We need an equivalent on the left. This is an incredibly cheap, incredibly effective use of Dem money. Its an investment we cannot afford not to make.

How do we get this going? Does anyone have any idea or expirience of how to put a program like this in motion? What would be good organizations to offer this sort of internship? Is there an online analog that could be deployed cheaply and widely to supplement the in-the-beltway brick-and-mortar internship?

Family Circle has called the election every time.  Laura beat Tipper, and Hillary beat Libby and Bar, iirc.

so go: http://www.familycircle.com/marketing/04_cookie_cookoff/index.html

vote early.  vote often.

(emphasis added.)

this is so perverse as to be surreal.  terror and militant islamicism are as pedestrian as Bob Barker in the ME...

but here's the thing:  can a culture thats so embittered as to embrace suicide bombing coexist w a culture that has a game-show-watchin' media-literate middle class?  

He's not a politician i've followed very closely, and i'll be doing as much research as possible bw now and the lunch (early next wk).

I'd like to solicit questions from the dKos community; what should we be asking about?

thanks

When Kos was considering adding advertising to the site, he asked the readership how they felt about.  i hope if there's a strong preference one way or another, he'll respect the community's wishes.

vote & make yr argument in the comments if you so desire.

http://www.liberaloasis.com/bushin41point2.htm

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P A T   R O B E R T S O N   A N D  
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O N   J E S U S"   C A M P A I G N

...And so it is with great sadness that I write this letter urging you to vote against Jesus Christ for President...Today's America should not cater to the bleeding-heart politics of men like Howard Dean and Jesus.  Frankly, the policies advocated by Christ have not only been Un-American, but, dare I say, Un-Christian...

...the assumption that "Bush is a decent guy" will be progressively eclipsed by the "Bush is a traitorous creep" assumption, as a starting point for political conversation...The ONE thing that will give the Dems a fighting chance against Bush is to stop using euphemisms for his lies, corruption, sellouts of Americans, and yes, his protection of traitors.

(emphasis mine)

however, my contention is

if we're to say so, we also need to defuse the "angry dems" meme.  any ideas on how to do it?

so: how best to do that?

no news yet, just a "breaking news" banner.

the Plame affair's finally picking up steam...

a friend got a GOP propeganda email from her dad recasting "The Ant and the Grasshopper" fable as GOP vs whiney tax'n'spend dems.

i wanna write a rebuttal for her; can anyone help dispute this?  full txt below

Rove & Co. have been doing a lot of crowing over the last few days.  The Daily News is running quoting (unattributed) GOoPers, salivating at the prospect of a Dean nomination, saying he'd lose 45 states.  There's a push to make the Dean Unelectablilty Meme the CW.

On the other hand, Kristol seems to be taking Dean pretty seriously, cautioning that Dean is viable. Club for Growth was the first GOP organ to assume Dean was dangerous enough to run an ad against him personally.

All these mixed messages.

Here's the question:  is Rove cocky and foolish, or is this part of his strategy?  (Ok, it's Rove, so its definitely part of his strategy.   Is his strategy well-founded?)  

Does the dismissal of Dean benefit the Democrats,  by lowering expectations to the point that the GOP will be totally unprepared for the Might Of Trippi & DFA?  Or is Rove's Inevitabilty trick gonna work twice in a row?

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Rocker Joan Jett a Howard Dean delegate


Nov. 28, 2003  | ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) --
Does Howard Dean love rock 'n' roll? He'd better or he may hear from one of his potential national convention delegates.

 A slate of convention delegate candidates from New York made public by the Dean presidential campaign includes Joan Jett, whose 1981 song with the Blackhearts "I Love Rock-n-Roll" has become a rock anthem.

 "This whole process intrigues me," Jett said. "I'm stepping into new territory. It's very exciting."

 If she is elected during New York's March 2 presidential primary, Jett would go to the Democratic National Convention next summer as a Dean delegate.

 Jett, 43, said she agrees with Dean's stance against the war in Iraq, though she is a champion of members of the U.S. military.

i can think of worse ways to attract attn & interest than to leverage celebrity star power.

who else would you like to see as a delegate?  what sort of celebrities might interest ppl who don't ordinarily vote?  sports stars?  paris hilton?  oprah?

celebrity endorsement could be a fantastic GOTV tool...

How much is Dubya's tax-break worth to the hyperrich? Enough that the IRS has a new form for the electronic deposit of a tax refund of $1 million or more

What's the best way to use this ammunition against Bush?  Who's got a slogan?

(IRS form here.)