Young Wisconsin Voters Kicked Butt; Carville Sucks

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Saturday November 18, 2006 · 7:25 AM PST

2006/11/18 · 07:25

What we thought was the case, Biggest Wisconsin Winner has now been verified nationally. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story tells it all:

State's Democrats Reap Rewards of Big Turnout of Young Voters

Young voters carried more political weight in Wisconsin than in virtually any other state in the Nov. 7 midterm elections.
Voters age 18-29 made up 17% of the Wisconsin electorate - more than anywhere else except Montana (also 17%). Nationally, young voters made up between 12% and 13% of the electorate. ..."We lost all these college-town seats," Janesville congressman Paul Ryan said. "The marriage amendment clearly complicated the turnout situation, which did not play to our benefit in many ways."(story continues below).

A national strategy built on a solid base of young voters is the future for this nation and the Democratic Party.
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Biggest Wisconsin Winner

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Thursday November 16, 2006 · 2:52 PM PST

2006/11/16 · 14:52

Marc Pocan finished off his post the other day asking the question, "Who was the biggest winner of the state 2006 elections?"

Interesting question. It could be Governor Doyle with his comfortable election margin and a sympathetic State Senate. It could be J. B. Van Hollen, bucking a state wide and national Democratic sweep. It could be those newly elected Democrats to the Senate, or maybe even the newly elected Dems in the Assembly.
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November 7, 2006

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 6:20 AM PST

2006/11/15 · 06:20

Crossposted at Waxing America
Here in Wisconsin and around the nation, Republicans are assessing their losses and Democrats are congratulating themselves on the win. The blogosphere is strewn with opinions, so I am going to spare you the grief of citing them and myself the aggravation of documenting assertions and claims.

Why the Democrats won: they got more votes.

Deeper analysis: the assertion is in italics.

This was a conservative Democratic victory; look at Casey in Pennsylvania. Given Casey's margin, any Democrat could win in this Democratic state in a Democratic year. More important, first term Democrats with clear liberal credentials won in the State Houses and the Congress.

This was a progressive Democratic victory. Not really. Democrats are starting to learn not to run from left Read More

In John Conyers We Trust

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 6:57 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 06:57

Crossposted at Waxing America

With the change of control of the House, Representative John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan, can be assumed to become the next Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Having been in Congress since 1964, Conyers is only Judiciary Committee member to have served during the impeachment proceedings for both Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

His experience should serve us well, as there will be great pressure to investigate both President Bush and Vice Presdent Cheney, and to use the findings to prepare Articles of Impeachment against both. Conyers can be trusted to run a fair and impartial process, much like Peter Rodino did in 1974 during the Watergate scandal, and unlike Henry Hyde in 1998, Read More

Election 2006 Wisconsin and National

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 5:08 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 05:08

Crossposted at Waxing America
Conservative pundits are wailing about how Nancy Pelosi does not have a solid majority in the House. I can remember the day when a Democratic majority was the standard for her becoming Speaker. It was Monday of this week.

Conservative pundits are pointing out that the Democratic victory was achieved by the party moving to the center. Foolish Republicans. Yes, conservatives like Casey won in Pennsylvania, but given the size of the victory over Santorum and the loss of Ford in in Tennessee, it is clear that being a conservative Democrat was not the key to winning. Read More

Mark Green: Homicidal Orphan

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Tuesday November 07, 2006 · 9:49 AM PST

2006/11/07 · 09:49

Crossposted at Waxing America

The young boy was found guilty of murdering his parents. He stood before the judge who asked him if he had anything to say before sentencing. The boy said, "You honor, I deserve mercy." The judge was stunned and asked, "Why?"
The boy replied, "Sir, I am an orphan."

I watched the Mark Green attack ads for one last time Monday night. Many of the critical problems facing Wisconsin were created by Green when he was in the legislature from 1993-1999. Now Green uses these very issues as a club against Governor Doyle.

First of all, Green is not a fiscal conservative. In the heady revenue years of the 1990's Green never advocated, supported, and participated in efforts to save tax dollars for a rainy day. All he did was spend, spend, spend every cent the state collected.

Then Green voted for all of the budgets that lowered state revenues for the University of Wisconsin, resulting in higher tuition for Wisconsin residents and even greater tuition hikes for out of state students. Read More

Russ Should Run

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Tuesday October 10, 2006 · 7:05 PM PDT

2006/10/10 · 19:05

Both Waxingamerica's principal, Paul Soglin, and its editor, Barry Orton, have been supporters of Russ Feingold as long as we've known him. That goes back to 1973 in Paul's case and the early 1980s in Barry's. We've worked with him when he was a State Senator and supported his campaigns. As Wisconsin's junior US Senator, Russ has done us proud on too many issues to list here. He's been dead-on right from the beginning on the big ones: Iraq, the Patriot Act, our Constitutional civil liberties.

So should he run for president starting early next year? Even when he's a long shot for lots of reasons? We say yes.

Because the first president to follow two terms of George W. Bush absolutely must be a true leader. A leader in a world with very serious problems and a leader of principle. Read More

Islamofascism: Why We Are Losing the War

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 5:30 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 05:30

Islamofascism: There is no such thing. The belief that it exists is one of the reasons why we are losing the war on terrorism and in Iraq.

Fascism embraces the organic state. Fascism emanated from the amalgamation into modern Germany and Italy of the fragmented districts and tiny states that populated nineteenth century Europe . Fascism is nationalistic rejection of liberalism, rejection of representative democracy, and the celebration of nationalistic myths.

In Germany and Italy, fascism came to power through democratic elections.

We would not be in this mess if in 1967, when Dick Cheney and I were graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, our Vice President, the architect of the phony war on Islamofascism, had come over to the History Department and attended the lectures of Professors George Mosse and Harvey Goldberg. As Mosse wrote in The Culture of Western Europe: Read More

Cyrus Nowrasteh's Wikipedia Bio-His Own Changing Path

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 10:53 AM PDT

2006/09/11 · 10:53

In several instances the fact-challenged Nowtasteh claimed that his"family had to flee Iran when it was taken over by Islamic fundamentalists."(Original Wikipedia bio.)

Suddenly his current Wikipedia biography omits this 'fact.' He was born in the Boulder, Colorado and graduated from Madison West High School in 1974. It is curious that he claimed that his family fled from Islamic fundamentalists who did not come to power until the late 1970s. If one fled Iran from 1953 to 1977, you feared Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who returned to power with a CIA coup in August, 1953.

For more documentation, see my previous Dailykos post or Cyrus Nowrasteh's Path to 9/11 Political Distortion: His Own Fabricated Biography

Cyrus Nowrasteh's Path to 9/11 Political Distortion: His Own Fabricated Biography

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Saturday September 09, 2006 · 11:04 AM PDT

2006/09/09 · 11:04

According to Libertas: A Forum for Conservative Thought on Film:

Nowrasteh told us that he has always gravitated towards true stories. A Persian-American whose family had to flee Iran when it was taken over by Islamic fundamentalists...

The Wikipedia entry for Cyrus Nowrasteh states:

Cyrus Nowrasteh a Persian-American who was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. His "family had to flee Iran when it was taken over by Islamic fundamentalists." (Yes, I added the emphasis.)

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 7:50 AM PDT

2006/09/06 · 07:50

Ed Schultz nailed another one on Tuesday. The man who speaks to all of America hammered Congressional Democrats for making a no-confidence vote on Rumsfeld the centerpiece of their post Labor Day election strategy.

Schultz was correct when he suggested health insurance, tax equity, and labor issues be the focus of a November Democratic win.

The negative attacks on the misguided war in Iraq have served their purpose for two years. They exposed the weakness, the criminality, and the danger of the Republican position. Now it is time for the Dem's to go positive and submit a platform.
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Mark Green: Do You Deny The Existence of Gene Therapy?

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 8:09 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 20:09

Conservative Wisconsin republican Congressman Mark Green is running for govenor on an anti-stem cell platform.

The devout people I know believe that medical breakthroughs in science are a gift from their god. I am not going to argue theology.

No matter where it came from it is a gift. And it took dedicated researchers, great public institutions, a government commitment, and a belief in the scientific method.

What do you have to say Mark Green?

Scientists use gene therapy to destroy tumours

For the first time scientists have destroyed cancer using genetically-engineered cells from a person's own blood.

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