Cross posted from The Pennsylvania Progressive:

The Berks County (PA) Democratic Party, under the leadership of Chair Tom Herman of SEIU, voted to stifle dissent, free speech and freedom of the press today.  Engineered by the Chairman of the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee, they passed a resolution forcing me to change the name of my local blog  or they will will sue me.

 Democracy for America announced endorsements for four women in four major Congressional races.  Lois Murphy, an attorney from suburban Philadelphia was honored with this distinction.  Pennsylvania's Sixth Congressional District flows from just outside the city limits and into Reading, Coatesville, and Kutztown.  Major parts of Montgomery, Chester and Berks Counties comprise this swing district.

     PA-06 was the closest contested Congressional race in the country in 2004.  Since then the incumbent Jim Gerlach has relied upon Karl Rove and Tom DeLay to fatten his campaign coffers.  He has shown an amazingly flexible spinal column in his voting patterns.  Whenever he has been called upon to cast a decisive vote he goes in the direction Republican leadership dictates.

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      As much as we're all getting caught up in the Karl Rove story, let's remember what this is really about:  treason.  George W. Bush got caught lying to the American people in his State of the Union message about Iraq's nuclear weapons program.  This was one of his major reasons for attacking a country which posed no direct and immediate threat to our national security.

     All the rest of this is the fallout from those infamous words.  Therefore, as tempting as it is to try and hang Rove, let's not stray from the most important part of the scandal.  All this talk about Rove is deflecting the discussion away from President Bush and his lies.