Posting History for Geekesque
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| Wolf Blitzer: My job is to be like Judy Miller | Geekesque | 08/12/2005 | 18 | 6 | - | - |
| Two sentences explain Brazile's Katrina comments | Geekesque | 09/20/2005 | 17 | 17 | - | - |
| A truly bizarre theory on Dems and Roberts | Geekesque | 09/22/2005 | 13 | 3 | - | - |
| The Dems strategy on Roberts starts to pay off | Geekesque | 09/26/2005 | 26 | 2 | - | - |
| Bill Frist's Red Herring Defense Debunked. | Geekesque | 09/28/2005 | 18 | 8 | 2 | - |
| Confirm Harriet Miers! | Geekesque | 10/03/2005 | 93 | 6 | - | - |
| Chutzpah alert! Jonah Goldberg defends Republican cronyism. | Geekesque | 10/13/2005 | 11 | 5 | - | 11 |
| Murray Waas's latest: Scooter's toast | Geekesque | 10/18/2005 | 13 | 7 | 1 | - |
| NY Daily News: Judy Miller a "charter member" of WHIG | Geekesque | 10/19/2005 | 162 | 136 | 3 | 6 |
| Somebody just ratted out Karl Rove | Geekesque | 10/21/2005 | 46 | 23 | - | - |
| Niger documents story EXPLODING | Geekesque | 10/25/2005 | 28 | 9 | - | - |
| Plamegate spillover: Cheney and Libby withheld Iraq WMD docs from Senate | Geekesque | 10/27/2005 | 94 | 96 | 1 | 10 |
| Charles Johnson of LGF: Can he really be this stupid? | Geekesque | 10/28/2005 | 12 | 1 | - | 31 |
| Redstate.org says "We demand judicial activism!" | Geekesque | 11/03/2005 | 38 | 14 | 2 | 9 |
| It's the dead civilians, stupid! | Geekesque | 11/10/2005 | 6 | 9 | - | - |
| Woodward urged source to come forward in bid to help LIBBY | Geekesque | 11/18/2005 | 25 | 6 | - | - |
| Wingnut bloggers explode over irrelevant story. | Geekesque | 11/22/2005 | 36 | 12 | - | 9 |
| Republicans attack Sen. Kent Conrad's private religious faith | Geekesque | 11/23/2005 | 408 | 210 | 8 | 122 |
| Why do we smear Democrats here? | Geekesque | 11/29/2005 | 92 | 8 | - | 6 |
| When in doubt, accuse a Democrat of treason. | Geekesque | 11/30/2005 | 6 | 2 | - | 15 |
| Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp BUSTED for plagiarism (and idiocy)! | Geekesque | 12/07/2005 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Holy fucking shit! House Republicans do their job! | Geekesque | 12/14/2005 | 21 | 10 | - | 9 |
| The NYC transit strike is hurting workers, not the rich | Geekesque | 12/22/2005 | 89 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Rumor: WaPo to publish K-Street Plans/Documents | Geekesque | 01/08/2006 | 12 | 8 | 2 | - |
| Brokeback Mountain continues to torment wingnuts | Geekesque | 01/24/2006 | 64 | 24 | 1 | - |
| The Mohammed cartoons--don't fall for the hype. | Geekesque | 02/04/2006 | 32 | 25 | - | 17 |
| Revenge of the Evilcons: The fall of Redstate | Geekesque | 02/09/2006 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 8 |
| The Swiftboating of the Generals who want Rumsfeld to resign has begun | Geekesque | 04/13/2006 | 29 | 20 | - | 26 |
| Hillary and Rupert, sitting in a tree . . . | Geekesque | 05/09/2006 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 13 |
| I've discovered the true agenda behind the CT diaries. | Geekesque | 05/30/2006 | 65 | 16 | 1 | 7 |
| Our own wedge issue: An anti-earmarking amendment? | Geekesque | 06/05/2006 | 28 | 3 | - | - |
| Gannon redux or is Rep. Hoekstra a filthy liar? | Geekesque | 06/22/2006 | 17 | 23 | - | 7 |
| Gay rights, abortion rights, and 1st Amendment are a 'waste of time.' | Geekesque | 07/16/2006 | 21 | 6 | 1 | - |
| US Military: Only gun control can save Iraq. | Geekesque | 07/20/2006 | 41 | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| Frist urges surrendering to the TALIBAN | Geekesque | 10/02/2006 | 368 | 384 | 15 | 89 |
| Christian Taliban (FRC) revolt, call Abramoff a "VALUES issue." | Geekesque | 10/03/2006 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Tom Reynolds caught in OBVIOUS lie yesterday by local press. | Geekesque | 10/04/2006 | 3 | 12 | - | 6 |
| Lieberman and Nietzsche: What doesn't kill him may make him stronger | Geekesque | 10/18/2006 | 12 | 2 | - | - |
| Scandal! Iraq state TV accuses Bush of releasing terrorist!! | Geekesque | 11/01/2006 | 26 | 19 | - | 17 |
| Civil war erupts in Iraqi parliament | Geekesque | 11/02/2006 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 139 |
| Republicans eliminate Iraq auditor office (Contemptible Arrogance!) | Geekesque | 11/03/2006 | 6 | 7 | - | 1 |
| (UPDATED) ABC: DCCC sends RCCC robocall "cease and desist" letter | Geekesque | 11/06/2006 | 192 | 276 | 6 | 32 |
| A Question for the Bitter Lamont Supporters | Geekesque | 11/16/2006 | 114 | 7 | - | 7 |
| Attention media figures: John Boehner has major ethics issues. | Geekesque | 11/17/2006 | 28 | 40 | - | 138 |
| Those who know them the best: Home state voters on Presidential wannabes Hotline the other day linked to a story hosted (unfortunately) by the AEI. However, the story itself is based on exit polling, and includes some fascinating numbers.
Basically, some exit ... |
Geekesque | 12/08/2006 | 9 | 2 | - | 7 |
| Beyond Bush: The larger enemy lurks in the shadows George W. Bush is the worst president in the history of the United States. He lacks human decency, intellectual capacity, and the common sense of a goat. He has been one rolling wave of disasters ... |
Geekesque | 12/09/2006 | 59 | 54 | 1 | 8 |
| Stupid effing wingnuts immunize Obama from anti-Muslim bigotry You know how the flu shot works: the doctor injects the patient with some weakened, dead, and generally pitiful excuses for viruses. The body whips these chumps, gets itself immunized and ... |
Geekesque | 12/19/2006 | 314 | 225 | 5 | 256 |
| A glimmer of hope in Iraq? I know, it feels stupid to even contemplate it, let alone type it. Things have been awful, and Bush's stewardship has been as awful as could be.
But, the New York Times today reports that Iraqis-- |
Geekesque | 12/20/2006 | 15 | 2 | - | - |
| Hitchens puts down the Kool-Aid, blasts Saddam lynching Christopher Hitchens has been the gold standard for leftwingers who had adopted the Neocon stance on Iraq. A longtime virulent critic not only of Saddam, but of anyone who opposed the invasion, one ... |
Geekesque | 01/02/2007 | 275 | 218 | 8 | 19 |
| Life imitates satire at the Libby trial (jurors must trust Cheney?) As you've probably heard, juror selection in the Scooter Libby trial has begun.
And, apparently it's going to be a long, long process, if the Associated Press is to be believed.
Their headline: |
Geekesque | 01/17/2007 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| Can we please call her "Senator Clinton?" (UPDATED) Here at Dkos, and on the Internets in general, references to "Barack" and "John" and even "Dennis" aren't used to refer to candidates.
But, one candidate is commonly referred to by her first name. ... |
Geekesque | 01/20/2007 | 104 | 25 | - | 6 |
| Republican Senator calls out Joementum's weaselish McCarthyism That Joe Lieberman is a sycophantic, unprincipled weasel who licks the boots of power is now a matter of bi-partisan agreement.
Today, mindful of how history has judged others and how it will ... |
Geekesque | 01/24/2007 | 48 | 40 | - | 9 |
| Joe Lieberman says he may vote Republican in 2008 (updated with transcript) In case anyone needs motivation to GOTV in 2008 Senate races, Joementum is here to give it to you.
His latest treachery, courtesy of CNN, below. |
Geekesque | 01/28/2007 | 215 | 117 | 3 | 19 |
| STFU about Clinton not being electable (Updated) UPDATE: Some people don't like being told to STFU.
Fine.
If your argument is valid, you'll have facts and logic to support it. Without those, the electability meme is just an unsupported, ... |
Geekesque | 02/07/2007 | 265 | 25 | 1 | 8 |
| Head of group (Fidelis) calling for Dems to repudiate Marcotte is an editor at Redstate.com I'll make this short and sweet.
In an attempt to follow up, tag-team style on the Edwards bloggerz flap, the 'national Catholic-based advocacy group" Fidelis has called upon Senators Clinton ... |
Geekesque | 02/13/2007 | 30 | 29 | 1 | - |
| Texas Republic Party: Evolution a Jewish Plot (Elders of Darwin?) You just knew it was going to happen. Anti-semitism and hostility to science are two pillars of rightwing Christian fundamentalism. Eventually, somewhere, the Bush/DeLay party was going to find a ... |
Geekesque | 02/15/2007 | 105 | 52 | 1 | 26 |
| A modest proposal regarding Hillary Clinton It is no exaggeration to state that Senator Clinton's detractors outnumber her supports by a wide margin at this site. Indeed, there are more diaries dedicated to trashing her here than there are ... |
Geekesque | 02/19/2007 | 116 | 13 | - | 3 |
| Clinton opens wide lead in Southern states (including N. Carolina) Caveat: 'Undecided' leads the race by a wide margin. Gore/Clark fans may commence fighting over that vote.
Caveat II: I'm also unsure of Elon University and its methodology, so this poll ... |
Geekesque | 02/26/2007 | 36 | 5 | - | - |
| John Solomon's spirit lives on: The AP smears John Edwards Goodness knows I never thought I'd submit a diary defending John Edwards, but the AP has sunk to Fox News level of discourse here.
In a twist, of course, they play hometown ref in favor of ... |
Geekesque | 02/28/2007 | 103 | 48 | 2 | 13 |
| Kent Conrad tightens budgetary screws on Iraq war, Bush Kent Conrad is Chair of the Senate Budget Committee. He also is the only current Senator from a Red State to vote against the Iraq War Resolution. And he's a deficit hawk.
In other words, he's ... |
Geekesque | 03/01/2007 | 26 | 24 | - | 18 |
| Senate Democrats betray Kent Conrad, prove Powerline and Sirota right Yesterday I diaried about how Kent Conrad was going to use Congressional budget authority and rules to start ratcheting up the ... |
Geekesque | 03/02/2007 | 436 | 397 | 6 | 25 |
| Dems' new Iraq plan gives big middle finger to BUSH and REPUBLICANS The House Democrats have announced their Iraq plan.
It includes elements of the Murtha plan, and includes a hard timeline for withdrawal that would accelerate withdrawal if no progress is being ... |
Geekesque | 03/08/2007 | 372 | 230 | 4 | 27 |
| Bob Shrum: I pushed Edwards to vote for war (To be honest, this makes me think more highly of Edwards and especially his wife. And it seems like classic DC consultant crap that they fed him.)
In case anyone had any silly notions about ... |
Geekesque | 03/13/2007 | 114 | 35 | - | 7 |
| A Republican shows Democratic wannabe 'leaders' how it's done. Former Senator Alan K. Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming, has a startling opinion column in the Washington Post today.
Startling because the headline is more honest and blunt on the issue of anti- |
Geekesque | 03/14/2007 | 42 | 29 | 1 | 35 |
| Out of Iraq Caucus and Blue Dogs unite on timeline for withdrawal The Appropriations Committee voted today on the timeline for withdrawal from Iraq and the overall supplemental appropriation.
Long story short: the vote was a victory for the good guys.
... |
Geekesque | 03/15/2007 | 34 | 25 | - | 18 |
| The 'liberal' L.A. Times: "Obama the Magic Negro" (UPDATED) No, that title is not snark. That's what the latest in the "Obama can't be who people think he is" nonsense. I can't tell if it's intended as a bigger dig at Obama himself or those silly white ... |
Geekesque | 03/19/2007 | 209 | 18 | - | 11 |
| Senate Republicans play matador, abandon Bush on Iraq Divide and conquer is the name of the game. The Democrats threatened to divide themselves on the issue of Iraq withdrawal, but somehow Nancy Pelosi united the caucus to force through a devastating ... |
Geekesque | 03/27/2007 | 228 | 205 | 2 | 37 |
| Blue Dogs channel Meteor Blades, come up with genius plan on Iraq funding--no, really! As I have diaried before, I think the larger game for ending the Iraq war is one of pressure politics. Specifically, it is to make the cost of supporting Bush to Congressional Republicans and the ... |
Geekesque | 03/29/2007 | 266 | 397 | 4 | 75 |
| Seeing a different game on Iraq Over the weekend and into this week, there was a lot of excited chatter and angst over the Democratic response to Bush's inevitable veto of the supplemental funding bill and various candidate ... |
Geekesque | 04/05/2007 | 42 | 19 | - | 15 |
| Obama, funding, Iraq, and negotiations In the FP story where mcjoan felt compelled to give theblaz's dead horse one more kick in the ribs, it became abundantly ... |
Geekesque | 04/11/2007 | 75 | 24 | - | 17 |
| Katie Couric repeats the madrassa smear against Obama (hat tip to Media Matters)
I can't determine whether Couric's vileness exceeds her vapidity, but in a sane world either would disqualify her from shaping public opinion.
Certainly, if Don Imus ... |
Geekesque | 04/13/2007 | 381 | 322 | 3 | 33 |
| Why everyone here is right on Iraq funding There has been a lot of very, ahem, spirited debate amongst Democrats and progressives regarding a strategy to bring US troops home from Iraq and the role that the Congressional funding power would ... |
Geekesque | 04/16/2007 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| Congressional Democrats ready to fold on Iraq Do you want to know what all of the internal fighting, struggle, sweat, and debate amongst Democrats is going produce?
'Advisory' guidelines.
Yep. We get to pass a bill that gives Bush advice. |
Geekesque | 04/19/2007 | 87 | 38 | - | 14 |
| Wingnut bloggers/cartoonist showing Hillary Clinton in BLACKFACE!! Day by Day is a rightwing comic strip intended for rightwing Republican bloggers who think they're cool because they're Republicans with a computer or something. It is created by one Chris Muir.
... |
Geekesque | 04/26/2007 | 23 | 10 | - | 13 |
| Obama's website asks: "Can Obama's substance match his style?" I've tried to avoid writing primary 2008 diaries for a whole host of reasons (the foremost of which is that they're grossly premature).
But Barack Obama's website is featuring something ... |
Geekesque | 04/30/2007 | 83 | 38 | 1 | 10 |
| Forget Britney's junk! Obama smacks whiny Chuck Grassley in Iowa over Iraq The title refers to this obnoxious diary.
Barack Obama is doing a very good thing in his primary campaign stops.
He's calling ... |
Geekesque | 05/11/2007 | 77 | 35 | - | 19 |
| Chuck Grassley: Who cares what I think about Iraq? I'm only a Senator! For those outside of Iowa, Barack Obama and Chucky Grassley, who has been embarrassing Iowa since 1974, have been sparring over Iraq.
Well, not exactly. They've been sparring over talking about ... |
Geekesque | 05/12/2007 | 12 | 21 | - | 20 |
| We should be more reasonable than Dick Cheney. This diary is going to piss a lot of people off.
Well, that's too bad.
Because I am in full-on gadfly mode.
Because, dogmas need to be debunked.
More below the fold. |
Geekesque | 05/14/2007 | 143 | 19 | - | 8 |
| John Warner (R-VA) seeking to effectively force US withdrawal via Trojan Horse? There was a lot of buzz last week regarding Feingold-Reid (or Reid-Feingold). However, virtually no attention was paid to the Warner Amendment, which was rejected 52-44 along mostly party-line ... |
Geekesque | 05/22/2007 | 49 | 32 | 1 | 26 |
| Dem presidential contender supports caving on Iraq, embraces LIEberman as 'friend' I can only assume that everyone on Daily Kos will join me in denouncing this candidate, who went on national television and undermined his own party.
The gory details below the fold. |
Geekesque | 05/24/2007 | 149 | 14 | - | 17 |
| (UPDATED) A challenge to critics of the Democrats who voted "yes" It has become conventional knowledge around these parts that voting "yes" for the appropriations measure this past week was an act of caving, cowardice, corruption, and complicity.
In fact, even ... |
Geekesque | 05/27/2007 | 336 | 12 | - | - |
| Rightwing wacko melts down on US Senate floor, whines that Obama is undermining bipartisanship Apparently Senate Republicans didn't get the memo that Barack Obama only cares about making sure that everyone gets along. Obama's unabashedly pro-family and progressive amendment to the ... |
Geekesque | 06/07/2007 | 42 | 31 | - | 17 |
| Prominent Edwards consultant bashes Netroots and big city liberals in defense of Joe Klein(Updated!) Dave "Mudcat" Saunders is the "Rural Liaison" for the John Edwards campaign.
He is very much of ... |
Geekesque | 06/11/2007 | 570 | 53 | 2 | 20 |
| (Updated with video) Public Citizen punks Nader, endorses Obama government reform plan As anyone who has followed his time in the Senate knows, Barack Obama has been a leader on reforming our political system, whether it be protecting the right to vote, strengthening ethics rules for ... |
Geekesque | 06/22/2007 | 549 | 158 | 5 | 46 |
| Republican rivals fight to avoid Giuliani endorsement Washington (GNS)
With Rudey Giuliani staving off multiple scandals, many observers have begun to look ahead to a Republican presidential primary contest without the former New York mayor. And ... |
Geekesque | 06/26/2007 | 14 | 8 | - | 7 |
| Holy crap! Obama approaches 250,000 individual donors The amount of dollars that campaigns raise is subject to a ton of dishonest spin. Supporters of candidate will play up the prowess of another campaign to raise dollars, while at the same time ... |
Geekesque | 06/28/2007 | 564 | 162 | 6 | 30 |
| Forget Petraeus: The Crocker report is the key to Iraq in September As just about everyone knows, in September General David Petraeus is going to give a report on the success or failure of the 2007 escalation in Iraq.
Obviously, that report will be a big deal (to ... |
Geekesque | 06/29/2007 | 20 | 19 | - | 17 |
| On Impeachment and Iraq Over at MyDD, Armando/BTD and Meteor Blades are engaging in an, ahem, spirited debate inspired in part by the latter'... |
Geekesque | 07/03/2007 | 74 | 12 | - | - |
| Barack Obama: Not so nice Much has been made of Barack Obama's call for a 'new' kind of politics and his disparagement of the 'smallness' of our politics. Amongst some supporters, this is viewed as him playing a healing ... |
Geekesque | 07/10/2007 | 1117 | 362 | 29 | 239 |
| Please read and recommend Eternal Hope's diary Seriously, it's one of the best diaries I've read here in weeks, and it's getting criminally ignored.
Yes it's kinda long, but well worth the read.
Anyhow, here's the link so you can go check it ... |
Geekesque | 07/11/2007 | 15 | 7 | - | - |
| Salon: Obama is a girly man and Hillary is butch I think we have reached a new low from the folks at Salon.com. Not low for them, but low for the world of political commentary.
You see, Obama is a positive, caring person. Which makes him a ... |
Geekesque | 07/12/2007 | 121 | 37 | 1 | 9 |
| Fred Thompson knifes Giuliani, meets with his NY enemies Just in case anyone doubted that Fred Thompson is a ruthless s.o.b. who'll cut out the heart of anyone standing between him and the White House, today's story from the New York Post (yeah yeah, but ... |
Geekesque | 07/13/2007 | 172 | 91 | 2 | 9 |
| 'A black man can't win' Much progress has been made in combatting racial discrimination over the past 40 years. Of course, we still have a long ways to go.
How long?
Sadly to say, even on a Democratic partisan ... |
Geekesque | 07/19/2007 | 705 | 158 | 5 | 34 |
| Washington Post: OMG, Hillary has b00bs!1!1!!!! Just in case anyone thought that the media was done with its thoroughly noxious, sexist, and misogynistic coverage of Hillary Clinton, the Washington Post delivers another reminder of just how ... |
Geekesque | 07/20/2007 | 477 | 150 | - | 110 |
| NH: Sununu will vote with Bush, but not appear in public with him The word 'triangulation' is one of the most overused words in the political lexicon. It's stale rhetoric just as it's a stale tactic.
However, I think we need to come up with a new word--'... |
Geekesque | 07/23/2007 | 23 | 20 | - | 7 |
| UPDATED: Hillary attacks Obama as "irresponsible and frankly naive." (Obama smacks back!) Well, the gloves are off. I'm sure everyone has heard about the "would you meet with these leaders" question from last night.
Well, Hillary Clinton is sensing a vulnerability and is going for ... |
Geekesque | 07/24/2007 | 918 | 86 | 2 | 24 |
| (UPDATED) Obama unloads on Hillary--it's escalation time! In case anyone thought Obama was going to slnk away from the browbeating Hillary tried to give him, the answer is in.
This is going to be a slugfest.
And it's about damn time, too.
Obama ... |
Geekesque | 07/25/2007 | 967 | 201 | 3 | 24 |
| This just in: Edwards still matters A lot of people had assumed that the 2008 primary race had become a two-person race. This theme was reinforced by the recent media spat between Clinton and Obama.
But, it was also born out by ... |
Geekesque | 07/26/2007 | 226 | 42 | 1 | 14 |
| Meeting with foreign leaders--let's answer the question as asked. Since this is the big dividing line between the two leading primary contenders in national polling and fundraising, it's only fair to see where most Kossacks actually stand on the issue.
In order ... |
Geekesque | 07/27/2007 | 164 | 21 | - | 6 |
| Obama blasts Bush's Gilded Age of corruption and exploitation (UPDATED) Finally, the campaigns move beyond the "he said, she said" of the Youtube debate.
Today Obama blasted Bush's corruption and lack of care for the less fortunate in society, while tying such ... |
Geekesque | 07/30/2007 | 382 | 319 | 6 | 33 |