I Have Names
OK. It's November 3rd. T minus 4 days and counting. This post over at Gilliard's got me thinking.... Let's review all the Republican/conservative malfeasance of the last two years--just since the 04...
View ArticleDAILY KOS ROLL CALL
Up and at em, boys and girls. Today is going to be a GOOD DAY. I'm filling in for a poll watcher in the morning and doing last-minute knocking on doors for McCaskill in the evening. Sometime around...
View ArticleJoe Klein is Uncivil
Hey, Joe. Nice to meet you. My name isn't really nota bene, but you'll just have to deal with that.Here's a copy of a comment I'm submitting at Swampland, in response to this unbelievably obnoxious...
View ArticleBrand Familiarity
A simple thought, re: impeachment.The Bush Admin. collectively was at war with Iraq even before they were elected. Once they had (illegitimately) ascended to power, they decided to destroy as much of...
View Articlefreep this poll
I don't usually do these, but this particular poll jumped out at me and utterly shocked me....I'll delete this if it's not substantive enough....but the CNN.com front page poll goes like this.......
View ArticleBushlash
In a written statement Wednesday, Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said the "honesty and capability" of the attorney general must be unquestioned, and that Gonzales "can no longer meet this...
View ArticleD Candidates learning Kerry's lesson?
Let's go way back to 2004 for a moment.Fallujah was burning. The corpses of four (ahem) mercenaries were desecrated, receiving worldwide attention. (Probably only because there were pictures.) Our...
View ArticleLGF on Ford v Kos: grasping at straws
I rarely, if ever, do these, but this LGF thread was so hilarious I had to do a light fisking....(h/t to JML9999...this started out as a reply to that comment.)
View ArticleUncle
OK. This is where I get off.I suppose this might end up with a GBCW tag on it, but that's not really true. I'll be back.Now, I have never registered as a Democrat. I usually skip the primary votes,...
View ArticleThe Second Opinion (a parable)
Once upon a time, there was a guy named Uncle Sam. Like all of us, he had his faults--he could be a bit arrogant, selfish, shortsighted, or oblivious at times, but his heart was (mostly) in the right...
View ArticleATTN: No Freakin' Clue voters
OK....we're getting close to the early primary season. I've been neutral all year, and with less than a month to go, now I feel like I really ought to start thinking about the candidates. What follows...
View ArticleLook At The Bright Side, Kossacks
My Friends, I've come to the conclusion that we're being too hard on Messrs. Bush & McCain, and we've gotten too practiced in our half-empty vision of America. In fact, I don't think we give them...
View ArticleKansas City Obama rally pix
Not much insight or really even commentary in this diary, but I wanted to get some photos up quickly. (If you're on dialup, consider yourself warned....)
View ArticleOpen Question for the RKBA folks
(Apologies in advance if this is well-trodden ground by now. I've been busy for much of this past year and haven't spent much time on Big Orange.)In the aftermath of the Tuscon massacre, we are faced...
View ArticleROV #7--Japan Nuclear Crisis
Do not recommend this diary. Please recommend the Mothership instead.This is another clearinghouse diary for discussion and commentary about the ongoing nuclear disaster(s) in Japan. Previous diaries...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh *Is* the Republican Party
Der Limbaugh is finally, finally, at long last, getting at least a tiny taste of his richly-deserved comeuppance. But why now? I've been wondering why this didn't happen sooner. Why now?How did he...
View ArticleOn Jumping To Conclusions
This is a reality-based community.When news broke late yesterday that the office of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) had been attacked by a man who threw molotov cocktails at the door, a...
View ArticleRepeating the question
The gun lobby has won the battles. They've gotten the policy regime they want.The onus is on them to make some sort of token effort to address the problem of random massacres. To aid in wrapping the...
View ArticleGo Be Happy To Be Alive/Against Spam
An entirely earnest suggestion for DK5: can the mojo algorithm possibly be tweaked to automatically time-out someone who posts 100+ comments in 3 hours in the same thread?I was going to wade into that...
View ArticleGHW Bush Sounds Off; Peak Popcorn Approacheth
Not going to be much of a diary. I just saw this NYT article and didn't see a discussion thread. [EDIT: try this link instead. Hopefully the Seattle Times doesn't have a paywall policy....]In a...
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