Terminator to Take 200,000 Hostages in Calif. Budget Standoff!

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Thursday July 24, 2008 · 12:50 PM PDT

2008/07/24 · 12:50

While Barack Obama dazzles a crowd of 200,000 in front of the Berlin Wall; in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is preparing to hold 200,000 state government employees hostage, by cutting their pay to subsistence level for as long as it takes for state Democrats to concede to an obstructionist Republican minority.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order next week that will temporarily reduce pay for more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour to preserve cash in the midst of a month-long budget standoff, according to a draft copy of the order obtained by The Bee.

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Tuesday July 08, 2008 · 9:14 PM PDT

2008/07/08 · 21:14

In a little over a week, the Netroots will converge on Austin, TX, the live music capitol of the world! When the location was announced, I wondered if there would be some sort of music-related event organized for the convention, and thanks to Daily Kos, I was not disappointed!

You see, long before I became a political junkie, I was already a passionate live music junkie (with tastes ranging from punk and psychobilly to traditional Balkan folk music, and everything in between and beyond). Nearly as soon as I clicked the button authorizing my registration for this year’s Netroots Nation, I was scanning the Internets to see what kind of music was going to be available during my visit.

In this post, I thought I might share the results of my research, in case there are others looking for similar musical opportunities during the convention.

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Sunday May 25, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/05/25 · 10:07

When I was much younger, I remember seeing an ad on TV that was part of the early "war on drugs" campaign. It featured a father lecturing his teen after discovering drugs in his room. The father, exasperated, asks the son forcefully, "Where did you learn about stuff like this? And the son yells back, "From you, Dad. I learned it from watching you!!!!"

That’s what I think about when I read Hillary’s op-ed in which she accuses critics of taking her "Assassin-gate" comment out of context:

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Friday May 23, 2008 · 7:00 PM PDT

2008/05/23 · 19:00

This is going to be short and sweet.

For the life of me, I could not comprehend why Hillary Clinton, as meticulous and calculated a politician as we have seen, would choose to catapult the RFK reference into the media firestorm.

Then it suddenly hit me.

What if Hillary is so afraid of the political symbolism of the Cardoza 40 defecting from her to Obama that she suddenly felt she needed to create a plausible justification that she can use to keep other superdelegates, and more importantly her working class supporters whose children still have bikes to sell, from giving up on her campaign?

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Wednesday May 21, 2008 · 10:55 PM PDT

2008/05/21 · 22:55

In the conclusion of his 2007 book, Al Gore wrote the following:

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system. Our self-government is based on the ability of individual citizens to use reason in holding their elected representatives, senators, and presidents accountable for their actions. When reason itself comes under assault, American democracy is put at risk.

Only a year later, Hillary Clinton has run a campaign for the presidency that seems to embody Gore’s critique of public discourse. Here’s just a partial list of the many times the Clinton campaign have careened off the tracks of reason:

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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/05/10 · 09:00

Many people have expressed concern over potential repercussions in the general election of the often negative, divisive campaign run by Hillary Clinton. Some have speculated that Clinton’s seeming strategy is to ensure that, if she can’t win the 2008 nomination, her bloodied opponent will lose to the Republican and free her path for an easier run in 2012.

Polls have shown that a large number of Clinton supporters say that they won’t vote for Obama, but would rather vote for John McCain or just sit out the general election altogether. A smaller, but still significant number, of Obama supporters have said that they won’t vote for Clinton.

To all this, I call "bullshit!" My reason is simple.

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 10:36 AM PDT

2008/03/28 · 10:36

Cross posted at Left-Over

As noted by Demconwatch, there was a recent flurry of activity surrounding the super delegate endorsement of Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA-6th). Although it appeared to some that Woolsey had agreed to vote with her district – for Barack Obama – despite her previous endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Demconwatch has yet to move her from the Clinton column to the Obama column.

I also noticed that Woolsey, a founding member of the Out of Iraq Caucus, was one of a group of 16 members, (out of a total of 64), who signed an "open letter"

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Saturday March 22, 2008 · 9:17 AM PDT

2008/03/22 · 09:17

Cross posted at Left-Over

Long before I started blogging about politics - in fact, long before there was even an Internet – one of my great loves was picking apart arguments and strategies related to basketball. I’ve participated in March Madness pools for the last 30 years, often serving as commissioner of pools I created. I was a charter member of an NBA fantasy league back when game stats and league standings were calculated with pencil and paper, and the timeliness of my newspaper deliverer was a source of daily hand wringing.

Over the years, I’ve won – a lot! I’m currently on a 3 year streak of finishing first or second in my primary NCAA Tourney pool. Before I gave up the NBA fantasy league a few years ago, I was in the money 9 of the previous 10 years. These facts are not intended to brag, but rather to explain my qualifications for discussing the strategic judgment displayed by the bracket selections recently released by Barack Obama.

Detailed analysis after the jump.

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 8:40 PM PDT

2008/03/20 · 20:40

Cross Posted at Left-Over

Today we learned that at least three people working in the State Department breached the security of Barack Obama’s passport files. Apparently, the breach occurred in January, 2008, during the period leading up to the Super Tuesday primaries. Despite procedures that require immediate investigation and notification, Obama was only advised today!

According to a White House spokesperson, the reason for the breach was "not political," but rather it was done out of "imprudent curiosity." The only possible way to know the true motivation for the breach is to learn much more about the three individuals who accessed the records. Why do they say they did it? Who did they talk to about it before and after? Who do they associate with who might have helped peak their curiosity!

I think this is a good time to point out that we first learned about the Eliot Spitzer scandal on March 11, 2008.

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Wednesday January 16, 2008 · 10:35 AM PST

2008/01/16 · 10:35

During MSNBC’s coverage of the Michigan primary, I believe I heard "Noron" O’Donnell report that, based on the exit polling, "only one in ten voters" in the GOP primary identified themselves a "Democrat."

This was presented as evidence to show that somehow the election was not in any way influenced by "readers of the Daily Kos website" who were encouraged to cross parties to vote for Romney.

Poll

30 votes Show Results

Iâ€<sup>TM</sup>m a Michigan Democrat who voted for:

30 votes Vote Now!

Iâ€<sup>TM</sup>m a Michigan Democrat who voted for:

Hillary Clinton

3 votes

â€oeUncommittedâ€ (Dem Primary)

8 votes

Other Democrat (Kucinich, Dodd, Gravel)

5 votes

Mitt Romney

8 votes

John McCain

0 votes

Mike Huckabee

1 vote

Other Republican (Paul, Thompson, Giuliani, Hunter)

3 votes

â€oeUncommittedâ€ (Oops, GOP Primary!)

2 votes

Al Wynn May be Evil, But He’s Willing to Impeach Satan!?!?

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 9:36 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 21:36

Here’s an interesting bit about Dennis Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney that I present without any explanation whatsoever. Only several questions!

Recently, Kos has written several impassioned posts in support of Donna Edwards, a very popular netroots candidate running in MD-04 against Democratic incumbent, Al Wynn, who is described as being one of the most corrupt, Bush enabling, sleazebags in Congress. Apparently, Nancy "Off The Table" Pelosi has been helping his fundraising efforts as part of what Kos calls the "incumbent protection racket."

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 11:16 AM PDT

2007/10/18 · 11:16

Conservatives like to say that the United States has the best trained military in the world. I won’t argue with that characterization, and I will certainly say that they are much better trained to deal with their predicament in Iraq - than America’s sick, uninsured kids are in dealing with their afflictions!

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