Gaza? What Gaza?

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Saturday July 12, 2014 · 6:32 AM PDT

2014/07/12 · 06:32

The silence in this place is deafening.

The hey? CBS gets both new polls wrong for sake of pro-Romney headline?

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Monday October 15, 2012 · 8:00 AM PDT

2012/10/15 · 08:00

This'll be quick. Two new polls out today, right? One from Washington Post/ABC News:

Likely voters in the new poll split 49 percent for Obama to 46 percent for Romney, basically unmoved from the poll two weeks ago, just before the two candidates met in Denver for their first debate. On topic after topic, the survey portrays an electorate that remains deeply divided along partisan lines and locked in its views.

And another from Politico/GWU:

A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters puts Obama ahead of Romney 49 percent to 48 percent, a statistical tie and the same as the week before.

Ok, fine. But flip over to CBS and it's a whole different story: Read More

Hey kids, it's a white privilege checklist!

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Monday December 13, 2010 · 7:17 AM PST

2010/12/13 · 07:17

So hello, there have been some diaries about race lately on this site. They've provided a lot of interesting discussion, but it's also drawn out a lot of whiney white people who can't believe anyone would ever consider anything they say or do racist! This also includes white people who insist their skin color does not give them any kind of privilege due to growing up in a tarpaper shack by the railroad station or whatever. As a white person, these things give me a sad, because I would like us to do better than that. So today, I'm pulling out an oldie but a goodie: Peggy McIntosh's Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, which has become one of the go-to articles to really describe how white people are privileged in a society that discriminates by skin color. If you're white, and you're scoffing and saying that doesn't apply to you, you need to read below the jump more than anyone else.

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Thursday September 09, 2010 · 2:07 PM PDT

2010/09/09 · 14:07

Just went to TPM and the headline says the Florida Qu'ran burning event is off:

Jones Calls Off Koran Burning
2 minutes ago

More as we get it

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Friday January 08, 2010 · 8:25 AM PST

2010/01/08 · 08:25

So okay, we've all read D Wreck's diary this morning about Rudy Giuliani's massive fail on Good Morning America today:

"We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we've had one under Obama."

Here's the thing. Giuilani is being rightly lollerskated all over the place for this. But he doesn't own it alone. And we can't let the folks off the hook who enabled people like him to get away with this kind of outrageous misstatement.

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Sunday November 22, 2009 · 6:17 PM PST

2009/11/22 · 18:17

So yesterday, after the vote, I get an email from Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois:

Dear name that is not really kyeo,

Moments ago, the Senate voted to begin its full debate on historic health care reform legislation instead of obstructing it with a filibuster.

Tonight's vote marks the biggest victory to date for our grassroots effort to pass health care reform with a public option. We cannot give enough thanks to the over 100,000 signers of our petition at CitizensForAPublicOption.com for helping to fundamentally shift the momentum towards meaningful reform.

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Friday November 13, 2009 · 8:45 PM PST

2009/11/13 · 20:45

Hokay, this one's going to be a doozy; in fact, I'm amazed it hasn't been diaried already. As reported by TPM, the San Francisco activist organization CREDO Action is currently sponsoring a new tactic to call attention to the Stupak mess, in particular bringing attention to the fact that 20 pro-choice Democrats voted for the amendment. What are they doing, you ask? I'm glad you asked. They have an online petition asking the Congressmen to change their vote next time around. And for every person who signs it, they'll send a wire coathanger to each of the 20 Democrats on their list. Yup.

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49 votes Show Results

How good an idea is this?

49 votes Vote Now!

How good an idea is this?

Perfect! Amazing! I can't believe no one thought of this sooner!

22 votes

It's a little intense, but overall I support it

9 votes

I have mixed feelings about it; it's forceful, but it could potentially backfire

1 vote

I know they have good intentions, but there's a better way to handle this

5 votes

This is disgusting and cheap! It's an embarrassment to progressives everywhere!

10 votes

I dunno, I'm just here for the Mommie Dearest references

0 votes

Stupak's office is losing it

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 11:44 AM PST

2009/11/09 · 11:44

Just a quick diary, but if we want to really give Bart Stupak some grief over his amendment, today seems like a really great day to do it. I saw a comment on FDL about how his office is reacting to complaints and questions about the amendment:

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Saturday August 08, 2009 · 8:00 AM PDT

2009/08/08 · 08:00

I mean what makes me crazy is that this country has two political parties. And one of those parties, extremely well-funded, still with a strong hold on the federal government, is totally dedicated to make sure nothing gets done. America is hurting right now, America needs help. And the Republicans not only don't care about helping them, they want to stop everyone else from helping them.

Now normally this would be a recipe for political disaster. But we have the media actively assisting Republicans in their obfuscation, for the obvious reasons that their corporate owners want the Republicans in power so they can help them make more money. So everyone is confused and doesn't know who to blame, and we enter a situation where even after the debacle de Bush, if the economy doesn't significantly improve and/or the Democrats don't enact real health care reform, Republicans stand to make real gains in the 2010 elections.

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 4:50 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 16:50

So, I know how fond we are of old Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska. Before Max Baucus and Kent Conrad became the faces on the dart boards of all reform-minded Kossacks, Nelson was there, pooh-poohing the House bill as "class warfare" due to proposed raised taxes on higher income brackets, opposing the public option, and leading a gang of Dem senators demanding Obama slow down health care reform. Incidentally, he also hasn't decided whether to vote to confirm Judge Sotomayor yet, saying he needs more time to ensure that she "won't be an activist." Ayup.

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 2:42 PM PDT

2009/07/21 · 14:42

So today the Blue Dogs had a big meeting with Obama at the White House to demand a slowdown on health care reform, along with significant changes and cuts to the bill. They went into it on a fairly bullish note:

An aide to one of the Blue Dogs, seven of which are on the committee, told Reuters the group may ask for a slowdown on the health care push. Obama wants health care legislation before the August recess.

"The landscape will change after that meeting," the aide said.

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 8:05 AM PDT

2009/05/13 · 08:05

According to Think Progress, Harry Reid does not currently believe he has the votes to block a filibuster for Dawn Johnsen:

Roll Call reports that conservatives look poised to successfully block the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to head the White House Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) declared that his hands were tied without the assistance of a few Republican votes:

"Right now we’re finding out when to do that," Reid said, responding to a question about the status of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to the Justice post. "We need a couple Republican votes until we can get to 60."

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