Posting History for Phoenix Woman
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| [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 |
| Zack Space: Bob Ney's Democratic Challenger | Phoenix Woman | 01/03/2006 | 17 | 4 | - | - |
| 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 |
| You'd Think Site Traffic Would Go UP As The Primaries Approach... Per the web traffic measurer Alexa, January 2015 for Daily Kos began with traffic (and thus its traffic ranking) still tailing off from its 2014 midterm highs. However, this turned around dramaticall |
Phoenix Woman | 12/28/2015 | 295 | 55 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Why's Mitch McConnell desperate to stifle shutdown talk? Mary Landrieu. Mitch McConnell is doing everything in his power to tamp down the effects of the crazy talk by Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows and Mike Lee. He's smart enough not to try and forbid them from spouting off -- ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/11/2014 | 10 | 19 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Why The Sanfords Won't Divorce, Even Though They Should Mark Sanford, term-limited South Carolina governor, 2012 GOP presidential nominee short-lister, now sees his career and marriage in ashes. He may even see his continued freedom curtailed, as ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/27/2009 | 84 | 12 | - | 96 |
| Why the Left Owns the Blogosphere: Community! | Phoenix Woman | 09/25/2005 | 8 | 10 | 1 | - |
| Why Rapid Response Works: The Snuffing of the Dorgan Smear | Phoenix Woman | 12/01/2005 | 109 | 111 | 2 | 128 |
| Why PredatorGate Is More Important Than Habeas Corpus | Phoenix Woman | 10/06/2006 | 88 | 20 | 1 | 44 |
| Why Pontificator's Right To Worry About Bush's Replacing Fitzgerald's Boss | Phoenix Woman | 08/08/2005 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| Why I Love The StarTribune: TreasonGate Edition | Phoenix Woman | 07/17/2005 | 41 | 97 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 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 | - | - |
| Why Did AmSpec Reveal Their False-Flag Scheme? Here's My Take On It. By now we all know about the silly little frat boy editor of the American Spectator '... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/09/2011 | 11 | 7 | - | 214 |
| Why Close Walter Reed? | Phoenix Woman | 08/25/2005 | 14 | 1 | - | - |
| Who Will Be The First Wingnut To Call For Killing Strib Employees Over The Latest Minnesota Poll? | Phoenix Woman | 07/17/2006 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Who Benefits from Current Health Care System? Not Mike Ross' People Blue Dog Mike Ross benefits a great deal from the current state of health care in this country. |
Phoenix Woman | 07/31/2009 | 4 | 4 | - | 5 |
| Whiny Conservatives And Their Fake Cries Of "Censorship!" | Phoenix Woman | 03/02/2006 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| When Hillary Talks, People Listen, Part 2: One Tweet Sends For-Profit Prison Stocks Tumbling We saw it a few weeks ago when her and Bill's remarks stopped Patriot Coal from screwing over its retirees , a tweet from her condemning Turing Pharmaceuticals for drug price gouging sent ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/30/2015 | 94 | 38 | - | - |
| What's Judy Miller REALLY Protecting? | Phoenix Woman | 07/14/2005 | 36 | 16 | - | 27 |
| What The TradMed Won't Emphasize WRT CIA’s Attacking Pelosi Politics Daily notes that former senator Bob Graham's own notebooks indicate that Pelosi, not ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/19/2009 | 7 | 18 | - | 21 |
| What If Keith Ellison Was A WHITE Muslim? (Crossposted at Mercury Rising .)
In the wake ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/21/2006 | 47 | 8 | - | 8 |
| What happens when you don't weed your garden. This is a parable of three gardens, the good plants they once had, and the weeds that overrun them now.
Read past the tiger lily bloom for more. |
Phoenix Woman | 02/09/2015 | 12 | 6 | - | - |
| What Happens When Unarmed Black People Occupy A Wildlife Refuge? They Get Arrested. Promptly.
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Granted, this happened over a decade before Ruby Ridge and Waco made the FBI and BATF skittish about armed interventions, |
Phoenix Woman | 01/15/2016 | 48 | 112 | - | - |
| What Gets Our Troops Home Quicker? What gets our troops home quicker -- voting for or against the supplemental bill currently being debated in the House?
The supplemental will, no matter what, set things in motion to have our troops ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/22/2007 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| We're Watching You, Steny Hoyer. | Phoenix Woman | 11/16/2006 | 61 | 16 | - | 10 |
| We're Invading Syria! | Phoenix Woman | 10/22/2005 | 21 | 13 | 2 | - |
| Wayne Dumond: Mike Huckabee's Biggest Crime In light of Mike Huckabee's imminent announcement that he's running for president in 2008, I bring up this blast from his past:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give ... |
Phoenix Woman | 01/27/2007 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 4 |
| WAXMAN calls for Rove-Plame Hearings! | Phoenix Woman | 07/11/2005 | 24 | 10 | - | 7 |
| Was Bolton "kicked upstairs" by Condi? | Phoenix Woman | 06/20/2005 | 6 | 2 | - | - |
| War On Mexicans = US Food Rotting In Fields | Phoenix Woman | 02/04/2006 | 26 | 8 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Wal-Mart(!) backs Obama health-care plan Obama was talking up the public option again today.
And in more good news, Wal-Mart (the nation’s ... |
Phoenix Woman | 07/01/2009 | 64 | 44 | - | 23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vermont's Black Leaders: We Were 'Invisible' to Bernie Sanders From www.thedailybeast.com/... :
Back in 2006, the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, a Brattleboro area civil rights organization hosted a Candidate Night. The race for the open ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/17/2016 | 751 | 152 | - | - |
| VA GOP State Senator Turns Indy, Runs For Governor | Phoenix Woman | 02/28/2005 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| UPDATED! WH Press Corpse Bans Roasting Bush At Upcoming Dinner I only wish I were making this up:
Rich Little won't be mentioning Iraq or ratings when he ... |
Phoenix Woman | 01/18/2007 | 301 | 181 | 4 | 93 |
| UK Terror Case: Falling Apart As We Speak | Phoenix Woman | 08/21/2006 | 135 | 181 | - | 20 |
| 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 |
| Two More Obama People And Their Support of Hillary While some people are waving around the words of David Axelrod, he whom last we saw had been banished from the Obama circle for talking to Peggy Noonan wannabee Maureen Dowd, a couple of people who ar |
Phoenix Woman | 01/13/2016 | 61 | 47 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| Trumpy-Trump to GOP Leaders: Stop Pickin' on Me Or I'm Goin' Third Party! Remember that promise Trumpy-Trump made back in early September? The promise not to poutrage with a third-party run, but to take his lumps and back the winner of the GOP primary process even if it ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/23/2015 | 15 | 10 | - | - |
| Trumpster Fire! The Trumpster Fire is burning a hole in the GOP’s belly — and that’s a good thing.
Trump, by running an openly racist and bigoted campaign, has so alienated a large swatch of the electorate, even |
Phoenix Woman | 12/10/2015 | 13 | 18 | - | - |
| Trouble In Haiti: Priest Falsely Arrested For Murder By BushCo-Backed Thugs | Phoenix Woman | 07/22/2005 | - | 2 | - | - |
| Trade Deficit Scarier Than Gov't. Deficit As everybody knows by now, Paul Krugman favors paying more attention to social spending than cutting the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/27/2006 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| TPM: Hackett's Challenging DeWine for US Senate | Phoenix Woman | 08/22/2005 | 25 | 15 | - | 10 |
| Tories won with this lie: "Labour wants SNP to Destroy the UK!" The 2015 UK elections were decided by the issues surrounding Scotland. End of story.
It wasn't because Labour wasn't left enough - if that was true, why didn't people turn out in droves for the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/09/2015 | 36 | 5 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Time to Pull a "DeLay" on the DINOs | Phoenix Woman | 03/16/2005 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| Time for A DKosopedia/Wiki of Crazy Bill Donohue's Greatest Hits! We need to collect up all the CBD craziness and put it in one spot so we can show it to the news media that inexplicably insists on taking him seriously. (And those who know how to set up ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/08/2007 | 8 | 3 | - | 2 |
| Three Worst Muhammad Cartoons: FAKES! | Phoenix Woman | 02/06/2006 | 51 | 5 | 1 | 110 |
| Three Reasons The GOP Fears Hillary And Ignores Bernie
I keep seeing Bernie supporters claiming that Bernie does better in the general against any Republican than does Hillary.
Ahem.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I have two of them, ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/31/2015 | 290 | 47 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Third UPDATE: Media Plays Netroots For Suckers RE: Reid The NBC evening news (and the WaPo ) played up their favorite theme, the idea that "the Democrats ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/17/2006 | 26 | 14 | - | 10 |
| Think the SocSec cut is temporary? Think again. From The End of Social Security :
President Obama and the Republicans will say that the payroll ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/07/2010 | 16 | 13 | - | 22 |
| They Lie Even When They Don't NEED To Lie | Phoenix Woman | 03/01/2006 | 17 | 2 | - | - |
| The War On The Stimulus Paul Krugman has been working to counter the anti-stimulus brigade’s hollering about the specter of ... |
Phoenix Woman | 06/15/2009 | 30 | 10 | - | 18 |
| 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 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 | - | - |
| The Senate Democrats Are NOT In The Majority One thing that's lost in the heated discussion of "it's been over a month since they were sworn in so why haven't they brought the troops home yet?" is that the Democrats, though they technically ... |
Phoenix Woman | 03/07/2007 | 345 | 207 | 3 | 26 |
| The Second-Term Midterm (Almost) Always Sucks There's been and will continue to be a lot of hair-tearing over what happened last night, but the simplest factor in the 2014 midterms is one that no mainstream commentator is going to address:
The ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/05/2014 | 17 | 5 | - | - |
| The RNC Versus The Kochs: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? Earlier today, a fellow Kossack passed along what I consider to be a very valuable bit of information: Namely, this Yahoo! Politics story from June on how the Koch brothers are trying to hijack the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 10/28/2015 | 17 | 9 | - | - |
| The Right-Wing Power Structure Is Doomed | Phoenix Woman | 06/06/2006 | 22 | 8 | - | 5 |
| The REALLY Harsh Reality of Free Trade While I love a certain bond trader to bits, his Kos diary ... |
Phoenix Woman | 11/22/2007 | 80 | 53 | 5 | 31 |
| The Real (?) Anonymous has released the KKK list. Have at it. Hot off the intertubes :
The five official Twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous’ long-awaited #OpKKK/#HoodsOff operation have released names they claim are active members of the Ku Klux Klan. |
Phoenix Woman | 11/05/2015 | 65 | 42 | 2 | - |
| The Plunge Into Insanity When I look here and elsewhere on the web at the discussions of and reaction to the events of the last few weeks, I find that I can best sum it up in one word: Insanity.
How bad ... |
Phoenix Woman | 05/25/2007 | 91 | 11 | - | - |
| The People's Garden I just found out that our First Lady, Michelle Obama, really is walking her talk when it comes to food and gardening. She is working with the USDA and Tom Vilsack on a project they ... |
Phoenix Woman | 07/19/2009 | 15 | 17 | - | 48 |
| 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 |
| The Myth of "Voter Apathy" and "Low Turnout" | Phoenix Woman | 10/30/2006 | 9 | 5 | - | - |
| The Method in Their Madness: Why the GOP Staged Its Freakout over Murtha | Phoenix Woman | 11/18/2005 | 11 | 8 | - | 7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Hackett Effect, School Levies, And The Blogosphere | Phoenix Woman | 08/03/2005 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| The Great Party Switch of 2008? Looking at this excellent front-page post on the GOP's woes going into 2008, it occurs to me that most Republicans have a pretty ... |
Phoenix Woman | 07/17/2007 | 9 | 5 | - | - |
| The Great Big Myth/Lie: "Reconciliation Won't Work for HCR!" From Jon Walker over at The Seminal:
First, the ... |
Phoenix Woman | 12/16/2009 | 38 | 8 | - | 23 |
| The Great "Social Security Deal" Myth | Phoenix Woman | 05/25/2005 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| The GOP's Campaign Blogger Scandals As Atrios and Media Matters note, if we're going ... |
Phoenix Woman | 02/07/2007 | 6 | 10 | - | 71 |
| 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 |