Why isn't there a Blumenthal diary on the rec list?

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Monday May 17, 2010 · 10:29 PM PDT

2010/05/17 · 22:29

I know the story is just breaking. I know that the man has his defenders, as my one quick perusal of the only diary I saw on the subject here revealed. But this is really important, and I really feel like we need to get out in front of this. We all know what happened in 2006, and we know one of the main reasons was due to the scandals that seemed to cascade and go unanswered by Republicans.

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Who should win the Connecticut Senate election?

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Who should win the Connecticut Senate election?

Richard Blumenthal

25 votes

Rosa DeLauro

20 votes

Chris Murphy

9 votes

Ned Lamont

52 votes

A Republican

33 votes

A Conversation with an Obama Republican on Health Care

Racht

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Monday November 30, 2009 · 1:09 AM PST

2009/11/30 · 01:09

I live in the rural South.

Everyone here is very conservative. I live in what may well be the headquarters of the Beck/Palin movement. It's very depressing sometimes.

So I had a conversation tonight with a 20-year-old friend of mine. I know that her upper-middle-class parents are hardcore Republicans and that Fox News has been on at her house nonstop for the past decade. I haven't asked specifically, but I would think it quite likely that she defied her family and voted for Obama last year despite her regrets. Georgia ended up 52-47, and it was only close because of people like her.

She is "A". I am "B".

Racht

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 8:42 PM PDT

2009/08/28 · 20:42

So I've heard a lot of Chicken Littles tonight talk about Reid being spineless again, and how every true progressive is running around in circles panicked over minor details in Harry Reid's billionth statement in support of the public option, and in support of reconciliation to achieve it (something I've rarely heard from our often spineless Senate leader). So I thought I'd point out something else he said today that you might find interesting:

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Do you think Reid will abandon the public option?

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Do you think Reid will abandon the public option?

Of course - he's spineless, and he'll always be spineless. I hope he loses in 2010.

29 votes

He might - I can't trust him given his lack of results.

40 votes

His comments about reconciliation give me hope that he'll do the right thing.

26 votes

I trust him to do what's right.

4 votes

I don't know, but he'll vote for pie.

7 votes

Lanny Davis declares Ted Stevens "an innocent man"

Racht

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Monday August 18, 2008 · 4:33 PM PDT

2008/08/18 · 16:33

Of all the DLC Clintonian hacks who constantly tested our limits of civility with their bloviating on pundits' shows, Lanny Davis may well have been the worst. He did not shock anyone, of course, by signing on with fair and balanced Fox News just after the primary ended. And now, in about an amusing article as I've read in some time, from the "prominent Washington lawyer and a political analyst" in the equally fair and balanced Washington Times, comes an article reminding us that, in fact, Ted Stevens has not yet concluded his trial.

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What will happen to Ted Stevens?

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What will happen to Ted Stevens?

He is a great man, and his integrity will be restored.

4 votes

He will escape prison through a series of tubes.

29 votes

He will be run over by a truck before the conclusion of his trial.

7 votes

He will commit suicide after discovering pie is not served in prison.

5 votes

Jim Martin wins GA-SEN runoff

Racht

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 5:45 PM PDT

2008/08/05 · 17:45

It would seem Vernon Jones's blatant Bush cheerleading caught up with him, as tonight in the Senate runoff, Jim Martin is ahead by a healthy percentage based on dramatic reversals in the Atlanta suburbs.

Racht

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 4:37 PM PDT

2008/07/07 · 16:37

I was browsing snopes today out of boredom, and came across the politics page. Naturally, rumors on our current candidates piqued my interest. It was particularly interesting that Obama has 23 rumors listed, of which two are true, while our distinguished opponent has but four, of which three are true. One among these stood out. Around the time in 2004 when all the rumors floated about the Arizona senator as Kerry's running mate, he said, and later himself corroborated, the following:

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What would McCain say about his statements from '04?

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What would McCain say about his statements from '04?

I don't recall ever having said that.

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The surge is working; how dare you question our success in Iraq.

12 votes

Al Qaeda is in Iraq, you fools!

3 votes

You know I was a POW, right?

29 votes

Obama wasn't even a senator in summer '04, but I was. I win.

8 votes

That's it, reporter, to the back of the plane!

9 votes

(McCain would be asleep.)

4 votes

Do any of you have pie?

4 votes

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