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gas28man https://www.dailykos.com/user/gas28man/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:35:50 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:35:50 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) It's happened again: Car drives into marchers at LGBT vigil https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/8/24/1692938/-It-s-happened-again-Car-drives-into-marchers-at-LGBT-vigil I haven’t seen this diaried here, and it hasn’t made it on TV yet, but the St. Louis Post Dispatch, London Independent and Huffington Post are all reporting another hate-motivated ramming of protesters with a vehicle. We saw it Charlottesville and now it has happened in St. Louis. Last night in St. Louis’ Grove neighborhood, a candlelight vigil was held for a black transgender women, fatally shot the day before by police after police say she’d stabbed two people, including a responding officer. After the vigil, mourners carrying candles and signs began a march to local gay bars and blocked an intersection. A driver approached and, according to witnesses, expressed his displeasure before driving into the crowd, and causing three injuries, characterized as minor. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Charlottesville FreedomofAssembly HateCrime LGBT Recommended StLouis Transgender Vigil _1692938 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:41:21 +0000 TN-04: An embarrassment for the GOP either way https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/8/8/1320235/-TN-04-An-embarrassment-for-the-GOP-either-way I can’t imagine a bigger electoral dilemma than trying to decide which Republican primary contender is more deserving of my schadenfreude. To wit, the results -- as yet incomplete -- in the TN-04 GOP primary. If that district rings a bell, that’s the seat occupied for the last two terms by the execrable Scott Desjarlais (R-Hypocrite), who inexplicably got re-elected in 2012 and could slither by again this year. Remember him? He’s the reliably anti-choice doctor who slept with some of his patients, and pressured one of them to get an abortion, on top of the two occasions on which he pressured his ex-wife to do the same. Voted CREW’s Most Corrupt Congressman. Reprimanded and fined by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners in May 2013 for engaging in sexual relationships with two patients. Yeah, that guy. Desjarlais was voted by National Journal as one of the Top Ten Congressmen most deserving of a primary challenge in this cycle, and he got one, from state Senator Jim Tracy. And challenge Tracy did. He began running against Desjarlais two years ago, practically as soon as the 2012 vote counts were in. This should have been a gimme for Tracy. And yet, for reasons <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/scott-desjarlais-tennessee-primary_n_5659341.html">Jason Linkins amply explained at HuffPo</a>, it has not been. The race has come down to the wire. With nearly all the votes in, Desjarlais leads with a 35-vote margin. But it’s those final 90 votes, not yet counted, that give us the schadenfreude two-fer. Tracy may be hoisted upon his own Voter ID petard. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Abortion Congress Elections Popcorn Recommended RepublicanHypocrisy ScottDesJarlais Tennessee TN-04 VoterIDlaws _1320235 Sat, 09 Aug 2014 06:31:48 +0000 Here's another way Wal-mart is getting spanked https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/2/25/1280462/-Here-s-another-way-Wal-mart-is-getting-spanked Wal-mart has always targeted the rural customer, but built big stores in small towns. So it wasn't so much, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/24/1279989/-No-one-wants-to-drive-out-to-Wal-Mart-stores-anymore?detail=email">as Kos suggests</a>, that urban or suburban customers were driving out to the boonies to patronize Wal-mart. It was more that those in rural areas were driving in to the small towns to do business at Wal-mart (where Wal-mart had already driven out all the mom-and-pops that these people used to patronize). And frankly, since the mid-'90s, Wal-mart has built mostly in the suburbs anyhow. But someone has literally and figuratively short-circuited Wal-mart's access to rural customers. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Business Culture DollarGeneral Economy Recommended Rural suburbs Transportation Walmart _1280462 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:59:22 +0000 I let go of a good friend Thursday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/13/1201620/-I-let-go-of-a-good-friend-Thursday <div class="dkimg-c"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/28032/large/TommyAspenSleeping.jpg?1365914154" alt="" /></div> I let go of a good friend Thursday night. Aspen, a.k.a. The Big Dawg, accepted final relief for his pain. For about two years, he had experienced a progressive degeneration of the nerves in his hips, a cruel spin of fate for a dog whose favorite thing in the world had always been his walks. As he was already too aged to tolerate surgery, we could only manage his symptoms. Funny thing about huskies, though: anyone who knows one will tell you they are willful, determined dogs. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Community Dogs Furbutts GoodDog Photos Recommended Woozles _1201620 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:51:12 +0000 I couldn't be prouder of my sister-in-law https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/26/1150472/-I-couldn-t-be-prouder-of-my-sister-in-law My wife and her little sister, who is 17, have been highly distressed about their mother these days. No, not because of Mom's bad knees. It's because Mom is still one of those dreaded undecided voters who has been given serious thought to voting for Romney. She loved W. She had voted for McCain. My wife, to date, has only employed the "bull-by-the-horns" strategy to try to bring Mom back from the Dark Side. Lots of raised voices, lots of "Mom, how could you?" She reminded her of the cratered Bush economy -- during which Mom lost an executive position and is now prematurely and unwillingly, essentially retired. She reminded her of how crappy things were for women when her mother was younger. And yet, no success. Mom was sticking to her GOP leanings. Follow me over the orange cruller for the denouement. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) 2012 Barack Obama BarackObama Election Rape Recommended Republicans RichardMourdock ToddAkin Women _1150472 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:44:20 +0000 David Gregory "hearing from people" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/11/1143438/-David-Gregory-hearing-from-people I couldn't help but notice the Tweet that ran across the bottom of the screen during MSNBC's debate debriefing. It was from @DavidGregory -- which I assume to actually be David Gregory -- and it said "Im hearing from people who see this as basically a tie". rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) DavidGregory Debates Joe Biden JoeBiden MSNBC Paul Ryan PaulRyan Vice President VicePresident Villagers _1143438 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:56:51 +0000 Doh! Did Congress Just Make Itself Uninsured? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/14/857184/-Doh-Did-Congress-Just-Make-Itself-Uninsured Step right into the cafeteria line for a heaping, warm serving of irony with a side of schadenfreude. It appears that the new healthcare reform law has taken away the health benefits of Congress members and their staffs and replaced it with absolutely nothing until the health plan exchanges launch in 2014. Yes, you read that right. And no, I am not joking (April Fools Day is long passed). Congress voted to take away its own health benefits, and the president signed it into law. That’s the interpretation of the text of a section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the legal eagles at the Congressional Research Service — who apparently let this one slip through in the first place — are now scrambling to figure out what it all means, particularly for themselves, since it appears the rule also applies to all employees of Congress. Read more of this shocker after the jump. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Congress Healthcare Reform HealthCareReform PPACA Uninsured _857184 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:11:52 +0000 5 ways to win an argument over individual mandate https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/1/853172/-5-ways-to-win-an-argument-over-individual-mandate As of today, 14 state attorneys general have promised to file suit in federal court in Florida, (they haven't, yet) against the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, arguing that it's an unconstitutional intrusion on state sovereignty. The argument has no merit, but that won't stop the GOP from trying to make political hay out of it for a while. Some of your family members and co-workers will buy into the framing of the argument, and if you want to bring them down a notch, I've got the tools for you. In the interest of fair disclosure, I'm a researcher serving the insurance industry, and so I have a unique understanding that the individual mandate that is a necessary part of the foundation of our hard-won reforms. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Health Insurance Healthcare Reform HealthCareReform HealthInsurance IndividualMandate Supreme Court SupremeCourt _853172 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:40:17 +0000 Tommy Thompson agrees: Public option will win https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/14/793228/-Tommy-Thompson-agrees-Public-option-will-win Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor who was George W. Bush’s first Secretary of Health and Human Services predicts that a public option will pass. Nobody else picked up on this, so I will pass it along: Thompson made that prediction Tuesday at the 51st annual meeting of the National Association for Business Economics where he was a keynoter.  Here are the further details of how Thompson predicted it would go: rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Harry Reid HarryReid Healthcare Reform HealthCareReform Nancy Pelosi NancyPelosi NuclearOption Public Option PublicOption Recommended reconciliation TommyThompson _793228 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:25:42 +0000 Triggers? Opt-outs? Useless political cover for Blue Dogs and DINOs https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/12/792539/-Triggers-Opt-outs-Useless-political-cover-for-Blue-Dogs-and-DINOs So I see where we are now lambasting Bill Nelson for taking the goofy position that <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/12/792519/-Sen.-Bill-Nelson-Against-Opt-Out">a trigger for the public option is actually stronger</a> than offering states the opportunity to opt-out.  Well, of course he looks like a fool when he tries to make that argument.  But not because an opt-out provision is actually stronger. We’re just as foolish for believing either a trigger provision or an opt-out provision is anything but smoke and mirrors.  Sorry Kossacks, but NEITHER the triggers NOR an opt-out will do what supporters are trying to convince everyone of.  We’ve already tried both in big, supposedly cost-saving ways, and yet no one ever pulled the trigger or opted out. To wit: rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) BillNelson Health Insurance Healthcare Reform HealthCareReform HealthInsurance Medicaid Medicare opt-out Recommended Trigger _792539 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:30:51 +0000 UPDATED: How Long Before Limbaugh/Beck Says Nobel Peace Prize Means Obama Is "Acting White"? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/9/791428/-UPDATED-How-Long-Before-Limbaugh-Beck-Says-Nobel-Peace-Prize-Means-Obama-Is-Acting-White Like most people my first reaction to Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize was "What?!?!?" But I got on the internet and looked up some info and history on the prize, and I can see where they were going with it.  The public perception is that the prize is given for past accomplishment, but historically that hasn't always been the case.  It has been given to some people prospectively, and/or to have a desired effect, and pretty clearly that's what's happening here. For example: In 1998, Hume and Trimble got it for their Northern Ireland peace talks even though the Good Friday Agreement did not come into force until December 1999, and which took almost another decade to fulfill. And Arafat and Rabin got it in 1994, just for agreeing to meet with each other, even though their efforts were eventually for naught.  The best analogue to the Obama award was that of Leon Bourgeois in 1920. A former French Prime Minister, he was the first President of the Council of the League of Nations, elected in 1919, and with no significant accomplishments by the time of his award.  But expectations were high for the League at the time, hence the prospective prize. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) AlGore Barack Obama BarackObama FranklinRoosevelt Glenn Beck GlennBeck JimmyCarter NobelPeacePrize Rush Limbaugh RushLimbaugh TeddyRoosevelt WoodrowWilson _791428 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:55:04 +0000 New narrative? "Leave Sarah Palin aloooooone!!" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/15/753690/-New-narrative-Leave-Sarah-Palin-aloooooone Somebody has to check this out for me.  I don't pay much attention to right-wing media, but my mom does.  And in the past couple of weeks, as I have forwarded her various commentary citing Sarah Palin, both directly and tangentially, mom has shot back a couple of times with comments like "When is the left going to stop talking about Sarah Palin?" and "They just can't seem to shut up about her." The latest discussion on Palin was prompted by <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761930140242533.html">Thomas Frank's column</a> in today's Wall Street Journal, "Poor, Perscuted Sarah Palin." My mom is usually a bit smarter than this (she voted for Obama, after all), so I have to figure there's a new set of talking points making the rounds that Sarah Palin should be left alone.  You know, like that guy with the YouTube video about Britney Spears. The other thing that gives it the whiff of a GOP-sourced meme is that it makes no logical sense. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Media Meme Narrative Recommended Right-Wing Media Sarah Palin SarahPalin Talking Points TalkingPoints Thomas Frank ThomasFrank Wall Street Journal WallStreetJournal WorkingClass _753690 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:49:12 +0000 Wal-Mart supports employer mandate! Good news or not? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/1/748819/-Wal-Mart-supports-employer-mandate-Good-news-or-not I'm surprised this hasn't been diaried yet, according to my attempts at search, so I'll lay it out there. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640564559176649.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Wal-Mart came out today</a> as a co-signatory of a letter sent to President Obama saying it would support a healthcare reform policy that would require large employers to offer health insurance to workers.  Others joining Wal-Mart chief executive Mike Duke in the letter were Andy Stern, the president of Service Employees International Union and John Podesta, the CEO of the Center for American Progress. Predictably, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has come out denouncing the concept of the employer mandate, but this is a pretty big deal for the Bentonville retailer. Follow me below the fold, and I'll give you a little opinion on why I think Wal-Mart embraced this policy plank that would seemingly raise its costs, and what the impact might be for Democrats. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) CenterforAmericanProgress EmployerMandate Healthcare Reform HealthCareReform JohnPodesta SEIU SenBlancheLincoln SenMarkPryor Wal-Mart _748819 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:28:53 +0000 The REAL reason Sen. Conrad is pimping co-ops https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/12/741795/-The-REAL-reason-Sen-Conrad-is-pimping-co-ops Roll up your pant legs and get your paddles out, folks, because we are about to be sold down the river.  I know some people are trying to give a fair shake to the idea of health care co-ops as a compromise measure on the public health plan.  Sen. Kent Conrad has been offering the concept of co-ops as something that originated in his office. His whip count says it would get enough votes to pass, whereas the public plan might not. Simply put, Sen. Conrad is not an honest broker here. He’s not offering the co-op proposal in good faith. I’m in the health insurance business, and when you understand why I’m calling Conrad out, you’ll be peeved.  Read on: rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Health Care HealthCare HealthCareReform HealthCo-ops Public Option PublicOption SenKentConrad _741795 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:32:52 +0000 Could old dealership model be the disruptive innovation to save Chrysler, GM? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/15/731844/-Could-old-dealership-model-be-the-disruptive-innovation-to-save-Chrysler-GM I want to riff a little bit on <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/15/731735/-Why-Not-Restore-The-Old-Car-Making-Model">an outstanding suggestion</a> in a diary by FoundingFreedoms com. FoundingFreedoms suggested that in former times, car dealerships were not the "auto malls" that have become commonplace today. They were smaller, leaner sites that didn’t rely on large, costly inventories of cars that no one has ordered, but that dealers hope to talk you into buying.  FoundingFreedoms suggests that less inventory and more customization could reduce costs by changing the delivery model.  Some commenters said American customers don’t like to wait a month or six for a special-order vehicle.  But is that really the way it needs to be?  Because, as FoundingFreedoms correctly points out, it didn’t used to be that way. I have a hard time believing that for domestically manufactured cars it would take a month to deliver a completed car to order.  The only reason it takes that long today is because special orders are subordinated in the assembly line process to the thousands of what I (appropriately, I think) call speculative units made to stock dealer inventories. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Auto AutoMakers Car Chrysler dealer dealership Detroit GeneralMotors GM Japanese lean Manufacturing SixSigma Toyota _731844 Fri, 15 May 2009 17:50:53 +0000 Healthcare Lobby Defrauds In Defense Of Privatization https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720374/-Healthcare-Lobby-Defrauds-In-Defense-Of-Privatization We all know those senior citizens love to write their letters to the editor, don’t we?  And as a politician, you ignore these letter-writing seniors at your peril because they vote, too. Well, guess what?  The health insurance lobby, America’s Health Insurance Plans knows these things, too. So I should not have been surprised at the level they would stoop to in support of privatized Medicare. What looked like a grass-roots letter-writing campaign by senior citizens demanding that Congress protect privatized Medicare health plans — a.k.a., Medicare Advantage, or Part C — has turned out to be a fraud by a consulting firm hired by AHIP. See how AHIP got found out below the fold. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) AHIP Boston CBO Democrats DeweySquare GAO Health Insurance HealthInsurance Journalism Medicare MedPAC ObamaAdministration PeteStark Privatization SeniorCitizens _720374 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:44:53 +0000 Does my early vote count in TN? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/17/633374/-Does-my-early-vote-count-in-TN Tennessee is vulnerable to a "my vote doesn't count" mindset because practically everyone running is safe one way or another. The latest polling here shows McCain ahead by 19 points, but there hasn't been a statewide poll taken here in nearly three weeks (Sept. 29). Aggregate polling by <a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/">538</a> puts McCain's current edge at about 56-42. Lamar! is beating Bob Tuke by roughly the same margin. The nine-member House delegation all have safe seats and we'll continue the 5-4 Democratic edge, though four of our side's five are Blue Dogs. But when my son and I cast our ballots on the first day of early voting, which was Wednesday, I was blown away by how long it took. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) BartGordon BobTuke Early Voting EarlyVoting Election 2008 Election2008 Obama Tennessee TN _633374 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:35:11 +0000 Lose debt now, ask me how! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/18/553542/-Lose-debt-now-ask-me-how After seeing <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/17/1775/95394/128/553114">Lava20's diary</a> on how to beat the credit card companies at their own game, and reading the comments from people who had ideas of their own about how to eliminate credit card debt -- and the laments of some commenters who needed more help -- I didn't see anyone who had tried the method that I used. I started to write it into a comment, but it was so long, it merited its own diary. Let me preface by saying, I am awful with finances and something of a procrastinator, so it's easy for me to get into trouble managing debt.  This method worked for me because it was so damn simple, and entirely goal-driven.  Follow me below the fold for the explanation. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Bank Consumer CreditCard Creditcardadvice Debt Economy Finance _553542 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:26:08 +0000 NASCAR confronted on issues of race and gender https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/11/550040/-NASCAR-confronted-on-issues-of-race-and-gender How true are the allegations of racism and sexism in the highest ranks of stock car racing? I don't know how many of you have been following the Mauricia Grant case.  She's the black, female NASCAR inspector who has filed a  $225 million dollar lawsuit against NASCAR over allegations of on-going sexism and racism that she endured during her two-plus years of employment with the sanctioning body. Author Dave Zirin <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-zirin/who-is-mauricia-grant-nas_b_111913.html">opined on it</a> over at The Huffington Post, and you can get the factual details from the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/14/suspended-nascar-official_n_107135.html">Associated Press coverage</a>. I don't want to get into the merits of the case, since it appears that both Grant's complaints and NASCAR's defense have merits, and as the case goes on, legal disclosures and hopefully some good investigative journalism will shine a spotlight on where the truth lies. I know none of the players personally, but I do have some experience as a racer and a crew member, as well as 25 years as a journalist, and hopefully my thoughts here will encourage you to view this case rationally and in a modern context. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Blacks DanicaPatrick Diversity Feminism JeffGordon MauriciaGrant Multiculturalism NASCAR Racing Racism Sexism Sports TigerWoods _550040 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:43:39 +0000 Did Dick Morris Just Rat Out Dick Morris? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/5/530650/-Did-Dick-Morris-Just-Rat-Out-Dick-Morris Because it pays to know what the other side is thinking, one of my alter egos regularly drops Dick Morris' e-mail blasts in my Inbox. It's not nearly as bad as you would imagine. He is, after all, a pollster who on occasion offers some well-founded insight. It's been entertaining, too, because his unbridled, visceral hatred of all things Clinton drives Dick seriously and embarrassingly off the reservation when the subject is Hillary Clinton. I mean the kind of stuff that would make even Karl Rove go "eeeeiiuw." So with that frame of reference, Dick's column in today's New York Post was par for the course (I'd provide a link, but I don't want to give Rupert the hits). Having danced on Hillary's grave at some other time and place, he has tuned his attention now to Barack Obama. And what was his casus belli? rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) 2008 elections 2008elections Barack Obama BarackObama Bill Clinton BillClinton EricHolder JackQuinn MarcRich President PresidentialPardons ScooterLibby _530650 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:42:57 +0000 Another stupid, effen' diary on why Hillary won't be VP https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/4/529437/-Another-stupid-effen-diary-on-why-Hillary-won-t-be-VP If there was ever a media narrative that deserved to have a stake driven through its heart, it's the one about Hillary as candidate for the vice presidency. That the media are even discussing it is embarrassing to the practice of journalism and thoughtful news analysis.  She's an obvious poor choice.  Who would be president?  Obama would be elected, Hillary would act entitled and Bill would still think he is.  If Obama and his team don't already know this, they are nowhere near as good as we'd like to believe. I can explain better after the jump. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) 2008 elections 2008elections Barack Obama BarackObama ChrisMatthews Democrats Hillary Clinton HillaryClinton PatBuchanan President Primaries RachelMaddow TimRussert _529437 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:25:27 +0000 A mental exercise (shudder!) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/23/521402/-A-mental-exercise-shudder I read Joe Biden's <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121150000249615875.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries">outstanding op-ed</a> in the Wall Street Journal today, and started reading the responses to it at DKos and elsewhere. Among the minor criticisms leveled at Joe's column in the comments were some remarks that Biden came close to idealizing the foreign policies of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan when he said: <blockquote> In fact, it is the policies that President George W. Bush has pursued, and that John McCain would continue, that are divorced from that great tradition – and from the legacy of Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. </blockquote> And while I sympathize with the idea that Bush Pere and Reagan have much to answer for, I am reminded of a mental exercise I tried not too long ago that made me shudder. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Bill Clinton BillClinton George H.W. Bush George W. Bush GeorgeWBush GeraldFord Iran-Contra JimmyCarter Joe Biden JoeBiden LyndonJohnson President RonaldReagan _521402 Fri, 23 May 2008 20:37:08 +0000 Ahhh, the Lame David Brooks returns https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/25/483727/-Ahhh-the-Lame-David-Brooks-returns Ahhhh, The Lame <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/opinion/25brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">David Brooks</a> is back!  I was wondering where he’d been for a while, as we seemed to have had an extended visit from The Good David Brooks. Like a venereal disease, however, the evil twin keeps coming back. I am nowhere near as concerned about the ongoing Democratic primary campaign as Brooks claims to be. In my opinion, it should continue as it has. More after the break. rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) 2008 Barack Obama BarackObama DavidBrooks Democratic Primaries DemocraticPrimaries Fundraising GOP Hillary Clinton HillaryClinton John McCain JohnMcCain New York Times NewYorkTimes _483727 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:38:42 +0000 Hillary: She's no Bill https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/19/460191/-Hillary-She-s-no-Bill Unlike some diarists here, I recall fondly the Bill Clinton presidency. Domestically speaking, my life and the lives of countless others improved as a direct result of his policies. I agree with those who remark that Bill Clinton was what the Democrats needed in 1992, even if he aroused dislike among progressive purists. And Hillary Clinton is correct when she posits that she is prepared to do the job from Day 1, in her technical knowledge of what the job entails and her attention to detail. She COULD be a fine president, and if she is our nominee, I will support her. However . . . rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) Barack Obama BarackObama Bill Clinton BillClinton ChrisMatthews Congress Democrats George W. Bush GeorgeWBush Hillary Clinton HillaryClinton President Primaries Republicans _460191 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:11:36 +0000 Twinkle Preggers? So who da babydaddy? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/22/374862/-Twinkle-Preggers-So-who-da-babydaddy Oh, man, the Bush family is just the gift that keeps on giving. This is a third-hand report so confirm for yourself, but I just got a call from my Mom, a reliable source if ever there was one, who flipped on her talk radio show in NYC to hear Ellis Hennigan -- frequent token liberal on O'Reilly -- going on about the rumor that Jenna Bush is pregnant.   rss@dailykos.com (gas28man) George W. Bush GeorgeWBush JennaBush Karl Rove KarlRove _374862 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:40:42 +0000