For all the fence-sitters
The media likes to present this choice as simply a choice between 2 men, but it is so much more. There is the most obvious issue of who will appoint up to 4 new judges on the Supreme court in the...
View ArticleChicken Pox or Leprosy
Warning: this is lengthy My wife and I watched the debate on Thursday and were in complete agreement that Kerry completely outclassed Bush in every way. We both think he will make a far better...
View ArticleIs it funny if it's based on a lie?
Note to SNL: The reason that Jon Stewart is funny is that the writers base their jokes on exposing lies and "spin" for what they are, not by parroting the themes advanced by either campaign, or just...
View Articleplaying politics with the draft
Josh Marshall http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com has been on this story today, but I thought it deserved some attention here too. NY Rep Charlie Rangel's draft bill, which has basically been in limbo...
View ArticleHEY! That's MY money you're spending
During the 2nd debate, I found one question particularly interesting, because it was, except for ONE word, the exact question I wanted asked at the debates.. See if you can guess the word. Answer below...
View ArticleDefending the word liberal
I know this has probably been diaried before but I think this is EXTREMELY important given the likely line of attack at tonight's debate. I sent the following email to the Kerry campaign this morning:...
View ArticleMore Ohio Voter Intimidation
Sorry if this has been posted before, but this is absolutely disgusting, and the first I had seen of it. In the words of Lynn Cheney, "these are not good men". The Akron Beacon Journal reports that...
View ArticleOil For Food Press Release
Paul Volcker of the Independent Inquiry Committee on the Oil-For Food Program held a news conference today, announcing and publishing the names of all companies involved in the purchasing of oil or...
View ArticleThe End of Democracy As We Know It
The key phrase being "as we know it". With Republicans in control again of everything again for at least 2 more years, and the judges that will be appointed to the appellate courts and the Supreme...
View ArticleDebunking false claims of Florida fraud
I've seen many diaries today making something out of the following website:http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm which purports to show amazing discrepancies between numbers of registered...
View ArticleTo all Bush supporters-Congratulations
To all you Bush supporters, just to show that I am not one of those Democrats who will refuse to reach out "across the aisle", I have nothing but high hopes for you over the next 4 years. Specifically,...
View ArticleWe're at war with Iran(Iraq)-we've always been at war...
with Iran (Iraq) For those who haven't lost all respect for Colin Powell (and there have been many who STILL trumpet him as some kind of voice of "reason" in this insane administration), I suggest you...
View ArticleWashington Post-it
Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie met with hundreds of Post staffers yesterday to outline the paper's new plan to combat declining readership. Besides the cementing of white males in...
View ArticleBe a DemACTOR not a DemoCRIT
Ron Suskind's October 17 article in the NY Times Sunday magazine contained a quote, credited to an unidentified "senior Bush Aide" (anyone know who it is?), that for me, explained in a very simple...
View Article2 billion on easter candy vs. 35 million on Tsunami
I've seen a lot of diaries here over the last week criticizing Bush and the US govt for not donating sufficiently large sums of money to the Tsunami relief effort. I've seen other diaries making...
View ArticleProfanity on Dkos
Don't know exactly why this has stuck in my craw enough to make me want to do a diary on it, and I'm sure I'll see my share of troll ratings for this, but here goes. A few days ago I read a diary by...
View ArticleOpting out of social security
Right now the focus of the media and blogs seems to be in defining whether the SS system as it stands is in "crisis" or not. I fall firmly on the side of those that believe that there is no crisis,...
View ArticleHey Media People-We've noticed
In case you hadn't noticed, there's a war on. I'm not talking about the one that's currently killing thousands of people in Iraq. I'm not talking about the one supposedly being fought against...
View ArticleThe FTC vs. the Salesman-in-Chief
From a Marketing point of view, you don't intoduce new products in August - Andrew Card, explaining why the Administration waited until September 2002 to aggressively market their case for the Iraq...
View ArticleFor the LAST GODDAMN TIME
Spurred on by an exchange between Paul Krugman and Joe Klein (Time Magazine) on yesterday's Meet the Press (nicely summarized by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo ) in which Klein says The answer...
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