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Thursday May 31, 2012 · 9:00 AM PDT

2012/05/31 · 09:00

We've all seen this movie before. In 2009 ACORN got ambushed by a sting video, and the Democratic congress panicked and gutted ACORN. Subsequent investigations (CRS, MA Attorney General, CA Attorney General) found that ACORN had done nothing wrong in these sting videos. The supposed sting video was revealed to be selectively edited and phonier than a 3 dollar bill. But all that vindication came too late - Congress already killed ACORN. Not even a year later- USDA appointee Shirley Sherrod was ambushed with another gotcha video from Breitbart. Tom Vilsack fired her summarily. And then he found out that her quote was taken completely out of context, and her speech, far from being racist, was actually a personal testimony against racism. Sherrod was vindicated, but the Obama administration's tragicomic incompetence was on the front page for a solid week.

I am not convinced of Troy Davis' innocence

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Thursday September 22, 2011 · 8:00 AM PDT

2011/09/22 · 08:00

First of all, let me start by saying that I agree wholeheartedly that the DA and the police have commited practically every prosecutorial abuse possible here: biased line-up identification, interrogation and coercion of minors without their parents' presence, use of jail house snitches, staged re-enactments with witnesses, and pressure on witnesses to converge their stories.

However that doesn't mean Troy Davis is innocent.

Obama: not a chump

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Wednesday September 21, 2011 · 8:00 AM PDT

2011/09/21 · 08:00

The recent high profile and increasingly suspicious collapse of Solyndra has left the Obama Administration looking like a bunch of dolts. The right wing noise machine is just besides themselves that Obama has bet and lost $535 million on Solyndra loan guarantees. Lost in the noise however is yesterday's breakthrough announcement from First Solar, another american solar panel pioneer.

Good news: Total Bailout costs only $87 Billion

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Friday April 23, 2010 · 6:49 PM PDT

2010/04/23 · 18:49

Here is some good news to start your weekend on. Timothy Geithner just announced that the total costs of the bailouts are projected to be only $87 billion.

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49 votes Show Results

Is this wonderful news or what?

49 votes Vote Now!

Is this wonderful news or what?

Love it love it love it!

24 votes

But, but, but I still want to kick Tim Geithner in the nutsack

14 votes

Adios Tea Party movement!

3 votes

pie

2 votes

I'll have 2 servings of pie

6 votes

Taking the pulse of Immigration Reform: Who should be legalized?

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 2:44 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 14:44

With Health Care Reform on the home stretch, I would like to switch gear and talk about the powderkeg issue of Immigration Reform. Even within the comfortable confines of DailyKos, Immigration Reform is a controversial subject. In order to understand our differences better, I am doing a "Sense of the Kos" survey in order to see where we, as a community of progressives, stand on this issue.

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58 votes Show Results

Who should get amnesty?

58 votes Vote Now!

Who should get amnesty?

Nobody

20 votes

People with specialized knowledge and skills

4 votes

Low wage menial laborers

1 vote

People with 5 years of proven work history

13 votes

People with 5 years of residency

5 votes

People who have lived in this country since before the bill was introduced

14 votes

People under the age of 30

1 vote

Cram Session: Cliff Notes on the House Reconciliation

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 3:42 AM PDT

2010/03/19 · 03:42

This is a late night cram session on the House Reconciliation Act. So curl up on the couch and join the study group:

Full text:
http://docs.house.gov/...
summary:
http://docs.house.gov/...

Due to the late hour and my brain's impending shut-down, this diary will just be slap-dash Cheat sheet style. Without further ado....

Devil in the Details 3: Medicaid goes Mainstream

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 5:45 PM PST

2010/03/12 · 17:45

Continuing on with my 'drill-down' study of the Senate Health Reform Bill; today we'll look at a groundbreaking change for Medicaid that seems to have received little notice.

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67 votes Show Results

Do you like the new Medicaid?

67 votes Vote Now!

Do you like the new Medicaid?

Love it

56 votes

Nah- I'll just pluck out my eyes

11 votes

Devil in the Details 2: AHIP took a left hook to the liver

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 12:38 AM PST

2009/12/22 · 00:38

Preface: In the interest of breaking through the current 'Kill Bill' vs 'Save & Improve Bill' deadlock here on DKos- I am doing a nooks-and-cranny exploration of the HCR Bill. Hopefully this will refocus our energies and advance the debate beyond the current logjam.

One favorite punch among mexican boxers is a short, upwards punch aimed at just below the right rib cage. A lot of times a casual spectator might not even see this punch landing except on replay. Just as often, the recipient of said punch would'nt feel its effects until a good 10 seconds later- when he doubles over onto the canvas.

Devil in the Details: Mandate not mandatory

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 3:27 AM PST

2009/12/21 · 03:27

Preface: In the interest of breaking through the current 'Kill Bill' vs 'Save & Improve Bill' deadlock here on DKos- I will do a nooks-and-cranny exploration of the HCR Bill in a series of diaries. Hopefully this will refocus our energies and advance the debate beyond the current logjam.

As the cliche goes- the devil is in the details. In a previous diary I facetiously brought to your attention the religious exemption to the much hated Mandate. Well- as it turns out, you don't even have to swear off pancakes and join my new cult to avoid the Mandate...

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This Mandate penalty waiver loophole is

114 votes Vote Now!

This Mandate penalty waiver loophole is

a sop to progressives & teabaggers

15 votes

a sop to the self employed

10 votes

a sop to Keith Olbermann

8 votes

a sop to the 3 people who actually read the bill this far

81 votes

I am starting a new religious cult- wanna join?

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 6:28 PM PST

2009/12/18 · 18:28

Like most of you, I've been sick to my stomach over the Mandate. How could the government force me to hand my hard earned money over to the for-profit (and lots- United Health's CEO made $54 million in 2006) insurance cartels? You can trot out 'risk pool', 'adverse selection', and Paul Krugman all you want- but you know and I know (and 67% of americans know) that the Mandate is fundamentally unjust.

Now then yesterday I caught a small glimmer of hope.

3 Ways to make the mandate palatable

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 11:54 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 23:54

At this late hour, I think we all have to face the reality that: The mandate is not going away. For reasons that Ezra Klein and others have already elucidated- if you are going to force insurers to take all comers, you must also have a mandate to force healthy people to buy insurance. The two go hand-in-hand. As much as we hate it- the mandate is going to stay in the bill.

So the only question now is- how do we make this shit sandwich a little more palatable.

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43 votes Show Results

How do you like your shit sandwich?

43 votes Vote Now!

How do you like your shit sandwich?

#1 earmark the fines for ER's

2 votes

#2 make the fines refundable towards the purchase of a health plan

5 votes

#3 barebone plans for those paying the fines

5 votes

too late- I hate democrats already

31 votes

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