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Obama Overrules Gates, Kills Nuke Program
You'd think that a) a president overruling his SecDef and/or b) cancelling a major nuclear-weapons program would be Big News. But ...
Phoenix Woman 05/15/2009 58 65 1 64
BREAKING: Pelosi, Bob Graham say CIA IS LYING
Looky: ...Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said without equivocation that the ...
Phoenix Woman 05/14/2009 477 367 7 27
Dr. Doom Agrees W/ Bonddad on Economy
Now that Bonddad ...
Phoenix Woman 05/11/2009 92 46 - 20
David Frum: Prosecuting Torturers = Partisan "Show Trials"
If you're wondering about the sort of mindset that The Villagers who've run Washington for the past four decades have, ...
Phoenix Woman 04/24/2009 51 6 1 28
Dana, Me, and Socialist Liberty
One isn't supposed to write "calling out" diaries, so I want to say, first off, that this one isn't. (Neither ...
Phoenix Woman 04/10/2009 87 12 - 24
NY-20: Tedisco Preps for Loss, Using Courts to Try and Block Murphy Win
As reported earlier, Republican Jim Tedisco took the extraordinary measure of filing a motion with the Dutchess ...
Phoenix Woman 03/31/2009 122 208 2 37
Seneca Doane Shows Us How It's Done
While DailyKos writhes in the midst of yet another food fight, Seneca Doane steps ...
Phoenix Woman 03/22/2009 8 22 - 36
AIG: Give Us The $ Or Your Economy Dies
As Emptywheel says , that's the only way to ...
Phoenix Woman 03/16/2009 38 12 1 21
Lebanon's Banks Avoided Scams, Doing Just Fine
Bmaz over at the Emptywheel portion of the FDL shop does us the signal favor of ...
Phoenix Woman 02/22/2009 25 22 - 15
Gregg: FOR the stimulus before he was against it
Props to Sully for catching this : 12 Feb 2009 06:23 pm Quote For The ...
Phoenix Woman 02/13/2009 15 7 - 25
The Mess That Is The BUSH DoJ
Yes, I said "Bush DoJ", not "Obama DoJ". That's not a mistake. The Department of Justice has fared very badly in the last eight years. First, there was a purge of competent people in favor of ...
Phoenix Woman 02/11/2009 30 10 - 13
Obama kills Bush's offshore drilling plan
Remember all the anxiety a while back that Barack Obama was going to go along with the Bush plan ...
Phoenix Woman 02/10/2009 30 45 - 33
"He's Not DOING Anything!!!!"
There are some folks out there -- and they're the people who always have done this sort of thing, and been ...
Phoenix Woman 02/05/2009 64 36 - 29
Media Ignores Pleas of America's Mayors & Governors
A lot of people, alarmed at the continued GOP resistance to the stimulus bill, are hollering "Where are Obama and the Democrats on this?!?" I don't know about Harry and Nancy, but I do know that ...
Phoenix Woman 02/04/2009 10 18 - 16
The Good News Diary
Because we could all use some good news: -- Want a loan, but your bank won't cooperate? ...
Phoenix Woman 02/03/2009 12 9 - 6
Paterson, Gillibrand, and NY-20
I've been an agnostic on the whole Caroline Kennedy thing in that I really didn't have a reason to care one way or the other ...
Phoenix Woman 01/22/2009 24 10 - 30
Obama Ordering Gitmo Closed and Other Trivial Matters
While half the folks on DKos are writing Why Wasn't My Purple Ticket Any Good? diaries, President Obama has been frittering away his time on things ...
Phoenix Woman 01/21/2009 43 20 - 18
DiFi ignored 'Intel Pros' when they warned her RE: Iraq
Obama has had a hard time finding a prospective CIA chief who isn't tainted by either involvement in Bush's torture regime or who backed Bush's illicit wiretapping.
Phoenix Woman 01/06/2009 8 14 - 31
Burris backed killing an innocent man
Reasonable people can argue over whether or not the death penalty is a good idea.� But to inflict it on someone who you have every reason ...
Phoenix Woman 01/02/2009 34 34 2 17
Melissa Etheridge shared a stage with Rick Warren.
And talked with him, even. Better yet -- it was at an event organized by a Muslim group in LA :
Phoenix Woman 12/21/2008 160 28 - 40
The OTHER Preacher at the Inaugural
Like most people, I was shocked to see that Rick Warren was going to give the opening benediction at Barack Obama's inaugural. Warren is not only a raging homophobe and James Dobson with a slicker ...
Phoenix Woman 12/17/2008 608 564 10 318
How Many Here Want To See Our Economy Die?
Upon looking at the DKos reaction to Mitch McConnell's telling Harry Reid and GM/Ford/Chrysler that ...
Phoenix Woman 12/11/2008 68 13 3 40
Karl Rove almost saved Blagojevich.  Here's how.
Lost in all the Chicken Littling about OMG OMG Did Obama Play Ball With Blago (Answer: ...
Phoenix Woman 12/09/2008 95 212 3 78
Obama's green stimulus plan
Per the IHT , President-Elect Barack Obama, working with Congressional Democrats, is creating a plan to pour billions of dollars ...
Phoenix Woman 12/04/2008 26 18 - 19
Franken Lead? More Real Than Coleman's "Lead". Here's why.
When even Kos is confused about how Al Franken can claim a lead in the recount of the Minnesota Senate race after Norm ...
Phoenix Woman 12/03/2008 11 14 1 22
Nouriel Roubini Hearts Obama's Econ Team
One of the themes I’ve noticed in the lefty part of the blogosphere lately is a tendency to rag on Obama’s economic team, especially Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. This is being ...
Phoenix Woman 11/25/2008 39 21 - 57
Interrupting the Hatestorm for a moment...
Interrupting the Ten Years’ Hate for a moment: The Congressional Democratic leadership told Dean right from the start that they didn’t answer to him, but to Reid and Pelosi. They wouldn&...
Phoenix Woman 11/18/2008 13 14 - -
Do I Have To Start Passing Around Xanax Here?
Jesus H. Buddha on a lotus, people. Just because some politician or his/her surrogates flap their yaps doesn't mean he or she is going to be Secretary of State or Agriculture or Doorknobs. Honestly.
Phoenix Woman 11/15/2008 157 23 1 30
The Good (yes, GOOD) News on Prop 8
I can see why gays are angry: A state they mistakenly thought was "gay-friendly", despite the evidence of the Knight Initiative in 2000 and its revival as Prop 8 this year (not to mention giving ...
Phoenix Woman 11/07/2008 16 12 - 30
Mr. Bush's Wild Ride (apologies to Kenneth Grahame)
My co-blogger Charles did this lovely photoshopping of Bush's head into an E. H. Shepard ...
Phoenix Woman 11/04/2008 2 - - -
Nouriel Roubini: Fascist Sellout?
Not really. But I'm sure that once the word gets out that he and Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz all agree that ...
Phoenix Woman 10/03/2008 34 5 - -
Chicago School's Cochrane hates bailout: That Should Tell Us Something
Devilstower's front-paged post today cites John Cochrane as one of the economists against the bailout. In fact,
Phoenix Woman 10/01/2008 18 2 - -
VETO (why it's either a bad deal or no deal)
Sorry, folks, but I'm afraid it's going to be a bad deal or no deal at all. Here's why: The Republicans who voted down yesterday's bill did so in large part because they disliked the few things we ...
Phoenix Woman 09/30/2008 18 1 - 41
WAAAAAH!  Obama Didn't Bite His Throat Out On TV!!!  WAAAAHHH!
Some times I wonder about some folk in the blogosphere. Tonight, Barack Obama's calm yet forceful, unruffled and factual presentation bested John McCain's smirky spoutings of warmed-over lies. ...
Phoenix Woman 09/26/2008 100 41 1 17
Is Bozo Barney Blowing Smoke WRT Bailout?
Barney Frank the Collaborationist sez that the deal is done -- but that's not what Congressional Republicans are saying (h/
Phoenix Woman 09/24/2008 29 - - -
Obama Leads, Bush/McCain Follow
Here's how you whittle down the perceived FoPo advantage of Bush/McCain -- by reminding everyone that on foreign policy, Bush and McCain have quietly adopted Obama's major proposals. Andrew ...
Phoenix Woman 09/12/2008 5 6 - -
Chuck Hagel gives props to Obama-Biden
Actual straight talker Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is everything John Sidney McCain III claims to be. He's a conservative Republican, but he's also willing to backhand the GOP establishment when he feels it'...
Phoenix Woman 08/23/2008 25 16 - -
Make that EIGHT houses.
It just gets better. From AmericaBlog : McCain couldn't remember how many he owned. His staff ...
Phoenix Woman 08/21/2008 31 12 - 19
"Georgian" video may really be of bombed S. Ossetian capital
Here's something you won't see on the US TV networks : American broadcaster CNN has been accused of using the wrong pictures in ...
Phoenix Woman 08/13/2008 53 22 - 20
Funny Things (Or: Why is the press bothering with a retired pol?)
Funny how the press attacks a retired politician for catting around, yet dropped all inquiries into the ...
Phoenix Woman 08/11/2008 11 6 - 1
Obama on Afghanistan: "Goals Should Be Modest"
One thing lost in the hoo-ha over Obama's proposals for Afghanistan is that they aren't what some people think they are. In an ...
Phoenix Woman 07/27/2008 31 19 1 30
Report: FARC Was Paid Millions For Hostages
Lookee what Forbes is reporting : PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Leaders of the Colombian FARC rebel ...
Phoenix Woman 07/04/2008 89 33 - 50
Stranded Wind, I'm Calling You Out!
Don't worry, it's for a good cause -- to alert you to this -- a company in Massachusetts, Aeronautica Windpower, is ...
Phoenix Woman 07/02/2008 12 45 2 29
Obama: Returning Faith-Based Policy To A Pre-Bush State
I do hope not everyone's gone into Lord of the Flies mode over the non-issue of Obama's undoing a bit of Bush policy. That's right: undoing . Government and religious ...
Phoenix Woman 07/01/2008 62 18 - 30
Iraq Contractor: The Surge Didn't Do Diddly
Well, besides kill a whole bunch of people, that is. From the Washington Independent : Whenever Bush ...
Phoenix Woman 06/30/2008 10 23 1 17
If Obama is all powerful, why can't he control the Blue Dogs?
According to some folk, as " party leader " Barack Obama ...
Phoenix Woman 06/24/2008 168 19 - 38
"It never was America to me."
I surmise that most of the people who are doing the woe-is-us diaries are very likely white people of a certain educational and/or social standing that most other Americans would see as in some way ...
Phoenix Woman 06/22/2008 42 67 6 66
NQ Gloaters:  Hillary's Record on FISA is Worse.
Ah, the rabid McCain backers and Hillary "supporters" (thanks to Angry Mouse, one of the Sane Majority of the HRC supporters,
Phoenix Woman 06/21/2008 49 8 - 29
Krugman, Klein, and Getting It Wrong
Surprise, surprise: Naomi Klein writes a piece for The Nation complaining that Obama has spoken in support of capitalism. ...
Phoenix Woman 06/19/2008 66 14 - 15
Michelle More Popular Than Cindy
Atrios noted this morning that the right-wingers who control our media's puppet strings have been pushing the ...
Phoenix Woman 06/18/2008 39 16 1 22
This Will Kill Daily Kos!
I've avoided all of the Russert diaries, pro, con, and in between, this weekend -- until this morning, when I read the two diaries currently on the Rec List asking Kossacks to cool it on criticizing ...
Phoenix Woman 06/16/2008 95 37 - 88
Would Impeaching Bush Result In A Sympathy Boost For The GOP?
I've bounced back and forth between whether impeaching Cheney and Bush (and remember folks, for impeachment and removal to work, we have to do Cheney first) would be a good idea. On the one hand, ...
Phoenix Woman 06/11/2008 159 10 1 15
The Unity Bounce: It's Real and Unforced
It's already happening. Poblano's documenting the first signs .
Phoenix Woman 06/07/2008 36 27 1 26
This Is Why Obama Asked His Fans Not To Protest The RBC Meeting
Attend, yes; protest, no. A first-hand report from someone who was there shows the wisdom of that decision. Follow me past the jump for more.
Phoenix Woman 05/31/2008 428 673 12 57
McCain, Huckabee Voters Joining Hillary's Bus Tour
That's what her e-mail says: As you know, our efforts to present a unified front this weekend ...
Phoenix Woman 05/29/2008 19 9 1 1
So what's more harmful to women?
Calling somebody by an innocuous term of endearment you'd use for your wife or daughter or other beloved female relative, or voting for the authorization to use military force to invade Iraq, ...
Phoenix Woman 05/19/2008 6 7 1 16
Urban Agrarianism, Part Three: The UK
In the first two parts of this series, I examined how places like Youngstown, Ohio and several Eastern German cities , ...
Phoenix Woman 05/13/2008 11 14 1 3
Urban Agrarianism, Part Two: Pittsburgh and Environs
Earlier I did a diary on how the former steel town of Youngstown, Ohio , chose to take the old, vacated parts of town ...
Phoenix Woman 05/12/2008 37 31 2 71
Bringing Clinton Fans Up To Speed On Obama, Part Three: Economics
This post represents a change (hence the title change) in that it's not addressing myths so much as setting out information.
Phoenix Woman 05/09/2008 17 23 2 14
Bringing Clinton Fans Up To Speed On The Real Obama: Part Two
This is Part Two in a series of diaries involving undoing some of the anti-Obama myths propagated all over the place and especially by sites such as Hillaryis44, et cetera. Part One, which dealt ...
Phoenix Woman 05/08/2008 48 40 5 37
Bringing Clinton Fans Up To Speed On The Real Obama: Part One
Judging from my forays into places like MyDD (which unlike Daily Kos deletes and apparently censors people ),
Phoenix Woman 05/07/2008 300 278 20 18
Urban Agrarianism: The New Wave?
I read Stranded Wind's diary today and it got me thinking about my days of thirty years ago, when I read The Mother ...
Phoenix Woman 05/06/2008 56 38 5 120
NC Insiders: Edwards has little clout in NC
Remember Kos' telling us that former Senators/Governors/Congresscritters/etc. have no clout with the voters of their home states because they have no political machine, whereas mayors ...
Phoenix Woman 05/04/2008 49 7 1 -
NBC/WSJ Poll: Bush hurts McCain big-time
And guess what? That's more important to the voters than most of what the GOP/Media Complex thinks is important: Sen. Barack Obama&...
Phoenix Woman 04/30/2008 17 14 - -
FOX to ProgBloggers: Dance, Monkey, Dance!
Ever hear of feedback loops? Well, it looks like Kos and Stoller et al are part of one now with Rupert Murdoch. One reason FOX's people are gloating on-air is that they know how E-Z it is to ...
Phoenix Woman 04/29/2008 20 8 - 14
MLK Jr. versus Malcolm X
To judge from some of the overheated rhetoric lately -- much of it done by people who were never Obama fans anyway -- you'd think ...
Phoenix Woman 04/28/2008 62 3 - 12
DNC on offensive against McCain
The DNC's been running a hard-hitting new ad against McCain. ...
Phoenix Woman 04/22/2008 10 24 1 15
Barack Obama: Bugs Bunny or Road Runner?
Barack Obama has taken more hits from more people than any other candidate this presidential election cycle. Kitchen sinks have been flying his way since Day One. And the effect? Apparently, they ...
Phoenix Woman 04/18/2008 33 6 - -
AP: Clinton Changes Course On Obama's Electability
The rest of the non-FOX news media was as appalled at the pile of steaming nonsense that ABC called a "moderated debate" as we were. But AP's Beth Fouhy managed to find something ...
Phoenix Woman 04/17/2008 29 14 1 -
Gallup, Rasmussen: Obama's Numbers Not Hurt By Various FauxGates
Republicans like Grover Norquist and Ed Rollins will be sad to hear that the OJ/bittergate/etc. bull hasn't dented Obama's lead over Hillary (or, in the Gallup poll,
Phoenix Woman 04/14/2008 41 15 - 43
Bill Clinton Agrees With Obama!
Marc Ambinder catches Bill Clinton on Charlie Rose back in December making Obama's argument for ...
Phoenix Woman 04/12/2008 4 13 - 8
Yes, McCain really did say "100 Years"
The Cons are trying to weasel out from under this, but take it from Dave Tiffany, the guy who asked John ...
Phoenix Woman 04/09/2008 15 8 - 2
Q-Poll, PA: Hillary 50, Obama 44
The polls in Pennsylvania are all over the place. SUSA's poll gives Hillary a huge 18-point lead , yet,
Phoenix Woman 04/08/2008 30 4 - 2
Video Links To Elizabeth Edwards' Debunkings of New York Article
This morning, Elizabeth Edwards went onto both the Today Show and Joe Scarborough's "Morning Joe" program to attack John McCain's health care program. While discussing the differences between the ...
Phoenix Woman 04/02/2008 12 9 1 32
Limbaugh's system-gaming could give us a new Democratic congressman
Oooopsie! Looks like Rush's shenanigans may have cost the GOP their seat in Mississippi's First Congressional District:
Phoenix Woman 04/01/2008 17 19 - 21
Ralph Nader, Hillary Clinton, John McCain?
johnalive over at OpenLeft posted this message from Ralph Nader ...
Phoenix Woman 03/29/2008 6 2 - -
Rezko and the GOP
Here's why the GOP doesn't dare push the Rezko smear against Obama -- the current vice chairman of the upcoming Republican National ...
Phoenix Woman 03/25/2008 10 5 - -
RW Preacher Hagee: McCain Sought My Endorsement
Watch as the same national media that's been engaged in a two-week-long hissy kabuki fit against Obama and Reverend Wright give only the briefest of mentions ...
Phoenix Woman 03/21/2008 21 21 - -
Hillary's Preacher Problem
First McCain and Hagee/Parsley, then Obama and Wright, now Clinton and "The Family": HRC's now part of the "preacher problem club". From ...
Phoenix Woman 03/20/2008 50 18 - 27
Boston Globe: "Many voting for Clinton to boost GOP"
As most of you know, Rush Limbaugh, believing that John McCain would find Hillary Clinton easier to beat than Barack Obama (a belief which several pollsters over several months have buttressed), ...
Phoenix Woman 03/17/2008 55 20 2 22
Recipe Thread!
All the oppo-slinging going on here that never gets noticed in the real world. Such a to-do! Aren't you all tired of it? Come here, take a break, pull up a chair, bring your best recipes. I've ...
Phoenix Woman 03/14/2008 22 13 - 2
Billionaire UK Conservative Aristo Caught in Spitzer Net
This will either be ignored in the US, outside of the NY media and the ...
Phoenix Woman 03/13/2008 28 14 - -
A Tale of Three Johns: David, Larry, Eliot
Follow me now as I tell you about the press coverage given to three famous accused johns: David Vitter, Larry Craig, and Eliot Spitzer. (Crossposted ...
Phoenix Woman 03/11/2008 6 4 - 1
OH NO! This Site Isn't What It Used To Be! (Um, yes it is.)
For all the talk of people leaving DKos lately, you'd think that a) there'd never been any candidate wars before (geez, did people forget the Dean 2003-4 flame wars so soon? Or the whole pie ...
Phoenix Woman 03/07/2008 70 22 - 42
McCain's Non-Denial Denials
In McCain's initial response to the breaking Blonde Lobbyist Scandal, not once does he say, flat out, that the story is false :
Phoenix Woman 02/21/2008 30 5 - -
I Was 16 In 1980
So yeah, I know what it's like to spend most of my adult life with little or no hope that things will change for the better. Reagan, Reagan, Bush I, brief Clinton respites hobbled by loss of ...
Phoenix Woman 02/19/2008 23 8 - 7
Digby, Sexism and Blogging while Female
I'd been wondering why the comments section at Hullabaloo had disappeared for a few weeks. Now I know ...
Phoenix Woman 02/08/2008 95 39 - -
CNN: People Who Aren't Online Junkies Like BOTH HRC and BHO
Per CNN (h/...
Phoenix Woman 02/06/2008 113 30 - 19
Why do GBCW Diaries?
Bill in Portland nails it right here , in response to the phenomenon of people doing Le Grand Public Kiss-Offs to Daily Kos ...
Phoenix Woman 01/26/2008 63 21 - 11
Why Edwards Helps Obama: Identity Politics and Low-Information Voters
Most of us here see John Edwards as the most liberal of the major Democratic candidates, Barack Obama as the second-most liberal, and Hillary Clinton as, well, not liberal at all. Some folks don't ...
Phoenix Woman 01/19/2008 32 6 1 -
Michigan: Tweak Hillary or Stop McCain?
Jeezus H. Blogwriting Quiche-Making Keeerist, the primaries are making people insane. I'm seeing people urging a vote for "uncommitted" in the Michigan primaries, rather than a vote to stop John ...
Phoenix Woman 01/14/2008 20 8 - 55
The Danger Is McCain.
As Kos and others have repeatedly pointed out, Michigan Republicans have used the open primary system to screw the Dems over and over and over again through the ...
Phoenix Woman 01/11/2008 126 15 - 19
2008 Democratic Delegate Counts (so far)!
Because we all need a little reality check: Per CNN as of last night (with the Magic Number being 2,025): ...
Phoenix Woman 01/09/2008 41 9 1 19
Edwards Surges Nationally, Big Media Ignores
From Glenn Greenwald : As but one example, ...
Phoenix Woman 01/08/2008 162 59 2 26
Obama using Edwards' themes to pull ahead
Barack Obama has good taste in borrowing: Obama borrows from Edwards January 5, 2008 01:19 PM By Sasha ...
Phoenix Woman 01/06/2008 47 9 - 3
My Promise
I will make the following promises as of today. Feel free to join me if you like.
Phoenix Woman 01/03/2008 20 10 - 2
Social Security is just fine, thanks
One of the GOP's long-standing dreams has been to destroy Social Security -- partly because they want to parcel out its money to ...
Phoenix Woman 01/01/2008 15 26 6 36
Harry Reid does something GOOD. Really.
Digby's buddy DDay quotes from a CBS News story that actually ...
Phoenix Woman 12/27/2007 31 27 - 3
Concord Monitor on Romney: RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
I've heard of non-endorsements before, but I can't remember any being this harsh : If ...
Phoenix Woman 12/24/2007 12 3 - -
Hillary, Barack and John ALL EAT BOOGERS!
I KNOW they do!!! I have the PROOF!!!!! OMG!!! ONE!!!! And they're not even their OWN boogers!!!! They're the boogers of Republican racist pedophiles!!!! Honest!!!! (Oh, and they all hate unions, ...
Phoenix Woman 12/23/2007 30 11 - 9