Posting History for arubyan
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Maybe Gonzales Was Brilliant...And Everybody Missed It Count me among that small group of people who thinks AG Gonzalez is not leaving office any time soon. Yes, I saw the same hearings you did. But despite all their "calling for Gonzalez to resign," I ... |
arubyan | 04/21/2007 | 50 | 10 | - | 25 |
| Post-Veto: What The Dems Should Do Next OK, first things first: I was wrong.
Moving on... |
arubyan | 05/02/2007 | 135 | 6 | - | 8 |
| 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 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Date Certain: Wake Me Up When September Ends So Obama and Clinton voted against the Iraq war supplemental, as did Pelosi.
But not Murtha : |
arubyan | 05/25/2007 | 8 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mary Matalin on Libby: "What About The Children?" (Cross posted to E Pluribus Unum )
Most observers seemed to agree that sentencing guidelines would have ... |
arubyan | 06/05/2007 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 14 |
| Democrats Can't Win By Being Smarter Than Republicans (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
You heard me right. There is no correlation between being smarter ... |
arubyan | 06/27/2007 | 31 | 7 | - | 25 |
| 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 | - | - |
| “Americans Love A Winner & Won't Tolerate A Loser” (cross posted ... |
arubyan | 07/22/2007 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 25 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Hillary Is Right About The Terror Issue & GOP [Note: I originally wrote this as a response to this diary ; but I felt that it needed to be a diary on its own. If you feel that ... |
arubyan | 08/24/2007 | 82 | 18 | - | 12 |
| Hillary, The Terror Issue & The GOP (Part 2) [This is a follow-up to my earlier diary, Hillary Is Right About The Terror Issue & GOP .]
So many commenters have responded to ... |
arubyan | 08/26/2007 | 28 | 1 | - | - |
| Bush & Petraeus: Troops Dying For Their Vanity (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
General Petraeus is going to give his September report next week. And/But ... |
arubyan | 09/06/2007 | 5 | 6 | - | 12 |
| Gen. Powell: Terrorists Not Greatest Threat To Nation (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I know we're being urged, today, to remember 9/11, but I think we should ... |
arubyan | 09/11/2007 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Edwards/Dylan Mashup Video: Courage To Bring Them Home (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I made this using an online video mashup application ... |
arubyan | 09/16/2007 | 15 | 24 | - | 18 |
| 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: 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 |
| 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) Iran War: Electoral Disaster for Dems? Yaakov Kirschen 's cartoon goes like this: "The optimists think that the US Presidential campaign will ... |
arubyan | 10/23/2007 | 71 | 6 | - | 10 |
| 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 |
| How To Win The Democratic Nomination [originally posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
... |
arubyan | 11/04/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 10 |
| (POLL) Iraq Not An Issue in '08? [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
So suggests Newsweek's Fareed ... |
arubyan | 11/05/2007 | 2 | - | - | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Clinton: The Real Reason She May Yet Lose Any of the following might be considered a good reason why she may not win -- either in the primaries or in the general; but they aren't the real reason. |
arubyan | 12/09/2007 | 60 | 1 | - | - |
| Clinton or Obama? Trying to make a choice Hear me out. And for God's sake read all the way to the bottom before you shoot anyone in the face.
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On one hand, Clinton is the candidate best suited ... |
arubyan | 12/10/2007 | 202 | 9 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 & 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 |
| Congress Click 'n' Call: New App Makes It Possible [Yesterday I posted a comment to a diary on the Dodd filibuster of the FISA bill. I'd like to expand on that here, ... |
arubyan | 12/18/2007 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 13 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bush: "You’ll all be dead by the end of this year." (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
It was a morning, not unlike this morning, at a stateside military base not ... |
arubyan | 01/14/2008 | 11 | 8 | - | 32 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Obama: Grandparents & children united against parents (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Holy crap! |
arubyan | 01/29/2008 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| LA-06: Kopplin for Congress My friend Andy Kopplin is running for Congress from the sixth district of Louisiana (Baton Rouge). Maybe you remember us: We're in the district that Rep. Richard Baker abandoned to become a million ... |
arubyan | 02/04/2008 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| BREAKING::SCOTUS says ACLU is SOL (Updated) WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
The justices' decision ... |
arubyan | 02/19/2008 | 269 | 319 | 4 | 47 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Nader: I'm In Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water: Ralph Nader is launching a third-party campaign for president. The consumer ... |
arubyan | 02/24/2008 | 129 | 12 | - | 14 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| GOP VP Hillary Clinton? I think Obama should spend the rest of the primary campaign running against the Republicans' McCain/Clinton ticket.
Hear me out... |
arubyan | 03/06/2008 | 34 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Are You in the Detroit/Ann Arbor Area Tomorrow? If so, I encourage you to attend the premiere, on U-Mich campus, of a new film: Life is for the Living , a documentary about the people, the ... |
arubyan | 03/11/2008 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| Hillary's Ultimate Closing Argument to SDs Shorter Hillary Clinton: "Barack can't win in November because I will destroy him long before that. So you should give me the nomination, because you know I'm your only chance at the White House." |
arubyan | 04/24/2008 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| NBC/WSJ Poll: Bush Far Scarier Than Wright In their latest polling, NBC/WSJ has revealed that George W. Bush, not Rev. Wright, is on the minds of voters -- and they don't like what they feeling: |
arubyan | 04/30/2008 | 18 | 11 | - | 18 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Clark v. McCain: McCain's Losing & Here's Why (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I ... |
arubyan | 07/02/2008 | 28 | 22 | - | 29 |
| Gore, Nader, Bush...& Obama: The lessons of 2000 (POLL) Diarist Mark Adams makes some pretty good points about Obama's rightward move in a post over ... |
arubyan | 07/04/2008 | 14 | - | - | - |
| Bobby Jindal Raised from the Dead? (POLL) (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Jim ... |
arubyan | 07/10/2008 | 19 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Howard Dean Talks to My Son My son is a huge fan of Hillary Clinton and took it pretty hard when she lost to Barack Obama. He's even threatened to vote for John McCain. Well, Saturday the DNC and Howard Dean brought their cross- |
arubyan | 07/20/2008 | 10 | 22 | - | 37 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| “Governor, you're no Mahatma Gandhi.” (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
So it's going to be Joe Biden.
Or not. |
arubyan | 08/14/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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.
... |
arubyan | 08/31/2008 | 23 | 3 | - | 19 |
| Gustav@ Baton Rouge: 9/1/08, 8am [cross posted -- with 4x updates -- at E Pluribus Unum ]
In ... |
arubyan | 09/01/2008 | 6 | 6 | - | 7 |
| 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 |
| Baton Rouge: Top 10 Lessons Learned After Gustav No. We still do not have power back since Hurricane Gustav hit Baton Rouge on September 1 -- and ... |
arubyan | 09/11/2008 | 16 | 13 | - | 30 |
| 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 | - |
| BREAKING NEWS: McCain asks that Friday debate be postponed (UPDATED) MSNBC is reporting that McCain wants to put Friday's debate on ice and has asked Obama to agree. |
arubyan | 09/24/2008 | 60 | 21 | 1 | 23 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Look For Obama's Lead To Shrink Again [Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
We're very close to winning this thing, but it ain't over yet. So ... |
arubyan | 10/07/2008 | 88 | 18 | 1 | 40 |
| “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 | - | - |
| How to Rescue Our Jobs and Savings The Centre for Economic Policy Research has published a 40-page ebook entitled How to Rescue Our Jobs and ... |
arubyan | 10/10/2008 | 12 | 7 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| The Economy: More Like a Poker Game Than a Restaurant (POLL) Recently, while I ... |
arubyan | 10/25/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Democratic Blowout? Why You Shouldn’t Believe It (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
We're hearing it every day, all day: "Unnamed senior ... |
arubyan | 10/27/2008 | 34 | 11 | 1 | - |
| GOTV in Baton Rouge (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
I just ... |
arubyan | 11/03/2008 | 14 | 9 | - | 5 |