Posting History for Geekesque
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| (UPDATED)What Obama actually said about fighting terrorism Barack Obama was scheduled to give a speech today on his national security/defense/anti-terrorism policy today.
There's going to be a lot of distortion of what he said, so I thought I'd launch a '... |
Geekesque | 08/01/2007 | 882 | 180 | 5 | 58 |
| (UPDATED) Progressive Caucus shows no mercy to Republicans on Iraq Behind the scenes in Washington, the Progressive caucus has killed a proposal that would have let Congressional Republicans triangulate by pretending to vote against Bush but that would not have ... |
Geekesque | 08/02/2007 | 22 | 17 | - | 18 |
| Guess what folks? Iowa is a three-way tie (new poll). Oh man.
Just when Hillary Clintonlooks like an unstoppable juggernaut, that pesky Iowa reminds folks that it matters, just as John Edwards and Barack Obama still matter.
The shocking, ... |
Geekesque | 08/03/2007 | 103 | 29 | 2 | 3 |
| Are Brangelina Kossacks? If they're not, they serve as proof that dynamics we see at play here extend beyond cyberspace.
It appears the world's sexiest couple got into a fight that we have seen replicated thousands of ... |
Geekesque | 08/06/2007 | 101 | 22 | - | 9 |
| Pakistan debunks Obama claims (snort, chuckle, guffaw) The name of Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States is Mahmud Ali Durrani. The English translation of his name is "Tony Snow" I believe. He recently gave an interview which calls to mind ... |
Geekesque | 08/07/2007 | 67 | 27 | - | 13 |
| (UPDATED) Hillary: "I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table" I'm sure some people are having trouble believing that Ms. Clinton would make such a statement. Not because it's an unwise statement--indeed it makes some sense.
But rather, because Ms. Clinton ... |
Geekesque | 08/09/2007 | 359 | 47 | - | 16 |
| 'Experience,' Iraq, and dropping cluster bombs on children There are four current Senators who are running for the Democratic nomination for President.
There have developed two competing narratives regarding these four Senators and their relative levels ... |
Geekesque | 08/14/2007 | 91 | 51 | 2 | 39 |
| Barack Obama shows his naivete: "I trust the American people." I'm serious. He said those exact words.
I wish I were kidding.
It's sad to see a promising campaign imploding with such foolishness.
I'm sure that his detractors will enjoy reading what ... |
Geekesque | 08/16/2007 | 388 | 150 | 3 | 23 |
| Take the damn ball, Senator Obama. Cross-posted at Talk Left.
An open letter to Senator Barack Obama from a supporter.
Senator Obama, in your short time in the ... |
Geekesque | 09/06/2007 | 687 | 305 | 2 | 41 |
| Obama to reboot his Iraq policy/rhetoric on Wednesday Cross-posted at Talk Left
Last week I ... |
Geekesque | 09/10/2007 | 295 | 130 | 2 | 37 |
| White House punished by NFL for illegal spying New York (Geek News Services)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reacted swiftly and sharply to the revelation that the Bush Administration had illegally spied on American citizens by fining ... |
Geekesque | 09/14/2007 | 24 | 22 | - | 9 |
| Clinton Israel statement possibly undermines Mideast negotiations Hillary Clinton produced a very worthy health care proposal yesterday that drew praise from pundits as diverse as David Brooks and Ezra Klein.
We should give her props for that.
However, her ... |
Geekesque | 09/18/2007 | 332 | 50 | - | 14 |
| You idiots. (SECOND UPDATE) Cross-posted at Talk Left
I'm talking to you, wingnuts, for caring more about a stupid newspaper ad (and yes it was stupid) than ... |
Geekesque | 09/20/2007 | 716 | 495 | 4 | 101 |
| Republicans angry at Bush over healthcare for children If one wants any proof that the years of tireless advocacy for healthcare reform and protecting the rights of children have paid some dividends, one need look no further than the Republican outrage ... |
Geekesque | 09/21/2007 | 25 | 23 | - | - |
| Clinton to outraise Obama, but at what cost? Two stories running today discuss the outstanding success Hillary Clinton has had raising money this quarter. This should surprise, well, no sentient being. Clinton has been dominating the polls, ... |
Geekesque | 09/26/2007 | 107 | 39 | 2 | 13 |
| Obama launches his major offensive against Hillary Cross-posted at Talk Left.
Game on, folks.
While there's been some discussion about his nukes stand in the speech today, what's ... |
Geekesque | 10/02/2007 | 822 | 294 | 6 | 28 |
| Barack Obama: Paradigm shifter Cross-posted at TalkLeft.
A few accurate and a great many inaccurate things have been said about Barack Obama's advocacy of a "new ... |
Geekesque | 10/04/2007 | 420 | 198 | 13 | 46 |
| A confession of hypocrisy and a plea for healing [M]aybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so that most people see it as just one more diversion, a sport, with politicians our paunch-bellied gladiators ... |
Geekesque | 10/06/2007 | 568 | 262 | 4 | 72 |
| Your problem is with black people in South Carolina Let's stop dancing around the fringes of what's going on with the Donnie McClurkin story.
He's said some really offensive, really ignorant, really appalling, and totally unacceptable things about ... |
Geekesque | 10/23/2007 | 800 | 132 | 1 | 76 |
| Clinton's diplomacy: Bomb Iran, Lebanon, Hamas? Much ado has been made about Hillary Clinton's vote for Kyl-Lieberman and her fairly hawkish Foreign Affairs article.
If you read that Foreign Affairs article closely (and one must always read ... |
Geekesque | 10/18/2007 | 390 | 127 | 3 | 21 |
| Clinton's Kyl-Lieberman vote: Worse than you thought. Incredibly, there is still a great deal of misconception and mytyhology being spun about legislation dealing with Iran. Senator Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign has spun many of them. ... |
Geekesque | 10/29/2007 | 691 | 409 | 11 | 103 |
| Clinton's Kyl-Lieberman vote: Still awful In yesterday's diary entry , I disproved the Clinton campaign's claim that it was hypocritical to support S.970 but oppose the Kyl-... |
Geekesque | 10/30/2007 | 180 | 60 | - | 52 |
| Dodd jabs Edwards over haircut, skips two close votes A special greeting to Dodd supporters: Welcome to the NFL.
Chris Dodd has been hailed as a tremendous leader and everyone else trembling chihuahuas coasting in his wake.
Well, Chris Dodd ... |
Geekesque | 10/24/2007 | 490 | 156 | 5 | 26 |
| Tell Barack Obama what to do to make things right. No recap is needed for the horrid mess that was the McClurkin fiasco (I'm sooooo sick of even typing that moron's name). It reflected poorly upon the Obama campaign in any number of ways, depending ... |
Geekesque | 11/01/2007 | 333 | 51 | 1 | 19 |
| Clinton and Obama: Real differences on Iran and Diplomacy Cross-posted at OMS.
Some people are still laboring under the ... |
Geekesque | 11/08/2007 | 399 | 133 | 3 | 24 |
| Tell Harry Reid to help stop a war with Iran! As I have diaried before , Kyl-Lieberman was a mallet in the drumbeat for war with Iran. While it didn't enact change the law in any ... |
Geekesque | 11/02/2007 | 200 | 134 | 2 | 33 |
| Clinton's Mark Penn lobbying on behalf of corrupt Pakistani pols Mark Penn is Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and pollster. He is responsible for crafting her message.
Everyone knows about Penn's connections ... |
Geekesque | 11/06/2007 | 449 | 144 | 4 | 47 |
| The Mark Penn Follies: poisonous Chinese toys edition Is there any scandal or threat to public safety and global stability that Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, Mark Penn, can't be linked to.
First it ... |
Geekesque | 11/09/2007 | 316 | 124 | 2 | 34 |
| The New Face of Electability, part I. The standard definition of electability for a Democrat goes something like this:
Governor
White
Socially moderate to conservative
Non-ideological to hawkish on foreign policy and the use of ... |
Geekesque | 11/14/2007 | 189 | 127 | 1 | 7 |
| Clarity + Respect = Strength and Electability. Cross-posted at OMS.
Yesterday I examined the numbers behind ... |
Geekesque | 11/15/2007 | 207 | 46 | 1 | 12 |
| Dodd raps Clinton for feeding her own polarizing image Hillary Clinton made a curious choice this week--release an ad decrying the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy (VRWC) while at the same time trying to combat her image as polarizing.
Chris Dodd pounced, ... |
Geekesque | 11/20/2007 | 126 | 25 | - | 5 |
| Dennis Kucinich: Great ideas, but still a damn bozo Yes, everyone who takes that online quiz finds that they agree with Kucinich moreso than any other Democratic candidate.
Single-payer healthcare: check.
Most consistent anti-war record: check.
... |
Geekesque | 11/25/2007 | 505 | 122 | 4 | 31 |
| The face of American diplomacy: Barack Obama or Colin Powell? This is a choice Democratic primary voters will have starting on January 3, 2008.
Who do we want representing the US? Who will show the world that the way of doing business under Bush is over? |
Geekesque | 11/27/2007 | 417 | 167 | 3 | 34 |
| Boycott Burger King (of corporate greed). The people who run Burger King may be the worst human beings on the planet.
No, I am not exaggerating.
They are the greediest, least compassionate, and most despicable corporate actors I ... |
Geekesque | 11/29/2007 | 385 | 404 | 7 | 66 |
| Clinton uses Obama's kindergarten essay against him (Kindergate?) The Clinton campaign, not content with their risible attempt to make Obama's legal donations to fellow Democrats a campaign issue (Johnny Chung and Norman Hsu were unavailable for comment), has now ... |
Geekesque | 12/02/2007 | 1318 | 313 | 10 | 334 |
| Clinton campaign hates 'presumptous' Obama, launches Rovian smear campaign (UPDATED) People have wondered why Hillary Clinton's campaign has been so strident and angry over the past week or so. Why remind people of what they don't like about Clinton--that she is polarizing, thrives ... |
Geekesque | 12/04/2007 | 990 | 363 | 20 | 101 |
| Perry Bacon Jr. (Washington Post) gets it right on Obama rumors this time Perry Bacon Jr. of the Washington Post got beat up awfully hard for his story on the smears directed at Barack Obama in Iowa and other places.
Among other things, he did not come out and say ... |
Geekesque | 12/05/2007 | 142 | 180 | 6 | 18 |
| Two more women stand up for Obama. No, not Oprah. Or Michelle Obama.
I'm talking about two bona fide leaders in the Democratic party and US government.
Representative Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire and Barbara Lee today ... |
Geekesque | 12/10/2007 | 206 | 168 | 3 | 37 |
| Clinton forms new 527: Lolcats for Truth. I'm sure everyone has seen the story about an old Friend of Bill (FOB) trying to dig up dirt on Barack Obama's past as a ... |
Geekesque | 12/11/2007 | 45 | 30 | - | 1 |
| (Updated X4) "Increasingly Desperate" Clinton campaign resorts to stupid sleazy tactics If any couple in the history of American politics is morally and logically disqualified from throwing mud based on indiscretions in the past, it is Bill and Hillary Clinton.
However, the ... |
Geekesque | 12/12/2007 | 762 | 260 | 4 | 63 |
| The Classiest Moment of the Primary Season At yesterday's Des Moines Register/Iowa Public Television debate, most folks think that the 'best' moment was when Barack Obama zipped off a witty one-liner to Hillary Clinton on the question of ... |
Geekesque | 12/14/2007 | 359 | 205 | 4 | 56 |
| John Edwards Can't Beat Hillary Clinton, and Here's Why One of the traditional laments during primary season is that the media devotes disproportionate coverage to the two current front runners, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Dennis Kucinich is ... |
Geekesque | 12/18/2007 | 843 | 118 | 2 | 30 |
| (UPDATED!) Desperate Clinton: It's 'Giuliani time,' New Hampshire! (impersonates Rudy) Well, Hillary Clinton is having a bad year so far. She poured tons of money into Iowa, only to see the vaunted Clinton machine get demolished. She couldn't even pull out second place despite ... |
Geekesque | 01/04/2008 | 636 | 206 | 4 | 33 |
| Hillary Clinton: I wouldn't have started war I voted for On the heels of Bill's infamous "I opposed the Iraq war from the beginning" Hillary Clinton is engaging in some serious IWR revisionism.
Because, she says, she wouldn't have gone to war with Iraq.
... |
Geekesque | 01/06/2008 | 419 | 174 | 3 | 26 |
| (UPDATEDX2) Desperate Clinton: LBJ, not Martin Luther King, is real civil rights hero Yeah, she went there.
In her efforts to take a leak on the idea of hope--because it benefits Barack Obama--Hillary Clinton decided that she needed to minimize the role that Martin Luther King Jr. |
Geekesque | 01/07/2008 | 868 | 304 | 10 | 122 |
| Brayquing: Obama to get endorsement of UNITE HERE (parent of NV Culinary 226) Yeah, this is big.
Per the New York Times:
Unite Here, the union representing ... |
Geekesque | 01/08/2008 | 303 | 125 | 1 | 8 |
| Don't jump ship on Edwards There have been several diaries recently about Edwards being a Ralph Nader.
Which is truly, truly unfortunate.
As many know, I am not a big believer in John Edwards as a candidate. I don't ... |
Geekesque | 01/09/2008 | 497 | 326 | 6 | 43 |
| (UPDATEDX4) NY Post lies about Obama; pro-Clinton bloggers spread the lie (NOTE: Please see update)
Yes, Clinton supporter Rupert Murdoch'... |
Geekesque | 01/14/2008 | 721 | 298 | 6 | 66 |
| John Kerry: Kicking ass, defending the right to vote, and flying to Nevada The biggest surprise of this campaign season?
For me, it's that John Kerry is proving to be a better surrogate than Bill Clinton.
Today, John Kerry steps up for the right to vote.
And he'... |
Geekesque | 01/16/2008 | 487 | 325 | 12 | 102 |
| The polls are right--Clinton will win Nevada, which isn't New Hampshire The big lesson that everyone seems to have learned from New Hampshire is that polls simply can't be trusted. And that, thus, nobody really knows who's going to win Nevada.
That's nonsense.
... |
Geekesque | 01/18/2008 | 214 | 38 | - | 18 |
| Magic tries taking Obama to the rim, but is REJECTED by Kareem! Note: If you don't have a sense of humor, this diary is not for you.
In what has to be the most ridiculous metaphor of the campaign season, two former Los Angeles Laker greats have entered the ... |
Geekesque | 01/22/2008 | 111 | 65 | 1 | 41 |
| Two faces of Bill: Clinton rejects, plays 'race card' (Forgive the use of a rightwing term, but what Bill is doing here is using rightwing framing)
Just when you thought Bill Clinton had jumped over his last shark, he pulls a rare-combo--accusing ... |
Geekesque | 01/24/2008 | 161 | 51 | 3 | 31 |
| Hillary Clinton to Howard Dean: Screw you. (UPDATED X2) Hillary Clinton's campaign is actively and, for the first time, openly seeking to undermine Howard Dean.
The context, of course, is the seating of the Michigan and Florida delegations. Where no ... |
Geekesque | 01/25/2008 | 1234 | 713 | 18 | 153 |
| Clinton Stands Up For Bush's Escalation, the Snub that Should Have Been Blah blah handshake blah blah snub blah blah passed me a note in study hall.
For those that were paying attention to Bush's (thankfully) final State of the Union Address, there was a moment when ... |
Geekesque | 01/29/2008 | 296 | 172 | 3 | 13 |
| Obama supporters, let's have some class today (Don't worry, I haven't lost my mind)
John Edwards ran a great, gutty, substantive campaign.
He pushed issues that progressives and Democrats care deeply about.
And, those who supported him and ... |
Geekesque | 01/30/2008 | 825 | 687 | 11 | 38 |
| Obama will kick McCain's butt, not hold his hand Kumbayah.
Why can't we all get along.
Going along to get along.
This kind of b.s. has been thrown at Barack Obama for over a year now by his critics (when they're not complaining that he's ... |
Geekesque | 02/02/2008 | 223 | 183 | 1 | 20 |
| David Obey, Christine Gregoire are now Cultists Somehow, over the past few weeks, David Obey and Christine Gregoire have lost their damn minds.
They clearly have become brainwashed automatons, worshipping hype and ignoring a plain lack of ... |
Geekesque | 02/08/2008 | 293 | 194 | 3 | 33 |
| Hillary Clinton's Scooter Libby Problem "Four years into the Iraq war, Americans are still living with the consequences of this White House's efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in this ... |
Geekesque | 03/05/2008 | 444 | 465 | 27 | 160 |
| Desperate Clinton crosses 'the Joe Lieberman threshold' In a turn of phrase no doubt authored by the poison Penn, Hillary Clinton is now peddling bull manure packaged inside more bull manure with bull manure labeling.
And, she's doing everything she can ... |
Geekesque | 03/06/2008 | 900 | 699 | 18 | 184 |
| Hillary Clinton Fails the Joe Biden Test
Ladies and gentlemen, the Joe Biden Test:
“My dad used to say, don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget. I will tell you what you value,’’ Biden ... |
Geekesque | 02/11/2008 | 496 | 525 | 15 | 58 |
| Obama in real danger of losing Hawaii You think I'm kidding?
It's a caucus. It's his home state. Done deal, right?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. |
Geekesque | 02/14/2008 | 439 | 387 | 14 | 72 |
| (Updated X2) Clinton whining pays off: Media smearing Obama over Farrakhan Congratulations, Senator Clinton.
At long last, after much complaining from you, the media is launching rightwing smear attacks against Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee in the fall.
... |
Geekesque | 02/27/2008 | 748 | 319 | 8 | 41 |
| Geraldine Ferraro digs in, engages in more flagrant race-baiting. We all know about Geraldine Ferraro's first stab at race-baiting:
If Obama was a white man, he would ... |
Geekesque | 03/11/2008 | 867 | 371 | 9 | 38 |
| (UPDATED WITH VIDEO) Bill Clinton says you should vote for Obama over Hillary Well, 2004 Bill Clinton says that. It's unclear whether 2008 Bill Clinton would remain intellectually honest or whether he would evasively microparse his way out of it.
(That was a joke, of ... |
Geekesque | 02/29/2008 | 109 | 182 | 4 | 400 |
| (UPDATED) Reality check on Pennsylvania: It's Clinton by double-digits (UPDATE): Pennsylvania is NOT a winner take all state. It is proportional representation, which means every vote counts. There is NO excuse to not do what you can to help him get as many ... |
Geekesque | 04/20/2008 | 871 | 479 | 14 | 82 |
| HillaryClinton.com spreading Obama=Muslim smears and other racism. Of course, the Clinton campaign has denied pushing the Obama=Muslim plant smear.
Despite the words of Clinton endorser Bob "Secular Madrassa" Kerrey.
Despite the fact that multiple Clinton ... |
Geekesque | 03/14/2008 | 429 | 255 | 11 | 73 |
| Oprah's Book Club endorses new Hillary Clinton biography!! | Geekesque | 03/21/2008 | 149 | 184 | 12 | 22 |
| Clinton blogs, LA Times regurgitate far-right attacks on Obama Currently, the race to the bottom amongst the few remaining pro-Clinton blogs is between Larry Johnson's NO QUARTER (now receiving an influx of traffic from places like Free Republic) and, in a bit ... |
Geekesque | 04/11/2008 | 92 | 41 | 1 | 50 |
| (UPDATED) A moment of moral clarity for all pro-Clinton bloggers One of the most notable pro-Clinton bloggers--Larry C. Johnson--has today outed himself as a David Duke-style white supremacist.
He is considered one of the good guys and a progressives by sites/... |
Geekesque | 03/30/2008 | 742 | 372 | 12 | 91 |
| Who will win North Indy-lina? It's tempting to think of two separate contests a week from today. In reality, there is only one contest--the quest for the Democratic nomination. And on May 6, there will be a loser and there ... |
Geekesque | 04/29/2008 | 43 | 27 | 1 | 23 |
| You idiots (McCain edition) Once again folks on the Netroots are being played for chumps.
Last time, it was the stupid Moveon advertisement nontroversy.
This ... |
Geekesque | 05/22/2008 | 45 | 31 | 1 | 13 |
| McCain campaign: Terrorist attack on US soil would be 'big advantage' Yep, John McCain, not content to become Bush's third Term, has decided to make his campaign all about him being the next Dick Cheney.
... |
Geekesque | 06/23/2008 | 46 | 46 | 4 | 19 |
| Unfit for duty: McCain physically assaulted foreign official in 1987 Does military experience or experience as a P.O.W. qualify one to be President of the United States?
I dunno. Maybe to a small degree.
Do impulse control and the ability to lead effective ... |
Geekesque | 07/02/2008 | 407 | 535 | 11 | 48 |
| Note to media: John McCain is a disgusting misogynist (UPDATEDx3) As many folks know--because the MSM wouldn't let you not know--Al Franken told some nasty, disgusting and genuinely offensive jokes back in the day. Worst of all, while brainstorming for a skit, he ... |
Geekesque | 07/15/2008 | 283 | 384 | 9 | 95 |
| The McCain campaign declares war on "the Muslims." (UPDATED) No, really.
(UPDATE): Here's a link to the Miami Herald article.
On a just-ended campaign conference call, |
Geekesque | 07/18/2008 | 280 | 384 | 3 | 76 |
| Misogynist McCain pimps his wife at Sturgis ( MUST SEE VIDEO UPDATE) Digg it!
John McCain is a misogynist pig.
When he's ... |
Geekesque | 08/05/2008 | 791 | 500 | 11 | 151 |
| False Flag: McCain goes Nixon, combining lies with illegal activity Digg it!
John McCain may have been a man of honor at one time in his life. He was a man ... |
Geekesque | 09/06/2008 | 479 | 784 | 17 | 258 |
| Kill a Swiftboater with kindness today--Action Alert UPDATED Today, a Swiftboating group has its mouthpiece out.
You know which ones--the American Issues Project. The ones with the repulsive William Ayers ad out.
Today, they're trotting out their ... |
Geekesque | 08/26/2008 | 29 | 55 | - | 22 |
| Finally! The Obama campaign uses the "L" word. Recommend TomP's excellent diary on this subject!
As in "lies." As in dishonesty, deceipt, and deception.
As in, ... |
Geekesque | 09/08/2008 | 31 | 40 | - | 20 |
| Obama campaign to McCain campaign: Stuff it, ya whiners. As noted in another diary , Joe Biden had the temerity to criticize the Republican position on stem cell research.
... |
Geekesque | 09/09/2008 | 399 | 754 | 20 | 33 |
| Yeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaaa! | Geekesque | 09/11/2008 | 115 | 56 | 1 | 50 |
| On being better and smarter than Republicans: Daily Kos (not?)FAIL Many have condemned the Bush administration for its contempt for the Constitution. Bush at best paid lip service to the Constitution, and when it inconvenienced him he simply ignored it. And he ... |
Geekesque | 01/24/2009 | 861 | 529 | 10 | 41 |
| (UPDATED) Please be smarter than the Freepers. See end of diary for clarification of why Bank Holding Company status matters
Really--that's a pretty low bar.
When we read extraordinary claims that President Obama is flagrantly ... |
Geekesque | 04/04/2009 | 1294 | 930 | 13 | 251 |
| Republican savior Fred Thompson: Cheese-eating Surrender Monkey Do you remember how much scorn was heaped at Democrats who suggested that maybe, just maybe, staying in Iraq for a McCain for an eternity was a really bad idea? That how a timeline for withdrawal ... |
Geekesque | 11/19/2009 | 35 | 12 | - | 155 |
| Al Simpson must . . . stay? (minor update) There has been a lot of uproar about the disgraceful comments about women and Social Security made by Al Simpson, co-chair of the National Commission on ... |
Geekesque | 08/30/2010 | 50 | 16 | - | 31 |
| Republicans spit on unemployed; Reid, Obama bash Republicans So, the filibuster was broken yesterday (barely), which means full speed ahead on granting immediate relief to those who have suffered because of that filibuster, right? |
Geekesque | 07/21/2010 | 26 | 23 | - | 40 |
| Firedoglake does the Full Nader (UPDATED) There is no better argument against the "Democrats are no different than Republicans" canard than seeing someone attempt to defend it.
Today's exemplar is provided by Jon Walker of Firedoglake, who ... |
Geekesque | 09/09/2010 | 1863 | 572 | 6 | 198 |
| Obama VETOES Big Banks' notarization sweetheart deal Is Elizabeth Warren's status as personal advisor to President Obama paying off?
It appears so. |
Geekesque | 10/07/2010 | 835 | 687 | 6 | 248 |
| Democrats in Congress NAIL Obama on Guantanamo! The great liberal/progressive revolt has begun in Congress. Feeling powerless to torpedo the tax deal Obama cut with the Republicans, House Democrats finally stood up for 'progressive' values in an ... |
Geekesque | 12/10/2010 | 116 | 34 | - | 88 |
| Stop wasting time here already Seriously.
Just stop with the ranting and the defending and the hiderating and the uprating and the complaining.
Why?
I'll tell you why. |
Geekesque | 04/10/2011 | 31 | 31 | - | 408 |
| Why Obama's Israel/Palestine speech was a noble failure. In the wake of the Arab Spring, President Obama felt he had to reboot US policy towards the so-called Israel/Palestine peace process. No longer could he rely on dictators to keep the peace with ... |
Geekesque | 05/23/2011 | 115 | 11 | - | 298 |
| Harry Reid sides with Israel against his own President Can we stop pretending that our political instittutions are capable of pursuing our own national interest when it comes to Israel/Palestine?
It has become crystal clear that, if an Israeli PM says "... |
Geekesque | 05/24/2011 | 198 | 60 | - | 631 |
| Senate Democrats Eager to Pass "Permanent Occupation" Resolution The fallout from President Obama's noble blunder continues. Senate Democrats are now eagerly lining up to sign a resolution, sponsored by Orrin Hatch, explicitly repudiating the 1967 lines as a ... |
Geekesque | 05/25/2011 | 67 | 19 | 1 | 276 |
| Nobody cares about the poor, and that includes the Netroots The ideological debate in this country is not about rich versus the poor.
Instead it is about whether the government should serve the rich or whether it should serve the rich and the middle class.
... |
Geekesque | 06/17/2011 | 289 | 128 | 1 | 1122 |
| Do we care about the First Amendment, or just our political message? The subject of the First Amendment and its scope has been the subject of many discussions and even more claims.
But, most discussions do not revolve around how to determine the balance between a ... |
Geekesque | 11/18/2011 | 215 | 21 | 3 | 368 |
| Shocking! Netanyahu Jr. is a Muslim-hating bigot. Yair Netanyahu, oldest son of Israeli Prime Minister and a member of the IDF media relations unit, has gone ahead and committed the political crime of candor on his Facebook page. |
Geekesque | 06/24/2011 | 180 | 30 | - | 587 |
| Reid caves to Obama, Boehner, pulls Senate out of debt talks Surprise, surprise. Harry Reid has punked out, and wished the Medicare Slashing Duo of Obama and Boehner luck in reaching a compromise. |
Geekesque | 07/22/2011 | 393 | 162 | 4 | 1864 |
| White House Fact Sheet: Infrastructure is the new hostage Joe Biden tried to convince House Democrats yesterday that the administration was ... |
Geekesque | 08/02/2011 | 26 | 14 | 1 | 144 |
| Obama smacks Teahobbits using McCain's 2008 campaign slogan It's overdue, and only a start, but President Obama has finally decided to do some truthtelling about the Teahadists and their behavior in Congress. Even better, he's doing so as a larger push to ... |
Geekesque | 08/11/2011 | 409 | 278 | 3 | 2368 |
| Obama admin begs Palestinians for diplomatic bailout The kindest description for President Obama's Israel/Palestine policy is "noble failure." He's succeeded at saying just enough of the right things to cause concern amongst die-hard ... |
Geekesque | 09/04/2011 | 642 | 91 | - | 1295 |