Netroots Nation Pub Quiz 2011 Video

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Tuesday June 21, 2011 · 2:43 PM PDT

2011/06/21 · 14:43

If you didn't attend the Netroots Nation Pub Quiz this year, you missed a really good time. This year we had a much bigger room all to ourselves, plenty of nachos, alcohol, and Democracy. Yes, I said Democracy...

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What's the correct name for the nation of Burma?

40 votes Vote Now!

What's the correct name for the nation of Burma?

Burma

40 votes

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Friday May 06, 2011 · 3:16 PM PDT

2011/05/06 · 15:16

Hey Kossacks! As you may know, the 2011 Netroots Nation convention is coming up soon. Every year we have a staff of photographers who cover the event so that we can share the experience of what happens there with the Internet. Typically we have three photographers cover the event, but this year we are one short. So if you're a photographer, and would like to volunteer to lend us a hand this year, read on...

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Monday May 02, 2011 · 12:25 PM PDT

2011/05/02 · 12:25

Bin Laden is dead, and overall this is a good thing. But deep down, I wish he would have survived and that we had captured him. Sure he deserves death, but I think we could do better than that...

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Wednesday January 05, 2011 · 9:59 AM PST

2011/01/05 · 09:59

So here we are, the start of the Republican GOP's insane clown posse, ready to talk about the deficit while they make no proposals to improve the situation. We can look forward to a show down in the near future in which the GOP claims they are going to hold the debt ceiling hostage. If Democrats don't agree to their cuts they claim they will not extend the debt ceiling. Not only is this an empty threat because the GOP, for all their insanity isn't THAT insane, but I think there's a way out of it for Obama and the country.

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Thursday December 09, 2010 · 12:49 PM PST

2010/12/09 · 12:49

There's an analogy I've made about Obama's method of negotiation here and elsewhere comparing it to a person buying a car. In my analogy I describe somebody going into a car dealership and yelling at the top of their lungs, "I AM NOT LEAVING HERE WITHOUT A CAR!" The sales people salivate and get right down to "negotiating". In the end the guy walks out with a car, sure, but he's ended up paying a hell of a lot more for it than he should have.

The reason why Obama never seems to get the change we want is because he has never made walking away an option. Republicans know full well when they negotiate with him that they need not give up a thing. They can sit there while Obama hands them everything they've ever wanted because they know he won't walk away from the table.

This is what drives me nuts, but it's also what drives me nuts about us.

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What can Obama expect from you in 2012?

130 votes Vote Now!

What can Obama expect from you in 2012?

My unwavering support

40 votes

Jury is still out

20 votes

I can't vote for him again

64 votes

Pie

1 vote

Cake

2 votes

240 dollars worth of pudding. Awwwwww yeaaaaaah...

3 votes

Why Obama is wrong

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 1:33 PM PST

2010/12/08 · 13:33

I know, yet another diary about Obama and the tax cuts. I'm going to try to make this relatively short and sweet but there's a point that I think is getting missed in other diaries I've seen.

The general gist of the pro-Obama diaries is that we got some valuable stimulus measures out of this compromise. That yes, it's bad for the deficit, but that's not the critical problem right now and we need to address unemployment first. That is true and all well and good, but HOW he is doing this is fundamentally flawed.

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Thursday September 16, 2010 · 8:07 AM PDT

2010/09/16 · 08:07

I saw this front page post by Joan McCarter in which we find out that:

[E]conomic research suggests that tax cuts, though difficult for politicians to resist in election season, have limited ability to bolster the flagging economy because they are essentially a supply-side remedy for a problem caused by lack of demand.

I thought about this a bit and came to realize that a government plan to buy weasels would be better than tax cuts for economic stimulus.

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Tuesday September 14, 2010 · 1:24 PM PDT

2010/09/14 · 13:24

There's all this talk of an enthusiasm gap and punishing Democrats but I suspect this is a very overblown meme. Yes there is a lack of enthusiasm amongst Democrats this year, but I suspect most of us here are doing exactly what we always do. That is:

Vote for Democrats

Work hard for progressives

Give money to progressives

Has any of that really changed? No.

What is changing is that the country as a whole is returning to the voting patterns that had been established back before Bush took office. A polarized and narrowly divided country with a split house and a split senate. We haven't changed and we haven't given up, it's just that the country is going back to the way it was.

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Monday July 26, 2010 · 2:34 PM PDT

2010/07/26 · 14:34

Hello Kossacks! If you don't know me, I'm one of the staff photographers for the Netroots Nation convention. I just got back from Vegas and finally have the best of the photos uploaded for viewing. So I wanted to post a quick diary to share some highlights from that. I also have a special bonus video that you may find amusing.

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 8:57 AM PST

2010/01/12 · 08:57

It is increasingly looking like any health care reform that passes at this point is largely going to be based on the Senate version of the bill. While there was an initial strong back lash against this, the progressive movement has largely broken into two camps:

Support the bill as a step in the right direction and something to build on

Fight the bill pushing Congress to come back with something better through reconciliation

This split exists for a variety of reasons, but I think a key element that's largely been left ignored is simply this: trust.

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The health care bill will...

24 votes Vote Now!

The health care bill will...

Make things worse

13 votes

Make things better

7 votes

Leave things mostly as they are today

4 votes

Wherein I gloat on behalf of NN

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Thursday January 07, 2010 · 1:45 PM PST

2010/01/07 · 13:45

If you caught the open thread earlier you might have seen this quote about Sarah Palin speaking at the Tea Party Nation convention:

This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin’s decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention — while eschewing the much higher-profile Conservative Political Action Conference — had anything to with money. Conservative blogger Dan Riehl is reporting, based on "forwarded communications," that Palin is making at least $75,000 and at most $100,000 for her speech. Tickets for the speech along are going for $349 — tickets for the whole convention are $549.

Wow! That's a spendy event. Good thing we do things a little bit differently over here on the left.

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Are you going to Netroots Nation '10

69 votes Vote Now!

Are you going to Netroots Nation '10

Definitely

25 votes

Maybe

18 votes

Nope

20 votes

Already registered

6 votes

Health Care Impasse Solution: I has it!

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 10:05 AM PST

2009/12/18 · 10:05

I've been going back and forth with a few people over the last couple of days debating whether to pass the bill or not. A recent thread of conversation has come up here about yanking the mandate as a fair compensation for losing the public option. This is problematic though because it would get blocked by the same people who are blocking attachment of a public option.

So I have another option...

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Best way to go at this point...

46 votes Vote Now!

Best way to go at this point...

Kill the bill

16 votes

Try to get the mandate out then pass it

8 votes

Pass bill but then filibuster til we get the public option's day in cour

12 votes

Move to Canada

10 votes

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