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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gay Groups: Smelt case won't undo DOMA, and may strengthen it There is currently much of a muchness being stirred by people who push our rage buttons for fun and profit concerning the DOJ, the Smelt case, and DOMA.
But before people go off half-cocked -- or ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/12/2009 | 61 | 5 | 1 | 42 |
| 'Bye, all. I'll be back when you stop letting jerks push your buttons. I've stuck through the Pie Wars, the Kos-is-a-sexist-pig Wars, the MSOC Wars, and even the 2008 Primary Wars (though I did stay away for a few months until people on all sides got their brains back). |
Phoenix Woman | 06/17/2009 | 388 | 39 | 1 | 21 |
| CALL NOW: Tell Democrats Stand Up To Rahm On Triggers at 7pm Tonight FDL's Jane Hamsher posted this:
Sources say that ... |
Phoenix Woman | 07/07/2009 | 17 | 35 | 1 | 20 |
| GOP Can't Keep Its Lies Straight on Health Care Here's Michael Steele , lying about how the public option will ... |
Phoenix Woman | 07/22/2009 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 67 |
| Obama to Congress: Stay and Work Harry Reid announced today that Joe Lieberman and the Republicans are getting their wish, and ... |
Phoenix Woman | 07/23/2009 | 40 | 33 | 1 | 22 |
| AFL-CIO's Trumka Selling Us Out on Health Care Today? (UPDATE: So far, So good) Newly-elected AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka meets Rahm Emanuel today, |
Phoenix Woman | 09/30/2009 | 160 | 30 | 1 | 48 |
| ALERT NY Kossacks: Teabaggers mobbing Gillibrand's Office! This just hit my e-mail box:
Sorry for the last minute notice, but I'm hearing that the right has planned a protest outside of Senator Gillibrand's office today at 11am. Channel 11 news ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/18/2009 | 66 | 28 | 1 | 55 |
| A Tale of Two Baucuses: Why Mere Words Aren't Enough As recently as this past April, Max Baucus backed a strong public option -- or so he claimed (h/... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/01/2009 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 91 |
| Coup Leaders Starving Zelaya, Brazilian Embassy Staff -- US Media Yawns My co-blogger Charles over at Mercury Rising translates the stories that the US traditional media won't touch: |
Phoenix Woman | 10/12/2009 | 167 | 145 | 1 | 52 |
| AMSA Med Students visit Anna Eshoo's office Rep. Anna Eshoo's response to the criticisms of her health-care bill ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/31/2009 | 136 | 16 | 1 | 55 |
| Want the Senate (or House) HCR Bill passed? Push for reconciliation. With Teddy Kennedy's seat the latest on Capitol Hill to be unexpectedly close to falling into Republican hands ( |
Phoenix Woman | 01/18/2010 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 24 |
| The Decades-Old Right-Wing Plan to Destroy Social Security -- Social Security is going to go bankrupt soon!
-- Social Security is draining our Treasury!
-- Private industry can outperform Social Security!
What do all these statements have in common?
A) ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/16/2010 | 30 | 27 | 1 | 107 |
| In Which I Wish, Desperately, That I Was Wrong Congressional Democrats are about to give, at great political cost to ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/21/2010 | 303 | 30 | 1 | 58 |
| All-Drama Rahm Attacks People Who Made His 2nd WH Stint Possible These words appeared under Dana Milbank's byline this morning:
... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/20/2010 | 54 | 28 | 1 | 31 |
| [AR-Sen] Tapp lied, AR polling places NOT opened The Bill Halter saga is entering its endgame, and guess what? That promise Charlie Tapp made to open the Garland County polls is a lie.
A ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/05/2010 | 179 | 374 | 1 | 227 |
| Video: Voters Turned Away in Arkansas As I mentioned yesterday , Charlie Tapp broke his promise to have at least three of ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/06/2010 | 19 | 94 | 1 | 42 |
| Confusing the Messengers with the Murderers There are a few diaries going around that seem to be confusing the messengers with the murderers. Instead of admitting that the scenarios the messengers tried repeatedly to warn everyone against ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/04/2010 | 22 | 18 | 1 | 39 |
| GOP Admits They'll Never Undo Payroll Tax Cuts, Once Made Is the slow, irreversible starvation of your futures worth giving huge tax cuts to the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/08/2010 | 49 | 36 | 1 | 114 |
| Tell Obama: Keep Your Mitts Off My Social Security! The scuttlebutt all over DC is the same: In his State of the Union address on ... |
Phoenix Woman | 01/21/2011 | 88 | 27 | 1 | 66 |
| Cantor's End: A Cooter d'Etat? (H/t to Drocedus .)
In the hours since Dave Brat's upset of Eric Cantor - the first time a sitting House Majority Leader has lost his primary election - there has been much talk of "How Did This ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/10/2014 | 155 | 166 | 1 | - |
| Obama's lame-duck strategy: Poke the GOP Base at Every Opportunity. Charlie Pierce lays it out:
So the president has set up a neat brawl among the Republicans with a move that has massive support even from most Cuban Americans. As we said before, very ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/19/2014 | 141 | 230 | 1 | - |
| Turkey's killing anti-ISIS fighters, but no one cares as the victims are Socialists Anyone who really thinks that rapidly-desecularizing Turkey has finally decided to stop beating up on the Kurds and start getting tough on the Wahabist jihadists known as ISIS needs to think again : |
Phoenix Woman | 07/29/2015 | 11 | 19 | 1 | - |
| Key NYT source: Hillary's actions were legal. Period. Despite what the Times' Michael Schmidt tried to insinuate in his original March 2, 2015 hit piece, his own main source, former National Archives and Records Administration litigation chief Jason ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/05/2015 | 64 | 49 | 1 | - |
| Every Major GOP Prez Hopeful Used Private Email Accounts. Even as the habitual HRC demonizers whip themselves into ecstasies of rage over whatever scraps that they think they can find to keep alive a story the NYT was forced to walk back over two weeks ago , |
Phoenix Woman | 03/31/2015 | 37 | 19 | 1 | - |
| Why Don't More People Vote, Especially for Democrats? (Here's a Hint: LBJ.) It started when one person wrote this diary , making the argument common among white progressive circles that the Democratic Party lost populists (as well as Americans in general) because they ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/01/2015 | 51 | 35 | 1 | - |
| ACCE/ALEC and the Lobbying Grift Kossacks, including myself, got an introduction to ALEC's local-government-targeting little brother ACCE this week.
Intrigued, I checked with Bluestem Prairie's Sally Jo Sorensen, the Minnesota ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/03/2015 | 11 | 13 | 1 | - |
| BATTLE STATIONS, Minnesotans! MNGOP's Taking Dead Aim At Our Solar Rooftops! Jean Wagenius sounded the alarm Sunday.
The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club sounded the alarm yesterday.
Sally Jo Sorensen ... |
Phoenix Woman | 04/07/2015 | 13 | 25 | 1 | - |
| Hersh's bin Laden Tale: Exchanging One Bogosity for Another Seymour Hersh's Osama bin Laden endgame blockbuster story is getting a bit more coverage in the wider mainstream media than some of his other recent post-Abu-Ghraib stories (such as, for instance, ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/13/2015 | 55 | 5 | 1 | - |
| "Warmonger" Hillary's efforts made the Iran Deal possible I see that a current Rec List diary (which I can't link to because that's "calling out" fellow Kossacks and thus forbidden except when FPers are targeted) is all but accusing the Democratic front-... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/09/2015 | 318 | 148 | 1 | - |
| CNN poll shows Hillary rebound, so suddenly it's apparently questionable Just as expected, once the press let up on its 24/7 transmitting of already debunked E-ghazi nonsense, Hillary Clinton's poll numbers are going back up again :
Clinton is backed by 42% of ... |
Phoenix Woman | 09/21/2015 | 383 | 53 | 1 | - |
| When Hillary Talks, People Listen. The estimable Charles Pierce brought this to my attention:
Recently, the great Alec MacGillis at ProPublica revealed the way a coal company was planning to use the bankruptcy laws to rob the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/11/2015 | 204 | 117 | 1 | - |
| Elizabeth Warren, 2015: "I Agree with Hillary Clinton" on TPP's ISDS I see that a diary by a prominent supporter of a certain presidential candidate features an eleven-year-old video of Elizabeth Warren criticizing Hillary Clinton.
Wanna know why the partisan had to ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/18/2015 | 212 | 91 | 1 | - |
| The Emptying of the Bleachers: Yes, Sanders' backers did walk out early on the JJ Dinner One of the things that certain Sanders supporters have told me over and over is that it's a lie that many if not most of the Sanders people walked out of the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner once their guy ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/27/2015 | 165 | 37 | 1 | - |
| Twelve Years. 20,927 Comments. I'm Sticking Around. UID: 3037. Joined: Nov 6, 2003.
That's me. Twelve years ago, today.
I joined a year and a half after Markos founded the site. It was right around the time that Salon's Table Talk (my original ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/06/2015 | 179 | 179 | 1 | - |
| VA GOP State Senator Turns Indy, Runs For Governor | Phoenix Woman | 02/28/2005 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| FreeRepublicans Go Ballistic over Hagel's SS proposal | Phoenix Woman | 03/07/2005 | 18 | 4 | - | - |
| Time to Pull a "DeLay" on the DINOs | Phoenix Woman | 03/16/2005 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| GOP Blogger: Kos Loves Censorship! | Phoenix Woman | 03/26/2005 | 12 | 13 | - | - |
| PB Post on Martinez' History of Buckpassing | Phoenix Woman | 04/08/2005 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Frist's and Santorum's Phony Distancing Acts | Phoenix Woman | 04/12/2005 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| The Dirty Thirty-One: Pick One to Punish | Phoenix Woman | 04/15/2005 | - | 3 | - | 8 |
| BushCo's Terrorist List Ignores Right-Wing Groups | Phoenix Woman | 05/02/2005 | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| Guardian, Telegraph: Coleman's Confused! | Phoenix Woman | 05/13/2005 | 8 | 2 | - | 13 |
| Media Buries Reid's Dare To Frist | Phoenix Woman | 05/13/2005 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Red Cross: Quran/Koran WAS Trashed | Phoenix Woman | 05/20/2005 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| The Great "Social Security Deal" Myth | Phoenix Woman | 05/25/2005 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| George Galloway and the Smoke Machine | Phoenix Woman | 05/29/2005 | 14 | 9 | - | 8 |
| Pie Fight and Alex Kerry's Dress | Phoenix Woman | 06/09/2005 | 30 | 2 | - | - |
| FOX Frantically Spinning Michael Wilson E-Mail | Phoenix Woman | 06/16/2005 | 1 | 11 | - | - |
| Pedophiles Are Victims -- IF They're Republicans | Phoenix Woman | 06/19/2005 | 4 | 6 | - | - |
| Was Bolton "kicked upstairs" by Condi? | Phoenix Woman | 06/20/2005 | 6 | 2 | - | - |
| StarTribune's got Dick Durbin's back | Phoenix Woman | 06/21/2005 | 21 | 8 | - | 1 |
| Howard Dean and the DC Establishment | Phoenix Woman | 06/23/2005 | 5 | 4 | - | - |
| Say NO to Joe in 2008: Practical Strategies | Phoenix Woman | 06/26/2005 | 22 | 2 | - | 6 |
| Getting Out Of Iraq -- A Plan | Phoenix Woman | 06/28/2005 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| Stand up for the StarTribune! | Phoenix Woman | 06/29/2005 | 5 | 6 | - | - |
| Miller and Fitz: They've Fought In The Past | Phoenix Woman | 07/09/2005 | 1 | 2 | - | 6 |
| WAXMAN calls for Rove-Plame Hearings! | Phoenix Woman | 07/11/2005 | 24 | 10 | - | 7 |
| What's Judy Miller REALLY Protecting? | Phoenix Woman | 07/14/2005 | 36 | 16 | - | 27 |
| Murders In Haiti: Does Anyone Care? | Phoenix Woman | 07/16/2005 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
| Why I Love The StarTribune: TreasonGate Edition | Phoenix Woman | 07/17/2005 | 41 | 97 | - | - |
| Trouble In Haiti: Priest Falsely Arrested For Murder By BushCo-Backed Thugs | Phoenix Woman | 07/22/2005 | - | 2 | - | - |
| Haiti Massacres: The World Finally Takes Notice | Phoenix Woman | 07/29/2005 | 6 | 10 | - | - |
| The Hackett Effect, School Levies, And The Blogosphere | Phoenix Woman | 08/03/2005 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Matt Drudge Protects John Roberts | Phoenix Woman | 08/04/2005 | 22 | 2 | - | - |
| Why Pontificator's Right To Worry About Bush's Replacing Fitzgerald's Boss | Phoenix Woman | 08/08/2005 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| NeoCons Reviving The "Stab In The Back" Myth -- How We Can Counter It | Phoenix Woman | 08/15/2005 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| NPR Lets Mansfield Trash Cindy Sheehan -- AFTER Sheehan's Mom Has A Stroke | Phoenix Woman | 08/19/2005 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| TPM: Hackett's Challenging DeWine for US Senate | Phoenix Woman | 08/22/2005 | 25 | 15 | - | 10 |
| Why Close Walter Reed? | Phoenix Woman | 08/25/2005 | 14 | 1 | - | - |
| MoveOn.org: Act NOW to save the Estate Tax on the Rich! | Phoenix Woman | 08/26/2005 | 22 | 9 | - | - |
| Freeper Meltdown In Crawford! | Phoenix Woman | 08/28/2005 | 24 | 17 | - | 8 |
| New Orleans: One Reason Why We Need The Estate Tax | Phoenix Woman | 08/31/2005 | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| Despite Katrina, US Has HUGE Oil Glut -- Why Are Prices So High? | Phoenix Woman | 09/08/2005 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
| GOP Plans To Profit From Katrina | Phoenix Woman | 09/20/2005 | 9 | 8 | - | - |
| Let's Take Out Sensenbrenner. | Phoenix Woman | 09/27/2005 | 11 | 16 | - | - |
| Replace DeLay w/a Democrat: Lampson! | Phoenix Woman | 09/29/2005 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| "I, Nancy Pelosi, Do Solemnly Swear..." | Phoenix Woman | 10/02/2005 | 28 | 14 | - | 8 |
| Hackett Can Win Back The Reagan Democrats | Phoenix Woman | 10/18/2005 | 39 | 12 | - | 13 |
| Stop Tomorrow's Planned GOP Reverse-Robin-Hood Scam | Phoenix Woman | 10/19/2005 | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| Calling All Photoshop Artists! Play With DeLay! | Phoenix Woman | 10/20/2005 | 14 | 5 | - | 42 |
| Sirota Caught Lying About Paul Hackett | Phoenix Woman | 10/26/2005 | 357 | 88 | - | 222 |
| Hackett Beats DeWine AND McEwen In Zogby Poll | Phoenix Woman | 10/27/2005 | 23 | 7 | - | 10 |
| Hacktacular 2: The Bush Incompetence Continues | Phoenix Woman | 11/02/2005 | 10 | 11 | - | - |
| Yellowcake and Sandy Berger? | Phoenix Woman | 11/06/2005 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| WP and Napalm: Distinction without a Difference? | Phoenix Woman | 11/10/2005 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| The Method in Their Madness: Why the GOP Staged Its Freakout over Murtha | Phoenix Woman | 11/18/2005 | 11 | 8 | - | 7 |