Red to Blue: Confessions of a Former Loyal Bushie
It takes a particular kind of courage these days to admit that at one time you were not only a Bush supporter, but a loyal, enthusiastic, card-carrying member of the President's booster club, a man...
View ArticleStay, Alberto, Stay: An Uneducated Cynic's Concern
There is new and mounting pressure on Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General who just a few days ago once again dazzled us with his almost prescient powers of judgment and observation when, it was...
View ArticleGlengarry Glen Congress: The Speech Required
To call this day a serious setback to those who supported the Democrats in 2006 with the stupidly naive hope that they would, in the majority, exercise a little gumption and start getting this country...
View ArticleCan Someone Explain How Defunding Would Work?
This is a simple diary, to the point, and devoid of the sort of jacknapery and ribald good fun you have come to expect from your ole buddy Lars. Here is my question:How would defunding the war work to...
View ArticleLet's Get Something Clear this Memorial Day
The grist mill of this administration has been churning out a single meme since 2003, and they churn it out week after week, month after month, through minions and lackeys on talk shows and in press...
View ArticleI almost beat Mike Gravel!
Well the polls are in in New Hampshire, and I am stunned--positively stunned--to learn that my non-campaign is almost eking out Mike Gravel, who leads me just shy of something like a couple hundred...
View ArticleObama Down 30 Points, And In Deep Trouble
I am a supporter of Sen. Obama over Sen. Clinton [FN1], but I am alarmed by the cocky attitude being displayed by my fellow Obama supporters. After the wins in Louisiana, Washington, Nebraska, Maine...
View ArticleObservations from Maryland's Red Zone
First-hand reporting of precinct activity on election day makes for fascinating reading, and so it was with some sense of excitement that I went to the polls today to catch primary fever and hopefully...
View ArticleDust That Last Week Off, Folks. Obama's Back.
A little anecdote from Youngstown, Ohio, where I worked on the Obama campaign for a week:It's election night, at about 7:30. A group of volunteers are cleaning up the main campaign staging area,...
View ArticleObama's Significant Wright Problem
And thus we reach the question of Obama's Church.In an article posted on the ABC News website, ABC offers transcripts of sermons given by Reverend Jeremiah Wright denouncing the United States and...
View ArticleAnnotating "On Why Obama Has Already Lost"
Last week the Obama campaign responded to a press release from the Clinton campaign by simply annotating it. It is in that same spirit that I annotate this diary entitled "On Why Obama Has Already...
View ArticleHe wrote it himself. Think of that. He wrote it. Himself.
From Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic comes the reporting that Obama wrote his speech on race and America himself. Reports Ambinder:This wasn't a speech by committee... Obama wrote the speech himself,...
View ArticleNew Evidence Shows Hillary Acted Bravely in Balkans!!
After having spent months touting her "35 years of experince"--a calendar of presidential-level experience that started the day she left law school--reporters had the audacity and gall to ask...
View ArticleStickin' It To Me: My Outrage at the Obama Campaign
It started, I think, long before the speech Obama gave last Tuesday, and it has been quietly growing among supporters like me who--with each passing day--feel a sense of increasing frustration and...
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Clinton's "Dukakis Tank" Moment
"It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth. For that it will not stick where it is not just"-- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of...
View ArticleMarkos and Jerome Should Come Together Again
kid oakland, in his most recent and excellent diary, related a tale of a disaffected reader of Daily Kos turned away, it is inferred, by the aggressiveness and tone of Obama's support here. kid...
View Article(UPDATED) Internal Polling and Obama in PA
Update [2008-4-20 20:48:56 by LarsThorwald]: To respond to comments made in geekesque's diary regarding tamping expectations. I truck with geekesque 100%. I did not mean to suggest that Obama will...
View ArticleGnashing and Rending: A Modest Proposal That You Chill
What's all this, then?I go away for a nice little weekend with my family, and I come back to the internets and it's like 28 Days Later or 28 Weeks Later, except it's only 4 days later, and instead of...
View ArticleI don't ask much, and I don't ask often. But please...
This is a short diary. It's both a warning and a benediction. So listen up, my compatriots. Today Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, will win the West Virginia Primary by huge margins. It will be a...
View ArticleWhat If...? (Or Why Hillary Clinton Deserves Our Thanks)
I want you to take everything you know about this primary season and forget it for just a moment, and visit with me into an alternate history of the last six months. Turtledove a bit with me for a...
View ArticleA Long Overdue Venting
Sixteen months.Take a breath and think about that for a moment. This primary season has lasted sixteen months.
View ArticleThank You, John McCain
I wanted to take just a moment from the physical incongruity of going from a full-height swell of pride resulting from watching last night's pitch-perfect presentation of living history to doubling...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman: The Last Straw
Gosh, wasn't that just marvelous?I mean, standing there before the sort-of-kind-of filled-to-capacity Excel Center crowd of virtually all white, mostly pudgy hardcore Republicans who once appended the...
View ArticleNYT: Palin Cramming Like Crazy For the Exam
The New York Times published a piece this morning offering a glimpse into the steps taken by the McCain campaign to prepare Palin for Thursday's debate by literally having her cram for the...
View ArticleObama Wins Crucial Bellwether Mock Election
This is a short diary to announce the results of the Scholastic Reader mock election.This mock election has correctly predicted the results of every presidential election for 44 years. The results...
View ArticlePlease Help Me Apologize to My Mom
I almost became a flake this weekend.You do know what I mean by "flake," right? A flake is that person who, after signing up to volunteer for a campaign ("I'd love to canvass the next four...
View ArticleIf you do nothing else in the next week . . .
Go and volunteer, at least for a few hours. Here's why:Next Tuesday Barack Obama is going to be elected President of the United States. He is. He is going to be elected President. And all during...
View Article[Updated] A Government Attorney's Take on Obama's Speech
As a government attorney,* I would like to comment on Obama's speech with regard to the issue of prosecutions over torture and the establishment of a Truth Commission, issues that have been the subject...
View ArticleObama on DOMA: He IS Keeping A Promise
This has to be quick because it is Friday night and I am still at work (working for you, dear citizen), and I have a major brief, but I cannot let some of the misimpressions I have read on this site...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Gets It; Does Harry Reid?
My neighbor yesterday wanted to know why the election of Franken was so important, and why getting to 60 votes in the Senate is a big deal."How much harder is it to pass something with 60 votes than...
View ArticleWhat the...? I go out for a beer and Hell breaks loose
Short diary.So, this morning I wake up, it's a federal Holiday, I play with the kids, go to the pool, hit the front yard with the cookout with the burgers and the beer, and I come in after the kids go...
View ArticleMake the Gang of Six Filibuster Health Care Reform
Today the so-called "Gang of Six" in the United States Senate -- Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Susan Collins (R-ME) -- sent...
View ArticleThe Latest DOMA Brief Shows DOJ Heard Critics' Voices
Two months ago, the Obama Administration created a significant amount of controversy by filing a brief in defense of the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA"). I wrote at the time that Obama was correct in...
View ArticleI Have Seen Your Hand-Wringing Before, Kossacks
This is a short diary, and a lot of you may not like it. Sue me.Let me cut to the point: I have seen our hand-wringing before, and to be perfectly honest, we get it wrong a lot. We just do. And I'm...
View ArticleBREAKING: Obama to Address Joint Session of Congress Wednesday. Trigger...
George Stephanopolous of ABC News is reporting that President Obama will be addressing a joint session of Congress Wednesday. President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Sept 9.This...
View ArticleI'm betting on people yelling past each other!
There is a diary on the rec list that was written in opposition to another diary, also on the rec list, and these diaries follow a slow-boil history over the public option, which has become a sort of...
View ArticleA Hastily-Composed Rant from a Perjoratively-Labeled "Obama Supporter"...
I made some comment on this site today that I probably shouldn't have, because it was pissy, and it came from a man piqued at the fact that the goddamned weather men in my region cannot decide whether...
View ArticleThe State of the Union, Obama, Despair, and Hope
This is not well crafted, because I have to finalize a brief I am filing, but I have to get a load off, and I can't focus on my real work until I do.A wee bit of foundational background: If you cull...
View ArticleRahm's Parting Shot Foretold by My Dry Cleaner
It looks Rahm Emanuel is done. My dry cleaner in Georgetown is the same place Rahm Emanuel goes to to get his shirts pressed, and he told me that he left a business card in one of the pockets of his...
View ArticleDemocrats Should be On the Floor Pounding and Pounding Bunning
I know part of the problem with America these days is the coarsening and the hardening of our social discourse, but I hope you will forgive me when I ask, in all seriousness and with relatively...
View ArticleI lost a friend over HCR last night. I slept fine.
I have a friend who works for a Texas Congressman up on the Hill. She's a very gung-ho Republican, and we had discussions over the years, but we got along because she thought I was kind of funny, I...
View ArticleUPDATED: Details of Virginia's Lawsuit to Stop HCR
Very few details yet The Complaint is now available. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli made good on his promise to bring a lawsuit against the federal government over the healthcare bill.
View ArticleThis is a Week to Celebrate Real Accomplishment
Two years ago, I was in Youngstown, Ohio walking door-to-door canvassing for Senator Barack Obama. The snow was literally coming down sideways that first day. I had committed to spending ten days...
View ArticleTime for a Temporary Hiatus
Well, I guess it's reached that time.I appreciate and admire the front-pagers on this site to an incredible degree. The people who devote their time and effort to crafting out a well-written front...
View ArticleSupreme Court Upholds the "All-Comers" Policy in Religion Case
Just now going through the opinion in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, which is a significant First Amendment case concerning the Free Exercise clause.The Court held that the Hastings School of Law...
View ArticleSo Much for That Theory
I am incensed to learn that the White House is planning to actively campaign for an incumbent Senator, even though that Senator threatened to filibuster what the White House views as an important piece...
View ArticleNegotiation and Compromise: Cutting Through A Nonsense Meme
For your consideration, this pushback against what I can only describe as a bit of nonsense floating around certain circles of the blogosphere. To wit:If only Party A had taken a stronger or higher...
View ArticleMy Advice To Each of You: Take a Short Break
I strongly recommend that everyone here, every committed progressive, every reader of this and every other site, to take ten days and read nothing news-related. For your mental health. And for the...
View ArticleI am a pragmatist, but there is a limit to compromise.
I haven't diaried here for a while because the atmosphere has become toxic in these parts. But I am compelled to throw my two cents in on the current state of our politics, and the crisis the...
View ArticleGov. Ted Strickland speaks for me on this one.
Outgoing Democratic Governor Ted Strickland of my home state of Ohio gave an interview to The Huffington Post's Sam Stein, and he speaks words that I could not have said better.
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