George Bush in a skirt

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 2:20 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 14:20

I'm sure I'm not alone in watching with consternation the Palin/convention bounce in McCain's polling numbers. I'm trying to maintain my cool about it, but it sure feels like there has been a shift in the momentum and that all the commotion has thrown off the Obama messaging machine. Maybe we're just seeing a bubble in the media's attention and there will be more opportunity in the coming weeks for the Obama campaign to set the conversation, but I'm worried that the Republicans are getting way too much room to define this newcomer in the public consciousness, and once that narrative has been set it will be very hard to knock it loose. We're already seeing some of the more blatant mistruths in the myth of Palin cement (selling the jet on ebay, being against the bridge, and being persecuted by the media). The Obama campaign has a limited window in which to push back.

So how?

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 9:06 AM PDT

2005/10/18 · 09:06

WARNING: Everything in this post is speculation!

I'm a little slow. Along with everybody else in the community I've been following the PlameGate stories eagerly. But I haven't really gotten it until now. Other people may have reached these conclusions already (I'm seeing some of the same stuff from Josh Marshall), but it's taken me a while to get here.

The thing that I never understood about the whole scandal was why. From the first day I heard about it, it made no sense to me that Valerie Wilson was outed to discredit her husband in retribution for his editorial.

It just didn't fit. The m.o. of this administration has been character assassination, and there seemed to be far better and more legal ways of tarring Joe Wilson. The guy had been a public servant for decades, surely they could have drug up somebody from his past to label him as partisan and a hack. Swift-boating I would have understood. This I did not. Read More

Why Doesn't Syria Get It?

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Saturday October 15, 2005 · 8:56 AM PDT

2005/10/15 · 08:56

We're serious. We mean it. We're not just fucking around this time. No, really.

Deep in this NYTimes article, an unnamed American official states:

The official added: "We have had people for years sending them messages telling them to change their behavior. And they don't seem to recognize the seriousness of those messages. The hope is that Syria gets the message."

Now maybe it's just me, but if you tell me for years and years that I'd better change my behavior or else, and I never change and there's absolutely no consequence, then when you come back to me the next time with another this-time-you-mean-it declaration, then I'm going to laugh in your face. Especially if I know your military is stretched ass-thin and your president is the laughing-stock of his own country.
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Republican-slovia

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Friday October 14, 2005 · 10:58 AM PDT

2005/10/14 · 10:58

Along with so many others, I've watched with bated breath as the conservative movement has started to come apart at the seams over the Miers nomination. And today's NYTimes article on Sam Brownback got me thinking about the spring of 2008. The article describes Brownback's presidential ambitions thusly:

The premise of his ambitions is that the country has "re-engaged with its faith" in a historic revival. He hopes that his combination of a humble, earnest style and broader focus on human rights, prison reform and other humanitarian issues will enable him to capitalize on that revival more effectively than predecessors like Pat Robertson or John Ashcroft.

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Thursday October 13, 2005 · 3:36 PM PDT

2005/10/13 · 15:36

Don't get me wrong, the flood of scandals now leaving their massive poop-stains all over leading right wing figures is highly gratifying to me too. But even in the midst of all of this, there's an elephant in the room that nobody in the media is acknowledging.
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A Letter to El Prez

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 8:07 AM PDT

2005/10/11 · 08:07

dear mr. president,

late last week, as rumors swirled of impending indictments against one or more of your administration's senior officials, we heard sudden word that you would be making a 'major speech on terrorism'. you appeared at the national endowment for democracy, the patriotic backdrop du jour, and preceded to remind us that, 'we're responding to a global campaign of fear with a global campaign of freedom.' almost simultaneously an alert went out across the newswaves -- imminent terrorist threat against the subways of new york. riders were warned to show caution. police were present both throughout the transit system and, in pictures, throughout the nation's newspapers.
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Why I Hate Abortion

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Saturday October 08, 2005 · 8:10 AM PDT

2005/10/08 · 08:10

let me make it perfectly clear up-front that i think abortion is a fundamental right that women today must have if they're not to be relegated to the status of second-class citizens. it's not abortion itself that i hate (although i do think we should try and minimize it's use as much as possible), it's the issue of abortion that i hate.
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Preemptive social security strike?

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Thursday January 06, 2005 · 8:17 AM PST

2005/01/06 · 08:17

It's now clear that the White House is going to be pushing really, really hard to abolish social security. We've heard the comments to the press, we've seen the memo on how they're going to do it, we KNOW how the whole thing is going to play out. What are we waiting for?

This is our chance to define this issue before the White House can. We need a targeted campaign NOW, to cut this thing off before it gets out of hand. We've seen how effective the white house can be at sowing disinformation for their own purposes, we have no reason to suspect they won't be equally effective on this issue.

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George Bush in a skirt

Plame, the Veep, and the CIA

Why Doesn't Syria Get It?

Republican-slovia

The Elephant in the Room: A Primer

A Letter to El Prez

Why I Hate Abortion

Preemptive social security strike?