Wrap the fundie albatross around every Republican neck
When some wingnut says something outrageous, don't attack the indivdual or the tiny wingnut group he's a member of. Attack the Rethuglican Party. For example: "Republicans want to stop extra-marital...
View ArticleWhat an unsatisfying diary from Barack Obama
I'm disappointed in Kossacks for the mass suck up to Senator Obama, who may talk pretty but represents the same old, same old DLC politics that have ripped the heart and soul out of the Democratic...
View ArticleHey, Senate Dems, get a clue: We're fighting for you
Yes that's right you cowards, when we go after someone like Joe Lieberman and support Ned Lamont, we are fighting for you. Not that most of you are worth it, not that we like you all that much, but the...
View ArticleProof Bush is wiretapping political opponents?!!!
Proof? I don't need no stinkin' proof. I just want some high-profile Democrat to lay that charge out there and let the Bush Administration try to deny it. Because once that charge is out there, and...
View ArticleIraq exit strategy: First, we stop abusing our troops...
...and start supporting them. This began life as a comment and then someone with a low UID suggested I turn it into a diary, so I did. I'm not sure how original this is, but my argument would be along...
View ArticleWhat an appalling diary by Rep. Slaughter
Damn it. When will Democrats stop complaining about Republican tactics and just fight back? Here's Rep Slaughter denouncing a TV show. A TV show. What she should be denouncing is how the Bush...
View ArticleMake Bob Iger's life a living hell!
Bob Iger, in defiance of a personal request from a former two-term President of the United States has decided that his 40-million-dollar love note to wingnut America, his cave-in to the Dobsonites,...
View ArticleConyers OKs the "diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the...
Peter Rodino, who was Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, didn't have the votes in the Senate to convict Richard Nixon when he opened impeachment hearings. That did not stop him or his...
View ArticleTime to move on from mybarackobama.com
President-elect Obama has made his feelings about the liberal base of the Democratic Party perfectly clear: We've outlived our usefulness. It's time to return the favor.If his appointment of a...
View ArticleObama: Let's keep raping the taxpayers!
The bank rescue plan about to be proposed by the Obama Administration is nothing less than a corrupt giveaway from the taxpayers to bank shareholders and bondholders, who chose to take on risk in...
View ArticleOlbermann said it. Rude Pundit said it better.
An excellent diary on the rec list points to a Special Comment by Keith Olbermann calling out Robert Gibbs for his ill-considered remarks about the left. Olbermann's comment is good, but doesn't go far...
View ArticleBREAKING SNARK: Watergate a 3rd-rate burglary, Nixon not a crook
A reclist diary gleefully cites what is essentially an NSA press release under Dana Priest's byline in the Washington Post as proof that Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald are lying about the NSA's...
View ArticleAngela Merkel hits the U.S. Government where it counts
Well that didn't take long:German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection. It would avoid emails and other data automatically...
View ArticleWhy do Obama supporters benefit from a double standard here?
Once again, my well-documented criticism of Obama gets HR'd into the hid dens (subsequently rescued) and commenters hurl insults without ever getting HR'd.Why is it acceptable to claim an Obama critic...
View ArticleDemocrats lost with a Coke vs Pepsi strategy
Obama and DLC "strategists," and I use that term loosely, have made the mistake of arguing, "Hey, we're both colas! We both want to quench your thirst, but we taste better."Problem is, even if one soft...
View Article"We choose to go to the moon."
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies...
View ArticleWhy didn't Democratic voters turn out? That's easy.
Number one, we are led by a president who has done nothing but try to blur distinctions between the two parties since day one, all in an atrociously misplaced sense of bipartisanship. Assuming he's...
View ArticleTime to ban the destructive inevitability meme
No one should say Hillary is inevitable. Or that supporters of other candidates are unrealistic. Not at this stage. It's destructive.The time to vote your heart and your conscience is now. NOW we get...
View ArticleJohn McCain is filthy, corrupt, cowardly scum
At the 11th hour, afraid to boldly stand for something so egregious, Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona snuck in a rider to a must-pass defense bill. This rider traded away Apache lands,...
View ArticleSanders sues. Read the details.
Sanders supporters have long charged that Hillary Clinton’s former campaign co-chair and current head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, rigged the debate schedule to protect Hillary Clinton from...
View ArticleA simple answer for Bernie to give on universal health care
Let’s keep things simple. The Sanders campaign should just say that the road to single payer depends on how many Democrats we can elect—and when—and that it might take more than one election to get rid...
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs: "Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine"
Hillary Clinton tries to make much of her foreign policy experience, but really she’s an incompetent, warmongering hack who foists fracking on innocent people around the world for the greater good of...
View ArticleWith all due respect, Kos, the Sanders campaign remains a noble cause
I hate to contradict our most magnanimous host, but in an otherwise pretty good piece predicting Tuesday’s primary results in Wisconsin, Kos concludes with:But I won’t pretend that dragging this thing...
View ArticleThe best game player in the world isn't good enough; we need to change the game
The problems the country faces will not be solved by politics as usual. Especially not by the same kind of triangulation that has seen the Democratic Party shrink all over the country in election after...
View ArticleObama Administration to California: Frack you!
Sigh. Someday, fans of Obama, Clinton and the whole corrupt, corporate cesspool that dominates all too much of the Democratic Party will look at what these people actually do instead of touting their...
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