A Simple Plan: How to Scare Dems and Cons Alike w/ poll

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 10:29 AM PDT

2008/03/18 · 10:29

This message will be very short.

Point 1: I recieved notice that I will be receiving my economic stimulus refund soon. While more money to me is always nice, the politics of it make me ill--why is it that every time Republicans see a problem the first thing our of their mouth is lower taxes, tax cut, tax refund?

Point 2: I absolutely love Darcy Burner and company's Responsible Plan to End the Iraq War

Here's the idea:

What if we take our stimulus refund, and donate it to the authors of the Responsible Plan?

Authors listed here.

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22 votes Show Results

Would you take part in this?

22 votes Vote Now!

Would you take part in this?

Yes- Would donate a portion

7 votes

Yes- Would donate all

1 vote

No- What are you thinking?

14 votes

IA-03: Primaries Matter: Boswell vs Progressive Fallon

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 10:33 AM PST

2008/02/14 · 10:33

AN EMAIL FROM DFA:

Last Tuesday, our Primaries Matter campaign delivered results and helped lead Donna Edwards to a resounding 24-point victory over Bush-Democrat Al Wynn in MD-04. Ed Fallon is the next DFA-List endorsement and he's taking on Bush-Democrat, Rep. Leonard Boswell in IA-03.Contribute $20.08 right now and support a Democrat with the backbone to stand up for progressive values.

http://www.actblue.com/...

Ed Fallon is a true progressive and he has a record of beating out-of-touch Democrats in Iowa. In 1992, he beat 10-year incumbent Gary Sherzan with 63% of the vote and became a State Representative. When the conservative party establishment tried to primary Ed out of the state legislature, Ed won again with 68% of the vote.

Now, with your help, Ed will beat Bush-Democrat Leonard Boswell. Here's a breakdown of some of the important differences between them.

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 2:00 PM PST

2008/02/13 · 14:00

I tend to dislike presidential diaries, but I have reached my breaking point. While I have been an Obama supporter, I have-up to this point-been fully willing to vote/campaign/volunteer for whoever gets the primary nomination including Hillary.

But that might change.

Recent news that Hillary's rich buddies might launch their own 527s has turned my stomach. After the flip I will briefly tell you why.

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148 votes Show Results

Should Hillary's friends form 527s?

148 votes Vote Now!

Should Hillary's friends form 527s?

No the super-rich-elites should not run this election.

117 votes

Yes-let her friends steal the election for her.

18 votes

No-they should NOT form 527s-AND I CALLED HER OFFICE TO SAY SO!

13 votes

Watching FreedomWorks: NeoCon Grassroots & Shell Oil

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Saturday February 09, 2008 · 12:15 PM PST

2008/02/09 · 12:15

Freedomworks is at it again. This diary is second in what I plan to be an ongoing series of watching Freedom Works and Freedom's Watch. Both groups style themselves as grassroots groups, answering the conservative call against MoveOn. Yet neither group is grassroots powered, and both have ties to powerful conservative think thanks and powerful conservative leaders. In this diary I will briefly discuss the powerbrokers behind FreedomWorks and then look at one of their causes-- Natural Gas, and how they are using liberal frames to get people to act on behalf of natural gas.

As I have said elsewhere
I think if McCain wins the nomination, he will spur a grassroots conservative movement. FreedomWorks and Freedom's Watch will be two groups to watch closely. I also think that watching the right, particularly the so-called grassroots right is farmore important than all the candidate diaries. If we only watch ourselves, we will see nothing.

More below.

BlueThunder

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 2:51 PM PST

2008/02/07 · 14:51

This is the first in what I hope will be a series on Freedom's Watch. This group is supposedly the conservative answer to Moveon.org. They pretend to be a conservative grassroots organization, but are as DC as you can get. I am an active member of MoveOn and am on Freedom Watch's email list and will try to keep the DKos community posted on their activities.

Up to this point Freedom's Watch has not been a major player in public opinion and has no where the word-of-mouth power that MoveOn has. But that might be about to change in the 08 campaign, and if they emerge as a major play--we must be vigilant.

BlueThunder

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Thursday January 31, 2008 · 3:00 PM PST

2008/01/31 · 15:00

Conservatives are notoriously good at turning politics into a lock-step-machine like process--whether it is the Get Out The Vote, or the Right-Wing-Noise-Machine, or following Karl Rove's commands for eight years despite the fact that they nearly all backfire.

Just as progressives seem to be uniting and talking to each other on major issue (whether at Netroots Nation/Take Back American Conventions or uniting labor and green energy) at the same time conservatives seem to be falling apart (can anyone say Republican Primary?).

The collapse of the Conservative lock-step was interestingly epitomized at the Republican debate when Mitt Romney attacked McCain for being like Nixon.

My friends conservatives are cannibalizing each other. Quotation and more below.

BlueThunder

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Friday November 09, 2007 · 3:27 PM PST

2007/11/09 · 15:27

Every once in a while you get an email which just makes you laugh. Today I opened my email box and saw an email with the subject line:

One Year To Victory

When I opened it up I saw who it was from:

Republican National Committee

I just about bust a gut. Do these freaks actually think they stand a chance at victory? Now I am cautiously optimistic, but you gotta read their email.

They are either desperate or sooo out of touch. Below the jump is their email to me.

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24 votes Show Results

Is this the Funniest Sh*T you have seen?

24 votes Vote Now!

Is this the Funniest Sh*T you have seen?

Yes they're delusional!

2 votes

Yes they are desperate!

1 vote

Yes they are delusional and desperate!RN

21 votes

Progressive Family Values Vs Conservatives Leave Every Child Behind

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Thursday November 01, 2007 · 3:45 AM PDT

2007/11/01 · 03:45

We all know by now that millions of China-produce toys have been recalled by manufacturers due their lead-taint.

We all know that Bush and many Republicans have opposed the SCHIP health bill which would have covered millions of children.

We all know the debacle which No Child Left Behind has been.

The intersection of these three issues constitutes a moral imperative for progressives and Democrats, and exposes an incredible weakness in the Republicans/Conservatives: What happened to family values?

Below are my initial thoughts on this 'story' and how it can be used to a) mobilize an understanding of progressive family values b) expose the Republicans as rhetoricians who fail at every turn to provide and protect our families c) enable us to offer a clear progressive alternative as a coherent package.

Granted the Dems are not perfect in all of these issues, but we can show that we are a hell of a lot better than the RepubliCons/Conservatives.

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11 votes Show Results

Should this be a central theme for the Dems in 08

11 votes Vote Now!

Should this be a central theme for the Dems in 08

Yes

7 votes

1 vote

Yet Another Lame Poll

3 votes

Obama Keeps My Vote: On the Politics of Fear

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Wednesday October 31, 2007 · 3:47 AM PDT

2007/10/31 · 03:47

There has been a lot of discussion about Obama's campaign faltering, and his failure to bring together a progressive coalition and act as a progressive candidate.

And he has fallen in my view as of late, and I have said he is now in a 3 way tie with Edwards, and Dodd for my vote.

But there were several points last night during the debate in which I was reminded of why I have endorsed him up to this point.

I want to give one example and analysis over the jump.

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85 votes Show Results

Did your opinion of Obama change during the debate?

85 votes Vote Now!

Did your opinion of Obama change during the debate?

Increased

40 votes

Stayed the same

26 votes

Decreased

19 votes

Iraq: It's the Military Bases Stupid!

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Friday October 26, 2007 · 5:05 AM PDT

2007/10/26 · 05:05

The American Prospect hits the nail on the head in Spencer Ackerman's discussion of continued American-military presence beyond the so-called war on terror. The story on Iraq keeps changing precisely none of the stories hold up: WMDs, Humanitarian Motives, Stabilization of the Middle East, Iran etc.

Even if Hillary, Obama, and everyone else were to take the hardline approach like Richardson and call for zero residual troops... there is the still the issue of what they would do with all the bases being built there.

Below the jump is a quote from TAP.

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Friday October 05, 2007 · 6:42 PM PDT

2007/10/05 · 18:42

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I miss Bill.
But boy do I wonder why he is here so mad at the RepubliCons and yet Hillary caved to Gooliani pressure and voted against MoveOn. {Update} My comment here is not entirely clear and now I realize that, and apologie for the confusion. While I am tempted to rewrite the diary I will not, lest the comments be confusing to those who come later. To be clear: Hillary voted against the Republican bill, voted for the Boxer bill condemning it and all such attack ads, and then on national TV condemned the ad and all such ads. See the link below the jump. (UPDATE)

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 5:01 PM PDT

2007/10/04 · 17:01

Still political in nature, but semi personal as well.

The players: me a MoveOn volunteer organizer, Deborah Pryce, Cindy Sheehan, and our children: those here at home who need healthcare, and those in Iraq fighting our war.

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A Simple Plan: How to Scare Dems and Cons Alike w/ poll

IA-03: Primaries Matter: Boswell vs Progressive Fallon

527s and Why Hillary Might Lose My Vote

Watching FreedomWorks: NeoCon Grassroots & Shell Oil

Freedom's Watch Dumping $250 Million into '08- we must be vigilant

When Conservatives Cannibalize Each Other

Ha! The RepubliCons make me Laugh!

Progressive Family Values Vs Conservatives Leave Every Child Behind

Obama Keeps My Vote: On the Politics of Fear

Iraq: It's the Military Bases Stupid!

Clinton On Republican Outrage over MoveOn Ad

MoveOn, Pryce, Cindy Sheehan, SCHIP, IRAQ- all in 1 diary!