Please Please Please Olbermann or Maddow....

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Wednesday February 10, 2010 · 2:02 AM PST

2010/02/10 · 02:02

I've posted this before, I know. Most progressive people have seen it more than once, I know. But I really think it would be oh so poignant if the American public could get a refresher on television. There's just something about that collective moment, with so many seeing it at the same time, that can help make the point sink in.

And a disclaimer: I watch Countdown and TRMS (Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show) online almost every single day (from overseas). So maybe this video clip has been run on one of their shows recently and I missed it. If so, of course all apologies.

Anyway...

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 9:16 AM PST

2010/02/03 · 09:16

I originally titled this diary entry "Republican 'Beliefs'", but decided I preferred the current one. Yet, this post does come from my trying to "get my head around" what those beliefs could be. And I'm not talking about "fiscal conservatism" etc. I'm talking about the recent poll Kos commissioned on certain ideas that the average republican holds as being true or valid...

Edit: link to the poll [thanks to Kossack cee4]

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 2:59 AM PST

2010/01/27 · 02:59

Short and sweet.

I am amazed.

Dickering and bickering from the middle to the grass roots (see: DKOS.com);

Disloyalty at the upper levels (see Lieberman, Nelson, Bayh et al);

Delusions at the top (see Obama, Barack: thinking that rhetoric that gets you elected will last beyond a few cycles of continuing assault by a very partisan right wing that has no interest in accomplishing anything but the trashing of progress so they can ride discontent to re-election);

Disintegration and disarray all around.

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 2:51 PM PST

2009/12/17 · 14:51

Ok, it's too late to do much about Joe Lieberscum. But it's not too late to learn something.

And Democrats will have to accept the responsibility if we fail to do so.

And the time to start is now, and continues on through the 2010 mid-term elections.

The talk seems to be that the liberal base will sit on their hands out of resentment, apathy, whatever.

And that will be the blunder of the century.

To try to help us avoid that, the gloves have come off, and Dr. Dean is leading the way, again.

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 1:40 AM PST

2009/12/16 · 01:40

I heard several pundits over the last few days say that if we went through the budget reconciliation process to get health care reform done, that key elements would be lost - such as getting rid of "pre-existing condition" exemption, and preventing folks from getting dropped, etc.

Ok, so I have a (perhaps naive) question:

Why not pass the "weak" version of the bill, that includes those reforms - including one which I think is rather strong, i.e. limiting insurance companies to 10% overhead costs -- and then, use reconciliation to institute some mechanism like the public option?

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 3:35 PM PST

2009/12/04 · 15:35

As I write this from my kitchen in Perugia, Italy, a crowd is likely fighting off a cold wind in the center of town, about 10 minutes from me. Most of them are there to do their job, reporting, or supporting a news crew. I'm tempted to go join them, but my toddler isn't sleeping well due to a nasty cough. I have a few minutes to make up my mind, if I want to let my wife deal with him alone just for a while so I can be there, or if I'll wait for the online news clip, or just read about it in the papers tomorrow...

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Tuesday November 10, 2009 · 3:46 AM PST

2009/11/10 · 03:46

I'm sitting here, watching clip after clip of this "debate" on health reform, and I guess you could say I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more... (apologies to Popeye, but also thinking maybe we should be mounting a campaign to send a few crates of spinach to Senate Dems...)

Anyway, I'm hoping someone can explain to me how/why the title of this diary is not being blanketed across every airwave and internet tube in the nation.

Health care costs are killing the American economy because of the burden they place on companies and labor.

Why this is and has not been the single most repeated theme in this "debate"?

Why are we allowing dishonest people like the GOP and Joe Lieberman to take control of the message?

Getting health care costs under control is the most important plank in rebuilding the American economy and therefore, jobs.

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Monday November 02, 2009 · 9:34 AM PST

2009/11/02 · 09:34

Health reform.

Wait, let's get more specific: reform.

What's in a name, and all that...

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 3:43 AM PDT

2009/09/12 · 03:43

In response to Meteor Blades' latest post on rules and regulations, I was writing a comment, when I realized it might better be placed in it's own diary. It is offered with the best intent. And also with an admitted amount of haste. I just don't get by DKos as often as I used to these days, partly because of some of the same issues MB is trying to address, and partly because of good old fashioned economic hardship.

Anyway, here it is, in rough form...

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 1:55 AM PDT

2009/09/11 · 01:55

A day of pain and memory.

A day not all that uncommon, unfortunately.

A day that is not even solely our own.

Sometimes, the best consolation is sharing not only grief, but awareness - of how many others there are out there in the world, with whom we have more in common than we knew.

The work by Ken Loach embedded below has been around awhile. But I stumbled on it again today, and felt it worth a short diary post...

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 8:44 AM PDT

2009/09/10 · 08:44

How it is possible that Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins, of Maine will not vote for the bill outlined by the President last night?

Better yet, how could they not vote to end a filibuster, and then open the way to a simple 50 vote victory?

I don't see either of them being able to say no at this point... and I cannot believe the vast majority of their constituents would blame them.

But are there any other moderates that I'm overlooking?

I'll ponder a few possibilities over the fold...

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Monday August 24, 2009 · 2:59 PM PDT

2009/08/24 · 14:59

I would.

As it is, I'll instead just say that I am curious to see where Meteor Blades' rec-listed thoughts will lead...

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Please Please Please Olbermann or Maddow....

The Poll, one person's reaction

Wow, Dems snatching defeat from jaws of victory, again...

That's Gonna Leave a Bruise, Doc...

Um, How About this? (shhh)

Death Penalty notably absent in Perugia...

Health Reform is a JOBS bill, dammit.

A Win is a Win, A Loss is a Loss

DKos "reform" ?

September 11th...

Forecast calling for Snowe...

If it did any good to say I told you so...