Another Senator Is Dead

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Tuesday June 05, 2007 · 1:50 AM PDT

2007/06/05 · 01:50

39 years and a few minutes ago, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles. This will always be one of the saddest events in American history.

Many of you have never heard or seen his eulogy, delivered by his brother Teddy. It is one of the most tragic, moving things I've ever heard. Every Democrat (and every American) needs to listen to these words. If you've heard it before, listen again. What would Bobby say about Iraq, immigration, our standing in the world, and the incredible anger boiling through America again today? I think we know.

Watch this video. This is part of our legacy as Democrats:

RepublicanTaliban

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Thursday April 26, 2007 · 4:55 AM PDT

2007/04/26 · 04:55

UPDATE: Thanks to Scarce, the video is now posted here.

I need some technical video/youtube help that will help ensure a MT Democratic seat stays blue in 2008. What I need is for someone (if this is technically possible) to lift the video from where it's hosted on a newspaper site and capture it so that it can be placed onto YouTube for a) wider distribution and b) permanence.

In Montana yesterday, the Republican House Majority Leader raged in front of his caucus and teenage pagesabout Brian Schweitzer. Among other things, he called Schweitzer an "S.O.B." and screamed he could "Stick it up his ass! Stick it up his ass!" re: a standard, end-of-session budget negotiation offer.

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Wednesday May 10, 2006 · 7:32 AM PDT

2006/05/10 · 07:32

It's really hard to know what to say to such a profound example of incompetence.

This morning, some random guy found the entire detailed travel plan for Bush's Florida visit by some trash truck.

There on the floor next to a big trash truck was a thick sheaf of papers with nearly every detail of the President's voyage.
"I saw locations and names and places where the President was going to be. I knew it was important. And it shouldn't have been in a trash hole like this," he said.

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Friday October 21, 2005 · 12:51 AM PDT

2005/10/21 · 00:51

Tonight, the LA Times gets in on the Plame Game by quoting former Libby aides on Libby's obssession with getting back at Joe Wilson.

Here's the story. Emphasis in blockquotes all added by me (free subscription req'd).

Libby's anger over Wilson's 2003 charges has been known. But new interviews and documents obtained by The Times provide a more detailed view of the depth and duration of Libby's interest in Wilson. They also show that the vice president's office closely monitored news coverage. On one occasion, the office prohibited a reporter from traveling with Cheney aboard Air Force Two, because the vice president's daughter said Cheney was unhappy with that newspaper's coverage.

Those efforts by the chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, began shortly after Wilson went public with his criticisms in 2003. But they continued into last year -- well after the Justice Department began an investigation in September 2003, into whether administration officials had illegally disclosed the CIA agent's identity, say former White House aides. (emphasis added)

There's more... Read More

Terror Alerts Go to Elite NYCers First - New Criminal Investigation

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Thursday October 13, 2005 · 1:20 PM PDT

2005/10/13 · 13:20

It appears that several wealthy NYC residents received terror alerts several days before the general public. Although the substance of the alert was discredited, and the cynical timing of the public alerts obviously designed to distract from political bad news, this new information is galling.

It reminds me of the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry is tipped off about the terror threat supposedly hitting LA, only without the humor. Read More

WashPo Story Implies Rove's Lawyer is Source

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Thursday July 14, 2005 · 10:45 PM PDT

2005/07/14 · 22:45

Mike Allen's front page story tonight parallels the NYT story, and it is clear from reading the two stories that the same unnamed person is driving both stories.

In the NYT lede, it says

Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said.

In the Wash Post lede, we see a little more detail aout who this source is:

White House official Karl Rove indirectly confirmed the identity of a CIA operative for Robert D. Novak the week before the columnist named her and revealed her connection to an administration critic, a lawyer involved in the case said last night.
The lawyer, who has firsthand knowledge of the conversations between Rove and prosecutors, said President Bush's deputy chief of staff has told investigators that he first learned about the operative, Valerie Plame, from a journalist.

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Tuesday July 05, 2005 · 6:44 AM PDT

2005/07/05 · 06:44

I have never seen a compelling explanation why you call them the American Taliban instead of the Republican Taliban.

I was merely a lurker for a long time, but I joined the site because you throw this term away so consistently.

Perhaps there is a compelling reason why a religious fundamentalist movement whose evil you see so clearly and whose politics dominate the Republican Party is not being tied to that very Republican Party. If so, you have not said what it is. I am prepared, in the face of a compelling argument, to back off my stance that you are throwing votes away by your language, which is picked up and amplified everywhere. Read More

Patti Davis is Full of Shit re: Reagan Racism and Philadelphia, Mississippi

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Thursday June 23, 2005 · 2:45 AM PDT

2005/06/23 · 02:45

Patti Davis, daughter of Reagan writes for Newsweek this week (and published on MSNBC.com here) about the Mississippi conviction of Edgar Ray Killen.

In it, she writes a bunch of revisionist bullshit about her evil, racist, burning-in-hell as we speak father. Among other things, Davis writes:

There were personal anecdotes: my father in college bringing a black college football player back to his parents' house to sleep there because the local hotel wouldn't take him. My father's father had taught him to never tolerate racism in any form.... [M]y father took the obligation seriously.

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Monday June 13, 2005 · 11:59 AM PDT

2005/06/13 · 11:59

Seems everyone's trying to perfect the list. It's a great and critical discussion. As of now, over 850 comments on three mainpage threads and counting. Probably many diaries to come. Since I didn't want to just post a list without making an argument for some words over others, and I had a hard time making it shorter, I figured I'd go ahead and make a diary.

Responsibility, Privacy, Opportunity and Smart National Security

I started with all the suggestions people made in the 3 threads.

Major alternatives others suggested for:
Responsibility - accountability, community, good government, integrity, honesty, reform, conservation and sustainability.
Privacy - freedom, choice and liberty.
Opportunity - equality, justice, fairness, progress, civil rights and future.
Smart National Security - security, safer world, protection, leadership

Why does one value word encapsulate in a way another does not? What are the cultural connections? What are the traps?

My list and rationale in the extended. Read More

Why the Republican Taliban Cannot Back Off

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Wednesday May 25, 2005 · 5:54 AM PDT

2005/05/25 · 05:54

It looks surprising to see Dobson, Frist and the rest of the Republican Taliban champing at the bit to undo a deal that we know would be a PR nightmare for them if they try. I've been thinking about it carefully and was writing this diary last night when Armando's diary was posted.

The Republican Taliban cares less about how it would look or whether Democrats come out of this with a big win. Because of its implications for their long and carefully built movement, by far the most important thing now is throttling this extremely dangerous rearguard action launched on Monday by the GOP 7. The GOP 7 showed potential future rebels how to run the playbook to earn a shower of adulation from the press. It could happen on SCOTUS and it could happen on stem cells, to name just a couple looming examples.

At all costs, they must make a public, high-profile show of stopping the GOP 7 playbook in its tracks. That is the total focus right now. Read More

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Another Senator Is Dead

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WTF? Detailed Presidential Travel Plans Found in Trash

LA Times: Aides Say Libby = Psycho Wilson Stalker

Terror Alerts Go to Elite NYCers First - New Criminal Investigation

WashPo Story Implies Rove's Lawyer is Source

Dear Kos, WHY Do You Call Them American Taliban?

Patti Davis is Full of Shit re: Reagan Racism and Philadelphia, Mississippi

Responsibility, Privacy, Opportunity and Smart National Security

Why the Republican Taliban Cannot Back Off