We're chugging along!

Hey guys,
Let start out saying that there is an interesting post about an exchange between Harry Reed and Dick Durbin. It is abosultely hillarious! Here's the link:
(http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2006/09/frist-blames-democratic-minority-for-do.html)

Now on to the good stuff! Thanks to all of the people who came out to the meeting last Monday! We had about 20 or so people but I want to see more! So bring your friends with you next time and maybe we can pack 337! The next meeting is Monday 25th, at 6:30 in Morton Hall 337. We will be finalizing t-shirt designs next week (I swear), so if you have any ideas for a slogan that you want to kick out, tell us about it!
Don't forget to make it out to our Proud to be a Democrat Day celebration! It's happening on October 3rd and we'll have a meet and greet with candidates from 5 to 7 in the Union Grove Gallery. There will be free food (probably pizza) and we'll have a t-shirt raffle (hopefully our new shirts). Also, we will be passing out blue ribbons the week before (next week I think) around campus for you to wear on Oct. 3rd so keep an eye out.
Quick side note, I'm pissed off that these corporate media idiots are celebrating Bush's approval rating from GALLUP reaching 44%. What they don't tell you is that the Pew poll shows that Bush still has a 37%, unchanged from the last. Where is the equity? Oh, I forgot, 44% is good, right? Here's a post on Dailykos.com that shows a little perspective on this:
Here then, is some much-needed historical perspective to put Bush's standing in context:
>>> According to Gallup, on the eve of President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, he was suffering the worst job-approval ratings of his presidency -- 58 percent.
>>> In 1968, when the war in Vietnam was claiming hundreds of U.S. casualties each week, President Lyndon Johnson was considered so unpopular that he didn't even run for re-election. Johnson's average Gallup approval rating for that year was 43 percent.
>>> When Reagan's second term was rocked by the Iran-Contra scandal, his ratings plummeted, all the way down to 43 percent.
>>> This year, according to the Gallup numbers, Bush has averaged an approval rating of 37 percent.
---Eric Boehlert (via Atrios) at Media Matters

Anyways, I hope to see you all at the meeting on Monday! Talk to you later!

Sterling High

Here's an interesting article from CNN.com

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans on Tuesday distanced themselves from campaign activities that encourage college students to "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" and shoot cardboard cutouts of leading Democrats with a BB gun or paintball gun.
Democratic Chairman Howard Dean said in a letter to his Republican counterpart, Ken Mehlman, on Tuesday that such activities, reportedly put together by a GOP college organizer, "can only be described as divisive, potentially dangerous and discriminatory."
The Republican National Committee said it had no connection with Morgan Wilkins, the woman accused of organizing the offbeat campaign activities at the University of Michigan. RNC spokesman Brian Jones said "the woman has no affiliation with the Republican National Committee, and we certainly condemn this kind of behavior. It's offensive and there's no place for it." He said news reports she was hired by the RNC are incorrect.
Paul Gourley, chair of the College Republican National Committee, said Wilkins is an independent contractor hired to recruit students to the GOP, but he said the reported activities were not authorized. Wilkins declined to comment Tuesday night.
The events were reported by the University of Michigan newspaper, The Michigan Daily.
The "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" event reportedly allows participants to win prizes for catching others posing as illegal immigrants and a "Fun with Guns" event allows people to shoot cardboard cutouts of top Democrats such as Sens. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry with a BB gun or paintball gun, the newspaper reported.
Dean cited several news reports that college Republicans on other campuses were involved in events like "Catch an Illegal Immigrant.
"As chairman of America's two major political parties, we have a responsibility to elevate the political discourse in America," Dean wrote to Mehlman.
Mehlman, who has been trying to recruit more minorities into the GOP, wrote back: "I wholeheartedly agree with you that the activities you cite in your letter are reprehensible."
Mehlman said Dean's call for less divisive rhetoric was ironic, citing the Democratic chairman's earlier comments that Republicans are "a white Christian Party," and "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."

Can you guys believe this? I guess I better cancel the "Dick Cheney Duck Hunting" stand we were planning on doing.