Tom Cotton's Operation Iran Letter a complete success

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Thursday March 12, 2015 · 4:39 AM PDT

2015/03/12 · 04:39

Tom Cotton is running for President. In one fell swoop, he's managed to place himself in the small circle of front-runners.

Far from being a failure, Tom Cotton has performed a brilliant act of provocation. He managed to rope in 46 of his colleagues to boot, who were still high off the fumes of last week's Bibimania. The fact that several squishes have now expressed regrets is just gravy!

Two links and further thoughts below.

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Tuesday April 22, 2014 · 3:20 AM PDT

2014/04/22 · 03:20

According to Wikipedia,

In the People's Republic of Poland, on 8 September 1968, Ryszard Siwiec immolated himself in Warsaw during a harvest festival at the 10th-Anniversary Stadium in protest against the Warsaw Pact's invasion of Czechoslovakia and the totalitarianism of the communist government. Siwiec did not survive.

Vladimir Putin has embarked on a path of grabbing back the parts of the Soviet and Tsarist empires he thinks he can get away with. After invading Iraq, the US doesn't have the same moral authority to condemn this old-school imperialism. But the citizens of former Warsaw Pact countries do! If they organized a collective day of protest in their respective cities, could Putin be shamed? Read More

Are the Republicans ready to be housebroken?

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Saturday April 17, 2010 · 4:08 AM PDT

2010/04/17 · 04:08

Up till now, the Senate Republicans have been able to threaten the Democrats with a filibuster. The threat was real, because delay played into the hands of the Repubs, especially to help slow down the health care debate.

But now there's a new dynamic...

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113 votes Show Results

Should the Dems make the Republicans filibuster?

113 votes Vote Now!

Should the Dems make the Republicans filibuster?

Oh no! They're too scary!

2 votes

Oh yes. Obedience school is now open for business.

104 votes

What about Joe Lieberman? OK if he pinch-filibusts?

2 votes

Tea Party angry! Tea Party smash!

5 votes

Obama giveth and taketh...

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Thursday April 01, 2010 · 10:41 AM PDT

2010/04/01 · 10:41

OK, everybody who cares about the planet was naturally upset when our Dear Leader proposed opening up vast tracts of the US continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

But two days later, guess what? The EPA and Department of Transportation set mandates for fuel efficiency that will significantly reduce the need for new oil.

More below the fold...

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46 votes Show Results

Obama's off-shore drilling anouncement

46 votes Vote Now!

Obama's off-shore drilling anouncement

was a genuine attempt at bipartisanship

1 vote

another brilliant feint to disarm the Republicans

37 votes

pie

8 votes

Phone bombs-Show me the bucket! 7 calls so far.

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 5:21 AM PST

2010/03/12 · 05:21

You've heard of money bombs. The candidate requests that everybody donate what they can on one given day. The goal is to have everyone pitching in together and putting up incredible numbers. The reward for taking an your donation, large or small, is that you get to see the results in real time, as the money rolls in.

Right now, however, health-care reform can be better served by a massive phone effort. The various progressive websites I visit are urging to pick up the phone and call my representative or senator. Well, I always ask myself, is my single call really going to make a difference? Probably not, I end up thinking. Who's going to know the difference? So I do nothing.

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9 votes Show Results

Did you make the call?

9 votes Vote Now!

Did you make the call?

I reached my congressperson's office

2 votes

I reached my senator's office

0 votes

I reached 2 congresspeople's offices

1 vote

I reached 3 congresspeople's offices

1 vote

I reached 4 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 5 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 6 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 7 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 8 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 9 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 10 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 15 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I reached 20 congresspeople's offices

0 votes

I keep getting a busy signal.

3 votes

Ah, why bother?

2 votes

Remember "Cash for SUVs?"

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Tuesday August 04, 2009 · 11:38 AM PDT

2009/08/04 · 11:38

While John McCain rants about how the new Cash for Clunkers program is going to bankrupt his children and grandchildren, it might be interesting to recall that under the Bush administration, there was another kind of cash for clunkers program available. It was, of course, a subsidy for the rich to buy the most inefficient vehicles possible...

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 3:10 AM PDT

2009/06/24 · 03:10

Nico Pitney at the Huffington Post has been providing unparalleled coverage of the ongoing events in Iran. The White House invited him to yesterday's press conference. And that made Dana Milbank all grumpy.

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Wednesday May 06, 2009 · 11:59 AM PDT

2009/05/06 · 11:59

I was just about to write this diary and what do you know, Kos puts up a post about the Pledge of Allegiance.

Nevertheless, I think it's really important to stress this notion every time one of these weasels (Beck, Perry, etc.) tries to whip up secessionist sentiment to score political points.

Remember how hard the rightwingers came down on Obama for not holding his hand to his heart in one purported instance of reciting the pledge? (An instance debunked here.) Well secession is far, far worse.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an oath. A sacred one. Either you mean it, or you don't. If you recite the pledge but you start talking about splitting up the republic for which the flag stands, then you are basically an oathbreaker. Got that? OATHBREAKER. Meaning, you don't keep promises. Question to the Texas and Georgia Republicans: Are you serious about your allegiance, or is this a temporary convenience while a new Confederacy gets organized?

And next time Matthews has Perry on the show, maybe he can ask him about how serious he is when he recites the Pledge. I can't wait to see him wriggle out of that one.

update: thanks newyorknewyork. Old age blah, blah, blah...

Campaign money's tipping point

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 · 3:11 PM PDT

2008/06/11 · 15:11

Think Harder's diary makes the point that the Obama campaign's record-breaking sums of donation poses the danger of increasing the costs of future campaigns indefinitely.

But maybe we are at a tipping point. The ability to raise money is important, but perhaps the real strength of Obama's model is that it relies so much on the initiative of individuals at the grass-roots level.

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Will money be less important in future campaigns?

18 votes Vote Now!

Will money be less important in future campaigns?

Money will always make the biggest difference.

8 votes

Social networks are seriously weakening money's power.

9 votes

I don't know, my favorite show is about to come on. Later!

0 votes

[ _____ This space left intentionally blank for non-internet users.]

1 vote

Would Obama be safe in Iraq?

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 6:18 AM PDT

2008/05/29 · 06:18

Would Barack Obama be safe in Baghdad?

What if Blackwater Worldwide is assigned the task of protecting him?

Can't this wait until after the election, when Obama is commander-in-chief, and security arrangements will be made by people reporting to him?

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102 votes Show Results

Should Barack Obama visit Iraq before the election?

102 votes Vote Now!

Should Barack Obama visit Iraq before the election?

Why not? You don't want McCain to call him "chicken," do you?

12 votes

What's the rush? Plenty of time later.

50 votes

Maybe he should send Bill Clinton first, to find the cover-up.

15 votes

You are paranoid. Now, who told you to write this diary?

14 votes

None of the above.

11 votes

The Obama Tortoise and the Harellery

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Friday April 25, 2008 · 7:40 AM PDT

2008/04/25 · 07:40

Barack Obama and his team sat down and carefully plotted out a campaign that would, against all odds, produce a larger pledged delegate count than Hillary's. This campaign was run like a third party insurgency. Basically, the strategy was slow and steady wins the race.

And measuring by their own game plan, they are already way ahead. And barring a catastrophe, they will win.

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