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Okay, here is the list I chose these songs from: en.wikipedia.org/… Feel free to add more songs, in the comments, as you see fit. John Mayer, at number 87: Such a thoughtful song. Rascal Flatts, at number 76: The journey is the destination. Ha! Bon...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 12:12 PM PDT
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This week marked my first anniversary as part of the Daily Kos staff, and what a year it’s been. Working here has taken me across the nation, allowed me to meet so many of you great folks in New Orleans at Netroots Nation, and feel more connected to...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Dec 15, 2018 at 09:56 AM PST
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This front page post by Sher Watts Spooner on proposed Democratic messaging for the 2018 midterms shows the power of white male identity politics, in large part because it's still white males that run a party whose rank and filers are increasingly not...
by antimodal
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on Sun Jul 23, 2017 at 11:00 AM PDT
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The United States Senate career of Barack Obama began on January 4, 2005 and ended on November 16, 2008. His approval ratings while in office during those early years were often around 65 percent. Once elected to the chamber he became the fifth...
by Robertbuccellato
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on Tue Dec 20, 2016 at 08:06 AM PST
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Remember December 2004 and January 2005? I do.
No sooner had we seen the last ballot tallies of an election that was more mandate-confirming than this one ever will be, than the Republicans immediately started to act on that perceived mandate and...
by RobRoy2
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on Sun Dec 04, 2016 at 09:21 AM PST
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Josh Marshall has an excellent piece on how to save Medicare (and probably Obamacare as well).
He’s been having his reporters go around Capitol Hill trying to pin Republicans down on their Medicare stances. To a person, they’re all saying things...
by RobRoy2
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on Thu Dec 01, 2016 at 05:15 PM PST
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Donald Trump has had a bunch to say about Hillary Clinton’s stint as a senator from New York. In Sunday night’s debate, for instance: “She has been a disaster as a senator. A disaster.” And “you were not an effective senator.” Which means Donald Trump...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Oct 11, 2016 at 07:41 AM PDT
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My commentary: It was going to be interesting to see who reported their numbers first. If Trump really did raise $18MM in one day last month, he should have had a really impressive haul. If he kicked in $50MM of his own money as he was asked to do,...
by FredFred
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on Sat Oct 01, 2016 at 01:21 PM PDT
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An interesting new study about media bias was conducted recently by Harvard. The results perhaps aren’t all that surprising to those of us who’ve been closely following press coverage throughout the primary process, but go a long way in shedding light...
by capkronos
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on Sun Jun 26, 2016 at 08:39 PM PDT
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August, 2006.
We're deep into the Bush years, the GOP controls both houses, we're four years at war with no end in sight, New Orleans is washed away, the economy is tanking, and Mike Douglas has just died. The upcoming midterms provide a faint...
by carp
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on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Should Bernie Sanders apologize for his 1994 vote for the Crime Bill? I think it’s a fair question, because when Sanders voted YEA for this bill he was as complicit as Bill Clinton was signing it into law.
I know folks enjoy posting the videos of...
by First Amendment
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on Sun Apr 10, 2016 at 07:30 AM PDT
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There is a school of thought that the crash of ’08 was not the bottom of the current economic cycle, and that we’re due for yet another, and possibly worse crash. For example, progressive Thom ...
by Seitanist
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on Sun Aug 16, 2015 at 07:12 PM PDT
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Evolution of Congressional Elections in Connecticut with maps, 2006-present - Now Updated with 2014! Author's note: I published this analysis containing only the 2006-2012 elections in May of 2014. This diary has been updated to also include the 2014 election results, analysis, and comparisons with ...
by ProudNewEnglander
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on Mon Jul 13, 2015 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Dennis Hastert looked like the clean member of Republican House leadership in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He didn't have affairs, that we knew of, like Newt Gingrich or Bob Livingston. He wasn't indicted for campaign finance violations or involved...
by Laura Clawson
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on Fri May 29, 2015 at 07:28 AM PDT
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by kos
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on Fri Nov 14, 2014 at 07:31 AM PST
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Sen. Claire McCaskill's 2006 win was helped by a minimum wage measure on the Missouri ballot.
Republicans blocking a minimum wage increase (which is to say, basically all the Republicans in Congress)
by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Mar 10, 2014 at 09:14 AM PDT
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I decided to take a break from redistricting diaries and instead give all of you more information about my home state of Connecticut. I thus decided to present to you a detailed analysis of the past ...
by ProudNewEnglander
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on Thu May 15, 2014 at 07:00 AM PDT
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So the Illinois House may be voting on marriage equality today. The reason they are able to even have the vote today has its roots back in 2006, when myself and many volunteers kept a referendum ...
by ChgoBrad
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on Fri May 31, 2013 at 06:16 AM PDT
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In honor of great speeches and roasts at White House Correspondents dinners, and in light of all of the recent revisionist history of Bush the Lesser, I give you the best one of all time: Stephen ...
by joanneleon
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on Sat Apr 27, 2013 at 07:25 PM PDT
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who accidentally shot Texas attorney Harry Whittington during a 2006 quail-hunting trip , told FOX News that he thinks that armed school guards are a "more ...
by DownstateDemocrat
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on Tue Jan 29, 2013 at 04:29 PM PST
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