst in the seething mass of hypocrisy and treachery that is the current republican party, just look to John Doolittle. The man is scum - lying, corrupt scum. End of story.

I'd be surprised if CA-04 were not competitive. But it is. And remember, there will be a special election after John Doolittle gets indicted.

So go, Charlie Brown.