Valerie Plame is running for Congress...

CIA drive in reverse orientation as it makes it easier to spot whether they are being followed.

Not to hijack but I don’t think there’s anything formidable about Ossoff. He failed to utilize anti-Trump backlash at a time of peak anti-Trump backlash. It’s true he was running for a fairly red district, but Georgia is a fairly red state overall. I’m not sure an anodyne white lightweight like Ossoff will mobilize the black voters he needs (many of whose votes are getting outright disenfranchised thanks to Brian Kemp’s voter suppression machine.

I don’t know why Stacy Abrams won’t go for it. She’s a natural fit.

Ossoff came within a whisper of taking that district. He lost, but he did well in a tough election with virtually everything the Trump Cabal could throw at him plus Kemp’s voter suppression, in a district that should have been a walkaway for Republicans. I’ll give you he’s no Abrams, but he’s got her enthusiastic endorsement – which is the next best thing. I heard him speak on the day he announced his candidacy. He is impressive, and he seems very determined.

I think she’s keeping her dance card free for an invitation to be Veep on a Biden ticket. Joe knows he can bring the mid-west states under his own steam. He wants a bulwark in the south to ensure success there. Neither of them need worry about how the coasts will vote.

Ben Ray Luján for U.S. Senate

Due to…

New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall won’t run for re-election in 2020

Given that she’s of Jewish heritage I’m not too worried about accusations of antisemitism. I have at least one spook in my family, so I have a soft spot for them. As her husband is still alive, that wrecks any plans to make her the next Mrs zone :(. That leaves Vice President, and with President Pete we needn’t worry about Oval Office hanky panky.

She says in the ad that Scooter Libby leaked her name to the press. But it was actually Richard Armitage at the State Department. I wonder if Libby can sue her for libel? (Libby was not charged with a leak - he was charged with a process crime for not being truthful to investigators).

Also, the way that commercial was cut makes me think either she flubbed the J turn, or the driving was done by a stunt driver.

And the idea of a ‘badass’ coming to Washington to settle scores sounds awfully Trumpian.

Not impressed.

The leaked outing of Ms. Plame was orchestrated for obfuscation. Nobody thinks Armitage did it unilaterally. AFAIK no chief culprit was ever identified by prosecutors unless it was Dick Cheney. Other than Libby the only one jailed in that affair IIRC was a N.Y. Times reporter, jailed for refusing to identify her source.

:confused: And I assumed — without looking for “cuts” — that a stunt driver was involved. Unless Ms. Plame is herself a professional stunt driver it would seem remarkably silly not to use a stunt driver. Does this seem unusual? Present company excepted of course, but this complaint almost resembles the sort of picayune nitpick one might expect from a partisan.

President George Walker Bush was not piloting the S-3B Viking which landed on an aircraft carrier for his “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003. Was that a scandal also?

There’s a line on the GoFundMe page about how she’s doing it on behalf of Global Zero, so I expect they’ll get the donations. After GFM takes their cut, of course.

BTW, even $1 billion wouldn’t come close to buying a majority of Twitter stock. Its market cap is somewhere north of $30 b.