And the jackals cash in

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Friday November 10, 2006 · 9:10 AM PST

2006/11/10 · 09:10

You know what's happening right now on the Hill, right? Lobbyists that congress members hadn't heard from in years are calling "just to check in". Democratic congressional staffers are being taken out to dinner and for drinks by people who, by all accounts, they agree with, but whose money ain't clean. Half the long-term Democratic staff has one foot out the door and it's aimed at K-Street. Read More

FL-16 A Democrat gay-baiting?

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Monday September 04, 2006 · 8:28 PM PDT

2006/09/04 · 20:28

What, pray tell, is Rep. Mark Foley's (R-FL) "dirty little secret"? To hear his Democratic challenger Tim Mahoney tell it, it's the fact that Foley is a Republican who campaigns to the left of his caucus to confuse people into thinking he's a Democrat. But that's not what Mahoney's language, specifically using the phrase "dirty little secret," is meant to evoke. Indeed, Mahoney is using coded language that's only barely code for anyone who's been living in South Florida for the last 12 years of Foley's tenure. Foley is gay, despite having never acknowledged as much publicly, and Mahoney's despicable gay-baiting ought to be denounced up and down this community, if not by the Democratic caucus itself.
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What's coming

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Saturday June 03, 2006 · 6:57 PM PDT

2006/06/03 · 18:57

I probably shouldn't be diarying this. I don't have much to say about it, and I would be strained to write something of middling value. But, as with many people here, I feel strongly on occasion about the kind of stories that should get attention. Usually I don't bother because the bases tend to get covered. But here is this link to the Washington Times that I found on the Drudge Report called "Bush Circles the Wagons."

Another strategy that we're all familiar with is Rove's tendency to broadcast his strategies before actually implementing them. Perhaps someone somewhere has accurately dissected why he does that (Please feel free to contribute your theories...it seems to me overwhelmingly complex.) But here's the next thing in the pipeline, a brand-spanking spiffy new strategy to goose the masses: (the rest just below)
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Totally fucking insane

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Saturday March 04, 2006 · 7:43 PM PST

2006/03/04 · 19:43

Why has not a single person here mentioned the fact that Bush's deal with India is totally fucking insane?! He's playing Russian Roueltte without actually being a player, perhaps a moderate. He's setting both India and Pakstan up to destroy each other. It's almost childishly beyond faux-strategy. Breaking some treaties is more or less totally uninteresting to those involved. India has permission, Pakistan gets stiffed. They have to bed for attention. But they won't. india is not america's client state, nor will they be, i hope. india and china are more likely to unite with each other than the US has of winning either one over to her side. good luck.

Eyes on the prize

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Sunday February 26, 2006 · 7:25 AM PST

2006/02/26 · 07:25

Only the passionate and minimally precise part of me wants to see Lieberman go down that badly. Ultimately I've got to know that, at best, Lieberman's kowtowing to the Fox News set has an impossible to measure impact on the national political discourse or future Democratic fortunes. That is to say, Lieberman really pisses us off, but it's entirely unclear what improves for us once that score is settled. Meanwhile, the two most important raaces of the year are happening without drawing even a relevant percentage of the attention that's been lavished on Lieberman and Cueller. And if we don't win the governorships of Florida and Ohio, forget about 2008. Read More

Demonizing Women and Wombs...the End of Red States

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Friday February 24, 2006 · 5:05 AM PST

2006/02/24 · 05:05

I'm not an angry guy usually. I'm a pragmatist. But like some of the posters here, I am fucking infuriated and fearful of what's coming. For years the Christian Right has made scared young women and noble doctors out to be vicious killers for pseudo-religio-sexual reasons. But the pragmatist in me says, Fuck it. Let them pass all the abortion bans they want. Viva states' rights. Let's let them pass abortion bans, hand out rifles at the corner store, ban condoms, hang gays, whatever. The thing is, these idiots are idealistic in such a destructive way that they don't even know they're about to destroy their own homes. Read More

The logic of protest (and how to end a war)

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Friday November 11, 2005 · 3:48 AM PST

2005/11/11 · 03:48

Look, I don't hate America, but I do hate the corporations that have made it an unpleasant place to be. Companies like Fluor and Halliburton, currently serving up relatively little in Iraq for billions of dollars, are prime movers in this world. Arguably, an Iraq war would have never taken place if there were no private-sector investors in the project.

So what does the logic of protest tell us? Boycott. Boycott everything that has the name Fluor or Halliburton or Parsons, etc. associated with it.

Why? Because now more than ever the consumer is the shriveled gossamer thread holding the whole freaking system up. In spite of the obvious abuse consumer culture has wreaked on us, it affords us a power that could potentially end a war.
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Take it away, Armando

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Wednesday May 18, 2005 · 11:39 PM PDT

2005/05/18 · 23:39

Well, Brooks was close to providing balance, and in fact, his critique of leftish websites rings partially true when he writes:

The Nation and leftish Web sites are in a frenzy to prove that the story is probably true even if Newsweek is retracting it.

I wouldn't call it a frenzy, but I think it's fair to say we're going to see it proven. But whatever, per Armando, this guy can't help himself:

Meanwhile, the left side of the blogosphere has erupted with fury over the possibility that American interrogators might not have flushed a Koran down the toilet.

I'll be honest, I'm not that upset about the possibility that a Koran wasn't flushed down the toilet. I'm just not, and I haven't seen anyone here who is. Somewhat incredulous but accepting, yes. Upset, no. Take it away, Armando.

Rossi isn't going gently

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Wednesday May 18, 2005 · 12:46 AM PDT

2005/05/18 · 00:46

The GOP is sending out a new bullshit e-mail. I don't know enough about the Washington State governor's race to comment. but I figured people here could help clear the air before the press got all uppity on account of the GOP saying 'jump'. Go below...
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Nazis everywhere!!!

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Wednesday April 20, 2005 · 5:01 AM PDT

2005/04/20 · 05:01

I don't fault people for having as warped a perspective on Nazi and German history as they do. Not everyone has had the benefit of living in Berlin and among Germans as I have. Still, in the interest of intellectual clarity and rigor, people should probably take a couple of seconds before getting uppity with the word Nazi. Ratzinger deserves crictism on a number of counts, and his past warrants the scrutiny it will no doubt receive. But the attempts to paint him with a Nazi brush--as the Brit tabloids did today--is terribly prejudicial, and as a staunch advocate of historical accuracy and fairness, I feel compelled to issue a quick defense of both Germany and Ratzinger. Read More

State Senators aren't immune

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Monday April 04, 2005 · 6:56 AM PDT

2005/04/04 · 06:56

A short time ago, Kos made pithy use of polling data to demonstrate what a rarified group of total nerds we are. Putting this observation, namely, that very few people know who Ann Coulter is, into context is a crucial next step. (Please bear with me during the post as I iterate some points you already know.) Indeed, in an ever-splintering media environment, different groups of people are exposed to vastly different types of information. The implications loomed large this weekend while I was hanging out with a Republican State Senator from South Dakota. It quickly became apparent that we had completely different understandings of even basic truths and facts concerning the Schiavo case. And I think this short story offers substantial reason to heed eugene's call to arms. We really ought to be loudly boycotting the news channels, not merely avoiding them for self-gratifying chest puffery.

Amplification of good ideas

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Monday January 31, 2005 · 9:43 AM PST

2005/01/31 · 09:43

Someone had a great idea about issuing a pre-SOTU to keep Bush's speech writers on their toes. Either someone was listening or had already thought of it, since Reid and Pelosi did just that today.

Whereas good behavior should be rewarded, and
Whereas DKos is as much a party organ as it is a people's platform, and
Whereas only sufficient amplification of the leadership's message will force the press to take seriously the contrasting policy views of our parties,

I hereby call for the amplification of this story. That's the only reason I'm posting about it. We have the power to introduce important ideas and stories to the discourse now. Let's make use of it, Drudge-style.

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