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Posting History for Phoenix Woman

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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
Edwards: I Don't Back Attacking Iran.
Lately there's been much worry over whether Bush is going to further endanger our troops in Iraq by launching a "shock and awe" bombing campaign against Iran. There's also a lot of concern over ...
Phoenix Woman 02/04/2007 159 33 3 15
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
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
Killing "Witch" Children: Do We Respect The Killers' Feelings?
Children in Africa are being murdered in the name of God -- yes, the Christian God -- for allegedly being "...
Phoenix Woman 10/18/2009 71 33 - 30
Honduras Coup: Myths and Facts
There was an article on Honduras the other day that -- because it came from a guy who has done good work in the past -- ticked me off more than it usually would be, and so served as the impetus for ...
Phoenix Woman 10/27/2009 36 33 2 231
Your Calls Are Working: Keep 'Em Up!
Dear Fellow Kossacks -- It's working. Your phone calls are making the difference. The progressive caucus is finally realizing it can stand up for a real public option. ...
Phoenix Woman 07/30/2009 16 32 - 16
Want to stop ISIS? Stop backing the people behind them.
The cry “What can we do to stop this?” comes up every time ISIS or some other group of Sunni Wahabist or neo-Wahabist types does an asymmetrical warfare move against the modern secular world: the Mosc
Phoenix Woman 11/14/2015 29 32 - -
Bernie Sanders' 180 on Gun Research
Bernie Sanders joined Hillary Clinton and virtually every other morally competent person in condemning the NRA-fueled gun epidemic that spurred the mass murder epidemic, the chief blot in an era of ot
Phoenix Woman 12/04/2015 97 32 - -
Why Does Trump Own Most of the White Working Class (aka GOP Primary Voters)?
I read this story from The Hill with great interest: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday made an appeal to supporters of Donald Trump to back his candidacy for president instead. [...]
Phoenix Woman 12/27/2015 85 32 - -
Bernie and Peter and Joe and Lowell
1988 was an interesting year in American politics.   It was the year when George H.W. Bush, with his anti-assassination insurance J. Danforth Quayle at his side, defeated Michael Dukakis.  It was
Phoenix Woman 01/23/2016 56 32 - -
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
CNN: People Who Aren't Online Junkies Like BOTH HRC and BHO
Per CNN (h/...
Phoenix Woman 02/06/2008 113 30 - 19
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
Feingold and Lieberman agree: Obama didn't push for public option [W/Update]
Russ Feingold said earlier that President Obama didn't push for a public option. ...
Phoenix Woman 12/21/2009 145 30 - 247
Oh Noes! Campaign for America's Future works w/Norquist! Eeeeek!
Wonder why all the people having hissyfits over FDL's co-signing a letter with Grover Norquist never freaked out ...
Phoenix Woman 12/23/2009 161 30 - 115
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
The High Cost of "Cheap" Energy
Whenever somebody brings up the topic of renewable energy, somebody else comes along to say that it's just too expensive compared to coal. There are twenty-nine miners who might, if they were still ...
Phoenix Woman 04/10/2010 54 30 - 46
Small Races, Big Results: How to Hang onto the Senate for Spare Change
In this excellent diary by David Jarman on where your Democratic donations would do the most good, fellow Kossack tmservo433 (I checked with him and he's OK with being referenced and quoted) had an ...
Phoenix Woman 09/28/2014 24 30 2 -
Attention Hillary: Here's how we stopped voter suppression in Minnesota
Hillary Clinton has always seemed to me to be a bit more willing to use the Big Hammer, as Bartcop would say, than either Bill or Barack. So it's no surprise to see her going after voter ...
Phoenix Woman 06/06/2015 10 30 - -
Do Only WHITE 'Religious Voters' Count?
It's so funny to see people like Jim Wallis taking Atrios and Kos to task for daring to ...
Phoenix Woman 02/20/2007 66 29 - 8
"Affordable" Health Care?  Not For Most Of Us
Last night, ridemybike wrote a diary ...
Phoenix Woman 12/29/2009 131 29 - 60
How to Shut Down a Major Series of Congressional Hearings in One Easy Step
Remember how there were going to be a bunch of hearings on Capitol Hill concerning the plans of certain big businesses to try and game the health care bill? Ever wonder what happened to all those ...
Phoenix Woman 05/06/2010 50 29 - 37
Juan Williams is a Sexist Pig.  Discuss.
From a November 2, 1991 Washington Post article on Juan Williams : Washington Post ...
Phoenix Woman 10/22/2010 54 29 - 205
Shutdown 2 Watch: McConnell Attacks Tea Party, Suicide Caucus
Mitch McConnell doesn’t want another government shutdown, yet he’s been reluctant to publicly, in front of cameras and microphones, confront those fellow Republicans of his who do. His ...
Phoenix Woman 12/01/2013 12 29 - -
About That BET Forum: Never Trust Anything Touted by the Daily Caller
Some members of the anti-Democratic faction of a site intended to elect Democrats have been gleefully touting an appearance by Bernie at a recent BET-covered forum as evidence of… well, we’re not quit
Phoenix Woman 11/22/2015 60 29 - -
2001: A Timeline Of What Could Have Been
Phoenix Woman 07/21/2005 33 28 1 21
250 Cheney E-Mails: Rove's Revenge?
Phoenix Woman 02/25/2006 30 28 1 7
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
WaPo Didn't Even HAVE The 'Access' It Was Selling
I kid thee not: The people whose 'access' the Washington Post was selling had no idea they were on the auction block. Seriously. Follow me past the jump for more.
Phoenix Woman 07/02/2009 27 28 - 23
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
David Brooks Tries SCAAAARING Dems Away From Reconciliation
As the prospect of losing Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat looms, Congressman and DCCC Chaif Chris Van Hollen has joined Senator Bernie Sanders in ...
Phoenix Woman 01/19/2010 53 28 - 21
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
Boehner 2 Baggers: I Have Zero Fs to Give.
The planned resignation of John Boehner is the best news we are likely to get this week. For starters, it means that Cruz' plans to use a shutdown to preserve his presidential run are, if not dead,
Phoenix Woman 09/25/2015 21 28 - -
Media Matters comes to Bernie's (and Hillary's, and Joe's) defense
For all those who've convinced themselves that Media Matters can't be trusted because they hate Bernie, here's Media Matters' Eric Hananoki calling out USA Today for lying about Bernie as well as ...
Phoenix Woman 10/04/2015 75 28 - -
Pelosi Rebuts CIA Smear
Everyone's heard about the Porter Goss Smear special designed to make Nancy Pelosi back off on ...
Phoenix Woman 12/10/2007 121 27 - 129
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
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
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
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
The Stupidity (or Deceptiveness? or Both?) of Pretending Election SOP is a Plot Against Your Guy
There's nothing like seeing people who pride themselves on their ethics and intelligence first write, then Rec, such a blatantly bogus and mendacious diary as one that's currently being marched up ...
Phoenix Woman 10/12/2015 114 27 - -
McKinney and Barr: IOKIYAR
Phoenix Woman 04/05/2006 110 26 2 34
Peggy NOONAN Turns Against Bush?!
Phoenix Woman 04/20/2006 54 26 - 23
Lieberman's Clinton Gambit Backfiring Already?
Phoenix Woman 07/21/2006 40 26 - 21
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
Here's Something Obama Did Right: Copenhagen
The Guardian's Mark Lynas reveals that Copenhagen was rigged by the Chinese to fail even before ...
Phoenix Woman 12/22/2009 43 26 - 53
GOP's press pal Ron Fournier at it again spewing anti-Hillary crap
Our celebrity press corps spends most of the summer roasting Hillary for doing what Colin Powell did with regard to Department of State email usage. Meanwhile Carly Fiorina's old company actually ...
Phoenix Woman 09/24/2015 10 26 - -
Why Did Bernie Fire The Staffer?
Everyone by now has heard about the Sanders campaign’s temporarily getting access to confidential voter data held for the Clinton campaign by the DNC. The Sanders campaign’s apparent official pos
Phoenix Woman 12/18/2015 85 26 - -
GOP Congressman Allegedly Pokes DC Cop, Gets Off Scot-Free
Phoenix Woman 04/06/2006 22 25 1 8
New Report: Public Schools As Good As Private
Phoenix Woman 07/15/2006 68 25 1 41
Kathy Sierra: A Better Response
Last week Kos posted what he thought he knew about Kathy Sierra in the context for her call,
Phoenix Woman 04/16/2007 48 25 - 6
Why There Are Probably No (Good) Dems in Palfrey's Phone Records
A lot of people since the DC Madam news first broke have been saying "Don't be so happy about this -- how do you know that there aren't any Democrats on the list?" (At least, ones we like.) Follow ...
Phoenix Woman 07/10/2007 21 25 3 21
Sorry, But Meyer's Not A Martyr
The cops should not have tased him -- they had more than enough people to remove him from the hall without risking killing him on the spot. But Andrew Meyer's not a free-speech martyr. If anything,
Phoenix Woman 09/19/2007 259 25 1 4
The "Freeze": Shoving the Overton Window rightward
Aside from furthering (intentionally or not) the DLC's and Blue Dogs' apparent goal of trashing a once-...
Phoenix Woman 01/26/2010 36 25 - 26
Same Folks Who Lied Us into Iraq Now Lying about Muslim Brotherhood
They've been all over our TV screens (especially FOX) and radio dials: Neocons and their dupes screeching that we can't let the Egyptian people have democracy because of (eeeek!) the Muslim ...
Phoenix Woman 01/29/2011 42 25 - 161
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 -
Hillary's national rebound extends to Iowa and NH polls
It's not just the latest CNN national poll that's showing Hillary's numbers recovering from the GOP-Media Complex's latest attempt at FauxGating her. Public Policy Polling (PDF link) shows Hillary ...
Phoenix Woman 09/23/2015 25 25 - -
GOP Moves To Cut Military Funding: Somalia, 1993
For all the hollering currently coming from Republicans and their media enablers about how Cutting Funding To Bush's Iraq War Means You Hate The Troops And America And Our Illustrious President, do ...
Phoenix Woman 01/09/2007 10 24 1 11
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
Department of Redundancy Department: Paging Senator Sanders!
Seems that our esteemed junior Senator from Vermont has a thing for proposing stuff that, well, is already being done.  He’s done it twice this week so far, and the week’s not over yet.   Redunda
Phoenix Woman 01/12/2016 57 24 - -
New Orleans: Myths And Facts
Phoenix Woman 09/02/2005 19 23 8 36
GOP Pays For Nader, Greens
I find it rather ironic that so many people have once again started touting Nader and the Greens because they see Democrats and Republicans as identical. Why is it ironic? Because since at least ...
Phoenix Woman 05/22/2007 16 23 1 50
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
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
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
Bernie Sanders Supports Obama on Afghanistan
Since nobody else seems to have written a diary on this , I figured I'd better do so: During an interview on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday morning, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sanders, a ...
Phoenix Woman 10/18/2015 72 23 - -
GOP Leaders' Biggest Fear: The "Crump" Catastrophe
x YouTube Video We’ll have Robert Reich set the table: My friend, a fo
Phoenix Woman 12/06/2015 23 23 - -
Report: Public Schools BETTER Than Charter Schools
Phoenix Woman 08/23/2006 25 22 - 6
MN-02, MN-05 -- Memo to Self: Do Not Anger Coleen Rowley.
Phoenix Woman 09/21/2006 19 22 - 6
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
"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
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
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
Cerium: The Answer to the Rare Earth Problem?
There are a number of diaries here and articles elsewhere on the predicted End of the World (or Domination by the Communist Chinese) because of the demand for rare earth elements that only China can ...
Phoenix Woman 01/01/2011 21 22 - 93
GOP Wants Shutdown 2 Come January
I laid down the marker last week at my own blog and I am laying down the marker here today: There will be another GOP-forced shutdown come January, and the results for the GOP will be even worse ...
Phoenix Woman 11/26/2013 19 22 - -
Tom Harkin: Bernie and Hillary are both establishment politicians
Tom Harkin, former US Senator from Iowa and a star in the progressive firmament, said this morning on Boston Herald Radio that Bernie Sanders is as much an establishment politician as is Hillary ...
Phoenix Woman 11/02/2015 166 22 - -
Koch Front Group "Concerned Veterans" Attacks Hillary, Media Downplays Group's Koch Backing
Just a quickie for you if you see any " Veterans Group Attacks Hillary " headlies today - the group in question is a wholly owned and funded Koch brothers political subsidiary : '''Concerned ...
Phoenix Woman 11/06/2015 15 22 - -
You'd Think Site Traffic Would Go UP As The Primaries Approach, Part 2: The Quantcast Data
Last month I wrote a diary where I noticed a disturbing trend for a political blog like this one: Per the web traffic measurer Alexa, January 2015 for Daily Kos began with traffic (and thus it
Phoenix Woman 01/20/2016 78 22 - -
PredatorGate Myths And Facts: Your One-Stop Resource
Phoenix Woman 10/07/2006 16 21 1 15
Two Sick Senators, Two Different Media Takes
(Crossposted at Mercury Rising. ) Back last month when Craig Thomas, a seventy-three-year-old ...
Phoenix Woman 12/13/2006 27 21 - 6
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
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 - -
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
The History of the Conspiracy to Link Obama to Triggers
Liberals now are very concerned with the conspiracy of journalists trying to link President Obama to triggers, and their shady practice of using anonymous sources is of much more concern than the ...
Phoenix Woman 10/26/2009 42 21 - 41
Hey, Pete Hoekstra!  Wanna Try These Guys In A Military Court?
While Crazy Pete Hoekstra was getting his skivvies bunched ...
Phoenix Woman 03/29/2010 27 21 - 58
Bush Screwed Up Bomber Trap For Political Gain
Phoenix Woman 08/14/2006 20 20 - 7
Why PredatorGate Is More Important Than Habeas Corpus
Phoenix Woman 10/06/2006 88 20 1 44
Ha'aretz: Bush would "understand" if Israel attacked Iran
I swear to God I am not making this up : The United States lacks sufficient ...
Phoenix Woman 11/20/2006 100 20 1 36
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
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
When They Say 'Gitmo', They Want You To Think 'N*gg*r' or 'Sp*c'
You all have heard about the strange RNC attack ad leveled against Nancy ...
Phoenix Woman 05/24/2009 64 20 - 35
Dear Jim Clyburn: Stop Screwing Henry Waxman!
Henry Waxman, disgusted with the Blue Dogs' trying to load up HR 3200 with bogus pork for their districts, has threatened to pull the bill out of his own committee and bring it to the House floor ...
Phoenix Woman 07/24/2009 34 20 - 22
Rothenberg & Cook predict Dem doom. Evidence-based research, not so much.
Another day, another set of data-free doom predictions from Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg -- complete with their statements from "Democrats" (who they never seem to quote, much less name) about ...
Phoenix Woman 09/10/2014 16 20 - -
Murdoch's WSJ Gives Bernie Hot Wet Strange Editorial Kiss
The oldest rule in electoral politics has always been this one: When faced with more than one opponent, take out the stronger one first. The second-oldest rule in electoral politics is: Whenever
Phoenix Woman 01/16/2016 39 20 - -
Duke Rape Case: The Bush Connection
Phoenix Woman 04/18/2006 221 19 1 22
Koppel Admits -- no, BOASTS -- We're Using Mercenaries
Phoenix Woman 05/22/2006 16 19 2 12
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
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
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
Capitol Hill Progs Heed Rahm at Their Peril
Rahm Emanuel thinks that not having a health care bill passed is what killed the Dems in 1994 -- hence the hair-on-fire gotta-get-it-by-Christmas silliness ...
Phoenix Woman 12/10/2009 66 19 - 95