The Daily Kos: There was a time when Daily Kos used to be the source of cutting-edge and, well, cutting political commentary online. Not so much anymore. Markos Moulitsas and crew were called out on our Overrated list from the 25 Best Blogs of 2009 but nothing, not even the oil spill or the faltering war in Afghanistan, has really catapulted anything on the Daily Kos into the national consciousness. We're putting them on notice again for another year, in the hopes this once-great blog can find its voice anew.
Time
You people are so overrated.
Discussion of booming? Not in the national consciousness.
Twenty four hour around the clock coverage of the oil spill? Not cutting edge.
The faltering war in Afghanistan. Not being catapulted.
Think of it as the voice of the ordinary person on the street as filtered through the Democratic National Committee.
2008
With the Bush years now just a memory, Kos's blog has lost its mission, and its increasingly rudderless posts read like talking points from the Democratic National Committee.
2009
Here is what the DNC website looks like. Here is what the Daily Kos website looks like. See? Exactly the same.
Slight Seriousness
Daily Kos once did have more focus.
The question, What best brings Democratic electoral victory, was in the background of every conversation.
Michele Bachmann is dangerous and outrageous and funny? Read about it at Huffpo, or any of dozens of liberal blogs.
How does Tarryl Clark, liberal Democratic Farmer Labor candidate, beat Michele Bachmann in an R+7 district? Should she even try? Discuss that at Daily Kos.
I'd like to see some return to that. The election of Barack Obama, and a Congress under the control of Democrats, surely needs brought in under that old conversation?