Palin will be ridiculing her as a quitter.

From Malkin:

Radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava quits

October 31, 2009 11:00 AM by Michelle Malkin

Cool.

They're going to get crazier and crazier

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Republican Dierdre Scozzafava (sko-zuh-FAH'-vuh) has suspended her campaign for the New York House and is encouraging supporters to embrace Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.

Nothing more. No quote. Nothing

Love the AP

Looks like TPM and a number of other liberal sites missed the Late Late Night ACLU Document Dump.

It was huge and a lot of it was not blacked out.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/41374prs20091030.html

ACLU Obtains More Documents Related to Bush Administration Torture Program (10/30/2009)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org

NEW YORK - The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union numerous documents in response to two ACLU Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits for information related to the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody overseas. Thousands of pages of documents detailing the interrogation of prisoners by the FBI, Department of Defense (DOD) and CIA have previously been made public as a result of the lawsuits.

“The documents released today add to our knowledge about the origins, scope and consequences of the Bush administration’s torture program,” said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. “The documents are also a reminder, however, of gross human rights abuses that have yet to be investigated seriously by Congress or the Justice Department (DOJ). The last administration's decision to endorse torture undermined the United States' moral authority and compromised its security, but the failure of the country's current leadership to fully confront the abuses of the last administration is only compounding these harms.”

Among the documents released today are a report from the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General relating to the involvement of FBI agents in the interrogations in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq; documents gathered by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General in preparing its report and CIA documents relating to interrogations at black sites overseas.

Here are the docs.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/41372res20091030.html

Released Government Documents Responsive to 2004 Torture FOIA (10/30/2009)

Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel Letters and Memos to CIA Regarding Detention and Interrogation Policies:

* 11/3/2003 Letter to Senator Leahy from FBI Director Mueller confirming that the CIA is bound by the Constitution
* 10/18/2004 CIA Office of Medical Services (OMS) Guidelines on medical and psychological support to detainee rendition, interrogation and detention
* CIA Office of Inspector General report excerpts
* Interrogation Legal Authorities
* Description of stress positions and facial slap
* Interrogation of Detainees
* Guidelines for Memo on Interrogation
* 12/12/2002 Department of State fax coversheet
* 2/7/2002 White House memo regarding Geneva Conventions and humane treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban detainees
* 5/11/2004 Assistant Attorney General Goldsmith memo regarding advice to DOD on interrogations
* Applicability of Geneva Conventions III (POWs) and IV (civilians) in Iraq after June 30, 2004 and effect on U.S. powers and duties regarding detentions
* 1/27/2004 Saddam Hussein Interrogation document
* 1/27/2004 Memo regarding legal issues surrounding interview/interrogation of Saddam Hussein
* 5/19/2004 Memo regarding treatment of prisoners and detainees
* 10/4/2001 Department of State fax to White House National Security Counsel regarding Geneva Conventions and POWs
* 10/11/2001 Department of State fax to White House National Security Counsel regarding
* 10/12/2001 Department of State fax to White House National Security Counsel regarding POWs

Department of Defense Documents Regarding Detention and Interrogation Policies

Department of Justice Criminal Division Documents

FBI Documents Regarding Detention and Interrogation Policies

Reprocessed FBI Office of Inspector General Report:

The total wingnuts will find great solace in this move. They will now be even more aggressive in attempting to intimidate anyone claiming to be a Republican that isn't completely crazy. All to the good I say.

This is actually pretty bad for the US. Although it might lengthen the period of Dem supremacy, what happens when that period inevitably ends? I don't the NRA ad the Club for Growth running the world's only superpower.

Somehow I doubt the broader media community will see the Republican party as moving further to the right. They've always been willing to be credulous to their right wing. You actually have to reach Palin levels of genuinely self-evident bull before people make up their own minds while the media passively reports it.

Apparently Sarah Palin has started a new trend among Republicans: just give up. Is there really any reason to vote for a Republican again if you have no guarantee s/he will finish the job?

What does Scozzafava think she's accomplishing? Certainly not endearing herself to Party leaders by stepping aside. What does she have to lose, except her self-respect by giving up and giving in to the Neanderthals of her Party? She would have earned much more respect -- street cred -- if she had hung in and crossed the finish line. Does she really think she has a career in politics after this? As it stands, all she's done is prove that she's not ready for the big leagues.

Until there is an election and we see who wins, we won't know just how (1) enlightened or (2) stupid the voters are. If the nutcase Republican wins, get ready for an eventual violent confrontation between those who have an I.Q. and those who don't.

The Repubs know were they're future lies. The Democrats are going to have to come 'round and come to terms with those who believe all incumbents (Dems and Repubs) shafted them on the financial bailout. Just as the Repubs have bowed to the 'tea baggers' for votes, the Democrats must acknowledge their need to respond to and accommodate those to whom Grayson and the like appeal; those are the folks who'll walk the neighborhoods for them and get out the vote; the independents and middlers wont. The Dems are banking on the independents and middlers and they cant win them in sufficient numbers, because they've shafted been shafted by the Dem's financial bailout and the Dems have not shown the independents and the progressives any thing in the way of help during this depression. Pandering to the financial industry continues; job loses continue; bankruptcies continue to rise; house prices decline, but lending (remember the financial industry we bailed out) continues to be difficult if not impossible; credit card rates and 'fees' sky rocket (remember the financial industry we bailed out); health care remains in limbo; ...... do the Dems not get it at all?

I wonder what the NRA thinks of all this. They were solidly behind her.

I'm guessing this now makes her the Republican frontrunner for president in '12? I mean, she quit before the vote was even taken for elective office. Take THAT, Palin!!!

Wish I had a bad word to say about the Repubs and some sort of hurrah!" for the Dems, but I dont see the NY situation that way.
And here's why: the economy following the bailout. The dialog goes like this:
Q: How did these banks get 'too big to fail' A: Taxpayers bailed them out; otherwise, they'd be 'failed banks'.
Q: Who 'bailed them out' in the first place? A: Republicans, then Democrats.
Q: Why did it keep happening? A: Obama kept the same big bankers who got us into the mess and who 'advised' the Republicans.
Q: Why is the Obama administration intent upon legitimizing 'failed banks', creating their 'too big too fail' status and then protecting them in the future. A: The Obama administration is either (a) in the pocket of the financial industry, (b) thinks it will not matter to voters, or (c) believes in magic.
Q: Do you think it really does matter to voters? A: Yes. Voters are the same people who've lost their homes, seen their mortgages increase and property values decline, pay higher credit card rates and fees, file for bankruptcy in increasing numbers, and own the largest federal deficit in history - all due in large part to the Republican initiated and Democratically accelerated bailout of the financial industry- yes, voters notice and voters care.
Q: Do you think the Obama administration believes in magic? A: Apparently.
The way I read the NY situation is this: By opting for the what's his name, the Repubs are attracting (i.e. welcoming) the 'independents', 'moderates' and 'middle Americans', who dont care if the candidate is Repub, Dem or Independent or what not, as long as the candidate will stop screwing them. And, the Dems are losing 'independents', 'moderates' and 'middle Amera' by continuing to water down an already anemic health care bill, stall on financial reform, threaten to expand useless wars, and refuse to enact real relief for taxpayers in some meaningful ways - e.g. immediate health coverage, control of financial institution's lending practices and fee structures, mortgage assistance, etc. The way I read it, the Repubs have said, 'The Dems are getting the blame for this mess, because they continue to throw stuff in the face of middle Americans, this fellow's acting like a champion of middle America (at least, middle America thinks so; they'll vote for him, so let's make him ours.' That may mean the Repubs are evil doers , but to me it means they understand better than the Dems, that it matters to people, they're fed up and, if the Dems cant seem to act in the interests of middle America, they're going to be booted out. The NY situation is just the first play of the game.