I'm Having A Tantrum

Ottoe

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Thursday May 24, 2007 · 8:58 PM PDT

2007/05/24 · 20:58

Waaaaah

I hate my mommy party

I want a daddy party

I hate my daddy party mommy party

I hate politicians

Go away politicians

I'm scared to buy a house

I hate you mommy daddy party

... wait! there's more!

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Tuesday March 20, 2007 · 1:32 AM PDT

2007/03/20 · 01:32

The New York Times article on the document dump currently up essentially falls right into an obvious trap laid by the dump perpetrators. The story bases a highly dubious claim high up in the piece on a way-too-credulous reading of the very first set of documents. More after the jump.

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 4:25 PM PST

2006/11/12 · 16:25

Big news folks. From Roll Call:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in line to become Speaker in January, is throwing her support to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in the race for Majority Leader, a move that will be an early test of her influence and will weigh heavily on Murtha's contest with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for the post.

What to make of this on the flip. UPDATE: Josh has the full text of Pelosi's letter. UPDATE 9:25 EST: Michael Crowley at TNR (yeah, yeah, I know) writes:

a milder interpretation from someone sympathetic to Hoyer: Given her tight relationship with Murtha, Pelosi's declaration was not a surprise. Expressed in writing, it has much less impact than would a press conference. Her letter does not include an exhortation for other members to follow suit and makes clear she is responding to a request from Murtha to take a position. That said, I notice the letter offers glowing praise for Murtha, including for his role on the campaign trail--an area in which Hoyer's camp has been claiming a big advantage over its Pennsylvania rival.

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 5:49 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 17:49

It's become a truism over the past 48 hours (i.e. over the past aeon in the blogosphere) that the punditocracy's degree of delusion about the campaign to unseat Joe Lieberman can be measured by its total disinterest in the primary campaigns being run against significant Republicans from their right.

Well there's news from the world of Republican primary politics: Rush Limbaugh ballistic on Lincoln Chafee today. Probably not for the first time--but it's the first time we've noticed since the Nedmentum! craze reached full force.

Jay Antenen, an intern at Josh Marshall's media empire, made this great catch over at the TPM Cafe. Transcript after the break. Read More

Washington, Public Life, and Integrity

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Sunday June 25, 2006 · 12:36 AM PDT

2006/06/25 · 00:36

So the Tempest in a Teapot about Jerome's alleged touting and Kos's email shows that Washington is out of touch with how people value integrity. I can buy that.

But Isn't that mainly because Washington is a place where people are so under a microscope that they get used to appearing to have no integrity?

And isn't that problem really just a feature of public life? Read More

!! Plame ID Leaked to Woodward First !! Fitz hauls him in to GJ !*!

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 8:51 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 20:51

So, I really can't believe that I'm the first person to diary this here, as it's been up on Atrios and Josh Marshall for a while, but ...

Bob Woodward has been forced to announce that, guess what, he was told that Wilson's wife was CIA WMD way way back when ... before any other journalist was told!

His spin will be that this is why he's been pooh-poohing the leak as a big deal all over the media. Whew. Clearly his years inside the spin dome have him twirling a whirly. What--"it's no big deal, which is why I'm not on the phone to the prosecutor's office offering to give my testimony"?

We're all just getting our heads around this but some stabs at interp. on the flip. Read More

Theo Epstein: What Should He Run For?

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Monday October 31, 2005 · 4:00 PM PST

2005/10/31 · 16:00

So sports fans, in case you haven't heard the big news:

Theo Epstein stunned the Red Sox and the baseball world this afternoon by walking away from his job as general manager.
Just hours before his deal was set to expire at midnight, Epstein told his bosses and associates at the Red Sox' Yawkey Way offices that he had decided not to accept a three-year deal worth $1.5 million a year, an extension for the contract he signed on Nov. 25, 2002.
Epstein had done some agonizing soul-searching the past few days, torn between staying at the job he had always coveted since his childhood days in Brookline and leaving because of intra-organizational politics and power struggles that he ultimately decided he could not live with any longer.
Money and length of the contract were not issues in the past few days for Epstein, who had lobbied hard for an annual salary of more than $1 million a year.

Well, good for Theo, I say. He won it all, had a great ride--but shouldn't talent like his really be put to some greater public use? Which raises the questions I explore on the flip ... Read More

MetaBREAKING!

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 11:41 AM PDT

2005/10/18 · 11:41

Today's metacontroversy concerns "BREAKING!" headlines. I try to stay away from these metacontroversies but I have an idea about this one that I want to share.

I've long thought we need to supplement the diaries with a similar service devoted to supposedly "BREAKING!" news, posted on an opposite principle; no MORE than 50 words in a post, a links interface in place of the poll interface, and that's it. That way when 10 people simultaneously alert us to what we've known for years (say, that John Hannah is probably cooperating w/ Fitz), it won't displace someone's beautifully-crafted think piece.

Duplicate "BREAKING!"s: no harm, no foul. When things scroll away, well, that's the point, they're no longer "BREAKING!" then are they? It would be a kind of dkos news ticker. Comments and updates could be used to direct people to other links or to where the main discussion of a thread coalesces. Some sort of recommendation system would be an option but would perhaps not be necessary. Read More

Three Unspoken Factors in Miers Mess

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Wednesday October 12, 2005 · 1:09 PM PDT

2005/10/12 · 13:09

It's hard to think outside the box when it comes to the Harriet Miers nomination situation.

In this case, that's because, among other reasons, it is fun to stay in the box and watch the Rethugs and Wingnuts yelling at each other.

But to understand the true stakes of the situation we need to take into account the UNSPOKEN but salient factors at work. To hear the UNSPOKEN spoken, read on ... Read More

Katrina Scandal A Cat 5 Again, On Course To Smash White House

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Tuesday September 13, 2005 · 11:56 PM PDT

2005/09/13 · 23:56

Piecing together two very juicy posts from Josh Marshall within the parameters mapped out by Sunday's MSM tick-tocks on the Hurricane, I now forcast that THIS SCANDAL, HAVING TAKEN OUT BROWNIE, HAS PAUSED ONLY TO GATHER STEAM. IT WILL REGAIN FULL FORCE AND SLAM INTO THE WHITE HOUSE SHORTLY.

Details after the jump ... Read More

DIARIES. To whom do you SUSCRIBE? To whom do you LINK?

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 4:15 PM PDT

2005/09/09 · 16:15

Sorry for the shouting. Just wanted to call attention to a great point made by Pyrrho in a diary that is quickly scrolling away now, and that unfortunately got filled with a flame war over diary policing, but that needs to not be neglected: a point about how we can cope with the fast-rushing diary stream. Read More

Bush on GMA: What a Disgrace

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 6:12 AM PDT

2005/09/01 · 06:12

"Communications is Down"

"We're trying to get a handle on it."

"I do get briefed."

"I fully understand people wanting things to have happened yesterday."

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

[Asked if there is enough money]

"We can win the war on terror, and we will win the war on terror. And we will help the people in Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama as well."

Most of that is from the excerpts showed live. Suspiciously, the sound is out on the full-length video on the GMA page. I bet there is lots there that is even worse.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/

Wow. I guess they should've sent the 101st Airborne PR dept. to Washington not to Baton Rouge. Even ABCs editing couldn't keep Bush from looking like a total asshat. Read More

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Washington, Public Life, and Integrity

!! Plame ID Leaked to Woodward First !! Fitz hauls him in to GJ !*!

Theo Epstein: What Should He Run For?

MetaBREAKING!

Three Unspoken Factors in Miers Mess

Katrina Scandal A Cat 5 Again, On Course To Smash White House

DIARIES. To whom do you SUSCRIBE? To whom do you LINK?

Bush on GMA: What a Disgrace