This morning's Sunday Talking Head line-up is up for the reading.  Timmeh needs to hire himself a better booking person -- because if Newt Gingrich, David Brooks and Tom Friedman is the best NBC could muster this morning...well, it's just sad. 

And if Newt Gingrich is the Republican party's best and brightest brain who has the great ideas for making it all better and turning things around from today's failure of a scandal-ridden, ethics-challenged, public mistrusting loser Republican party to shiny and better than before GOP newness? 

Can't.  Stop.  Laughing.

The good news is that Rep.-elect Joe Sestak of PA-07 (otherwise known as the Blue America candidate who kicked scandal-plagued Republican Curt Weldon's behind) will be on This Week.  If you haven't been introduced to Joe Sestak as yet, take a peek at the chat that Howie Klein did with him for Blue America during the campaign -- Sestak is sharp, knows his stuff, and doesn't mince his words.   Boo-yah.

Is it January yet?

American Prospect:

E-mails recently forwarded to the Justice Department by a government watchdog group describe alleged efforts by staff of Congressman Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania to call Navy employees for information and negative statements about his Democratic opponent, retired Rear Admiral Joe Sestak. Two e-mails that were forwarded to the Sestak campaign by one current and one former Pentagon employee appear to detail guidance from superiors to staff not to speak with Weldon's office should it call soliciting information about Sestak; Weldon's office is described in one e-mail as "calling everyone and his brother" in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) about Sestak. A third e-mail written by a defense contractor to the Sestak campaign says that he had been told that Weldon's office had allegedly compiled a "hit list" of defense contractors whose officers had donated to the Sestak campaign, of which he was one, and suggested "retribution" against them. The e-mails were provided to The American Prospect by the Sestak campaign. Read on...  

Joe Sestak is one of our Blue America candidates...please help out if you can... 

CREW:

E-mails received by CREW have prompted us to ask the Department of Justice to investigate whether Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) violated the law by intimidating government personnel "in the national security field" who support his opponent, Joe Sestak....read on

And so it has begun. Curt Weldon is in serious trouble

Federal agents raided the home of the daughter of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) and his longtime friend Charlie Sexton this morning. The agents departed Karen Weldon's three-story brick home on Queen Street in Philadelphia with arms loaded with boxes. A government car pulled into the alley to the back door of the house and loaded boxes into it. Three agents standing in an alley declined to identify themselves.

"I can confirm that we conducted a number of searches regarding an ongoing investigation," said FBI agent Jerri Williams, a spokeswoman in Philadelphia. "Details regarding those investigation cannot be provided because the accompanying affidavit is sealed."

Go Joe Sestak!

Another Republican in trouble with the law. How shocking!

The Justice Department is investigating whether Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, according to sources with direct knowledge of the inquiry. The FBI, which opened an investigation in recent months, has formally referred the matter to the department's Public Integrity Section for additional scrutiny. At issue are Weldon's efforts between 2002 and 2004 to aid two Russian companies and two Serbian brothers with ties to strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a federal law enforcement official said...read on

How about we throw down a little love for Joe Sestak!

 CNN highlighted the race between Blue America's Joe Sestak and Crazy Curt Weldon yesterday. If you remember, Weldon attacked Joe's cancer ridden daughter and: "After repeatedly denying it ever happened, Curt Weldon finally admitted that he attended, spoke at and organized an event that declared Sun Myung Moon to be "humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

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Joe wrote a diary called "My Response to President Bush"

Hello. My name is Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania; I am a former 3-star Vice Admiral who spent 31 years serving my country in our Navy -  they were the proudest years of my life. Today, I'd like to talk to you about a topic that's too important for partisan politics: a new direction for America's security. Last week, the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission made a startling comment. He said he didn't believe that security was a priority for the White House...read on

If you can support Joe Sestak, please go over to our Blue America page.

Can anybody trust these guys in anything they say? This is seriously deranged. Kevin Drum :

Emphasis mine. According to Gaubatz, Weldon was seriously planning to take a secret trip to Nasiriyah and attempt to dig up the alleged WMD himself. As he told Tom Ferrick of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "They even worked out how it would go. If there was nothing there, nothing would be said. If the site had been [scavenged], nothing would be said. But, if it was still there, they would bring the press corps out....It was treated as an election issue that would get votes."Did you get that? He was going to take a little jaunt to Nasiriyah, break out his shovel, and start digging around himself — without telling the military what he was doing. Then, when the glorious shells were found, he was going to call in the press and declare himself Weldon of Arabia, Discoverer of WMD...read on

These people use the troops, this war, and 9/11 for their own personal gain. Please vote this guy out of office. Support Joe Sestak. I just added him to my Act Blue page. It'll probably take a little while to be updated on the site. (h/t Atrios )

"Weldon, who voted for the October 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq, accused Sestak of politicizing the war and said he should have opposed it when he was in the Navy. "If you’re being paid as a military leader, you ought to have the backbone to stand up for what you believe in," the congressman said. Sestak, a former deputy chief of naval operations and first director of Deep Blue, the Navy’s anti-terrorism group, said that statement shows Weldon does not understand how the military functions.

"When you are given command of a combat force you are responsible and accountable for preparing those men and women for what this nation directs," he said. "If it is not morally reprehensible, it is your duty to do that. We cannot have a military that just walks away because they disagree on a policy or a judgment."

On WMD's:

     While Sestak said Iraq was "not a clear nor a present danger" because no weapons of mass destruction have been found, Weldon said he knows of four sites in Basra and Nasiriyah that have yet to be searched for biological or chemical weapons.

"I think the jury is still out on WMD," said Weldon, who also believes Saddam Hussein may have smuggled the weapons to Syria with Russian assistance prior to the March 2003 invasion.

IAVA demands an apology from Weldon for his WMD claims...

I'm adding Sestak to my Act blue page...