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Posting History for Phoenix Woman

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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