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Monday March 17, 2008 · 1:40 PM PDT

2008/03/17 · 13:40

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Why Obama should filibuster FISA

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 11:33 AM PST

2008/01/23 · 11:33

[Originally posted at Corrente. Welcome, Sidehow readers.]

Will the only Constitutional scholar in the race take a stand on retroactive immunity for the telcos?

I'm guessing no. Though nothing would please me more than for Obama to show leadership by denying retroactive immunity to the telcos helping Bush with his illegal and unconstitutional warrantless surveillance program and violating FISA, I think he'll play for safety rather than play to win.*

So, I'd like to give him and his a gentle nudge in the direction of standing up and doing the right thing. First, I'll give a high level overview** of the situation with the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution as I see it, FISA, and the role of the telcos. Then I'll summarize the very real political benefits that could accrue to Obama from using the Senate floor as a bully pulpit to prevent retroactive immunity for the telcos under cover of "reforming" FISA.

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Democrat? Or "Obamacrat for a day"?

lambertstrether

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Monday January 14, 2008 · 7:39 PM PST

2008/01/14 · 19:39

[Originally published at Corrente.]

[NOTE: This is not the Nevada flyer. This is a Florida flyer.]

Sheesh:

WANNA BECOME AN OBAMACRAT?!!!
By Obama Florida 2008
Published: April 24, 2007

That's why "Democrat for a Day" was launched this spring by ObamaFlorida2008. Using the official forms provided by all Supervisors of Elections offices, you may re-register as a Democrat for that one day -- when the primary is likely to be held -- on February 5, 2008. You must do so before the end of 2007, to make sure it is done 30 days before the primary.

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Is Obama right to ask Republicans to become "Democrats for a Day" in the Nevada and Florida?

Yes. Republicans should be recognized and respected, even in Democratic primaries

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No. Republicans aren't interested in helping the Democratic Party, and will game the system

26 votes

Ponies for everybody!

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Why get a cancer test if you have no money & you'll die anyhow?

lambertstrether

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 5:23 AM PST

2008/01/09 · 05:23

[Originally posted at Corrente]

Surprise! Universal health care really is a matter of life and death.

Single payer, no rickety plans, just do it the Fuck like all the other civilized nations do. Xan nails it in this comment, which ought to be permanently front-paged on every fucking liberal blog in the world forever. Sarah advocates early testing, which in a sane world might make sense, but:

lambertstrether

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Friday January 04, 2008 · 11:43 AM PST

2008/01/04 · 11:43

I always expected the question of how Mike Huckabee's son killed that dog* would be a fertile source for opposition researchers.

But I didn't expect that would happen the minute the Iowa polls closed!

lambertstrether

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Thursday January 03, 2008 · 6:59 AM PST

2008/01/03 · 06:59

[By MJS, at Corrente, where it was originally published.]

The following entries were found in a diary left behind in a Progressive Cave near the Whaddaguy Gorge dig in North America, unearthed after being hidden for almost ten days. A remarkable discovery, by any stretch. Perhaps even a miracle.

Day 161: Obama came over late. I made dinner, but it was cold by the time he got to it and he threw it against the wall. Told me "social security is in trouble" and I bit my lip. He makes up stories, and if I contradict him he out awesome's me, and then I feel unloved and abused. I did tell him that Krugman called, just to piss him off.

lambertstrether

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Wednesday January 02, 2008 · 8:10 AM PST

2008/01/02 · 08:10

Amazingly, MoDo -- even a blind pig finds a truffle every so often -- has a good quote* in her column today that nobody else is reporting:

[Michelle Obama] told a group gathered at a nursing home in Grinnell on Monday that "Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics."

Come on. "Deign"?

Politics is how citizens make decisions in a democracy. "Deign" to enter that process? WTF?

I don't want someone who stands above the fray preaching "unity" and teh Bipartisan because he doesn't want to get down and dirty!

lambertstrether

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Sunday December 30, 2007 · 9:32 AM PST

2007/12/30 · 09:32

Via Digby, Bloomberg, some Broderites, and some 80s retreads are calling for a "government of national unity." Can we get a grip, please? Google it. Governments of national unity are for countries that have suffered huge trauma, like apartheid in South Africa or decades of civil war in the Sudan. You don't proclaim a government of national unity because there might be a change in government from one party to another, or because the cocktail wienies won't be coming, or because somebody's winger operative girlfriend is going to enter the dreaded private sector, or because a hippie or two is going to become a undersecretary of this, that, or the other. And you especially don't proclaim one because DC is your place.

lambertstrether

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Friday December 28, 2007 · 6:17 PM PST

2007/12/28 · 18:17

[Originally published at Corrente]

One current permathread on here at Kos is that Krugman and Obama are feuding or having a vendetta. Which, when you take a step back, is bizarre. That movement conservatives and Villagers like stone Bush enabler William Kristol, like David Brooks, Broderella, and Andrew Sullivan are all good with Obama isn't even mentioned in passing by Obama's fan base. And yet those same enthusiasts spend inordinate amounts of time vilifying Paul Krugman, a true progressive who was there for us from the earliest dark days of the Bush regime.

Curious. What's really happening?

lambertstrether

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Tuesday December 18, 2007 · 6:08 AM PST

2007/12/18 · 06:08

Which Republican family is winning the all-important dog abuse primary? Huckabee, Guiliani, or Romney? Follow me below the fold to take the poll!

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The Huckabee family, where son David killed a stray dog while a Boy Scout, and was fired because Scout law says a Scout is "kind"

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The Giuliani family, where current wife Judy used puppies to demonstrate surgical staplers on sales calls, and then had the puppies "put down"

35 votes

The Romney family, where Dad Mitt strapped dog Seamus on top of his car, and kept driving for hours until a "brown liquid" dripped down the back window of the car

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HRC, Obama betray Dodd on FISA filibuster, break oaths of office

lambertstrether

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Sunday December 16, 2007 · 8:17 PM PST

2007/12/16 · 20:17

[Originally posted at Corrente.]

Dodd's filibustering on FISA tomorrow, for the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment, and against retroactive immunity for the telcos and warrantless surveillance.

And where are those who promised to help him?

Glenn:

Two other Senators at least -- Feingold and Kennedy -- have committed to being on the floor to enable Dodd to take periodic breaks by asking questions. Despite issuing prior statements claiming they would support Dodd's filibuster, none of the other presidential candidates in the Senate -- Clinton, Obama or Biden -- have indicated that they will do so tomorrow.

Boy, do Hillary and Obama both suck. [UPDATE: You too, Joe Biden!] What a surprise! Just to refresh your memories:

lambertstrether

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Wednesday December 12, 2007 · 2:43 PM PST

2007/12/12 · 14:43

[Originally published at Corrente.]

Oddly, or not, the forthcoming Times article treats Huckabee's weight loss uncritically. But if The God Of His Choice put Huckabee first in the polls, why didn't God just staple Huckabee's stomach for him? Or is it possible there was a less divine form of intervention, from a surgeon with a staple gun?

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