Levin on Iraq

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Sunday April 08, 2007 · 8:34 AM PDT

2007/04/08 · 08:34

Did anyone else just see Carl Levin on This Week? He came out strongly against cutting off funding for the war.

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Wednesday April 04, 2007 · 9:04 AM PDT

2007/04/04 · 09:04

To Paraphrase Phil Ochs

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Monday April 02, 2007 · 10:26 AM PDT

2007/04/02 · 10:26

Here's one way to understand the politics of the Feingold-Reid proposal today: they're using the potential leverage of a Bush veto on the Supplemental bill to defuse Mitch McConnell's filibuster threats.

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Thursday March 29, 2007 · 12:20 PM PDT

2007/03/29 · 12:20

Sampson's testimony is really striking for insight into a venal patronage mill. Sampson was charged with hiring and firing. This is a very serious responsibility -- not as serious as going to war, or life-and-death budget decisions, but one that many Americans can more directly relate to. Nor was he just charged with hiring and firing anyone: these were the leading prosecutors in the U.S.

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Monday February 12, 2007 · 5:22 AM PST

2007/02/12 · 05:22

I started reading the artist-currently-known-as-big-tent-dem when he penned some of the most persuasive and substantive posts advocating Wesley Clark's 2004 candidacy. I'm glad to read his diary this morning about Obama.

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Saturday February 10, 2007 · 12:46 PM PST

2007/02/10 · 12:46

I think there is a categorical confusion between two kinds of unity at stake in Obama's insurgent campaign for the presidency. One view is exemplified in David Sirota's diary today:"But he also seems to believe that the reason our country has such challenges is because all sides of every issue have not come together in unity."

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Wednesday December 27, 2006 · 9:19 AM PST

2006/12/27 · 09:19

I was struck this morning when reading new diaries on Daily Kos about what seems like the ever-more inevitable escalation that Bush will propose shortly after the New Year. Predictions are appropriately on our minds these days, facing this possibility of increased violence and intensified war in Iraq. Sadly, we need to remember that Bush has always had two "enemies" in mind when he has made major decisions about Iraq: an enemy abroad, which goes by many names (axis-of-evil, dead-enders, terrorists, al qaeda, extremists, insurgents, etc) and an enemy right here that has one name: the Democratic party.

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Tuesday October 24, 2006 · 1:30 PM PDT

2006/10/24 · 13:30

This is good -- the Washington Post has decided that Limbaugh's shocking and cruel attack on Michael J. Fox is actually newsworthy. If other news organizations pick this up, it will be great for our fight in controlling today's news cycle -- and could actually have a profound impact beyond this. Read More

$7.8 Million in one day??

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Saturday October 07, 2006 · 3:58 AM PDT

2006/10/07 · 03:58

According to this NY Times article, the National Republican Campaign Committee announced a one-day expenditure on Friday totalling 7.8 million dollars. The Times provides an interesting breakdown of what was spent on which of 30 House races (27 of them, not surprisingly, with a Republican incumbent). Also not surprising: 97% of the money was identified as anti-Democratic rather than pro-Repulican (mostly through negative tv ads I think). Read More

Why Gore Should Run: It's the SCOTUS, stupid

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Sunday July 02, 2006 · 11:53 AM PDT

2006/07/02 · 11:53

Reading the Sunday paper today I suddenly had a thought about Al Gore and what is at stake in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. What's arguably the single most important issue in the presidential election is before us this week but, for various reasons, it is not something emphasized in our political culture. I'm not thinking here of the Iraq war, taxes and the economy, energy policy or the environment but rather the (continued) changing composition of the Supreme Court. Read More

BS Reigns: The Wa-Po on Cindy Sheehan

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Saturday August 13, 2005 · 4:20 AM PDT

2005/08/13 · 04:20

The front-page piece is twenty-four paragraphs long. It's a remarkable document about what passes for news in the best print-media today. We don't have to look very far to see that the print-media doesn't, anymore, drive such news however. As Paragraph 5 reads in full:

No one watching cable television news this week, dominated by coverage of Sheehan's crusade, could doubt that they largely achieved their aim.

Let's start here. Think about this sentence/paragraph for a minute. What a craven admission that the Washington Post will no longer report the news but rather kinda-sorta "watch" the news being reported somewhere else, and then report on that. Read More

Bush to Black Men: Drop Dead (but we won't make you pay into Social Security)

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Wednesday January 26, 2005 · 5:35 AM PST

2005/01/26 · 05:35

Shorter Scott McClellan: Black men die more quickly; we want to address this problem by dismantling Social Security.

Remarkably, McClellan doesn't make this comment at a Klan meeting, but rather, according to the NY Times, in the wake of Bush's conference with "African-American religious and community leaders"

Mr. Bush also encouraged the leaders to support his plan to add personal investment accounts to Social Security, which White House officials say could benefit blacks because they have a shorter average life span than whites and end up putting more money into the retirement system than they take out.
African-American men "have had a shorter life span than other sectors of America," Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, told reporters. "And this will enable them to build a nest egg of their own and be able to pass that nest egg on to their survivors."

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Washington Post story on Limbaugh/Michael J Fox (updated)

$7.8 Million in one day??

Why Gore Should Run: It's the SCOTUS, stupid

BS Reigns: The Wa-Po on Cindy Sheehan

Bush to Black Men: Drop Dead (but we won't make you pay into Social Security)