Will the DSCC be committing fraud?

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 7:45 AM PDT

2006/06/15 · 07:45

The DSCC is actively soliciting and accepting donations to "elect more Democrats". As they put it on their contribution page...

We Need Your Support

The sole mission of the DSCC is to elect more Democrats to the Senate. And in 2006, the battle for the Senate will be what determines how successful George W. Bush is in imposing his ultra right wing vision on America in his second term.

By supporting the DSCC, you are supporting the only organization that can effectively push back against the red tide of the GOP. Please make a contribution today!"

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 9:39 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 09:39

No, not THAT one. The other one. The one I won't print here because I don't want to make Google's search engine link to it. The one that describes the National Socialist Party of Germany in the 1930's.

That one.

Now it can be said that the N-word Germans had given Fascism a bad name. That wouldn't be accurate because Fascism already had a bad name. Really bad. The N-word Germans just gave us Fascism on steroids with an arsenic kicker. So now a modern commentator cannot connect the N-word and any other person, political party or social movement without being laughed out of the metaphorical building. And rightfully so, I would imagine but there are times when a cogent argument can be made of certain parallels between the Chancellor of N-word Germany and you-know-who.

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Monday May 22, 2006 · 5:46 AM PDT

2006/05/22 · 05:46

The June 2006 issue of Harper's Magazine has an excellent essay entitled STABBED IN THE BACK!: The past and future of a right-win myth by Kevin Baker (no link available yet). In it Mr. Baker writes...

"Every state must have its enemies. Great powers must have especially monstrous foes. Above all, these foes must arise from within, for national pride does not admit that a great nation can be defeated by any outside force. That is how, though its origins are elsewhere, the stab in the back has become the sustaining myth of modern American nationalism. Since the end of World War II it has been the device by which the American right wing has both revitalized itself and repeatedly avoided responsibility for its own worst blunders. Indeed, the right has distilled its tale of betrayal into a formula: Advocate some momentarily popular but reckless policy. Deny culpability when that policy is exposed as disastrous. Blame the disaster on internal enemies who hate America. Repeat, always making sure to increase the number of internal enemies..."

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 9:55 AM PDT

2006/05/11 · 09:55

Jake Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Noah Cross: Oh my, yes.
Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gitts, the future.

Los Angeles Times

I kicked myself for not seeing it sooner. "So you don't give a damn about the structural factors driving the productivity/wage gap: the declining unions, low minimum wage, the profit squeeze, slack job creation and, most of all, the way globalization is sapping the bargaining clout of the American worker, blue and white collar alike."

The Fighting Democrat

The Left has been beastly to Richard Cohen again

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Tuesday May 09, 2006 · 8:53 AM PDT

2006/05/09 · 08:53

At The Fighting Democrat I write...

"In focusing on the bad language and "hatred" of his critics, Cohen plops down a big fat "red herring". In telling us that Colbert was "unfunny" and that his critics are "hateful" he avoids the main argument against Cohen himself: that what he writes is largely irrelevant and pointless and serves the purposes of those who are damaging this country."

Come visit for the whole thing. I could use the traffic. :-)

Richard Manning: A conservatism that once conserved

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Thursday May 04, 2006 · 6:22 AM PDT

2006/05/04 · 06:22

Common Dreams: "For example, once I politely complained to a man that his rotund and rottenly spoiled child was using his filthy, obnoxious dirt bike to cut furrows up the side of my land, and it was not their crookedness that upset me. The man said, "We moved out here so my boy could ride his dirt bike wherever he wanted."

The odd part is that this man and many of the rest of my neighbors call themselves conservative. I am not assuming; one only need read the stickers and flags covering their SUVs. Yet what is the foundation of this conservatism if it disregards what the neighbors might think, that is, ignores the community standard?

This is not a small matter. A misguided notion of freedom lies at the heart of the suburban cancer on the landscape. My neighbors will tell you they moved because in rural America you are free to do as you please. Where did they get this idea? Rural America, at least when there was a functioning rural America, never advertised any such freedom. Just the opposite..."

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Second Bill of Rights

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 11:32 AM PDT

2006/05/01 · 11:32

Proposed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt January 11, 1944

Every American Is Entitled To:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his product at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

The upside of private investment accounts

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 7:42 AM PST

2004/12/30 · 07:42

Generally, I oppose private investment accounts for Social Security. Just call me conservative, but I think the country is a lot safer with the assurance of retirement money actually being there than taking a chance on the "market". But it just dawned on me that if such a system was to come about, what would the political and structural ramifications for the "investors" and the Market.

First, this wouldn't be like normal people investing in the stocks and bonds, opening up investments accounts and putting in their life savings. There would have to be a new government bureau (bureaucracy) to manage the investments and to keep track of the money. Your average citizen investor would be intensely interested in the fairness of the market and the performance of her retirement investment and would probably be obsessively following every nuance of their accounts behavior. Read More

Blame the messenger...

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 · 5:26 AM PST

2004/11/10 · 05:26

...not the freakin' guy who own the Corporation who sells the message.

Evangelical "moralists" like to blame "Hollywood" for the degradation of culture and the emergence of x-rated television, etc. Yet. lets turn back the clock to the high point of Democratic Party dominance in gov't: 1962. There was a Democratic President, a Democratic majority in Congress and a bevy of "liberal" Supremes. What was one of the more popular shows on television? The Andy Griffith Show.

We are not suffering "sex and moral degradation" on t.v. because of all those bad, ol' Democratic actors. No, it's because of the Media Corporations (who donate massive amounts primarily to the GOP) rake in billions of dollars in ad revenue now that the Republicans in Congress have lifted much of the censorship off the public airwaves.

If you don't think Sex and the City should be on prime time go blame your Republican congressman.

Not the liberals.

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