Swing State Ohio

I showed up to vote in BrookPark. Mr. Ritter was there and I asked him what he planned to do about the Electronic Voting Machines. He told me that we'd have to wait and see what happens today. I took that to mean that if he wins, nothing will be done.

I went in to vote and the elderly were nearly in tears trying to figure out what to do, yet hurry because the line was building. I called attention to being able to see how everyone was voting. I was told to quit looking. This was at the BrookPark Rec Center. After a very long wait, I complained about the fact that punch-card voting never took this long. The Board agreed. I promptly left without voting and told Mr. Ritter to Hell with voting, and I meant it. I felt so sorry for those people and the man that was hoping to win just fiddled. Another lost opportunity by a Dem. It's just so hard to get used to!

Thanks for bringing this important issue to light. Stay on top of it and keep us posted.

So did you get this from the Enquirer?

"Schmidt has left Cincinnati"

After voting in Loveland early this morning and working the polls in Clermont County, Rep. Jean Schmidt has departed Cincinnati for Washington, D.C.

Schmidt's office said the congressman is expected to land in D.C. around 4 p.m. today.

Why the rush back to Washington?

Schmidt chief of staff Barry Bennett told the Enquirer last week that she needed to get to the U.S. Capitol for a series of votes scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tonight.

Are these votes really that important?

Actually, members of Congress take their votes very seriously. Those who miss votes have been accused of being "absent congressmen" and Schmidt has only missed one vote in her first 6 months on the job.

Tonight, the House plans to vote on 14 bills. But they are non-controversial bills that could pass on voice votes, meaning that recorded votes might not even be taken. These are the votes scheduled for tonight:

1) H.R. 5107 - Earl D. Hutto Post Office Building Designation Act
2) H.R. 4811 - John Paul Hammerschmidt Post Office Building Designation Act
3) H.R. 4674 - Governor John Anderson, Jr. Post Office Building Designation Act
4) H.R. 4995 - Ronald Bucca Post Office Designation Act
5) H.R. 4101 - Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Post Office Building Designation Act
6) H.R. 3351 - Native American Technical Corrections Act of 2006
7) H.R. 2720 - Salt Cedar and Russian Olive Control Demonstration Act
8) H.R. 3929 - Dana Point Desalination Project Authorization Act
9) H.R. 3418 - Central Texas Water Recycling Act of 2005
10) H.R. 4943 - Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act
11) H.Res. 697 - Congratulating the people and Government of Italy, the Torino Olympic Organizing Committee, the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, the 2006 United States Olympic Team, and all international athletes upon the successful completion of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy
12) H.Con.Res. 392 - Recognizing the 58th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel
13) H.Con.Res. 90 - Conveying the sympathy of Congress to the families of the young women murdered in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and encouraging increased United States involvement in bringing an end to these crimes
14) H.Res. 658 - Supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day

Schmidt's GOP opponent in the 2nd Congressional District primary - Bob McEwen - sent out a press release criticizing her departure.

Excerpt from release: "The move comes as Schmidt’s campaign is imploding after she was caught lying on her resume and claiming false endorsements. Schmidt has also taken heat for spending tens of thousands of dollars hiring Liberal Democrat activist lawyer Stan Chesley to claim her challenger is not an Ohio resident. The Chesley claims were dismissed at both the state and federal levels."

McEwen: "I will never abandon the voters on this important day."

......I almost claimed I was a Republican ...shiver... just so I could vote against "Mean" Jean.

The only thing I have against Republicans is:

Pushing for elections in NOLA before the Residents return
~Bush said he did watch the first plane hit the Tower
~Allowing the FDA, in Florida, to test pesticides on pregnant women and
their children in return for VCR's.
~Congress Grand-Fathering illegal activity
~Rescinding Presidential Papers Act
~Abramoff signed into the WH 200 times...to see whom?
~Operation Swarmer sounds expensive
~Building 7 fell but, wasn't affected by the towers.
~Pretends not to hear questions
~Testified, w/ Cheney, before the 9/11 Commission but refused to be sworn
in.
~Won't explain why the War costs so much or why it's taking so long.
~Pat Robertson was told there wouldn't be any deaths.
~Every American owes $30,000 toward the debt.
~16 words were a lie.
~Photoshopping photos of soldiers on web sites.
~Karen Hughes as Propaganda Czar of the Middle East.
~NOLA Flyover
~Nunn-Lugar under-funded by $45.5 Mil
~Spying on the Quakers and the ACLU
~The shoe bomber that was to blow cockpit door and take the plane w/ one leg
story
~Project T.I.P.S.
~Free Speech "Zones"
~FREEDOM MENTAL HEALTH ORDER/ TMAP
~Rumsfeld claim that $2.3 Trillion can't be accounted for
~Gutting laws regulating pesticides and antibiotics used by organic farmers
~Data Mining of innocent civilians allowed by this Congress and Senate.
~Budget slashed for Children's Hospitals
~Ashcroft's refusal to provide Sen. Jud. Committee w/ his Departments
Torture Memos.
~Abandonment of 1996 Telecommunications Act
~Larger tax cuts for SUVs than for Hybrid vehicles
~EPA funding cuts
~Poindexter hiring/firing
~Supporting ruthless regimes
~Dropping lawsuits against worst polluters
~Oil & Gas executives appointed to EPA
~Pharma Execs appointed to NIH
~Appointment of 9 Corporate Defense Contractors to the Defense Policy Board
~Destabilizing Macedonia for the Oil.
~Smart Border Declaration W/ Canada
~Michael McManus paid off
~Gave $43 Million to the Taliban in May of 2001.
~Justice Dept. drops lawsuits against coal-burning power plants that are
burning coal illegally.
~Grover Norquist's daughter got a job at CPA w/ no experience.
~$1.6B spent in '05 on fake news.
~All checks and balance safeguards were removed
~Bush waved to Stevie Wonder
~Promise to restore dignity and honor to WH goes unfulfilled.
~No mention of USS Cole bombing in Dubai Port
~Justice being thwarted in Asbestos litigation suits
~CDC resignations
~Tillman cover-up
~Schiavo
~Number of people affected by Hurricane Katrina was underestimated.
~Lack of the use of swift boats in the Katrina Rescue effort
~No air drops to Superdome
~Orders to shoot people over a loaf of bread that was taken from a store
~Explosion heard 2 days after the storm passed and THEN the levees gave way
~GOP holding votes open
~Last throes comment
~Stuff happens comment
~Mission accomplished (100 dead at the time)
~Medicare reform Bill
~Class-Action Reform Bill
~Medicare not allowed to broker prices for prescription drugs
~Drownie
~Condi shoe shopping
~We don't torture, we send detainees to other countries to not be tortured
~Democrats are muzzled on all legislation
~Lobbying is well out of control
~Abramoff
~DeLay
~Diebold
~Ohio elections
~Katherine Harris
~Journalists targeted in Iraq
~Oil not paying for the war
~Not being treated as liberators
~Patrick McHenry claiming we hate America (Schiavo case)
~Ethics committee gutted
~FDA will approve anything (except emergency birth control)
~Attack on Social Security
~President flipping off the camera
~No child left behind is not paid for
~Refusing aid after Katrina
~Red Cross not allowed to assist after Katrina
~Fema is way too bloated and does nothing that the DHS can't do
~Cutting aid to NYPD and FDNY that are affected form the cleanup effort when
they were told that the air was safe to breathe
~Tax cuts to those that don't trickle it down
~3 Trillion Dollars more in debt
~No help in NOLA until Bush arrived (then it stopped again when he left)
~Abu Ghraib
~Gitmo
~Italian reporter shot up
~Bolton recess appointment
~No legislation passed that big money hasn't backed
~Documented reports of Bush's Grandfather (Prescott Bush) bankrolling Adolf
Hitler
~Buying the Iraqi press
~Wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera
~No water or electricity in Iraq
~Cindy Sheehan shunted
~Harriet Miers
~Jessica Lynch
~Soldiers serving well after their agreed enlistment time
~President won't hold press conferences
~President only speaks to cherry-picked audiences
~Plame Outing
~Scooter Libby
~Spy in Cheney's office
~Jean Schmidt
~Wage stagnation
~Halliburton in New Orleans and Iraq
~Outsourcing of jobs
~Money printed in Iraq
~NO WMD
~Yellow Cake
~Rove
~No victory gauge
~No armor for soldiers either Iraqi or American
~Outsourcing the building of Marine 1 Helicopters
~Fighter jets sold to Pakistan by W...on a Saturday
~No accuracy in unemployment rate reporting
~SEC has become a joke
~Hedge funds aren't regulated
~No war strategy
~Downing Street Memos
~Borrowing from the communists
~$330,000 a month to Chalabi
~Bush housing Saudis
~Where's UBL
~Flew UBL's family out of the country after he bombed us
~No border security
~Gas prices
~Home heating prices higher than ever in history
~IRS auditing churches
~Price of war way underestimated
~Bayoil
~Closed session of Senate accomplished nothing the GOP said it would
~Pre-war intel was/is fixed
~Alabama voted for Jeff Sessions (how can that be?)
~Environmental laws absolutely gutted
~Middle class forgotten all-together
~Redistricting to rig elections
~Patriot Act
~Civil rights eroded/gutted
~Treatment of Michael Schiavo
~GOP votes against EVERY inquiry of wrong-doing
~9/11 commission ignored completely
~Programs for the neediest gutted
~Education budged harshly slashed
~Terror alerts subsided after Keith Olbermann finally exposes the
coincidences
~Every document is classified
~Most secretive president ever
~Curveball
~Interstates inadequate for mass evacuations
~What was the Noble cause
~Everyone in NOLA have life insurance(?)
~Blaming Tenet for the "slam dunk" comment and then awarding Medal of
Freedom
~Elderly deaths went way up during the Social Security Savagery
~Dems can't add amendments to legislation
~Over 60% of elections won by less than 4%
~Sensenbrenner walked off with the gavel during Patriot Act hearing
~Tax cuts to ship jobs away
~Soldiers getting Purple Heart collections
~Fox News isn't biased
~Veterans benefits cut
~No exception for soldiers in the Bankruptcy Reform Bill
~Internet threatened with regulation
~Every shopping bag at Wal-Mart is made in Singapore
~Bianca
~Still ignoring NOLA
~Creating immigration laws that take affect in 5 years
~Pat Robertson and James Dobson tell their congregations how they should
vote
~Jerry Falwell too
~Corruption is the norm
~No timetable for when the debt will be paid
~DOW was at 11,770 when Bush took office 5 years ago
~Dollar is losing value
~Haven't defined what is/isn't torture for all to hear
~Trade agreements are not even close to fair
~Ports left unprotected
~Definition of a terrorist is ever so vague
~GOP claims to have different degrees of Neo-Cons (but they all vote exactly
the same)
~Swift-Boating John Kerry
~What is the Skull and Bones Society?
~Drownie was kept on the payroll
~Drownie was never fired
~Newt touring with Hillary
~How many soldiers in an Iraqi Batallion?
~Max Cleland was treated like a piece of shit
~Why were helicopters used to find the people, trying to escape the rising
waters, pounding on their roofs from inside their attics?
~5 deferments
~Nuclear option
~Ethics committee couldn't get Cunningham 2 years after it was known that
his house was sold to a defense contractor for $700,000 over it's value as
he lived on that contractor's yacht
~20% tax on land phone lines
~12% on cell towers
~Diesel fuel is 50 cents higher than gasoline
~Home by Christmas
~Establishing a democracy and not a Republic?
~Jeb doesn't have FEMA woes
~War profiteering
~Health care
~Armstrong Williams
~Sure quote Lieberman a lot
~Caspian Sea pipeline
~If it's a Reform Bill or Deregulation Bill the result is never better
quality or more affordability
~Cheney said he was glued to the TV all week like everyone else
~Christian values never reflected in legislation
~Jeff Gannon
~Nobody accountable for anything
~Smoking in the rotunda
~Loaded SCOTUS
~MZM
~Chuck Hagel was CEO of ES&S
~Offshore accounts of members
~No mistakes come to mind
~Niger
~Haley Barbour told us FEMA was there on Tuesday
~No scandals given credence
~Math is spun (math don't lie)
~Government is largest in over 200 years
~Looking under a desk for WMD's
~Non-combative protestors arrested
~Soviet Gulags
~Superdome
~Opium export in Afghanistan up 2000%
~Hannity is a Pussy
~Ready for a Category 6?
~Global warming ignored
~Hans Blix
~Pakistan earthquake money
~Private prison stockholders
~George H W Bush runs Pharma
~Ambassador to the Vatican?
~Rush never busted on possession charges
~Bill Bennett
~Joe Wilson
~Indian Casino lobbying for how much?
~We aren't safer
~SCOTUS chose our President
~Carnival cruise line contract after Katrina
~Able Danger
~Ken Lay
~Harken Energy
~Rupert Murdoch
~Blatant over-charges in Iraq and NOLA
~Bird Flu vaccine for only 20 million
~Spying on us
~infiltrating churches and peaceful rallies
~Congressman Richard Pombo giving Federal Land to Contributors
~White Phosphorus dropped on Iraqi's
BLOGGING BITCH!

.....and
~Dept. Of Defense Appropriations Bill used to relieve the Pharmaceutical
Industry of Liability for their products
~Jeff Gannon never was explained
~No jobs NETTED in the last 5 years
~Charging soldiers for the replacement cost of body armor when a limb is
blown off
~Mexico is using tanks to come into the U.S. to bring drugs into the country
~What happened at the Pentagon on 9/11?
~Patriot Act is not an act of Patriotism
~Gonzales is interpreting the Constitution
~No Iraqi's were considered terrorists before we invaded
~Social Security can't remain healthy if less people have good-paying jobs
as Corporations reap record profits
~Safavian arrested
~Using Lions to torture
~Bush looking under his desk and behind the curtains for Saddam's WMD's
~UAE managing 21 of our ports
~Cheney shot a man in the face
~Alito
~Civil War in Iraq
~Hurricane Pam
~Insecure computers at DHS
~Iraqi Batallions number between 1 and 101
~Ken Tomlinson
~Clinton planned to have the debt paid in '09.
~Bush says "There ought to be limits to Freedom".
~He doesn't know Ken Lay?
~David Halbert crafted key elements of the Medicare reform Bill
~Privatization of the military
~Henry Kissinger picked to head the 9/11 Commission
~PDB was ignored on 08-06-01
~Ignoring calls for more troops
~Saudi Prince was told of planned invasion of Iraq before Powell was.
~GOP contributor given control of submarine....kills Japanese fishermen.
~Niger forgeries
~Anthrax investigations net nothing.
~Spy plane shot down in China and sent back to Bush....in pieces.
~Claim that Social security Treasury Bonds are worthless
~23 Billion Darlene Druyun (see Google)
~No WH Reps sent to Ohio when the 3/25 lost 25 Marines in the Optional War.
~Told the Palestinians that God told him to invade Iraq, but won't say it
now.
~Global Gag Rule reinstated.
~Boehner...another crooked leader
~NAACP is repeatedly shunned
~Carlysle Group
~Over-Time Pay rules are relaxed
~Munition sites weren't secured
~FEMA giving cash to Cities, States and businesses that weren't affected.
This was pre-Katrina
~photos of soldiers coffins banned. Even when shipped as freight.
~Using porn stars that aren't pretty ...to raise money.
~lying about Saddam not allowing U.N. Inspectors in.
~Iraqi Army was disbanded on day 1
~Bremer got the Medal of Freedom
~Wanting Illegals to be eligible to get drivers licenses and not insurance.
~"Abramoff? I don't know the man".
~Most Freedom Of Information requests denied
~Pre-Emptive strike policy has no oversight
~Stating that the Constitution is just A "God-Damned piece of paper".
~Rove put in charge of Katrina Rebuilding efforts/ money laundering.
~Laura is going to set the Gangs straight?
~Had to fly to Texas because Bush forget to register Absentee.
~Christine Todd Whitman is appointed to Head the EPA....Edits findings.
~Veterinarian, Lester Crawford, is hired to head the FDA. Susan Woods quits
in protest.
~Bush claims he will figure out a way around the Hillbilly IED
bombs....using modern technology
~Using troops for a backdrop, but won't attend funerals
~Forbidding the true cost of "Part D" to be disclosed.
~Sending rockets to Pluto
~DHS not concerned with WMD's coming up through Mexico.
~Paul O'Neill, Richard Clark and Marvin Olasky all fired for exposing the
truth
~"I just don't think about UBL much, anymore"
~"Watch this drive!"
~Distancing from Blair
~Opposing 9/11 Commission, then limiting it's scope
~Plot to bomb Al Jazeera
~Proposing increased logging and calling it "Healthy Forests"
~Stalling FERC's Regulation of electricity prices as Enron ripped off
California.
~Flip-flopping on CO2 emissions
~Pushing for higher arsenic levels in drinking water.
~Replaced head of IPCC for admitting Global warming.
~Supporting "Intelligent Design"
~"Unsigning" the ICC Treaty
~Abrogating the ABM Treaty
~Cheney tells Leahy to go F-Himself...right on the Senate floor.
~Using the George H.W. Bush Library to hide all documents that Bush is
afraid for you to see.
~Kyoto Treaty ignored due to heavy GOP Contributors.
~Was Harry shot on Friday or Saturday?
~Denver 3
~Halliburton giving out troops filthy, contaminated, water.
~Pre-packaged news is getting expensive
~"Some people call you elite, I call you my Base"
~"Want some wood"?
~Dubai veto threat
~Racial slur about McCain's child
~Abramoff and the Dept. of the Interior
~Gayle Norton
~Billions more in cash missing in Iraq
~Genetically modified crops not being regulated
~duct tape and sheets of plastic.
~Keeps denying that he tied Al Qaida, Saddam and Iraq to 9/11
~Jesus is Bush's favorite philosopher?
~Friend Of The Court Brief against Affirmative Action
~Bush didn't know what Sovereignty meant
~Instead of Regulations, Energy Bills are used to bribe Oil Companies to
keep prices from getting way out of hand until Republicans leave office
~Tax Cuts aren't paid for
~Signing of the incorrect version of a Bill that contained an additional 2B
dollars.
~Claims to always get a warrant to spy
~No leakers fired
~Censoring NASA Scientists
~PNAC
~Pissed away surplus
~Kept supply trucks out of NOLA
~Last-second purchase of Crawford Ranch
~Ignoring Darfur Region
~GOP has too much invested in OIL to ween us
~selling Federal Land in NC for $103 an acre
~380 tons of explosives missing after invasion
~Carla Martin
~Maggie Gallagher paid off
~O'Reilly illegally tapping phone calls to harass callers
~Bernie Kerik hired, then fired
~Mangoes
~couldn't predict levee breach
~Cheney makes Sheriffs Dept make an appointment to discuss him shooting
Harry Whittington.
~Treatment of Michael Schiavo
~Nobody accountable for anything
~Smoking in the rotunda
~Loaded SCOTUS
~MZM
~Chuck Hagel was CEO of ES&S
~Offshore accounts of members
~No mistakes come to mind
~Niger
~Haley Barbour told us FEMA was there on Tuesday
~No scandals given credence
~Math is spun (math don't lie)
~Government is largest in over 200 years
~Looking under a desk for WMD's
~Non-combative protestors arrested
~Soviet Gulags
~Superdome
~Opium export in Afghanistan up 2000%
~Hannity is a Pussy
~Ready for a Category 6?
~Global warming ignored
~Hans Blix
~Pakistan earthquake money
~Private prison stockholders
~George H W Bush runs Pharma
~Ambassador to the Vatican?
~Rush never busted on possession charges
~Bill Bennett
~Joe Wilson
~Indian Casino lobbying for how much?
~We aren't safer
~SCOTUS chose our President
~Carnival cruise line contract after Katrina
~Able Danger
~Ken Lay
~Harken Energy
~Rupert Murdoch
BLOGGING BITCH!

...............and

~Blatant over-charges in Iraq and NOLA
~Bird Flu vaccine for only 20 million
~Spying on us
~infiltrating churches and peaceful rallies
~Congressman Richard Pombo giving Federal Land to Contributors
~White Phosphorus dropped on Iraqi's
~Dept. Of Defense Appropriations Bill used to relieve the Pharmaceutical
Industry of Liability for their products
~Jeff Gannon never was explained
~No jobs NETTED in the last 5 years
~Charging soldiers for the replacement cost of body armor when a limb is
blown off
~Mexico is using tanks to come into the U.S. and bring drugs in.
~Aluminum tubes
~W.H.I.G.
~Bush photographed drinking again
~Cheney said he swung right and pulled the trigger, hence, shooting Harry in
the right side of the face...HOW?
~Bring 'em on
~Rummy said he knows where the WMD's are
~Public can't read the Patriot Act
~$500,000,000 for an embassy in Iraq
~Afghans being killed for converting to Christianity even after we put Gov't
in place
~"You go to war w/ the Army you have..."
~Claude Allen arrested
~WH stated Harry was shot on the LEFT side
~MEFTA
~Oil was to pay for the War
~Playing guitar during Katrina Week
~Leaking
~Jamming phone lines of the DNC

Now, wouldn't that just suck if that all happened on the Dems' watch?

I am THE BLOGGING BITCH!

Still wondering why we have Electronic Voting Machines?

Wow, I will read through that later.

Let's visit "Pretend World". Let's pretend there are only 200 dead soldiers. We will have another at 2500. Turn it up!

http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html

Some interesting 200+ comments on the Daily Kos for this diary. Makes you realize that others ARE paying attention to what happens in Ohio...okay Dems, time to take hold before November.