Colin Powell - Bush should support McCain Amendment

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Wednesday November 16, 2005 · 11:31 PM PST

2005/11/16 · 23:31

I attended a talk this evening by Colin Powell, and while he certainly didn't, even diplomatically, suggest that American foreign policy has been hijacked by a neo-con cabal (as his former aide did last week), he did make one politically sensitive declaration . . . Read More

Kos joins New Politics Institute

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Tuesday May 10, 2005 · 11:07 PM PDT

2005/05/10 · 23:07

The Wednesday edition of The Hill ("the newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress") announces the formation of the New Politics Institute. Significant figures in the new enterprise include Simon Rosenberg, Joe Trippi, and our very own Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.

More details after the break. Read More

Another NeoCon Slimeball in the News - Richard Perle in Trouble

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Thursday March 24, 2005 · 4:12 AM PST

2005/03/24 · 04:12

And the Ethics-Challenged Hits just keep on coming. . .

Richard Perle, NeoCon stalwart and war profiteer, seems to have, as a director of Hollinger International, looked the other way while Conrad Black looted the company of $400 million dollars. It was the least he could do in exchange for their helping finance his post 9/11 Homeland Security Venture Fund efforts.

And the SEC has informed him they're preparing to sue.

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Sunday March 13, 2005 · 9:06 PM PST

2005/03/13 · 21:06

Currently online at the Washington Post is this welcome news: republicans are scared DeLay's ethics problems are getting worse and will take him down.

Money quote:

"If death comes from a thousand cuts, Tom DeLay is into a couple hundred, and it's getting up there," said a Republican political consultant close to key lawmakers. "The situation is negatively fluid right now for the guy. You start hitting arteries, it only takes a couple." The consultant, who at times has been a DeLay ally, spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying he could not be candid otherwise."

On the flip - what DailyKos can do to add a few hundred of the cuts required to publically embarrass, and permanently retire, one of the most vile hypocrites in contemporary politics (and that's saying something). Read More

Impeachment 6 month To-Do List

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Monday January 10, 2005 · 12:10 AM PST

2005/01/10 · 00:10

If Bush loses as much face and political capital as I think is inevitable due to the Iraq quagmire, his numbers will continue to fall, and since the growing realization among Democratic legislators that they pay no political price for a fiercely oppositional stance, discussed here may derail his attempts to execute his flawed domestic policies as well, we may find ourselves, come this summer, of having a country united in the belief that the Bush Administration is a dangerous failure.

An important part of this is the anger people will feel once it is clear that Bush's arrogance (along with Rumfeld's, Wolfowitz's, etc.) lost us the Iraq war. Between anger, dismay, and guilt - we may well have fertile ground for an impeachment.

Regardless of how improbable this may seem, I think it is worth investigating whether there is anything we could do now, or next month, or in April, etc., that could help make this happen. More after the break. Read More

Evangelical Smackdown

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Tuesday December 21, 2004 · 11:13 AM PST

2004/12/21 · 11:13

The religious conversatives who helped deliver the election to Bush are sanctimonious, self-righteous, and guilty of a very unchristian lust for power.

I think we need to call them on it. Publically. We need to drive a righteous wedge between the pastors and pundits still drunk on their ability to deliver money and votes to Bush, and the uncritical masses that they've led.

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The case to make against Fundies

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 4:16 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 04:16

Ignorant Tight-ass Club

West Wing, in the second season, has an episode where Pres. Bartlet pulled a thermonuclear rhetorical smackdown on an obvious stand-in for Dr. Laura. Full scene appears below the fold, but the basic point is that you can't take just parts of the bible literally and wield them as you see fit, which is what the politicized evangelicals are doing.

We need to make the case that Christian Fundamentalism is inherently flawed thinking - and the following speech (based on a letter found floating around the internet) makes the case as well as I've seen it made. Tolerance is fine in theory - but bigotry and stupidity on the level these people practice them went out with the discovery that the world was round. Their entire world view needs to be publically ridiculed so they simply cannot enter policy debate without everyone else snickering. (sorry if I'm not in the most charitable mood this evening). Read More

Citizens Against Election Fraud

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 5:36 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 05:36

Assuming the provisional votes don't seem able to overcome the purported vote difference in Ohio, then there will be real pressure on Kerry to concede. if he starts talking about exit poll vs. tabulated result discrepancies, or sues the State of Ohio (and Florida, seemingly) to get an injunction against certifying a DIEBOLD-adjusted election total, the SCLM and all the Republicans will dismiss him as a poor loser.

So WE HAVE TO DO IT INSTEAD

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Florida "Caging" list mapped to prove suppression

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Thursday October 28, 2004 · 8:25 PM PDT

2004/10/28 · 20:25

The Republican campaign in Florida has assembled a "Caging" list of 1771 voters they expect to challenge at the polls in Duval County alone. Presumably this is going on in every county, and since Duval County represents 4.8% of Florida's 17 million population, we can project that the Republican caging list for the entire state numbers something like 90-100,000 voters they intend to challenge.

While Duval County is 65% non-Hispanic White, only 44% of those on the list are in predominantly white neighborhoods. Challenging voters at the polls, while technically legal, clearly serves the additional purposes of slowing down the voting process, intimidating voters, and encouraging folk to abandon their place in the resultingly long lines and go home.

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DailyKos Virtual Think Tank Proposal

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Thursday October 28, 2004 · 7:09 AM PDT

2004/10/28 · 07:09

The establishment of well-funded think tanks - that generate long-term strategic initiatives, policy positions, propagate issue frames, and do much of the work of legitimizing the ideas of a political party - is a game at which the Republicans have been better than the Democrats over the last 40 years.

Progressives of all stripes, currently joined in the passionate rejection of almost everything George W. Bush has done for the last 4 years, will not have that galvanizing influence once he's sent back to Crawford next Tuesday. Nevertheless, it is imperative that we capture the passion and momentum we now enjoy and save some of it for the long haul towards the world that we want to inhabit, and want to pass onto our children, in years to come.

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ACORN in Florida UPDATE

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Tuesday October 26, 2004 · 8:57 PM PDT

2004/10/26 · 20:57

A friend is part of the ACORN team fighting to register voters in Florida, and he's provided me with updates that I've posted previously about baseless accusations from an ex-employee (Mac Stuart, who's credibility was clearly demonstrated two weeks after he was fired when he tried to cash a $5,000 check made out to someone else). The charges, however, got picked up on local news, and repeated on NewsMax and the Washington Times, and the spinmeisters of the right used these charges to change the public perception of the issue from "the Republicans are engaged in widespread organized voter suppression and fraud" to "both sides are doing it".

He's sent me an updated summary of the extensive Republican voter suppression efforts in Florida which I've posted after the break. Read More

Distract the Freepers - British Naval Satanist

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Sunday October 24, 2004 · 1:30 AM PDT

2004/10/24 · 01:30

Our main ally in the Iraq War, Britain - is so unfettered by fundamentalist Christians that they have just certified their first Naval Satanist, who will be allowed to perform genuine Satanic Rituals on his navy vessel.

I'm not making this stuff up

If we post this story all over the wing-nut blogsphere, they'll go into fits, realize that the Bush Administration is in league with Satanists, and stay home November 2. Details after the break. Read More

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