Dayton's 'blindsided' meme is BS

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Thursday March 16, 2006 · 4:50 PM PST

2006/03/16 · 16:50

By now, everyone has seen lameduck Dayton backstab Senator Feingold, for which Feingold responded:

In a statement issued to The Associated Press, Feingold said, "I agree with what Sen. Dayton said in January when he called the president's illegal wiretapping program an 'abuse of power.' Now it is up to senators to decide how to respond to that abuse of power.

"The Senate has a responsibility to uphold the rule of law by condemning the president's decision to break the law and I hope my colleagues will listen to what their constituents think during the upcoming congressional recess."

But Dayton also whined like a little baby about being "blindsided" by the proposal. Not telling the whole caucus has happened before, at the time many of us applauded.

Bob Brigham

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 5:11 PM PST

2006/03/14 · 17:11

Some good news from the Constitution State. First off, Tom D'Amore appears to be on board with Ned Lamont. There was a big discussion after Lamont met with D'Amore and Lamont remarked, "I don't know if I'm feisty enough for this guy." According to the Courant, Lamont is feisty enough:

Thomas D'Amore Jr., a former Republican who managed Lowell P. Weicker Jr.'s successful third-party campaign for governor, stood in the back.

He will act as an adviser to Lamont, who also has consulted with Weicker, the man Lieberman unseated in 1988.

But that wasn't the best news from today's story:

Bob Brigham

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Saturday March 11, 2006 · 1:49 PM PST

2006/03/11 · 13:49

In my mind, one of the most inspiring times to read blogs was during the fallout from our losses in 2004. For me, this was a special time because we were able to focus on what we wanted from our Democratic Party. Markos started the "Reform Democrat" meme, which helped shape the debate in the race for DNC Chair.

As short time later, Kid Oakland pushed the effort further with To Be a Fighting Democrat (which received 377 comments on the front page of Daily Kos). Read More

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Bob Brigham

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 11:17 AM PST

2006/03/09 · 11:17

Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a front page story, Putting the party back into politics on the events that progressives in the Bay Area and beyond are using to make politics fun as a way to keep interest high during the mid-term elections. It is an interesting article, Kos has some quotes (including, "Democrat John Kerry's loss in the 2004 presidential race "was the best thing to happen to the progressive movement, because it taught people that this wouldn't be won or lost in a year. It's a multiyear-long process, and it is going to take their involvement every year.")

Some of the most innovative action is being driven by young people, using social netroots and technology to reach their peers, especially at the intersection of politics and music/beer. Read More

TX-28 lessons for Joe Lieberman primary (POLL)

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 1:14 PM PST

2006/03/08 · 13:14

While there have been a number of postmortems of yesterday's election in TX-28, I want to offer one more look at what happened because I think understanding past netroots efforts and how we judge success will help us refine our game for the big one: whoopin' Joe Lieberman.

One of the problems with the effort in Texas is that the dynamic advanced so that people were only judging success based upon the election results. If Ciro Rodriguez won, or forced Cuellar into a runoff, then we won. That didn't happen, so we lost.
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Nirvana's Krist Novoselic pushes youth politics

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 1:32 PM PST

2006/03/07 · 13:32

Krist Novoselic is pushing youth to get involved in Democracy. In addition to the long-term implications, this is something that should be of immediate concern.

In 2004, young voters were the only age group Democrats won. Directly after the election, the Boston Globe reported:

Despite long lines and registration snafus, voters under age 30 clocked the highest turnout percentage since 1972. The good news is that America's young people are more engaged in politics than at any time in two generations. Aging cynics have been quick to blame the kids for a host of political lapses, but the cynics have it wrong.
Start with the numbers. According to professor William Galston at the University of Maryland, at least 20.9 million Americans under 30 voted on Tuesday. That is an increase of 4.6 million voters from 2000. Four years ago, just 42.3 percent of young people voted. This year more than 51.6 percent did.

While this was good news for Democrats everywhere, the youth surge in the battleground states was critical. Read More

New scandals worse than Abramoff for Conrad Burns

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Monday March 06, 2006 · 4:34 PM PST

2006/03/06 · 16:34

In 1988, Montana elected an AM radio rustler from Missouri to the United States Senate. Conrad Burns had won his seat on the promise that he would only serve two terms to avoid being corrupted by Washington. Many consider an incumbent most vulnerable during his campaign for re-election and Democrats united around Jack Mudd, a blue suit/red tie candidate who was Dean of the Law School and who lost by 24 pts. In 2000, Burns was considered quite safe as a Republican incumbent in a red state, yet an upstart citizen combined authenticity, straight talk, and bold populism to take 10,000 voters from Burns for a total of 70,000 more votes than Mudd (resulting in Burns winning by a mere 4pts.). In 2006, Democrats have a unique opportunity to get the magic 225,000 votes necessary to win the Senate seat, thanks in part to Conrad Burns. Read More

Why I went to Sherrod Brown dotcom

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Tuesday February 21, 2006 · 7:05 PM PST

2006/02/21 · 19:05

I went to Sherrod Brown's website and signed up for email alerts, and I would urge everyone to do the same. I've been wanting to post something for a week, I figured I wait until Brown offered an olive branch to Hackett supporters and then post something about how all of us should give him a fresh start. That has yet to happen, but here is where I see things in Ohio.

Right now, the Ohio Senate race is looking really fucked up, and that is a major problem.

Bob Brigham

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 6:27 PM PST

2006/02/16 · 18:27

Letters to the Editor always have and always will be used to push talking points that are unable to make it in to actual news stories. Since local papers seldom put letters online, it is difficult to see how such ideas are spreading, allowing memes to move under the rader.

Have you read a letter stating that 40 Senate Democrats (90%) took Abramoff money? Because this is a talking point in Montana. The Missoula Independent shows how this is moving from the RNC and NRCC into local papers with the state GOP trying to push it further: Read More

Conrad Burns: Highest Disapproval Rate in Senate

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 4:01 PM PST

2005/12/13 · 16:01

SurveyUSA's new Senate poll is out and Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) wins the booby prize with the highest disapproval rate in the land: 46% of Montanans disapprove of Burns! This hasn't occured overnight, check out the trendline, Burns is sinking like a stone.

Not a good day for Burns, this morning's local press headlined, Ex-Burns aide talks to Justice

A former top aide to U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., who quit to work at the firm of indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff said Monday he is talking to Justice Department investigators as part of the agency's continuing probe of Abramoff's activities.
Reached at his Bozeman office, Will Brooke, Burns' onetime chief of staff, said he has hired a lawyer in the matter.

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LIVE democracy on the floor of the People's House

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 3:00 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 15:00

UPDATE: Looking like it will start closer to 10 PM

Tonight will be a first for Congress as the Democrats' 30 Something Caucus takes to the floor to answer your questions...in real-time!

Here is how it works. From 9:30 to 10:30 Eastern, the 30 Something Democrats have control of the floor. So ask your question, turn on C-SPAN, and see the answer.

As far as I know, nobody has tried to do a live chat from the floor of the Congress. Here is how the event is being described: Read More

Bill O'Reilly Enemies List - Sign Up Tonight!

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Monday November 14, 2005 · 7:03 PM PST

2005/11/14 · 19:03

I live a few blocks downhill from Coit Tower, so I was pretty fucking pissed off when Bill O'Reilly declared open season on the landmark and San Francisco.

It is clear that Bill O'Reilly is a coward who is aiding the terrorists with his offer for them to attack America.

Bill O'Reilly has caught hell for his remarks and should be fired. Instead of apologizing, O'Reilly is digging in and tonight vowed to publish an enemies list of the names of internet "smear merchants" who have criticized his invitation to attack our country. To help ensure your name makes the list, use the comments to say what you think of Bill O'Reilly. Read More

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