Posting History for arubyan
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| Dems: Chill the f#@k out -- we're in the driver's seat (UPDATED) A Republican friend of mine recently sent me this email after I told him that Claire McCaskill pwned the Medicare recipients at her recent town hall:
The mistake you are making here isn' |
arubyan | 08/14/2009 | 31 | 6 | - | 1 |
| I'm looking for two committed activists | arubyan | 02/17/2006 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| You, me and everyone we know are all residents of Louisiana | arubyan | 03/31/2006 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| Louisiana: Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you | arubyan | 04/13/2006 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
| The Hamilton Project: Robert Rubin's latest policy initiative | arubyan | 04/16/2006 | 6 | 5 | 1 | - |
| General Robert E. Lee on War (Memorial Day, 2006) | arubyan | 05/29/2006 | 13 | 5 | - | - |
| Historical precedent for Gitmo suicides | arubyan | 06/12/2006 | 9 | 5 | - | 2 |
| (Video) What we'll lose if Net Neutrality dies | arubyan | 10/30/2006 | 8 | 5 | - | 10 |
| E Pluribus Unum, Baby: Is Obama The One? (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ) |
arubyan | 12/27/2006 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| Why Bush Won't Veto The Iraq War Supplemental MSNBC asks: Are vetoes the key to a Bush recovery? The simple answer is "no" because I don't think he'll veto the Iraq spending bill.
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arubyan | 04/05/2007 | 72 | 5 | - | 39 |
| Why Bush Lost The Iraq War Recently, while browsing another blog's comment thread I was brought up short when I came upon this statement: It’s still unclear where the main source of our problem in Iraq lies. |
arubyan | 05/03/2007 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| Time Magazine Does Rudy A Huge Favor This week, Time Magazine delivers a profile of Rudy Giuliani that couldn't have been better had it been written by Judi ... |
arubyan | 08/23/2007 | 16 | 5 | - | - |
| POLL: Hillary's "American Health Choices Plan" I just got done reading nyceve's excellent diary on Sen. Clinton's "American Health Choices Plan." I read many of the comments. ... |
arubyan | 09/19/2007 | 61 | 5 | - | 9 |
| Primary Winners and Losers: How It Will Happen (POLL) (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
"Those who live by the crystal ball eat broken glass."
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arubyan | 12/21/2007 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| LA-06: GOP Poll Shows Cazayoux Beating Jenkins According to Eric Kleefeld an internal GOP poll shows Republican Woody Jenkins is in danger ... |
arubyan | 04/03/2008 | 10 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Obama & the Role of Emotion in Politics (Poll) One of the arguments I often get into with my Republican friends (and also with my friends who are backing Hillary) is that Obama is all about...well, here's how one of them put it (I'll let you ... |
arubyan | 05/16/2008 | 11 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Osama bin Laden & The Boston Massacre Could there be a more heinous villain in the popular mind than Osama bin Laden? No.
And/But the debate rages: if he should be captured alive, would he, should he, be ... |
arubyan | 06/19/2008 | 17 | 5 | - | - |
| How to Dismantle the Sarah Palin Myth First you have to accept what should be obvious by now: facts and logic do not move voters; emotions move voters. And Republicans understand this while Democrats are still ... |
arubyan | 09/15/2008 | 19 | 5 | 2 | - |
| The Black Cat Affair [Note: This is the first draft of a treatment that I'm writing. I'd appreciate your feedback on it. Feel free to offer suggestions on structure, pacing, political shading, even technical details, |
arubyan | 12/27/2008 | 7 | 5 | 2 | - |
| It was 7 years ago this week... My name is Ara Rubyan and I live in Baton Rouge. Some of you know me as arubyan . I've been blogging here for 3 years (tomorrow!) and I've had a ... |
arubyan | 01/13/2009 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| Cheney: No Better Than a Holocaust Denier I may be the last one to figure this out, but it finally occurred to me on Wednesday why dick Cheney is everywhere defending his position on "enhanced interrogation" and waterboarding.
It's ... |
arubyan | 05/14/2009 | 15 | 5 | - | - |
| What's to stop Bush from taking your guns? | arubyan | 01/17/2006 | 26 | 4 | 1 | - |
| A clear choice: GOP wants endless war, Dems do not | arubyan | 06/15/2006 | 32 | 4 | - | 9 |
| They want endless war; we want to end the war | arubyan | 06/23/2006 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| What's Next For Israel? | arubyan | 07/21/2006 | 112 | 4 | - | 31 |
| (POLL) Is Hezbollah's War Lebanon's War...Or Not? | arubyan | 07/22/2006 | 78 | 4 | - | 23 |
| (POLL) Dean & Democrats versus al-Maliki: A No-Brainer | arubyan | 07/27/2006 | 72 | 4 | - | 37 |
| Israel: What Now? | arubyan | 08/13/2006 | 62 | 4 | - | 12 |
| Battle Lines Being Drawn: Nobody's Right If Everybody's Wrong | arubyan | 08/28/2006 | 3 | 4 | - | 75 |
| House, Senate, Gov. Elections: What the papers are saying | arubyan | 10/27/2006 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Our Iraq Exit Strategy: The Once and Future Strongman? (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Is it possible that Iraq may again, sooner rather than later, be ruled by ... |
arubyan | 11/27/2006 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| Why Edwards' Anti-Poverty Campaign Won’t Help Him I read this item about John Edwards and took it at face value: Democratic presidential candidate John ... |
arubyan | 05/09/2007 | 80 | 4 | - | - |
| Edwards: Breaking your heart into a million tiny pieces (Continued from Monday's diary ).
Hey listen, before y'all get your hackles up, I like your guy; I voted for him not ... |
arubyan | 12/12/2007 | 108 | 4 | - | - |
| The Dumbing of America? Don't Believe It Susan Jacoby has written an article in the Washington Post that is one of ... |
arubyan | 02/18/2008 | 17 | 4 | - | - |
| Huck/Rollins: Pushed the Button on McCain Campaign? In Mafia parlance a "button man" is a hit-man or mafia soldier. In The Godfather movies, Luca Brazzi was a button man, as was Willie Cicci : |
arubyan | 02/21/2008 | 30 | 4 | - | - |
| Black Skin Eddie Izzard : All that people care about is the look, because there's figures on this. 70% of what people react to is the look, you know, |
arubyan | 03/12/2008 | 7 | 4 | - | - |
| “That One?” He Won the Debate. (POLL) I can only remember a couple of other moments in debate history that sent a similar spike of electricity slicing through the humdrum monotony that these debates usually devolve into. George H.W. ... |
arubyan | 10/08/2008 | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| BREAKING: McCain, Bush "two separate people." (POLL) In what might be the knockout punch Sen. John McCain wanted and needed so badly tonight, the Republican nominee boldly and forcefully declared that he is "not President Bush." |
arubyan | 10/15/2008 | 18 | 4 | - | 1 |
| Detroit: Answer the Call (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 11/20/2008 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| How BP may have triggered a 'world-killing' event' I came across this article this weekend. I think no one else has written ... |
arubyan | 07/11/2010 | 70 | 4 | 1 | 191 |
| Last Chance: Urge LA Governor Blanco to VETO SB 33 | arubyan | 06/05/2006 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Israel-Lebanon War: Democratic Talking Points | arubyan | 07/23/2006 | 24 | 3 | - | 22 |
| October Surprise? Here's what Republicans are up against | arubyan | 10/01/2006 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| (Video) Vote Republican: Because Jesus Hates Democrats | arubyan | 10/06/2006 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| The Shared National Sacrifice Act of 2007 (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Bush speaks! And there you have it: The Iraq war is " |
arubyan | 01/11/2007 | 5 | 3 | - | 11 |
| Go Viral: Take the “Bite Me” Pledge - End the War | arubyan | 01/25/2007 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Iraq War: The Long View Lots in the news today about Democratic tactical maneuvering (translation: "infighting") in Congress, re: the war: Senate Democrats (translation: "Biden") want to pass a measure ... |
arubyan | 02/23/2007 | 4 | 3 | - | 18 |
| Islamic Fundamentalism: If You Can't Beat Em, Join Em? Winning the war of ideas against Islamic fundamentalism isn't going to be easy. But when are some people going to realize that we can't win it if we become more like them?
Case in point: |
arubyan | 04/03/2007 | 7 | 3 | - | 22 |
| “Americans Love A Winner & Won't Tolerate A Loser” (cross posted ... |
arubyan | 07/22/2007 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 25 |
| Google Huckabee Rapist By now you know all about Mike Huckabee's shameful conduct in the Dumond parole scandal. In the latest bit that I read, |
arubyan | 12/07/2007 | 26 | 3 | - | 1 |
| The Clintons' Pick and Roll (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
If Obama loses the nomination, here's the headline that foreshadowed his loss (... |
arubyan | 01/24/2008 | 21 | 3 | - | 12 |
| LA-06: Kopplin on Climate Change & Energy Andy Kopplin is running for the Dem nomination for Congress from Louisiana's 6th CD (Baton Rouge). You know the district: Republican Richard Baker abandoned it to become a million ... |
arubyan | 03/05/2008 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Obama On Race: His Work is Cut Out For Him I've been saying it since before anybody else: race excites the base . This election (as so ... |
arubyan | 03/18/2008 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Mississippi River States: Win 'em, Win the WH? I have a pet theory about electability that holds true for all presidential elections reaching back to 1900: whoever wins a majority of the 10 states bordering the Mississippi River wins the election. |
arubyan | 05/17/2008 | 23 | 3 | - | 47 |
| Bobby Jindal Raised from the Dead? (POLL) (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Jim ... |
arubyan | 07/10/2008 | 19 | 3 | - | - |
| Noonan: There's a New (Old) Meme in Town [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
There's a new meme in town ... |
arubyan | 08/08/2008 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Gustav: Baton Rouge Waits (VIDEO) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
Here's some video I shot this morning where I live in Baton Rouge.
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arubyan | 08/31/2008 | 23 | 3 | - | 19 |
| Obama: A Bigger Maverick than McCain -- or Palin (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
Republicans loooooooooooove to ask "Who is Obama, really?" ... |
arubyan | 10/23/2008 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| We Haven't Hit Bottom Yet (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 11/24/2008 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| Poll: Dodd in the Doghouse? A Feb. 10 Quinnipiac Poll shows Sen. Dodd's consituency split on his performance as Connecticut's junior Senator. Polling also ... |
arubyan | 02/10/2009 | 25 | 3 | - | 1 |
| When You're Walking Thru Hell, Keep Walking I'm sick to death of how the HCR effort has gone so far.
But I will not allow the present circumstances to discourage me and neither can you.
You know, a certain Senator would get no greater ... |
arubyan | 12/16/2009 | 6 | 3 | - | 64 |
| On Nationalizing the Mid-Term Elections: Only a Strong Congress Can Stop Bush Now | arubyan | 01/15/2006 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Urge your Senator TODAY to vote NO on Alito | arubyan | 01/16/2006 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| 2006 Elections: Hang together or hang separately | arubyan | 02/09/2006 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| I'm through getting mad -- now I just want to get even | arubyan | 02/21/2006 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Here's the speech I'd give if I were running for Congress | arubyan | 03/15/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Attack: Now is the time for Democrats to go on the offensive | arubyan | 06/13/2006 | 12 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Republicans: A party of cultists | arubyan | 06/28/2006 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 42 |
| NJ-07: Video: Stender for Congress | arubyan | 07/07/2006 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| NH-02: Hodes for Congress (A "Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/12/2006 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| Universal "Had Enough?" Video Now Available | arubyan | 07/16/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | 27 |
| NJ-04: Carol Gay for Congress ("Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/24/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Don't Let Rove Use Our Heroes Against Us | arubyan | 09/01/2006 | 14 | 2 | - | 9 |
| PredatorGate Update: The Redder They Are, The Harder They Fall | arubyan | 10/03/2006 | 7 | 2 | - | 8 |
| What the Democrats and the Detroit Tigers Have In Common | arubyan | 10/16/2006 | 31 | 2 | - | 10 |
| Top Ten High-Impact Diaries from arubyan (2006) Using jotter's methodology , I compiled a Top 10 list of my own highest-impact diaries at Daily Kos in 2006.
All of these diaries made jotter's daily list ... |
arubyan | 12/30/2006 | 7 | 2 | - | 9 |
| War and Big Oil: Iraq and Exxon are riding high I think that we can all agree that we wouldn't have fought the Gulf War in '91 if it hadn't been for the oil that lies underneath Kuwait and Iraq. Similarly, we're in Iraq this time around for ... |
arubyan | 02/01/2007 | 22 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 2008/DOA: Welcome To My Nightmare I really believe that the US attorney story has nothing to do with the tamping-down of investigations into Republican corruption.
I think Cheney is moving the chess pieces into place to ... |
arubyan | 03/07/2007 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| My Hillary Post, Wherein I Say: WTF? Recently, from James Wolcott: Just this morning Chris Matthews compared [Hillary Clinton] to Madame ... |
arubyan | 03/26/2007 | 142 | 2 | - | - |
| Don't We All Deserve Levees That Work? When most people talk about the destruction of New Orleans, they think of Hurricane Katrina.
But it wasn't the hurricane that did it: it was the failure of the levees. And what happened in New ... |
arubyan | 05/10/2007 | 3 | 2 | - | 9 |
| Scooter Libby & Fred Thompson: A 30-sec Video Takedown The Libby commutation is bad on so many levels...
...not the least of which is his association with Fred Thompson. Here's something I pounded out last night that (I hope) will taint Thompson's name ... |
arubyan | 07/03/2007 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| POLL: Consitutional Convention? [Note: this is a longer than average diary; grab a cup of coffee and pull up a chair. If you don't have time, bookmark it and come back later to check it out.]
Sometimes you have to pull ... |
arubyan | 10/18/2007 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Dem Debate: The Real Winner Notwithstanding Krugman , it looks like a narrative is forming for the general election, and trust me, you've heard this song ... |
arubyan | 10/31/2007 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Romney's Mormonism Speech Fails to Deliver Willard Milton Romney had a pretty steep hill to climb when he made that address Thursday morning on his Mormon religion at the Bush Presidential Library in Texas.
Bottom line for Romney: he had ... |
arubyan | 12/06/2007 | 4 | 2 | - | 9 |
| Republican Louisiana Caucus: Paul Thwarted Yep, they had themselves a Republican caucus yesterday, down in my neck of the woods. The national media skipped ... |
arubyan | 01/23/2008 | 13 | 2 | - | 4 |
| LA-06: Kopplin For Congress Andy Kopplin is running for the Dem nomination for Congress from Louisiana's 6th CD (Baton Rouge). You know the district: Republican Richard Baker abandoned it to become a million ... |
arubyan | 03/04/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | 10 |
| How Do You Win Pennsylvania? So who wins Pennsylvania? Or more importantly, HOW do you win Pennsylvania? What will it take to win over those voters who, as one Dem consultant put it, " |
arubyan | 04/01/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| What I'd Do Next If I Were Obama In short, I wouldn't make any big changes in my message. Obama's core message, the change he wants to deliver, is "One America." So whatever he says and does at this point should be focused on that. |
arubyan | 04/25/2008 | 10 | 2 | 1 | - |
| The “Watchdog Press” Don't Hunt No More I've always felt that the job of government is to keep an eye on business and the job of the independent press is to keep an eye on government. So when I see ... |
arubyan | 04/29/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Democrats: Turn the Page Already (POLL) I've been out of town for the last several days visiting family. So I've followed the DNC meetings only somewhat and the Puerto Rican primary even less. I've been reading a few online blogs. And it ... |
arubyan | 06/02/2008 | 7 | 2 | - | - |
| McCain Internet Rumors: GOP Disinformation? (UPD. w/POLL) (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Plenty of diaries today, and earlier, ... |
arubyan | 06/12/2008 | 11 | 2 | - | 8 |
| McCain$$ + RNC$$ = GOP Bloodbath in House A lot has already been written about the McCain/RNC money advantage over Obama. But what doesn't get discussed is how this leaves Republican Congressional candidates high and dry.
Until today. |
arubyan | 07/11/2008 | 13 | 2 | - | - |
| Top 10 October Surprises (POLL) From the home office in Sedona, Arizona: The Top 10 October Surprises in this year's campaign: |
arubyan | 09/28/2008 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| Obama and the Angry Voter [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 10/02/2008 | 14 | 2 | - | - |
| The Economy: More Like a Poker Game Than a Restaurant (POLL) Recently, while I ... |
arubyan | 10/25/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| VPOTUS & The Black Cat Affair No one knows exactly when the cyber-thieves struck first against the VP, or more accurately, everyone around him. There was no consensus on whether or not they had struck in concert. But, in ... |
arubyan | 12/29/2008 | 3 | 2 | - | 49 |
| “So let us begin anew...” [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
Most inaugural addresses have a pretty short shelf life. They don't endure past the ... |
arubyan | 01/08/2009 | 7 | 2 | - | 7 |
| Opt-out: "A firebell in the night, filling me with terror." UPDATED 2X Last week, I wrote this diary detailing why I thought the opt-out compromise is such a bad ... |
arubyan | 10/12/2009 | 61 | 2 | 1 | 171 |
| Read the diary that makes me a pariah at Daily Kos (bet you can't finish without blowing a gasket) | arubyan | 01/14/2006 | 31 | 1 | - | - |
| Why bin Laden is still walking free | arubyan | 01/20/2006 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |