Please Obama, hire Eliot Spitzer

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Sunday November 16, 2008 · 9:03 AM PST

2008/11/16 · 09:03

Eliot Spitzer just wrote a stellar analysis of the essential problems on Wall Street and how to fix them. Can you think of anyone you'd rather have in charge of crafting the new regulations? I'm afraid Obama will freeze him out because of his lifestyle issues. That would be a shame IMO, but what do you think?

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Should Obama hire Eliot Spitzer?

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Should Obama hire Eliot Spitzer?

Yes, he is perfect for the job, and to hell with the puritans

81 votes

Yes, but it should be low profile, low prestige

37 votes

No, there are others equally good or better

57 votes

No, we can't have any horny married guys in the new government

36 votes

Boehner Punks the Democrats

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 11:36 AM PST

2008/11/12 · 11:36

Per Bloomberg, Paulson and Bernanke have been dishing out roughly 2 TRILLION dollars to unknown recipients in the last couple months. That's right: 2 trillion from the Fed, which is far more than the 700 Billion approved by Congress. Bloomberg sued under FOIA for release of the names of these recipients. Jerome a Paris already discussed this explosive Bloomberg piece in a recommended diary two days ago.

While Democrats fret what to do about f-ing Joe Lieberman, John Boehner to his credit has called attention to this alarming disclosure. Sometimes leadership only comes from the powerless, since they have nothing to lose. Details below.

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 7:25 PM PST

2008/03/06 · 19:25

I'm going to be presumptuous tonight. I'm not just going to try to say something helpful, but I'm also going to say that it is more important than anything else we could talk about this evening.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 2:01 PM PST

2008/03/05 · 14:01

I don't buy the easy assurances and the positive spin about yesterday's contest. This was a bad day for the party. Clinton is not going to go down easy, she is not going to fret about her deficit in pledged delegates, and she will never ever give up the nomination voluntarily.

The superdelegates now have a hard choice.

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Tuesday June 26, 2007 · 8:46 AM PDT

2007/06/26 · 08:46

In a rational universe, WAPO's four-part series on Dick Cheney would be a watershed moment. If Democrats and Liberals had a political instinct, they would be planning a massive, coordinated verbal assault on the president himself, not just Cheney. I like what Rahm is doing, but it isn't nearly enough.

We need to change the public's conception of the Bush presidency.

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Friday May 25, 2007 · 7:47 AM PDT

2007/05/25 · 07:47

Yesterday Congress made itself weak. It renounced power and authority to change our foreign policy, effectively ceding all power to the President. We knew already that Bush and the Republicans have arrogated supreme authority to themselves. What was so sad about yesterday's capitulation bill is that, really for the first time, the leaders of the Democratic Congress FREELY GAVE HIM THOSE POWERS. It wasn't a normal political defeat, and it wasn't because of the right wing noise machine. It was a self-inflicted defeat. The Democratic Party does not believe in itself or in the people who elected them.

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 5:22 AM PST

2006/11/01 · 05:22

Let's confidently assume for the moment that we're going to win on Tuesday. An immediate challenge will be to reduce tensions in the Party, e.g. between netroot progressives and establishmentarians like Rahm Emanuel. The best person to help do this is Big Dog. Read More

NYTimes Hit Job on Nancy Pelosi

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Monday October 30, 2006 · 9:09 AM PST

2006/10/30 · 09:09

The New York Times is fully behind the GOP's effort to make Nancy Pelosi the lightning rod for this election. Nobody does it like the Times. According to Jennifer Steinhauer's hit piece, Pelosi is the uber-Hilary: a rabid, ruthless, greedy, elitist, money-grubbing, opportunistic harpy bitch. Read this article and tell me it is anything more than a love letter to Karl Rove.

More about Pelosi after I take a brief look at this crappy article. Read More

more ridicule please; hold the outrage

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 8:56 AM PDT

2006/10/04 · 08:56

When the Foley scandal first broke, there was a need for somber moral outrage. We are now entering a phase where I think Josh Marshall's approach is far more effective: mockery and ridicule. Read More

Some Angry Talking Points for Democrats

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 10:32 AM PDT

2006/09/29 · 10:32

One lesson we ought to have learned from Republicans by now is that pretty much any situation can be turned to your advantage in an electoral debate. Despite yesterday's depressing failures, there is no reason Dems can't make lemonade. I understand that people want to vent, but it really doesn't accomplish anything. Read More

In Praise of Randolf Bourne

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Saturday July 22, 2006 · 8:12 PM PDT

2006/07/22 · 20:12

Yesterday Eugene's diary introduced me to a truly fabulous essay: "War is the Health of the State" by Randolph Bourne. Please read the whole thing sometime if you haven't already.
It's a lonely Saturday night and I just want to make some comments on it because reading it was so effing rad.
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Israel's accomplishments in Lebanon

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Friday July 21, 2006 · 8:46 AM PDT

2006/07/21 · 08:46

What's going on in Lebanon right now? Three points stand out from today's coverage. First, civilians are being massacred. Second, Hezbollah is doing great: light casualites, plenty of weapons, and they are winning the hearts and minds of the non-Shiite Lebanese. Third, Israel is preparing a ground invasion. Read More

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