Posting History for arubyan
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| Alito Hearings: Boring and Pointless | arubyan | 01/12/2006 | 3 | - | - | - |
| 2006 Elections: Congressional Oversight of the Executive | arubyan | 02/16/2006 | 8 | - | - | - |
| Why you should care who gets elected mayor of New Orleans | arubyan | 05/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Research request: How often did each congressman vote with GOP? | arubyan | 06/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Why amnesty for Iraqi insurgents is a deal-breaker | arubyan | 06/26/2006 | 75 | - | - | 12 |
| Video: Bring Em Home | arubyan | 06/27/2006 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| (POLL) Iraq Not An Issue in '08? [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
So suggests Newsweek's Fareed ... |
arubyan | 11/05/2007 | 2 | - | - | 9 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| Happy Gustaversary: One Year Later, We're Fine It was one year ago today that Baton Rouge was hit with Hurricane Gustav, a monster hurricane with sustained winds of over 90 mph. "X" marks the spot where we live on the map below... |
arubyan | 09/01/2009 | 3 | - | - | 29 |
| 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 |
| How to Stop the Flow of Money Between Corporations & Politicians Bob Herbert:
While millions of ordinary Americans are struggling with unemployment and declining standards of living, |
arubyan | 02/13/2011 | 8 | - | - | 80 |
| 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 | - |
| What Terrorists Do (and how Chris Matthews is helping) | arubyan | 01/21/2006 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Elect Laura Leyva: How you can help turn a Red State Blue | arubyan | 01/23/2006 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| The Iraqis damn well better be worth it | arubyan | 01/24/2006 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Bush's wiretaps: Why are they limited to international calls? | arubyan | 02/10/2006 | 16 | 1 | - | - |
| Mardi Gras: Getting In the Mood | arubyan | 02/24/2006 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Democrats' dilemma: Which corrupt Republican should you support? | arubyan | 05/31/2006 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Why you need to win the Mississippi River states in 2008 | arubyan | 06/01/2006 | 18 | 1 | - | 47 |
| Rep. X voted w/GOP "95% of the time..." Source? | arubyan | 06/19/2006 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |
| (POLL) What do you think this war is really about? | arubyan | 07/18/2006 | 13 | 1 | - | 42 |
| PA-08: Murphy for Congress (A "Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/20/2006 | 3 | 1 | - | 7 |
| (POLL) Missed Chance: Arab Public Opinion Swings To Hezbollah | arubyan | 07/28/2006 | 66 | 1 | - | 1 |
| (POLL) Qana: Not the first time it's happened | arubyan | 07/31/2006 | 41 | 1 | - | 21 |
| We'll Die In A Lake Of Fire Unless You Vote Republican | arubyan | 10/09/2006 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| Jesus Hates Democrats, So Vote AGAINST Stem-Cell Research | arubyan | 10/25/2006 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| ISG Report Aftermath: Where Are The Dems? (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
It is a real tragedy that no Democrat can/will lead on ... |
arubyan | 12/08/2006 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 49 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| How To Win The Democratic Nomination [originally posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
... |
arubyan | 11/04/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 10 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| “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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Rahm Emanuel's Awesome Power [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
... |
arubyan | 11/07/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Afghanistan: The 4 Questions That Matter Most Last night, you saw the pictures and video from Eisenhower Hall where the president gave his speech.
The hall holds approximately 4500 people. Many (if not most) of those in attendance were cadets - |
arubyan | 12/02/2009 | 15 | 1 | - | 15 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
... |
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 |