LET'S GET NED LAMONT OVER THE HUMP BECAUSE RAHM EMANUEL KNOWS WHAT'S UP (AT LEAST TODAY)

Yesterday's live blog session with Charlie Brown (and his wife Jan) was an exceptionally good one. Charlie and Jan came across as just plain concerned folks, like most of us, and as beacons of integrity-- quite a contrast to Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle, Washington's poster-couple for unethical, and criminal, behavior. I was astounded by the pace of contributions. It's been 24 hours and our Blue America Act Blue Page has taken in over $3,400 for Charlie's campaign! Overall our page is closing in on $150,000. Many people who contributed to Charlie's campaign yesterday also took the opportunity to kick in some extra bucks for Blue America faves like John Laesch, Larry Kissell, Coleen Rowley, Jerry McNerney and, of course, Ned Lamont.

As I'm writing this, our collective contribution to Ned's campaign is $59,108.33. That "us" are all the Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, and Down With Tyranny community members. Jane actually moved to Connecticut so she could cover this race-- and her coverage is the best on the Internet. Over 1,300 of us have donated some money to help elect, Ned, a decent and progressive man to the U.S. Senate from Connecticut and to help retire a reactionary rubber stamp-- even Rahm Emanuel called Lieberman a rubber stamp today!-- and to send Bush a message that we're sick of his hideous policies and his divisive, hateful politics. And as our pal Rahm-of-the-Beltway says, "What's playing out here is that being a rubber stamp for George Bush is politically dangerous to life-threatening."

I never thought I'd write these words, but let's all back up Rahm Emanuel today by getting Ned over the $60,000 mark. I think if everyone on our blogs who thinks this race is important kicks in just $5 today, Blue America will have handed Ned a nice round number on what promises to be a down-to-the-wire primary contest on Tuesday. In fact, I have a Martha Stewart box set, THE HOLIDAY COLLECTION, to offer to the person who actually puts us over the $60,000 mark. Do it here.