Time to Go on the Offensive
Despite all the excellent organizing by progressives on health care reform, we've pretty clearly lost Round One of the August Recess wars. Don't get me wrong. I don't think healthcare reform is...
View ArticleRep. Dan Boren (BD-OK) Holds Town Halls
After avoiding his district for the first half of the recess, Congressman Dan Boren, the only member of the Oklahoma Congressional delegation too dim to figure out he's a Republican, emerged from his...
View ArticleThe Real Lesson of '94: Don't Piss Off the Base
Looming over the Obama White House's healthcare strategy has been the specter of 1993 and 1994, when Bill Clinton failed to accomplish healthcare reform and the Democrats lost both Houses of...
View ArticleThe Real Lesson of '93: HCR Requires Taking on the Healthcare Industries
For the last several months, much of the Obama administration's healthcare reform strategy has been framed by discussions of the lessons of '93 (when Clinton unsuccessfully rolled out his healthcare...
View ArticleOverturning Roe v. Wade: EPIC WIN
With full apologies due to my fellow Democrats in deep red states, I must nevertheless admit that I really love the idea of overturning Roe v. Wade.Not because it's the best idea by any means. A...
View ArticleBipartisan Myopia Test: Gil Troy and Al Franken One Year Later
Much as we all love to bash wingnut pundits, some of the most damaging and aggressively silly punditry in American comes courtesy of self-described moderates whose shtik consists of finding false...
View ArticleCoakley Loss Would NOT Be A "Wake-Up Call" For DC Dems
A number of diarists and commentators on this site have suggested that a Coakley loss wouldn't be bad for the Democratic Party, since it would serve as a valuable "wake-up call" for the party...
View ArticleFDL says "Grow the F**k Up! Get Coakley Elected!"
In case there's any doubt that it really is just a few frustrated outliers in the progressive blogosphere who are not supporting Coakley in this election, please go on over to the infamous Firedoglake...
View ArticleDem Senate Staffer: Dem Senators Relieved at Own Defeat
One of the most telling things I've read all day has just been put up over on Josh Marshall's site. It's a report from a Democratic Senate staffer. Here's the money quote:The worst is that I can't...
View ArticleHelp! ObamaCare is Interfering with My Doctor-Patient Relationship!
My daughter had an appointment with my family's dermatologist. We've been going to him for years, but only a day after a tyrannical majority in Congress passed Socialized Medicine through tricksy...
View ArticleIs the Progressive Campaign Against Kagan Producing Results?
As every Kossack knows, President Barack Obama is in the midst of making an extraordinarily important decision: choosing a replacement for retiring Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. Appointed by...
View ArticleThis is What a Political Train Wreck Looks Like.
All signs point to the Democrats going down to a crushing defeat this November.Polls show the GOP ahead by ten points on the generic congressional ballot, a new record.The political conversation is...
View ArticleClapping Louder, Hippie Punching, Subject Changing, and the Blame Game
I've never been one to mind the disagreements on dKos. One of the strengths of the left-end of the political spectrum in the U.S. is its diversity and relatively lack of authoritarian tendencies. We...
View ArticleHello Cruel World: Disagreeing Productively [UPDATED]
I'm a very longtime Kossack, but I'm often out-of-step with some opinions on this site. Those who know me know how; the point of this diary is not to argue for my point of view.The point is to help me...
View ArticleJimmy Smits!
Jimmy Smits.Jimmy Smits, Jimmy Smits, Jimmy Smits. Jimmy Smits.L.A. Law's Victor Sifuentes. NYPD Blue's Bobby Simone.Bail Organa? Miguel Prado? Snake eyes!
View ArticleDoes Attacking Potential Non-Voters Win Votes?
It's now clear that an important part of the Administration's campaign in the homestretch of these midterm elections is to attempt to shame those who aren't planning to participate into voting for the...
View ArticleYou Should Get to Know Scott Walker Better!
Not this creep....But this guy...Follow me below the fold to find out a little about the only Scott Walker anyone had ever heard of before this year....and why it's worth finding out more about him.
View ArticleLet's Make Obama President for Life!
Barack Obama is the greatest leader the world has ever known. He's so perfect that we cannot afford to have him lose the next election. Obama should thus immediately declare himself to be President...
View ArticleWhat Howard Zinn Actually Thought of Barack Obama
By now I'm used to reading ridiculous things in defense of the Obama Presidency, but this morning I was particularly taken aback to see a rec-listed post that invoked Howard Zinn in the President's...
View ArticleI'm Not Boycotting.
I cut back a bit on my dKos reading for a couple days (heck...I didn't even go away) and now the whole site is boycott, boycott, boycott.So I sit down to read the boycott diaries. What I get is an...
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