No Lincoln Is. It. Over. Yet? Happy Presidents\’ Day. Happy countdown to 2008, too. It can\’t come soon enough. … Well, new video added, because so many people couldn\’t load the last one. There are so many from which to choose, so if you have a suggestion, just let me know.
Farsi, Anyone?
Farsi, Anyone? A good thing to packwhen going to Iraq. Yesterday on Tim Russert\’s all boys\’ political version of \”The View,\” NBC\’s war correspondent Richard Engel finally got some air time. CNN has not been so stingy with Michael Ware. It was wonderful to hear that Engel will have a documentary coming out in March [...]
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The Malleable Contender
**Please see very important updates at the bottom of this post.** The Straight Talk Express has moved. Literally. Back up and check the link. Does anyone else find that amusing? Now it’s been replaced by Mr. McCain‘s presidential exploratory committee site. But why do I feel that ship has sailed? McCain’s chances of becoming president, [...]
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Republican Hypocrisy on Troops Revealed
Republican Hypocrisy on Troops Revealed cross-posted on Huffington Post graphic via JG \”Support the troops\” trips off the tongues of Republicans like buttah. The likes of Mr. Bush, Dick Cheney and Mitch McConnell love using the troops as a weapon against Democrats whenever they can. But the reality behind their rhetoric is stark. Remember Rep. [...]
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Toward a More Unstable World
Toward a More Unstable World guest post by Mash In his often brilliant, and sometimes misguided, analysis of the international system, The Inequality of Nations, Robert W. Tucker wrote: "The history of the international system is a history of inequality par excellence." It is the inequality between nation-states, divided roughly along a North-South geographical axis, [...]
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Escalation or Bust!
Escalation or Bust Maneuvers. When the Senate should be raising the Capitol roof. Caution is not the better part of courage. Ask the Dixie Chicks. Now the headlines, start here: The Senate on Saturday narrowly rejected an effort to force debate on a resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq, but Republican defections emboldened [...]
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The Shrinking Senate
The Shrinking Senate Watch the video. \”I don\’t want this vote to occur. …\” – Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott Well, the vote occurred today, because Senator Reid made the senators come in on a Saturday, but the Republicans made sure that with men and women dying on the battlefield, the United States Senate would [...]
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Obama’s Nevada Fly-Over
cross-posted on Huffington Post If anyone’s keeping score this early, this one beats a verbal gaffe or any blogger brouhaha by a mile, because it\’s delivered by the candidate himself. Senator Obama, you just might have to kiss those Nevada union votes good-bye. First, before we get started and just to be clear, there’s nothing [...]
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Stopping George Bush’s War
Stopping George Bush\’s War –updated below– Lieberman is crying fire! Meanwhile, his boy Dan Gerstein proves why bloggers (and progressive radio hosts) have the floor. Joe and Dan continue to think and act like this is a top down political world. Talk about obtuse. Gerstein also gets it wrong on the Edwards brouhaha. But they [...]
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Obama Skipping Carson City Forum
–updated– Politico\’s report that Clinton and Obama won\’t be at the Carson City forum is half wrong as of this post. Senator Clinton will be in Carson City. So will I. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, is a co-sponsor of the event, with George Stephanopolous of \”This Week\” moderating. AFSCME is [...]
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GOP on IRAQ: ‘I Don’t Want This Vote to Occur’
GOP on IRAQ: \’I Don\’t Want This Vote to Occur\’ Wow. Republicans aren\’t even trying to hide their unwillingness to stand up for our troops. It obviously doesn\’t matter if we put them in the middle of a civil war in Iraq that even Oliver North — that\’s right — thinks is a lose-lose for [...]
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HOT TOPICS
HOT TOPICS We\’ve just added a new feature, compliments of my tech team Orange Geek. It\’s called \”Hot Topics.\” Check out the right-hand margin. It\’s pretty self explanatory, I think, but put questions you have in the comments of this post and we\’ll make sure they get answered. HOT TOPICS is a chance for you [...]
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Recruiting Criminals
Recruiting Criminals Watch John Roberts/CNN Isn\’t this lovely? Of course, it\’s been talked about before. Oh, and since we seem to be on the subject of gays today. It seems that Mr. Bush and the powers that be in the Army would rather recruit criminals and felons instead of upstanding, patriotic, law abiding gays and [...]
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Tim Hardaway’s Homophobia
Tim Hardaway\’s Homophobia Listen to Tim Hardaway The prejudice is out of the bag. Hardaway revealed it today. It\’s edifying that Hardaway thought that airing his bigotry on radio would be acceptable. He was swiftly reminded that regardless of the inside sports homophobia, being openly bigoted isn\’t American. It\’s becoming more obvious every day that [...]
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Scooter, Shooter and Firedoglake
Scooter, Shooter and Firedoglake –video update– My friends over at Firedoglake got some long overdue, well deserved press today. I hope you take the time to read the New York Times article. Of course, most people out here know the blog intimately and many read it religiously. To put a finer point on it, I [...]
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Funny Wingnuts a Flop
Funny Wingnuts a Flop As someone who has a lot of performance experience I can tell you, comedy is dangerous stuff. It\’s not for chickenhawk Republicans. The video is exihibit A. \”BO\” magazine for Barack Obama? Never mind it\’s a rip off of the old \”Spy\” magazine front cover format. However, catch the studio laughter [...]
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Clinton Challenges Bush on Iran
Clinton Challenges Bush on Iran –updated below– cross-posted on Huffington Post Watch the video. Senator Clinton took to the Senate floor today and got it right on Iran, at least the biggest part she got right. Mr. Bush needs to go to Congress for authorization before going to war with Iran. Clinton threw the marker [...]
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Eat Your Heart Out, Rush
Eat Your Heart Out, Rush It\’s on. Franken\’s running for Senate. Can you imagine Rush Limbaugh running for Senate? He\’d never get through the vetting.
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FRAG Kit 5
FRAG Kit 5 Memo to all of the presidential wannabes: I\’m sick of hearing your speeches and seeing you shake hands when stuff like this is going on. I\’ve had this story in my to post list for a couple of days, seeing if any of you glory seekers were going to take the time [...]
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More Muskie than McGovern
cross-posted on Huffington Post Harold ruminates. The topic is right on, especially after Hillary hit New Hampshire. … By 1972, seven years had elapsed since the United States had sent ground forces to Vietnam, and Richard Nixon, through his invasion of Cambodia and stepped-up bombing campaigns, had made clear that the road to de-escalation would [...]
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