Posting History for arubyan
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| I favor the separation of Church and War | arubyan | 02/05/2006 | 10 | 8 | - | - |
| I'm an anti-war, yellow-dog Democrat -- and a Zionist, too | arubyan | 07/14/2006 | 290 | 17 | 1 | 182 |
| I'm looking for two committed activists | arubyan | 02/17/2006 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| I'm through getting mad -- now I just want to get even | arubyan | 02/21/2006 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Iraq: Only 4 Questions Matter Anymore (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
These were the headlines this morning at MSNBC: |
arubyan | 01/18/2007 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Israel in Gaza: An Alternate Scenario [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
I was born in the Middle East and I still have family there -- on ... |
arubyan | 01/05/2009 | 104 | 8 | 1 | 26 |
| Israel-Lebanon War: Democratic Talking Points | arubyan | 07/23/2006 | 24 | 3 | - | 22 |
| Israel: What Now? | arubyan | 08/13/2006 | 62 | 4 | - | 12 |
| It Can't Happen Here? Think Again. | arubyan | 09/21/2006 | 7 | 12 | - | 9 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Jesus Hates Democrats, So Vote AGAINST Stem-Cell Research | arubyan | 10/25/2006 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Joe: Go Read the Phonebook & Pee Into a Jug Hear me out.
Joe Lieberman loves it when we get mad, right? I'm pretty sure that's what this is all about -- pissing us off. I'm just guessing that he probably hates that we dumped him in favor of ... |
arubyan | 12/14/2009 | 11 | 11 | - | 48 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Last Chance: Urge LA Governor Blanco to VETO SB 33 | arubyan | 06/05/2006 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Louisiana House unknowingly votes for stimulus override! Like we say in Baton Rouge , plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ("the more things change, the more ... |
arubyan | 05/19/2009 | 23 | 22 | - | 51 |
| Louisiana: Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you | arubyan | 04/13/2006 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
| Mardi Gras: Getting In the Mood | arubyan | 02/24/2006 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Nate Silver: Public Option "Probably Dead" Just saw this over at FiveThirtyEight.com and a search here turned up no diaries on it so I thought I'd ... |
arubyan | 08/16/2009 | 190 | 29 | - | 18 |
| Nationalize the election: Pledge to end the war | arubyan | 06/16/2006 | 17 | 7 | - | 48 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| NJ-04: Crum-believable! Colbert disses my ad for Carol Gay! | arubyan | 10/23/2006 | 15 | 16 | - | 45 |
| NJ-07: Video: Stender for Congress | arubyan | 07/07/2006 | 2 | 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 and the Angry Voter [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ] |
arubyan | 10/02/2008 | 14 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 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-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-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: 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: Grandparents & children united against parents (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Holy crap! |
arubyan | 01/29/2008 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| 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: 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 | - | - |
| October Surprise? Here's what Republicans are up against | arubyan | 10/01/2006 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Oh, not again: 57% Americans support military action in Iran | arubyan | 01/28/2006 | 46 | 12 | 1 | 4 |
| On Alito, Democrats Must Remember The Lion In Winter | arubyan | 01/13/2006 | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| On Nationalizing the Mid-Term Elections: Only a Strong Congress Can Stop Bush Now | arubyan | 01/15/2006 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| PA-08: Murphy for Congress (A "Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/20/2006 | 3 | 1 | - | 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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: 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: 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 |
| Post-Veto: What The Dems Should Do Next OK, first things first: I was wrong.
Moving on... |
arubyan | 05/02/2007 | 135 | 6 | - | 8 |
| PredatorGate Update: The Redder They Are, The Harder They Fall | arubyan | 10/03/2006 | 7 | 2 | - | 8 |
| 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 |
| Rahm Emanuel's Awesome Power [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
... |
arubyan | 11/07/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rep. X voted w/GOP "95% of the time..." Source? | arubyan | 06/19/2006 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| Republicans: A party of cultists | arubyan | 06/28/2006 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 42 |
| Research request: How often did each congressman vote with GOP? | arubyan | 06/18/2006 | 4 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Screw The Polls: Watch Prediction Markets | arubyan | 08/25/2006 | 56 | 19 | - | 44 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Suskind: CIA knew "Osama backed Bush re-election" | arubyan | 06/21/2006 | 12 | 31 | 1 | 102 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 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 Economy: More Like a Poker Game Than a Restaurant (POLL) Recently, while I ... |
arubyan | 10/25/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| The Hamilton Project: Robert Rubin's latest policy initiative | arubyan | 04/16/2006 | 6 | 5 | 1 | - |
| The Iraqis damn well better be worth it | arubyan | 01/24/2006 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - |