Posting History for arubyan
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| Alito Hearings: Boring and Pointless | arubyan | 01/12/2006 | 3 | - | - | - |
| On Alito, Democrats Must Remember The Lion In Winter | arubyan | 01/13/2006 | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Urge your Senator TODAY to vote NO on Alito | arubyan | 01/16/2006 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| What's to stop Bush from taking your guns? | arubyan | 01/17/2006 | 26 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Throttling the money out of politics: A breathtaking plan | arubyan | 01/19/2006 | 7 | 6 | 4 | - |
| 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 | - |
| I favor the separation of Church and War | arubyan | 02/05/2006 | 10 | 8 | - | - |
| 2006 Elections: Hang together or hang separately | arubyan | 02/09/2006 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Bush's wiretaps: Why are they limited to international calls? | arubyan | 02/10/2006 | 16 | 1 | - | - |
| 2006 Elections: Congressional Oversight of the Executive | arubyan | 02/16/2006 | 8 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| Why you should care who gets elected mayor of New Orleans | arubyan | 05/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| General Robert E. Lee on War (Memorial Day, 2006) | arubyan | 05/29/2006 | 13 | 5 | - | - |
| Democrats' dilemma: Which corrupt Republican should you support? | arubyan | 05/31/2006 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Last Chance: Urge LA Governor Blanco to VETO SB 33 | arubyan | 06/05/2006 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Research request: How often did each congressman vote with GOP? | arubyan | 06/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Rep. X voted w/GOP "95% of the time..." Source? | arubyan | 06/19/2006 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |
| They want endless war; we want to end the war | arubyan | 06/23/2006 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| Video: Bring Em Home | arubyan | 06/27/2006 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| NJ-04: Carol Gay for Congress ("Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/24/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| (Video) Vote Republican: Because Jesus Hates Democrats | arubyan | 10/06/2006 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| We'll Die In A Lake Of Fire Unless You Vote Republican | arubyan | 10/09/2006 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Go Viral: Take the “Bite Me” Pledge - End the War | arubyan | 01/25/2007 | 6 | 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 | - |
| Grand Illusion: Rudy's Leadership on 9/11 (Cross posted ... |
arubyan | 03/02/2007 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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, 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| “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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| Rahm Emanuel's Awesome Power [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
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arubyan | 11/07/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Detroit: Answer the Call (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 11/20/2008 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| We Haven't Hit Bottom Yet (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 11/24/2008 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| On Nationalizing the Mid-Term Elections: Only a Strong Congress Can Stop Bush Now | arubyan | 01/15/2006 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Mardi Gras: Getting In the Mood | arubyan | 02/24/2006 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Attack: Now is the time for Democrats to go on the offensive | arubyan | 06/13/2006 | 12 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Can your candidate use this video? It's yours for the asking | arubyan | 07/02/2006 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| (POLL) Missed Chance: Arab Public Opinion Swings To Hezbollah | arubyan | 07/28/2006 | 66 | 1 | - | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Historical precedent for Gitmo suicides | arubyan | 06/12/2006 | 9 | 5 | - | 2 |
| Oh, not again: 57% Americans support military action in Iran | arubyan | 01/28/2006 | 46 | 12 | 1 | 4 |
| Who needs pics of Bush & Abramoff when you got Bush & Bremer? | arubyan | 01/29/2006 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 4 |
| 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 |
| Not One Dime: How To Abramoff-Proof Politics Adam B's excellent diary looks at a an intriguing solution to campaign finance reform : vouchers + anonymous ... |
arubyan | 02/07/2007 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| GOTV in Baton Rouge (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
I just ... |
arubyan | 11/03/2008 | 14 | 9 | - | 5 |
| Urgent Action Needed On Stem Cell Bill NOW | arubyan | 07/11/2006 | 3 | 7 | - | 6 |
| 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 |