12 Reasons Why Scott Brown's Win Was a Good Thing

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 11:55 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 23:55

Brown beat Coakley like a drum, and that's probably a good thing. Mostly because it was inevitable. And also because it puts a few things into clear perspective. Among them:

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Scott Brown's win will. . .

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Scott Brown's win will. . .

Not amount to much because it's only important symbolically.

12 votes

Will kill health care because the Dems will be too confused to respond to it

25 votes

Will NOT kill health care because a few Repubs will defect and vote for it.

1 vote

Will force Progressives to get serious--and learn the price tag of senators like Ben Nelson

25 votes

Shake up the Obama presidency so much that it will become a permanent lame duck.

27 votes

Force Obama to rid his adm. of Republican-leaning appeasment monkeys

16 votes

Eventually result in the destruction of the bloated Health Care Bubble

7 votes

Not amount to much becase Brown will be hounded from public office within a year

15 votes

Health Care Opt OUT: the Joe Wilson Option

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Sunday September 13, 2009 · 8:37 AM PDT

2009/09/13 · 08:37

When it comes to federally-sponsored health care, it's obvious that some people want it, some don't. For example, the barking, angry people who showed up at the town hall meetings don't seem to want it. Of course, many of them seemed to be eligible for Medicare, so maybe they have it and they just don't want YOU to have it too, Punk.

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What's the best way to reach Blue Dogs, Repubs and people like Joe Wilson?

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What's the best way to reach Blue Dogs, Repubs and people like Joe Wilson?

Sweet reason.

1 vote

Point out they are selfish louts shilling for Big Health and Big Pharma

2 votes

Ask why if they have federal health care, why can't YOU have federal health care

10 votes

Promise to remember them in the next election

15 votes

Publicly present them with the OPT-OUT form at the very next opportunity

23 votes

Tocque should be unbanned.

RMiller

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Sunday May 17, 2009 · 11:53 PM PDT

2009/05/17 · 23:53

Longtime dkos blogger Tocquedeville was recently banned from the dKos site by none other than Markos himself. Tocque's offending blog included a line suggesting that it would be considered legitimate to pursue evidence that the Bush administration was somehow involved in the 911 event.

The implication of the ban is not that Tocque supported the theory that Bush was involved in 911, but that it is improper to investigate it at all. While Markos may ban conspiracy theorists as a means of reducing the bandwidth---these guys often require booklength posts to prove their points---it seems strange that the ban was the result of an opinion defining the inquiry itself as legit. But inquiries can return negative conclusions, and my reading of the offending post tacitly leaves open that possibility.

RMiller

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 11:18 PM PDT

2009/05/13 · 23:18

I visit my Starbucks once a day for my caffeine fix. Occasionally, my ex will join me and we'll spend ten minutes or so complaining about our jobs or planning ways to thwart our teenager's plans to date at 14. The coffee shop is located in a too-small parking lot that serves as an impromptu shortcut to traffic from adjacent streets. Cars regularly cut through at high rates of speed. It's what happens.

In the corner of my eye I saw her--a smartly dressed black-haired woman with her toddler in tow--a small boy no more than four years old. Nothing unusual. I returned to the conversation. Then it happened.

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You see a woman send her toddler across a busy parking lot--you would. . .

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You see a woman send her toddler across a busy parking lot--you would. . .

Do nothing.

9 votes

Run out and taking the child's hand, walk him to the other side.

17 votes

Point out to the woman that the parking lot is more hazardous than it looks

18 votes

Walk unobtrusively alongside the child until he's safely on the sidewalk.

42 votes

Ask the woman if she's crazy.

6 votes

Report her to CPS.

11 votes

The Stark Truth. . .and Pelosi's Problem

RMiller

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Saturday October 20, 2007 · 9:05 PM PDT

2007/10/20 · 21:05

As absolutely everyone (who is anyone) knows, Pete Stark recently told the Essential Truth about George W. Bush and implied that the President is essentially a conscience-free sociopath. House Speaker Pelosi fell all over herself complaining about Stark's lack of manners.

Bad move.

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Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will.. .

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Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will.. .

Try to ignore Pete Stark's and the Chris Dodd's principled stands hoping no one will notice

28 votes

Addres the issue by explaining that "we must all be civil and work with the President"

54 votes

Be the last to discover that the Dem base has left them for gutsier politicians--like Stark and Dodd

53 votes

Will, after getting overwhelming votes of no confidence from Dems everywhere, still have no clue how it happened.

83 votes

Of a piece: Why Wolfie's Tricks Explain Gonzo's Stonewalling WITH UPDATE

RMiller

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Saturday April 21, 2007 · 1:59 AM PDT

2007/04/21 · 01:59

As many of you know, Paul Wolfowitz is in deep trouble at the World Bank for stipulating lavish concessions for his girlfriend, Libyan-born Shaha Ali Riza. In an extraordinary and explosive article, Salon's Sydney Blumenthal lays out the Wolfowitzian tactics for diverting the lines of control past the professionals (career personnel)via compliant ideologues. If you're wondering how this fits perfectly with the AG's recent debacle, read on.

RMiller

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Wednesday April 18, 2007 · 9:23 PM PDT

2007/04/18 · 21:23

Nothing at least right now. Better to carefully analyze the whole incident, determine what things went wrong, and then do something no one ever does--figure out if this was an extremely rare event not likely to happen ever again, or something that was the harbinger of a TREND. Like 19 guys commandeering three jets and. . well, you know.

RMiller

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Monday January 08, 2007 · 11:10 AM PST

2007/01/08 · 11:10

Today people on their way to work in New York City noticed a strange gas-like smell. No one seemed to know the source, and commuter train service was temporarily suspended. Not long after that, Mayor Bloomberg announced the smell was not dangerous--even though no one could determine what was causing it. In short, it was a condensed version of the EPA's reaction to 911.

RMiller

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Wednesday December 27, 2006 · 1:45 AM PST

2006/12/27 · 01:45

There are several reasons why Bush should free Saddam Hussain. . .or at least exert whatever political strength he has left to block Saddam's death sentence.

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Saddam...

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Saddam...

should be executed because everyone knows he's a bad guy

12 votes

should be executed because it's winner take all and Bush won

2 votes

should be executed because the independent Iraqi people want it

7 votes

should not be executed because he could be useful politically

5 votes

should not be executed because it's wrong to kill someone who did not attack us first

8 votes

should not be executed because it violates one of the Ten Commandments

7 votes

should not be executed because it will make future diplomacy difficult impossible

17 votes

should not be executed because it will increase terrorist (eye-for-eye) attacks inside the U.S.

12 votes

George W. Bush and the Physics of Relativity

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Sunday December 24, 2006 · 1:17 AM PST

2006/12/24 · 01:17

The Ship of State, under the command of George The Decider is circling a black hole. It cropped up unexpected at an outpost near the eastern edge of Western Civilization and he steered us into it. . .well, we ALL helped--and now we're going round and round, real fast.

RMiller

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Tuesday December 19, 2006 · 10:42 PM PST

2006/12/19 · 22:42

These are not happy times. Looking back on them, historians will likely call these days "The Prelude" to something extraordinarily disruptive in America. Just look at the facts: We have single-minded, resolute men (and Condi Rice) pouring our youth and treasure into a killing machine with no sensible or reasonable exit. In Vietnam, we had LBJ, a stubborn but intelligent man who had a great number of domestic successes, i.e. the Civil Rights Act. George Bush is no such person. This president has staggered headfirst into an international nightmare and his personal character and aggressive stubbornness ensures there will be no way back. But that's not the worst of it.

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Pushed to a breaking point, the Generals will respond by. . .

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Pushed to a breaking point, the Generals will respond by. . .

keeping silent until the lack of support results in a serious loss of life

16 votes

doing the best they can with what they have, hoping for a political solution

52 votes

by resigning in protest

23 votes

calling for the reinstatement of the draft

17 votes

discussing a military intervention at the WH

21 votes

Don't waste your time slamming Paula Zahn

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 10:09 AM PST

2006/11/02 · 10:09

While everyone focuses on the talking heads (Zahn, Couric, et al) the hard fact is that these people are personalities, not necessarily decision-makers. Slamming them for network decisions is largely a waste of time, unless it adversely affects a large demographic. The real decision-makers are subordinates---obscure producers whose Rolodex is filled only with Republican names. Read More

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