Pragmatic Progressives vs. Principled Progressives

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday February 19, 2006 · 12:37 AM PST

2006/02/19 · 00:37

Cross posted from MyDD.

After getting feedback on a diary I wrote yesterday suggesting why Santorum would be a better choice for progressive Pennsylvania Democrats than Casey, I went to the beach today to kick back and think things over. Nothing had really crystallized until I read Chris Bowers' diary explaining why supporting Bob Casey Is progressive. I also re-examined Steve Soto's article on giving Dem apparatchiks the benefit of the doubt and reconsidered Rosenberg's suggestion to focus on movement politics within the Democratic Party.

I am not convinced.

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday December 09, 2005 · 5:41 AM PST

2005/12/09 · 05:41

It's time to have it out for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. Are we going to let the DLC Sockpuppets determine the future of the Democratic Party? Are we going to let the DSCC and the DCCC turn their back on fighting Democrats like Chuck Pennacchio, Paul Hackett, Christine Cegalis and Steve Young?

Who speaks for the Democratic Party? Harry Reid would prefer that everyone just keeps their mouth shut. Lieberman seems to think he speaks for the Democratic Party. A lot of DLC Sockpuppets don't want Howard Dean to speak for the Democratic Party.

I've thrown down the gauntlet over at MyDD, Howard Dean Is Wrong Because He's Right. I'm not going to cross-post my very lengthy defense of Howard Dean, but if anyone wants to explain to poor ole' Boat just exactly what time it really is, then bring it on. Show me what you got or STFU about Howard Dean.

Steve Young On John & Ken - Warm Bodies Requested

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday December 04, 2005 · 10:52 PM PST

2005/12/04 · 22:52

FWIW, I notified my Orange County DFA Meet Up group and cross-posted at MyDD.

I confirmed with Steve at his headquarters earlier tonight that he was scheduled to be on the John & Ken show Monday night at 5:00 P.M. On their website John & Ken are pushing a LIVE JOHN AND KEN BROADCAST - MONDAY DECEMBER 5th - 3 pm - 7 pm

CAMPBELL / GILCHRIST DEBATE FOR THE 48TH DISTRICT

The John & Ken show arranged a debate between Republican John Campbell and political newcomer, Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, a member of the American Independent Party. Turns out that Campbell is pulling a weasel move and blowing off the debate due to a "scheduling conflict".

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday December 04, 2005 · 6:51 AM PST

2005/12/04 · 06:51

Nir Rosen has a very short article in The Atlantic Monthly that has been overshadowed by James Fallows' article Why Iraq Has No Army. (subscription only) Excerpts here.

Nir Rosen has written an article that answers every single potential catastrophic outcome in the parade of horribles that area trotted out as reasons America cannot possibly withdraw from Iraq. Nir Rosen's article is titled HYPOTHETICALS: If America Left Iraq: The case for cutting and running. Read More

Steve Young Interview on KABC This Hour

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday December 02, 2005 · 7:19 AM PST

2005/12/02 · 07:19

Steve Young is going to be on KABC sometime this hour. Listen in live.

Doug McIntyre is a conservative talk show host with a difference. I refer to Doug as a Lou Dobbs conservative and he is a principled interviewer. Two days ago Doug ripped into a right wingnut religious conservative wacko, because their complaint about a boycott against Target had no merit.

Doug is tough and fair with all of his guests. Tune in.

Don't Contribute to Veterans For Peace

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 23, 2005 · 8:25 AM PDT

2005/09/23 · 08:25

Cross-posted from MyDD.

I just arrived in D.C. from Covington, LA. The boneheads in charge of the Vets For Peace Katrina Relief Effort are less qualified than Michael Brown was. For some reason the Executive Director of Vets for Peace has decided to engage in a cover up of the gross incompetence of some dude named Gordon, who I believe is the President of Chapter 116. Gordon has managed to co-opt absolute check writing authority for the entire nationwide Vets For Peace account.

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday July 22, 2005 · 7:42 AM PDT

2005/07/22 · 07:42

Who cares about the Patriot Act? Apparently not dkos or the Democratic party.

Bilmon has always been a little hysterical.

What does some bonehead peon like Sociatus know?

This, as the saying goes, is a limited opportunity. Congress will vote to renew and possibly expand the Patriot Act today, tomorrow or early next week. This will all be over long before Roberts has a hearing, before Fitzgerald finishes his investigation.

If Congress renews or expands Section 215, as they seem intent on doing, you can kiss the 4th Amendment good-bye. (More details here and here). What two World Wars and a Civil War could not accomplish, al-Qaeda and the cowardly leadership of George Bush will.

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday July 22, 2005 · 6:52 AM PDT

2005/07/22 · 06:52

A righteous smackdown of the leftwing blogosphere from Sociatus:

Which brings us to progressive and liberal bloggers at their worst- political junkies engaged in "he said she said" gossip, just like MSM pundits only generally with more thought, facts and intelligence.

I have no objections to political junkies getting their fix. But now would be a good time to take brief break from bingeing. Your country really does need you. Chances are, to be brutally honest, nothing you do over the next few days will make a huge difference either way with Rove or Roberts-not unless you have access to information that even Patrick Fitzgerald or the White House does not. But you can make a huge difference-as a citizen and as blogger-with the Patriot Act.

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday June 17, 2005 · 11:32 AM PDT

2005/06/17 · 11:32

Cross posted from Seeing the Forest.

From Yahoo News, 20 minutes ago, U.S. Launches Major Operation in West Iraq . At the end of the story, just prior to "Elsewhere":

Separately, U.S. Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez, of Troy, N.Y., was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths last week of two Army officers at a base north of Baghdad, the military said Thursday.
The military initially attributed the June 7 killings of the officers -- Capt. Phillip T. Esposito and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen -- to an insurgent mortar attack near Tikrit but said further investigation showed the blast pattern was inconsistent with such an attack.

Martinez, 37, a supply specialist with the 42nd Infantry Division, a New York-based National Guard unit, is facing two counts of premeditated murder, according to a military statement.

He was being held at a military jail in Kuwait and has been assigned a military attorney and has the option of hiring a civilian lawyer, the statement said.

Freedom of Conscience is a fundamental value

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday June 14, 2005 · 9:05 AM PDT

2005/06/14 · 09:05

(Cross posted from MyDD)

Freedom of conscience is not only a value, it is the fundamental American value that superceeds all other political values. The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights have freedom of conscience as the fundamental building block of all our rights.

Freedom Forever has a thorough survey of all of the different ways that freedom of conscience impinges on every aspect of American life. The arguments have the standard libertarian flaw of valuing liberty over all other values, but it makes an important point. Freedom of conscience is central to all of our basic freedoms.

As an aside and as a building block, the three great political values are justice, liberty and equality. Of these three fundamental values, from which all other political values are derived, justice is the greatest.

You can imagine a society with too much freedom or too much equality. It is impossible to imagine a society with too much justice.

More in Extended Entry Read More

Democrats are lost in the shuffle

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday April 04, 2005 · 7:07 AM PDT

2005/04/04 · 07:07

That's Ronald Browntein's analysis, not mine. Brownstein has accurately portrayed the dilemma of both the Democratic party and the DLC. Hopes are high that the Democratic party will be able to deftlly handle the imminent showdown on the filibuster. I have my doubts.

Democrats Are Lost in the Shuffle While GOP Holds All the Card: On almost every major question in Washington today, the choice isn't whether to move in a Republican or Democratic direction, but how far in a Republican direction to move.

More in Extended Entry Read More

The Millenium Ecosystem Report

JollyBuddah

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday April 03, 2005 · 10:09 PM PDT

2005/04/03 · 22:09

The U.N. released their Millenium Ecosystem Assessment on Wednesday. Billmon sums it up. We are living beyond our means.

The most comprehensive survey ever into the state of the planet concludes that human activities threaten the Earth's ability to sustain future generations. The report says the way society obtains its resources has caused irreversible changes that are degrading the natural processes that support life on Earth . . . The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was drawn up by 1,300 researchers from 95 nations over four years.

Billmon has the dismal highlights. The short version: The world as we know it is doomed.

More in Extended Entry Read More

Newer
Older

RSS

Pragmatic Progressives vs. Principled Progressives

Howard Dean vs. Harry Reid

Steve Young On John & Ken - Warm Bodies Requested

The Case For Cutting And Running

Steve Young Interview on KABC This Hour

Don't Contribute to Veterans For Peace

Freedom is highly over rated

ACLU Call To Action On The Patriot Act

Old News: Second case of fragging in Iraq (yawn)

Freedom of Conscience is a fundamental value

Democrats are lost in the shuffle

The Millenium Ecosystem Report