Boehner concedes War on Terruh was bunk.

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Thursday November 05, 2009 · 10:21 AM PST

2009/11/05 · 10:21

It wasn't that long ago that according to the GOP any effort to focus on domestic issues was tantamount to treason given the overarching importance of Defending Our Freedoms through the War on Terruh. Now that the Oval Office has changed hands and the whole unitary executive permanent state of war thing is not so appealing, history -- or at least GOP propaganda -- is being revised by the House Minority Leader Boehner:

House Minority Leader John Boehner addressed the tea party crowd on Capitol Hill today, telling them that health care reform is "the greatest threat to freedom" he's seen as a congressman.

"This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I've seen in the 19 years I've been in Washington," he said.

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 8:12 AM PST

2009/03/03 · 08:12

There's going to be a lot drawn out of the newly released Yoo memos over the nexts days and weeks, but we should all be paying attention to the timing of their repudiation.

As this Washinton Post article makes clear, Steven Bradbury, acting head of DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel for the last three years of the Bush administration, issued a nifty little memo to the file just five days before Obama's inauguration, confirming that "certain propositions" regarding the President's "wartime" ability to trump the Constitution were no longer operable.

Think this has anything to do with the fact that the new "wartime" president is a Democrat?

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Thursday January 08, 2009 · 2:45 PM PST

2009/01/08 · 14:45

Today, Sen. Leahy (D-Spine) shows Harry Reid (D-not so much) how to talk like you are in the majority when you are, in fact, in the majority:

Brushing aside Republican senators' concerns, Sen. Patrick Leahy issued a "guarantee" Thursday that Eric Holder Jr. will be the next attorney general.

"Every senator has the right to vote for or against a nominee. I can guarantee you this: Eric Holder is going to be confirmed as attorney general of the United States," said Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, at a news conference.

Leahy (D-Vt.) further predicted that Holder would be confirmed with "an awful lot of Republican votes."

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Pre-Emptive Postmortem: Gerson Claims McCain Victim of Surge Success

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 2:37 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 14:37

In an Onion-worthy column in the Washington Post, Michael Gerson argues that the McCain is a Casualty of the Surge he so brilliantly championed. The reason he is losing is that he is the victim of his own sucess!

This is the most stunining example of pre-emptive legacy burnishing that I have ever seen. Here's a sample:

McCain, it turns out, was tragically and gloriously right -- as right as Winston Churchill during his wilderness years.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 8:15 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 08:15

It's time to concentrate our fire as Palinpalooza threatens to become a carnival of scandals and flaps. I think we should stay away from the pregnant daughter issue -- it is what it is, as they say, and it's public already. Not only is it irrelevant to everything we care about on our side, it is out there now and if anyone on the Republican side is going to be bothered by it they will hear plenty about it with no help from us. The press loves this kind of story. And it has the most potential to be turned back against Democrats as an attack on private, family matters -- if you're a Republican this story has faux outrage potential written all over it.

Instead, we should be concentrating our fire here:

"They didn’t seriously consider her until four or five days from the time she was picked, before she was asked, maybe the Thursday or Friday before," said a Republican close to the campaign. "This was really kind of rushed at the end, because John didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to do Joe or Ridge."

This is a goldmine, let's get cracking...

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 7:26 AM PDT

2008/05/14 · 07:26

As we have known for a while, May 20th is the day Obama will officially win the primary. With 1599.5 pledged delegates after yesterday's primary in West Virginia, Obama is 27.5 away from the 1627 he needs to have a majority of the 3253 pledged delegates.

Even if he performs even worse in KY than he did in WV (only 20% of the vote, for example), that should net him about 10 of KY's 50 delegates. Even if he barely wins OR and Obama and Clinton split the delegates (he'll do much better than that), that would be 26 of OR's 52 delegates, which will put him well over the hump (with PR, MT, and SD yet to come).

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Friday April 25, 2008 · 10:25 AM PDT

2008/04/25 · 10:25

OK, so this is decidedly not BREAKING!

But on a Friday at the end of a long week you can probably use a positive image. Come with me now to late March, 2009, and opening day at Washington Nationals Stadium. You've never been one for opening day games -- tickets are impossible to get, the security is a hassle, the pomp and ceremony take hours, distracts from the game. But you weren't going to miss this one, and you've scored some great tickets. You settle in with a beer and a dog that cost a half hour wait and an outrageous $15. The warm spring sun on your face feels great. And finally, the moment you have been waiting for comes...

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 12:06 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 12:06

Sean Wilentz (of the New Repulic, writing in Salon) has a real headspinner of an article that comes to the brilliant conclusion that if the rules of the democratic primary "made sense" then Clinton "would be winning." His argument:

Why Hillary Clinton should be winning:

Under a winner-take-all primary system, Hillary Clinton would have a wide lead over Barack Obama -- and enough delegates to clinch the nomination by June.

Why does this matter? You could click through and read the article itself, but I think a simple thought experiment resolves the question nicely. Just put your logical thinking hat on and ask yourself, given the Wilentz theorem

If the Rules Made Sense, Clinton Would be Winning

does the converse

If Clinton Were Winning, The Rules Would Make Sense

also hold true? You know it does! Let's all email Professor Wilentz and see if he agrees.

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 8:16 AM PDT

2008/03/28 · 08:16

TPM has McCain's first general election ad.

I know that McCain is not much for subtlety, but this is absurd:

The announcer ends the ad with this new, ultra-patriotic slogan: "John McCain: The American president Americans have been waiting for."

Any doubt whom he thinks he's running against at this point?

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 11:18 AM PDT

2008/03/26 · 11:18

Robert Novak recently graced the editorial pages of the Post with this steaming pile of political "analysis":

Barack Obama's speech last week, hastily prepared to extinguish the firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, won critical praise for style and substance but failed politically. By elevating the question of race in America, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate has deepened the dilemma created by his campaign's success against the party establishment's anointed choice, Hillary Clinton. ...

Read on to understand that this "political failure" is caused by the fact that Obama is black, and admits it...

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 8:25 AM PDT

2008/03/10 · 08:25

In light of the failure of the phantom block of 50 superdelegates for Obama to materialize, I thought I would look at the actual recent superdelegates trend. I was surprised to see how strong Obama's momentum has been on the superdelegate contest. If the listing provided by this 2008 Democratic Convention Watch blog is accurate, Obama has picked up 35 superdelegates to Clinton's net 7 since February 22. That's a net gain of 28 delegates, including one switch from Clinton to Obama.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 7:56 AM PST

2008/03/05 · 07:56

Bob Herbert has a great column in yesterday's Times that absolutely nails the key argument for the Democrats for this election: the unbelievable cost of the Iraq war and its effect on our economy.

The war in Iraq will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers not hundreds of billions of dollars, but an astonishing $2 trillion, and perhaps more. There has been very little in the way of public conversation, even in the presidential campaigns, about the consequences of these costs, which are like a cancer inside the American economy.

I don't think anyone has picked up on this. This theme is one the Democrats must hit hard, now. We do not want to wait until the summer before rolling this argument out.

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Leahy: "Eric Holder will be confirmed."

Pre-Emptive Postmortem: Gerson Claims McCain Victim of Surge Success

"John didn't get to do what he wanted..."

The Math: Obama will clinch May 20th

Imagine: Opening Day 2009

Beautiful Illogic: If the Rules Made Sense, Clinton Would Win

McCain: I'm an American American from America

Novak: It is Obama's fault he is the black candidate

Obama wins 35 to 7 in SDs over last two+ weeks

Herbert nails link between Iraq and economy.