Ned Lamont for Senate

This is why I support Ned Lamont – he gets it. He’s a rich man, and he doesn’t have to care, but he does care, and he does want to change this country and its government that no longer works for the people, but for themselves and for the wealthy. We need change, and Ned knows this. That’s why I support Ned, and all the other candidates like him who get it.

Show me you get it, you’ll get my support and my money. Otherwise, I might call you a bitch or a bastard or whatever else strikes my fancy of the day. ;^)

Go read the whole thing. It’s worth a read. My favorite excerpts below.

Ned Lamont for Senate | Read Ned’s Op-Ed In Sunday’s Hartford Courant and Forward it to Your Friends Below

At first, we were offering simply a choice and a chance for debate. It’s exactly what people wanted. Since we launched our campaign last January, I have met thousands of you. You have stopped me on the street to talk about the rising cost of health care, the loss of good-paying jobs and your kids’ education. You know America is weakened when we are too dependent upon foreign oil and capital – and our troops are stretched thin because of our decisions in Iraq, leaving us less ready to respond and protect ourselves.

And we’ve agreed that in this dangerous time, President Bush and his supporters like Sen. Lieberman have weakened America’s security and moral standing in the world by fighting an unprovoked war in Iraq instead of a real war against terrorism.

It begins with changing Washington. The people of Connecticut are tired of a Congress that has 63 lobbyists for every elected representative – spending more than $400,000 per month per member of Congress.

Changing Washington also means changing our national priorities. We’re spending more than $250 million a day in Iraq while our deficit explodes and our domestic agenda is starved for funds. Today in Connecticut, 400,000 people lack health insurance and schools close early because we don’t have the resources for after-school programs that aid academic achievement and give kids a place to study before their parents come home to dinner.

Changing Washington means fighting to restore American values. This administration, supported by Sen. Lieberman, is bringing the government into our private lives in ways the Founding Fathers never intended – in the Schiavo family’s private medical decisions, with warrantless wiretaps and judicial appointees that jeopardize a woman’s reproductive rights. Government has gotten too big and too intrusive, and we need to change that.

Finally and most urgently, we need to change Washington to replace a national security policy of weakness with one of strength. Our costly and counterproductive decision to go to war in Iraq has weakened America – by taking our eye off the ball in Afghanistan, by overstretching our military, by failing to invest in homeland security, by putting Israel’s security at risk and by alienating our allies and further angering our adversaries. We need to change course, in order to restore America’s strength and place in the world.

With a few more like Ned, we can take our country back and restore it to what we all want – a strong, respected nation that takes care of its own people, and helps the entire world instead of being a threat and a pariah. Isn’t that what we all really want? At least, those of us that aren’t getting rich on oil and useless wars and obscene profit-taking. I think America ought to work for all of us, not just the privileged few.

And I have to add this great quote I just got in the MoveOn.org email of the day:

As progressives, we don’t believe in a sink or swim nation-we believe we’re all in this together. And Katrina’s a terrible reminder of why that basic idea is so important. Together, let’s make sure it doesn’t happen again.

I think people like Lamont get that. And people like Barbara Bush and her son Georgie don’t.