ACTION ALERT: Call Reid & your Senators for the Public Option!

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 6:28 AM PDT

2010/03/25 · 06:28

TIME TO ADD THE PUBLIC OPTION!

If it's going back to the House anyway...

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Sunday February 28, 2010 · 9:38 AM PST

2010/02/28 · 09:38

* For Congressional Dems who don't feel comfortable passing the Senate Bill until the Senate has also passed a side bill fix, would a public guarantee by President Obama that he would VETO the HCR bill if the two chambers weren't able to agree on a reconciliation fix give them the confidence to go first?

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Do you TRUST that President Obama would follow-thru with a threat/promise to veto HCR if no "fix" is passed via reconciliation?

93 votes Vote Now!

Do you TRUST that President Obama would follow-thru with a threat/promise to veto HCR if no "fix" is passed via reconciliation?

No, political promises are meaningless.

29 votes

Yes, because his reelection would depend on him keeping his word.

5 votes

Yes, it is best for America AND for his chances for reelection.

27 votes

No, he might think that something is better than nothing.

18 votes

Yes, he believes that the HCR bill is lousy without a fix w/p regard to politics.

9 votes

Pie!

5 votes

URGENT: All doing GOTV in MA re "Joe Kennedy"

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Tuesday January 19, 2010 · 10:42 AM PST

2010/01/19 · 10:42

Please be sure to point out that the Libertarian Candidate Joe Kennedy is not the man below and is not associated with the Kennedy family in any way shape or form!

Perhaps a discreet way to bring up this potential confusion once a caller confirms a Coakley vote is to say something like:

"I just wanted to touch on one more thing before I let you go... You probably know this already but when you go out to vote today, you're going to see another candidate on the ballot named Joe Kennedy. I just wanted to point out that although he has the same name, this is NOT Ted Kennedy's nephew who used to represent MA in Congress. This is a totally different person."

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Thursday January 14, 2010 · 9:16 AM PST

2010/01/14 · 09:16

President Obama has reportedly asked former President George W. Bush to join former President Bill Clinton's relief efforts on behalf of the people of Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake earlier this week.

From AFP

Former US president George W. Bush will join former president Bill Clinton to help lead the US relief effort in response to the earthquake that devastated Haiti, an official close to Bush said Thursday.

Bush, President Barack Obama's predecessor, "will join president Clinton in helping with disaster relief" after the catastrophe, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The official announcement was expected to come from the White House.

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This diary:

39 votes Vote Now!

This diary:

Is mean-spirited and unnecessary at this difficult time.

14 votes

Lays out the sometimes uncomfortable rationale for engaging with all who want to help.

21 votes

Is way off-base since Bush is persona non-grata on these types of issues.

3 votes

Pie!

1 vote

UPDATED: Harry Reid: Bonehead* of the Week!

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Saturday January 09, 2010 · 11:49 AM PST

2010/01/09 · 11:49

From CNN.com

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Saturday following reports he had privately described then-candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign as a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his "light-skinned" appearance and speaking patterns "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

*NOTE: Bonehead NOT Racist.

Also, in case anyone is wondering why Giuliani's statement that there were no domestic terrorist attacks during Bush's presidency doesn't earn him the prize, boneheadedness is about mistake NOT intentionally deceiful revisionism.

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 4:19 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 16:19

AN EXCERPT from the Concord Monitor highlighted by the Obama campaign and that still appears for now at this link.

Don't get sidetracked by the mandate debate
The Concord Monitor | December 07, 2007
By Monitor Staff

The great health care mandate debate is a sideshow. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards insist that forcing individuals to buy a policy is crucial to providing universal health care or something close to it. Rival Barack Obama disagrees. A mandate may be necessary to force those who refuse to sign up once affordable options are available, he says, but that step should come at the end of the march to universal care, not at the beginning.
...

On the honesty question, when it comes to health care mandates, the edge goes to Obama. He rightly says they force people to buy something before they know what it will cost and how good it will be, and many won't comply.

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 5:14 AM PST

2009/11/25 · 05:14

Whether the result of psychosis or an undiagnosed, on-air aneurysm resulting in (temporary?) mental incapacity during her "commentary" on Hannity last night, Dana Perino has finally given all of us who suspected that she was woefully miscast in the role as White House Press Secretary the closure we have sought for her nonsensical ramblings at the podium.

She is utterly and completely divorced from reality.

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Is it possible that Perino simply misspoke?

1165 votes Vote Now!

Is it possible that Perino simply misspoke?

Yes, she clearly meant that the Bush Administration called 9-11 a terror act.

91 votes

No, she is attempting to rewrite history right before our "lying eyes".

434 votes

No, she actually FORGOT about 9-11, Anthrax, etc.

228 votes

No, her brain is PIE.

412 votes

FLASHBACK: "Empathy" and "Perspective" - In Alito's Own Words.

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Monday July 13, 2009 · 10:04 AM PDT

2009/07/13 · 10:04

Video: Sam Alito on the impact of empathy and personal perspective on his decision-making.

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 10:08 AM PDT

2009/06/24 · 10:08

I'll let the ad speak for itself.

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644 votes Show Results

Your reaction to the picture.

644 votes Vote Now!

Your reaction to the picture.

Yummy! Nothing wrong with that ad.

180 votes

It's a little suggestive but within acceptable bounds. After all, it's 2009!

175 votes

I don't appreciate the sexist innuendo at all.

132 votes

Will I have to cover my kids eyes when we drive by a BK now?

25 votes

BK is dead to me!

132 votes

New Nixon Tapes Revealed.

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 1:25 PM PDT

2009/06/23 · 13:25

According to newly realeased tapes of Oval Office conversations in the Nixon-era, Nixon apparently was against abortion, unless it was for use as a genocidal tool to prevent race-mixing.

As if I needed ANOTHER reason to despise the GOP.

If racist bastards like this filth had their way, President Obama would never exist.

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Wednesday June 17, 2009 · 12:52 AM PDT

2009/06/17 · 00:52

PLEASE SEE AND REC EARLIER DIARY ANNOUNCING THIS MEETING: "EMERGENCY MEETING" Top Group Can Unseat Khamenei

Thanks!

According to Iran Expert Reza Aslan on CNN, Ayatollah Rafsanjani has called an emergency meeting of the Assembly of Experts, a deliberative body of 86 top Iranian Islamic scholars, charged with electing the Supreme Leader of Iran and supervising his activities.

Of note, they are also the ONLY people in Iran with the authority to remove current Supreme Leader Khamenei.

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Thursday June 11, 2009 · 3:33 PM PDT

2009/06/11 · 15:33

These images speak volumes. Some are calling it the "Cairo Effect".

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ACTION ALERT: Call Reid & your Senators for the Public Option!

The way forward w/ HCR: Trust Obama*

URGENT: All doing GOTV in MA re "Joe Kennedy"

re Bush: HAITI needs ALL the help it can get. w/Poll

UPDATED: Harry Reid: Bonehead* of the Week!

It's the MANDATE, Stupid!

Perino: "We did NOT have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term." W/ POLL

FLASHBACK: "Empathy" and "Perspective" - In Alito's Own Words.

Burger King: Now Selling What?!?!?!

New Nixon Tapes Revealed.

Report: 911 Meeting of Top Clerics w/ Power to Unseat "Supreme Leader"

A Glimmer of Hope in Iran?