Posting History for arubyan
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| You, me and everyone we know are all residents of Louisiana | arubyan | 03/31/2006 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| WTF: Torture Suddenly OK If Dems Have White House? According to Bruce Fein , Pres. Obama has done an about-face on torture policy, now arguing in court to uphold ... |
arubyan | 02/17/2009 | 78 | 7 | 2 | 17 |
| Why you should care who gets elected mayor of New Orleans | arubyan | 05/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Why you need to win the Mississippi River states in 2008 | arubyan | 06/01/2006 | 18 | 1 | - | 47 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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.
... |
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 |
| Why bin Laden is still walking free | arubyan | 01/20/2006 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Why amnesty for Iraqi insurgents is a deal-breaker | arubyan | 06/26/2006 | 75 | - | - | 12 |
| Who Will Win the Battle of the News Cycles? | arubyan | 09/25/2006 | 5 | 8 | - | 9 |
| Who needs pics of Bush & Abramoff when you got Bush & Bremer? | arubyan | 01/29/2006 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 4 |
| Who Decides When A Vote Is Meaningful Or Not? Which votes are meaningless and which (if any) make a difference? And who decides that anyway?
On one hand, you have the recent toothless war supplemental bill that lacked any kind of timeline and ... |
arubyan | 05/27/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 11 |
| 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 |
| When Bush Taunts, Don't Defend: Attack Him Back HARD | arubyan | 06/29/2006 | 34 | 28 | - | 47 |
| What's to stop Bush from taking your guns? | arubyan | 01/17/2006 | 26 | 4 | 1 | - |
| What's Next For Israel? | arubyan | 07/21/2006 | 112 | 4 | - | 31 |
| What the Democrats and the Detroit Tigers Have In Common | arubyan | 10/16/2006 | 31 | 2 | - | 10 |
| What Terrorists Do (and how Chris Matthews is helping) | arubyan | 01/21/2006 | - | 1 | - | - |
| What If Obama Picks Hillary? (POLL) I am an Obama man through and through but I have to ask the question: Is it better for Barack to have Hillary outside the tent pissing in, or inside the tent pissing out?
Before ... |
arubyan | 05/21/2008 | 188 | 8 | - | 37 |
| 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 | - |
| West Virginia: Obama “not their kind of guy.” WTF? Jacki Schechner nails it:
Why is it we can't just call it like it is? White, uneducated, poor voters ... |
arubyan | 05/15/2008 | 42 | 15 | - | 11 |
| We'll Die In A Lake Of Fire Unless You Vote Republican | arubyan | 10/09/2006 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| We Need More "Unum" & Less "Pluribus" Fact is, politics is about uniting your friends and dividing your enemies. Unity builds strength, strength means victory, while division means defeat.
E Pluribus Unum, baby: Out of Many, One. Or ... |
arubyan | 12/18/2009 | 22 | - | - | 32 |
| We Haven't Hit Bottom Yet (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 11/24/2008 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| Video: Has Bush Lost Control Of Iraq? | arubyan | 09/29/2006 | 5 | 6 | - | 17 |
| Video: Bring Em Home | arubyan | 06/27/2006 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Urgent Action Needed On Stem Cell Bill NOW | arubyan | 07/11/2006 | 3 | 7 | - | 6 |
| Urge your Senator TODAY to vote NO on Alito | arubyan | 01/16/2006 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| Universal "Had Enough?" Video Now Available | arubyan | 07/16/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | 27 |
| 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 |
| Top 5 Reasons Why Rove Is Resigning (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Lots of speculation about why Rove is leaving now, but no one knows for sure. ... |
arubyan | 08/13/2007 | 44 | 15 | - | 17 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Throttling the money out of politics: A breathtaking plan | arubyan | 01/19/2006 | 7 | 6 | 4 | - |
| They want endless war; we want to end the war | arubyan | 06/23/2006 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| The Zero Emission Car & The Network It Runs On Shai Agassi has started a company called Better Place and he's busy building a new paradigm.
Cars with ... |
arubyan | 12/10/2008 | 43 | 11 | 2 | 33 |
| 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 |
| The Polls: Rip Van Winkle Gets Some Shocking News Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum
[Note: We still do not have power at our home in Baton Rouge, but ... |
arubyan | 09/09/2008 | 20 | 44 | - | 33 |
| The Iraqis damn well better be worth it | arubyan | 01/24/2006 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - |
| The Hamilton Project: Robert Rubin's latest policy initiative | arubyan | 04/16/2006 | 6 | 5 | 1 | - |
| The Economy: More Like a Poker Game Than a Restaurant (POLL) Recently, while I ... |
arubyan | 10/25/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| The "End Bribery of Congress" Amendment and How to Pass It [Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
In ... |
arubyan | 02/15/2011 | 3 | 1 | - | 27 |
| Tax Rebate: What Would You Spend Yours On? Bush is talking about the need for an economic stimulus package -- lickety split and shoeshine Charlie.
Below the fold I'll do a quick and dirty ... |
arubyan | 01/18/2008 | 114 | 14 | - | 14 |
| Suskind: CIA knew "Osama backed Bush re-election" | arubyan | 06/21/2006 | 12 | 31 | 1 | 102 |
| Stimulus Bill Whip Count: Who's Who Because the Majority Leader caves every time the Republicans use the F(ilibuster) word, it will take at least a couple of Republicans to vote their way in order to pass the President's stimulus bill. |
arubyan | 02/06/2009 | 31 | 6 | - | 8 |
| Speaking as a 55 year old man...WTF, Tim? (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
First of all, speaking as a 55 year old man...WTF, Tim? I saw Andrea Mitchell's ... |
arubyan | 06/14/2008 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 40 |
| Snow in Baton Rouge: WTF? (VIDEO) It's snowing in Baton Rouge. WTF??
Big, fat flakes. As of this writing, there's 2 inches or so on the ground already. The sun's been up for over an hour and it's still snowing. |
arubyan | 12/11/2008 | 73 | 17 | - | 34 |
| Single Payer Expands When Medicare Expands I'm encouraged by what I'm reading about the Medicare buy-in. I'll have to wait -- like the rest of you -- to see how much of the devil is in the details. CBO scoring will tell us a lot. And we ... |
arubyan | 12/09/2009 | 36 | 9 | - | 46 |
| Screw The Polls: Watch Prediction Markets | arubyan | 08/25/2006 | 56 | 19 | - | 44 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Russia: What Happens There Won't Stay There [Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
As if the world, and our place in it, wasn't volatile enough, here comes the ... |
arubyan | 11/27/2007 | 21 | 6 | - | 11 |
| Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh Wayne Barrett has published a bombshell story about how Rudy Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11'... |
arubyan | 11/29/2007 | 32 | 14 | 1 | 26 |
| Rove: Obama "lazy" (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I used to dissect frogs in high school. It was a dirty job, but we all had to do ... |
arubyan | 01/10/2008 | 106 | 17 | - | 37 |
| Rove vs. Kos at Newsweek [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
I would have guessed Malkin, but that's why I don't get the big bucks.
From ... |
arubyan | 11/15/2007 | 246 | 143 | 5 | 87 |
| 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 |
| Research request: How often did each congressman vote with GOP? | arubyan | 06/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Republicans: A party of cultists | arubyan | 06/28/2006 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 42 |
| 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 |
| Rep. X voted w/GOP "95% of the time..." Source? | arubyan | 06/19/2006 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Rep. Taylor: Volcano of oil looks like...chocolate milk! (UPDATED 2X) Not to worry :
U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor (MS-4) on Saturday said people ... |
arubyan | 05/03/2010 | 40 | 24 | 1 | 115 |
| Reagan: Obama's Trump Card [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
McCain's relentless yapping at Obama's heels seems to have accomplished one thing: ... |
arubyan | 08/03/2008 | 31 | 17 | 1 | 30 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Rahm Emanuel's Awesome Power [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
... |
arubyan | 11/07/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 |
| PredatorGate Update: The Redder They Are, The Harder They Fall | arubyan | 10/03/2006 | 7 | 2 | - | 8 |
| Post-Veto: What The Dems Should Do Next OK, first things first: I was wrong.
Moving on... |
arubyan | 05/02/2007 | 135 | 6 | - | 8 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| POLL: Bush and the Armenia Resolution I'd like to do a lightning poll on the White House response on HR 106 , aka "Affirmation of the United States Record on the ... |
arubyan | 10/10/2007 | 114 | 10 | - | 9 |
| Political Science 101: It's All About "67+290" (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Let's stipulate that if the Democratic majority in Congress intends to ... |
arubyan | 05/29/2007 | 10 | 8 | - | 44 |
| Palin: Yet Another Corrupt Alaska Republican (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
If you're a public servant in Alaska I guess every day is ... |
arubyan | 10/22/2008 | 10 | 1 | - | - |
| PA-08: Murphy for Congress (A "Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/20/2006 | 3 | 1 | - | 7 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Opt Out = "Separate But Equal" Health Care Systems If Opt-Out is in the final bill sent to Obama's desk, I will no longer volunteer my time or money to the national party or its chosen candidates. |
arubyan | 10/26/2009 | 174 | 13 | 1 | 28 |
| Open Letter from John Dean to Barack Obama (POLL) There are a handful of writers, thinkers and pundits for whom I will stop what I'm doing and listen to ... |
arubyan | 12/13/2008 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| On Nationalizing the Mid-Term Elections: Only a Strong Congress Can Stop Bush Now | arubyan | 01/15/2006 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| On Alito, Democrats Must Remember The Lion In Winter | arubyan | 01/13/2006 | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| Oh, not again: 57% Americans support military action in Iran | arubyan | 01/28/2006 | 46 | 12 | 1 | 4 |
| October Surprise? Here's what Republicans are up against | arubyan | 10/01/2006 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Obama: Stop Repeating Hillary's Mantra! It's Saturday morning -- not my preferred time to publish a diary. But go get a cup of coffee and pull up a chair. I have something I have to get off my chest. |
arubyan | 03/08/2008 | 33 | 6 | - | - |
| Obama: Hacking the Smear By now you know how the Clinton campaign has smeared Barack Obama. If not, read this diary .
To be blunt, I am shocked -- but ... |
arubyan | 12/13/2007 | 19 | 9 | 1 | - |
| Obama: Grandparents & children united against parents (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Holy crap! |
arubyan | 01/29/2008 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Obama-Lieberman Meme: Don't Fall For It Maybe you've heard it: Obama sent Lieberman out to torpedo the Opt ... |
arubyan | 10/28/2009 | 38 | 10 | - | 42 |
| Obama-Doubters: Buy a Hat and Hang the F**k Onto It [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
Unlike many others, I guess, I give Obama credit for ... |
arubyan | 08/19/2008 | 41 | 30 | - | 30 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Obama On Race [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
You don't think of Iowa as having any significant sort of minority population. So ... |
arubyan | 11/26/2007 | 64 | 19 | - | 13 |
| Obama and the Angry Voter [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 10/02/2008 | 14 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| Obama & O.J.: Race still matters...even to Democrats If you have your antennae up, sometimes you receive the weirdest signals. Do you ignore them? Or do they foreshadow something important?
Case in point:
John Edwards was in Elkader, Iowa in front ... |
arubyan | 12/17/2007 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Note to Obama: We're Playing Poker, Not Chicken Obama fumbled the ball, seeming to say that if Bush vetoes the Iraq spending bill, the Senate will respond by ... |
arubyan | 04/02/2007 | 29 | 10 | - | 8 |