UPDATE: Site Down CT-Sen: Joe2006 on Iraq

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 6:15 AM PDT

2006/09/06 · 06:15

UPDATE: Joe's Site is down again! Damned hackers!
Crossposted at Political Moneyball

Joe Lieberman (CT-CFL) finally launched his new website.

You may recall, his old site was "hacked" by crazy liberal bloggers and Lamont supporters on primary day, August 8th. By the time he gave his concession speech it was pretty well known that he either 1) forgot to pay his bill, or 2) didn't buy enough bandwidth to support the election day spike. I'm betting on the latter, simply because of how far out of touch he is with the netroots. Then again, Joe2006.com probably only got 7 hits a day before the primary, most of them Lamont bloggers doing opposition research. How could he have known? He needed more bandwidth?

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PA-Sen: Casey v Sen. Man on Dog

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Monday September 04, 2006 · 6:42 AM PDT

2006/09/04 · 06:42

Cross-Posted at Political Moneyball

I was so eagerly looking forward to the Casey/Sanatorium debate, I could hardly sleep on Saturday night. I was mildly disappointed.

I think Casey won the debate, but I'm biased. I guess it could be seen as a toss-up, but in my opinion, Casey gets points for a few good, well delivered lines, and Sen. Batshit-crazy loses a few for low-blows (suggesting Casey is a disappointment to his father!?).

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Bush's Idealism

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 9:41 AM PDT

2006/09/01 · 09:41

Cross-posted at Political Moneyball

Speaking before the American Legion's meeting in Salt Lake City yesterday, President Bush again trumpeted his plan for the Middle East as both necessary and in America's best interest. In what was - in my opinion - a darn good speech, the president invoked Thomas Jefferson, alluded to the tyranny America successfully fought in WWII and the Cold War, and uttered the word "victory" 14 times. Despite the compelling argument and plainspoken prose - no extended metaphors or flowery imagery here - the president once again failed to grasp the reality of the situation. The speech, in short, was more of the same: Stay the course, Fight them over there, Unified Islamic worldview, etc. It was a speech we've all heard before.
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Reality in Rumsfeld-land

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Wednesday August 30, 2006 · 6:14 AM PDT

2006/08/30 · 06:14

Cross Posted at Political Moneyball

Reality is hard to accept. When you spend so much time and energy, when you waste precious breath arguing for your issue, you've invested more than just time, energy and breath. The reality is, you've got a personal stake. Your reputation or career may be next up on the chopping block; so long as you ignore reality, however, you can save your skin. Michael Corleone ducked reality by claiming it was "business, not personal." And it wasn't until he held his dying daughter in his arms that realized everything is personal and very little is business.

How many dead soldiers does Donald Rumsfeld need to hold in his arms before he accepts reality? Apparently, more than 2,626. Read More

Pelosi's Poor Katrina Statement

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Tuesday August 29, 2006 · 6:38 AM PDT

2006/08/29 · 06:38

Cross-posted at Political Moneyball

Usually, I like Leader Pelosi. I think she's taken the position of minority leader, and made it her own. She's got good ideas, and has done an admirable job of keeping her caucus in line (for the most part). She's a great face for the party, and her liberal voting record is one that makes this Delaware boy wish he lived in San Francisco. I've argued before that she's not a poised or polished as someone like Rahm Emanual - as her experience on MTP showed - but I'm not expecting her to look like a majority leader. Not yet anyway.

Éclat aside, I'd like to take issue with something she said yesterday in a press release.
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Income, Real Wages and the War on the Middle Class

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Monday August 28, 2006 · 3:46 AM PDT

2006/08/28 · 03:46

Cross-Posted at Political Moneyball

With all the talk of the GWOT, the mismanaged reconstruction of both Iraq and Katrina, and the slow descent into anarchy that's taking place in the middle east, it was nice to read something up-lifting this morning.

Real Wages Fail to Meet a Rise in Productivity There are just too many great points to this article, but I'll pull a few of the juiciest and, forgive me, channel bonddad this morning.
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PA-Sen: Casey's New Ad Spanks Ricky. Hard.

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Saturday August 26, 2006 · 7:45 AM PDT

2006/08/26 · 07:45

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I love Bob Casey's new ad, and if you follow me over the flip, I'll explain why: Read More

George Allen, W.'s own Junior

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 4:41 PM PDT

2006/08/25 · 16:41

cross-posted at Political Moneyball.

I thought I'd weigh in on the George Allen "macaca" comment. I've been talking about it a lot in the last two days, and something important occurred to me while I was speaking with a professor last night. How could such a seasoned politician, one of the presumed front-runners in '08, make such a rookie mistake? Read More

Kennedy cops a plea

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 11:47 AM PDT

2006/06/13 · 11:47

From the AP (h/t TPM)

Rep. Patrick Kennedy has reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs in connection with his middle-of-the-night car crash last month near the U.S. Capitol.

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Freedom Riders, Agent Orange and Scholarships

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Wednesday May 31, 2006 · 5:25 PM PDT

2006/05/31 · 17:25

Kossacks -- What follows is a second essay I've written for scholarship consideration. I'll be attending American University's SPA in the fall. The question is purposefully vague: Why do you want to get involved in public service? What do you think? Anyone know how to spell syssaphusian? Like the guy, Syssaphus, who was condemned to push a boulder up a mountain, only to have it roll back down at the end of the trip?

The thought of working in politics occurred to me one day when I was teaching a class on "The Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka. In the story, a representative of the colony's government shows to a foreign traveler the colony's cruel torture device. The device is a form of capital punishment; what makes the story so wonderful to teach is the foreign traveler's reluctance to speak out against the device - even though this type of brutal punishment repulses him. Read More

Why I want to change the face of politics

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 6:33 AM PST

2006/03/02 · 06:33

This is an essay I wrote for a scholarship to Georgetown's PPI. What do you all think?

    I'm sitting in the back passenger seat of an old, old car. President George W. Bush is driving. Behind him, next to me, sits President Clinton; in front of me is Mahatma Gandhi.
    The president isn't doing such a good job driving. He keeps looking down at his feet, motioning with his hands, turning around to argue with President Clinton - who, for his part, incessantly shouts at Mr. Bush. It seems Mr. Clinton thinks he knows where we're going; his shouts appear to be directions, but they're more like a disjointed string of positions on why we were lost, wrong turns we had taken, and gas stations we had passed. At first, I'm filled with anger. But after a few minutes of the non-stop arguing, I become incredibly frustrated. I want to say something, tell these guys to stop fighting and get us back on track. But they're too busy calling one another names to listen.
    Gandhi turns to me and says: "Be the change you want to see in the world."
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