Georgie's report card
This report on Georgie's poor performance came to me through the magic of email. I don't know its original source. If it has been posted before, I apologize. Subject: Leave One Child Behind Dear Mr....
View ArticleVeep choice Suicide Hotline
After reading the howls of anguish here at the possibility that John Kerry might tap Richard Gephardt as his running mate, it is clear to me that, should Kerry indeed choose Gephardt, many Kos-sters...
View ArticleVolunteering for GOP: Hazardous to your privacy?
Not a question many of us have stopped to consider, I would venture a guess. But today, a couple of pals of mine, let's call them Mr. Jinx Blue and Miss Lucy Asphalt, hatched a nefarious scheme....
View ArticleLife in Baghdad
Haven't seen this posted before, but if it has been, my apologies. You can find two very sobering emails "to friends" from Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi at this...
View ArticleOh, MOMMMA (The Make Our Military More Manly Act)
Blogger Mark Kleiman calls our attention to a letter in today's LA Times in which Dan Mitchell writes:Those seeking radical restructuring of Social Security use the word "bankruptcy" to mean that the...
View ArticleWho is DEBKA? Should I believe we'll attack Syria?
Apparently, these DEBKA people think we're planning on launching a joint attack with Iraq against Syria some time in February. As they report it, Iraq's involvement will likely be mostly in name only....
View ArticleNodding vigorously as political strategery
In a fairly interesting piece for Slate, Chris Suellentrop raves about Bush's mastery of the language of freedom, his ability to merge the religious and secular implications of freedom, as demonstrated...
View ArticleKerry backs Dean; the secret story of Houndcat's role
Got a note from my ol' friend John Kerry in the email box this morning. You may have gotten one, too. He tends to write a lot when he needs money. This time, he asks our support for DNC...
View ArticleLieberman retreats?
Today's New Haven Register reports that, in his "first public stance on President Bush's (social security) program," Senator Lieberman denounced (sort of) private accounts as "a very risky thing to...
View ArticleReclaiming the phrase "politically correct"
I am officially embarking on a campaign to limit use of the term "politically correct" to describe the boundaries that the Right and their media buddies try to place on debate. Thus, in The World...
View ArticleA potential Lieberman challenger steps up
He's Fairfield University poli sci professor and democratic activist John Orman, according to today's New Haven Register. In 1984, Orman ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Congress in...
View ArticleOrman (D-CT) for Senate
As I posted earlier today, Professor John Orman of Fairfield University has announced that he is exploring the possibility of challenging everyone's favorite Connecticut Dem, Joe Lieberman, in a...
View ArticlePotential Lieberman challenger to appear on Air America
Dr. John Orman of Fairfield University is booked to appear on Janeane Garofalo's show on Air America Tuesday night at 9:50 (more or less). As I have previously posted, Dr. Orman is the first...
View ArticleLieberman foe on Air America TONIGHT
The one Democrat in Connecticut who has declared a willingness to take on Senator Lieberman in a primary, activist Dr. John Orman of Fairfield University, will appear on Janeane Garofalo's show on Air...
View ArticleOrman for Senate (CT) update
Here's the latest from Dr. John Orman's campaign to unseat George Bush's favorite Democrat, Joe Lieberman: Campaign Update April 13, 2005 ORMAN ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE Dr. John...
View ArticleOrman's challenge to Lieberman, update
Kos' item on the possibility of a potential challenge to Sen. Lieberman by Rep. Rosa DeLauro ignited a debate on the wisdom of running a primary opponent against Lieberman. The rumor proved unfounded....
View ArticleLieberman Watch: Jokin' Joe the laughing-stock
As has been well-reported, the Bush Administration and its supporters have courted Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), hoping to secure his support for the President's phase-out of social security. As...
View ArticleOrman for Senate update: Help dump Lieberman
Last we checked in, Connecicut had one Democratic Senator (Chris Dodd) and another who caucused with the Democrats when it didn't interfere with an opportunity to attack his Democratic colleagues on...
View ArticleJohn Bolton: Could his career be a cry for help?
In honor of his class at Yale's 35th reunion this year, his classmates have posted a pic from the would-be Ambassador's youth. I've given up trying to embed the image, but you can find it for yourself...
View ArticleFilibusters: Safe, legal and rare
One last attempt to explain why The Deal is a HUGE win for us. Seven Republicans have agreed to oppose ANY attempt to cut off debate on a future judicial nominee by a simple majority vote. They have...
View ArticleWe owe Karl Rove an apology
Many of us, myself included, believed early on that Karl Rove had acted inappropriately and had quite possibly committed a crime by revealing to his press contacts that Valerie Plame worked as a CIA...
View ArticleRove's recall
My apologies if this has been posted already, but I couldn't find anything. Murray Waas has added some to his report regarding the basis for early suspicion by investigators that Rove was less than...
View ArticleI dub thee "prominent Republican Pat Robertson"
Unsurprisingly enough, the leadership of God's Own Party has been distancing themselves as fast as it can from poor ol' Pat Robertson. As James Wolcott observes:Yesterday we saw the backfire over Pat...
View ArticleF*ck "accountability." We're talking about lives. A rant.
I'm getting a bit tired of the hand-wringing and the debates over how to "frame" this administration's unforgivable incompetence. Yes, we've all noticed that the media sheep bleat the Bush talking...
View ArticleWhat juvenile delinquents can teach us about the Bush White House
David Corn suggests that the White House staffers who leaked the account of President Bush's anger at Karl Rove to the New York Daily News believed they were helping the President by showing he was...
View ArticleGang of 14 reins in DeWine, Graham
(From the diaries -- kos)Reuters reports that, after a full meeting of the so-called Gang of 14, Senators Michael DeWine (R-Ohio) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) backed off from earlier statements that the...
View ArticleHappy Suckers' Day, everyone!!
Don't forget, folks, as you chomp down your Thanksgiving turkey, that the more historically accurate holiday, Suckers' Day, follows Thanksgiving as night follows day. Suckers' Day honors the many times...
View ArticleGore-Zinni in '08?
Ya know, when "longtime political strategists" from the Democratic party start offering advice, my first instinct is to duck beneath the desk, stick my fingers in my ears and start singing loudly, "I...
View ArticleThe Conservative Nanny State
Many of you are, no doubt, familiar with the work of economist Dean Baker. Baker is an innovative political thinker and has a gift for presenting economic issues in a clear, coherent way. He is...
View ArticleThe Swift-Boating of Al Gore begins
Thank goodness there are still patriotic Americans brave enough to stand up to elitist hypocrites. The good folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, with the support of Matt Drudge, have...
View ArticleGeorge Will's trap for Al Gore
In a new column available at the right-wing site Real Clear Politics, George Will sets a trap for Al Gore. I'm more than reasonably certain that Gore will refuse to take the bait, but it's worth...
View ArticleHangin' with Ned and John in the Elm City
John Edwards came to town (New Haven, CT, that is) yesterday to support Ned Lamont. There were at least two events on the Edwards/Lamont agenda: A public rally at Yale-New Haven Hospital, superbly...
View ArticleRove's plan in Connecticut?
There's a comment in the thread about Wes Clark's ad for Ned Lamont that should hit us all about as hard as a heart attack. Prose of Sharon writes: "I have no doubt in my mind Bush will be convinced...
View ArticleRudy campaign screws Iowa volunteers
Man, this makes the Obama MySpace kerfluffle look like, well, a kerfluffle.To the extended text!!
View ArticleAnthony Martin-Trigona's greatest hits
The plaintiff who has sued Media Matters, using as his nom de guerre "Anthony 'Andy' Martin" (described in this recommended dkos diary) is also known as Anthony Martin-Trigona, one of the truly great...
View ArticleFalse equivalency watch: Bill Clinton and David Vitter
It's understandable that there's been a lot of talk comparing Senator David Vitter's woes to those that plagued President Clinton at the end of his second term. After all, when Vitter arrived in...
View ArticleMusic to listen to while changing the world
Because deep in my heart, I do believe . . .Tunes after the jump.
View ArticleConyers: We will vote to hold Miers in contempt
Congressman John Conyers came to New Haven yesterday to help kick off five days of intense grassroots campaign work for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Speaking to an overflow crowd at the...
View ArticleLearn to speak Maverick: Lesson one
If there’s one thing we know about John McCain, it’s that he’s a stratight-talkin’ maverick ex-POW. (Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know the POW thing; he doesn’t like to talk about it much.) Because...
View ArticleFollow THAT, a**h***s
There's an apocryphal story about Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry that tonight's events bring to mind.
View ArticleCindy Cohn of EFF discusses internet legal issues
This is the first of what I hope will be a series of interview/posts based on the proposition that it’s a hell of a lot easier to type up smart things that someone else says than to think up smart...
View ArticleThe Ricci case
First things first. I worked on Ricci v. DeStefano on behalf of the plaintiffs. I was then, and am now, a non-practicing attorney. When I took a job with a former colleague, the attorney who handled...
View ArticleHenry Louis Gates charges dropped
Well, that didn't take long.After arresting Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct when he loudly protested police activity at his own home, the State of Massachusetts today dropped...
View ArticlePOTUS's address to our kids: A proposal
We interrupt our regularly scheduled circular firing squad discussion of health care reform to ponder briefly the uproar over President Obama’s planned address to schoolchildren on Tuesday, September 8.
View ArticleLieberman has a challenger
She's former Connecticut Secretary of State, Democrat Susan Bysiewicz. I frankly don't know much about her, but she has won statewide races before and will be formidable. Her candidacy announcement...
View ArticleMubarak to resign tonight??
Al Jazeeera reports that sources in the armed forces say so. Right now there's a guy on Egyptian TV saying that the army says Mubarak will meet protesters' legitimate demands.
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