It's the fundraising, stupid

Dear matt,

The worst job at the circus is cleaning up after the elephants. The same goes for politics.

When George Bush gave his State of the Union on Monday, I thanked God it was his last. But the state of our union is a whole lot worse than it was when Dubya took office.

Sure, the union between Dick Cheney and Halliburton may be strong and sure the union between the oil companies and their Republican toadies in Congress may be strong. But if you're getting by without health insurance, or facing foreclosure, or worried about your job or if you have a family member in Iraq, our union ain't half as strong as it needs to be.

Democrats have only begun to clean up this mess. To finish the job we've got to expand our Senate majority beyond the razor thin 51-49 margin we've got now.

If we want to beat the GOP, we've got to help the DSCC beat them at the money game every month in 2008, starting this minute. They're only $66,431 away from their January goal. You got to step it up to get them over the hump.

Click here to make a contribution of $50, $75, or more. Make a donation by January 31, and it will be matched by a group of Democratic senators, helping your money do even more to expand our majority.

If you're a political junkie like me, I'm guessing you're paying a lot of attention to the presidential primaries right now because we all know that's the big prize to fix this mess we're in. But in all the uncertainty, one thing is certain: we will make our party's nominee our nation's next president. And when we do, they're going to need a Senate that stands with them instead of standing in their way.

By making a donation today, you can ensure that when we swear in our next president - a Democratic president - they can take that office with the knowledge that they'll have some more cavalry up there in the Capitol.

Click here to make a contribution of $50, $75, or more. Make a donation by January 31, and it will be matched by a group of Democratic senators, helping your money do even more to expand our majority.

Let's get to it,


James Carville