Senate PASSES Community Radio Bill - Low Power FM Nationwide

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Sunday December 19, 2010 · 1:54 PM PST

2010/12/19 · 13:54

This is an extremely important bill, and another huge win for Progressives from our still Democratically controlled Congress.

It may not have achieved MSM attention, but that's because the MSM most likely didn't want it to succeed. Those interested in having more local, independent (and non-corporate sponsored) voices on the radio across the country, however, have been watching with bated breath to see if it would pass.

It just did.

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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 11:24 AM PDT

2010/11/02 · 11:24

So I just voted...

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Wednesday August 04, 2010 · 11:53 PM PDT

2010/08/04 · 23:53

This is pretty staggering.

I mean - I was aware of the few recent polls that revealed that surprising percentages of the right wing believe that President Obama wasn't born in the United States - but this new poll suggests that nearly half of Republicans now believe this.

While I'm not exactly shocked, considering that the Republican Tea Party has literally been rapidly climbing crazy mountain in their clown car for the last year and a half - this number, in my opinion, should be turned into a national ad - or...at least be employed to further illustrate how the GOP is currently standing at the edge of where reality ends and becomes - well, madness.

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325 votes Show Results

Was Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Spawned By a Race of Randian Space-Turtles on Mars?

325 votes Vote Now!

Was Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Spawned By a Race of Randian Space-Turtles on Mars?

Yes

60 votes

9 votes

Maybe

5 votes

He Hasn't Provided Proof That he Hasn't Been - Sure, Why Not?

104 votes

He Has Provided "Proof" That He Hasn't Been, But Every Conservative is In On It, So I Still Don't Believe It

28 votes

ALL Conservatives Were Spawned By a Race of Randian Space-Turtles On Mars

119 votes

MSNBC: VILSACK RECONSIDERING in light of BREITBART'S LIE

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Wednesday July 21, 2010 · 10:34 AM PDT

2010/07/21 · 10:34

This will have to be very short, as I'm currently at work, but I didn't see anyone mentioning this yet.

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Wednesday March 31, 2010 · 9:48 PM PDT

2010/03/31 · 21:48

With great respect to some of my fellow Kossacks: If you'll please recall, during the general election, beginning in August of 2008, then Presidential candidate Obama repeatedly said that while he was against off-shore drilling as the only strategy, he was open to off-shore drilling if it were part of a larger energy strategy - which is precisely what this is.

This is not a "reversal", much less a "broken promise".

This is nothing new.

This is following through on what he repeatedly said he was open to doing.

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Sunday March 21, 2010 · 6:00 AM PDT

2010/03/21 · 06:00

A (no longer) brief diary as I pour more coffee into my brain.

1:00pm: STUPAK VOTING YES. GAME OVER. WE DID IT.

11:50am: Stupak 8 meeting right now with WH attorneys finalizing language on the E.O. regarding HCR and abortion. Announcement at 12:30 p.m. EST. Stupak's 8 would put the number at 222.

10:10am: BBC now reporting they have the votes.

...and Marcy Kaptur, one of Stupak's crew, according to ABC-13 in Toledo, announced just now that she's a YES vote on the bill.

10:00am: NBC's Luke Russert says Dems tell him they have 214, 2 votes shy.

9:50 am: CNN is now reporting that "House Democrats have 216 votes needed to pass health care reform, chairman of House Democratic Caucus tells CNN."

9:38 am: Looks like both Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) AND Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla) are saying they have the votes now. Relevant quotes below.

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Is Larson Right?

1278 votes Vote Now!

Is Larson Right?

Will it pass today?

778 votes

Will it not pass today?

49 votes

Will I manage to avoid a heart attack before the vote?

451 votes

BREAKING: Kosmas, Ellsworth and Cuellar - All YES's

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 2:34 PM PDT

2010/03/19 · 14:34

Is it just me, or is there a bit of a tide coming in, here?

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 11:41 PM PST

2010/03/04 · 23:41

Believe it or not, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer's "Truth Squad" segment actually did some genuine journalism tonight re: Bart "Don't Look At Me, I Only Rented A Room On C-Street" Stupak's nonsensical claim about the Health Care bill.

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Sunday February 28, 2010 · 10:51 PM PST

2010/02/28 · 22:51

I was reading RajaFree's diary tonight on Glenn Beck's attempted "swiftboating" of the meaning of Progressivism.

From RajaFree's diary:

Just like the conservative campaign to smear the word liberal, (which was very effective), Conservatives understand that if you can successfully change the public perception of a word, you can shift the political dialog and policy landscape. Conservatives were able to make "liberal" such a bad word that many liberals felt the need to redefine themselves as "progressives." It is harder to defend the policies associated with a word if the opposition can re-define the word with a negative connotation and put into question what the word means and stands for.

Beck is trying to do the same thing to the word "progressive".

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Saturday February 27, 2010 · 12:37 PM PST

2010/02/27 · 12:37

Yeah.

It's 1983.

And the president is Ronald Reagan.

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Sunday February 14, 2010 · 10:20 PM PST

2010/02/14 · 22:20

This is a simple poll rather than a complete diary. I wanted to see where the Kos is on this in 2010 - if there's any consensus, or if it's still wide open - before the midterms start getting everyone in fighting trim.

I've included every possible candidate I could think of in the list. If I've missed anyone, or if anyone has any names they think may come up in the next year or so, I'm interested to hear. On a personal note, as a Democrat, I'm obviously salivating at the prospect of the GOP running Sarah Palin; unfortunately, I have a feeling that the RNC knows full well that most Democrats are salivating at the prospect of a Palin 2012 campaign, which would all but guarantee President Obama a second term. Just close your eyes for a second. Now - just imagine what those debates would be like.

I simply have no idea who they'll run at this point. Romney has been playing things very smart since the election, which tells me he's dead serious about running. A Dick Cheney vs. Obama election would be so intense, it would have me popping oxycodones every three hours just to make it to election day. In short, my hands are up in the air on this - which is where you guys come in. Tell me where your heads are at.

Thanks for taking the time to vote.

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504 votes Show Results

Who Will Be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012?

504 votes Vote Now!

Who Will Be the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012?

Sarah Palin

57 votes

Newt Gingrich

14 votes

Scott Brown

21 votes

Dick Cheney

3 votes

Tim Pawlenty

43 votes

Mitt Romney

220 votes

Mike Huckabee

27 votes

John McCain

3 votes

Haley Barbour

11 votes

Jeb Bush

16 votes

Bobby Jindal

4 votes

John Thune

24 votes

Charlie Crist

3 votes

Rick Santorum

3 votes

Other

55 votes

Pelosi Says She Has the Votes To Pass Health Care

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 8:59 PM PST

2010/01/27 · 20:59

From National Journal and Huffington Post:

Offering Democrats a potential means to revive their top domestic priority, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flatly predicted Wednesday afternoon that she could muster enough votes to pass the Senate version of health care reform if the upper chamber agreed to adjust the bill through the reconciliation process.

Speaking to columnists just hours before President Obama's first State of the Union Address, Pelosi said that if the Senate used the reconciliation process to revise elements of the legislation unacceptable to her members, the House could approve such a two-track approach. "What I'm saying to you is the Senate bill, stand-alone, I don't see any chance of it [passing the House]," she said. "Reconciliation resolving some of the issues: then we can pass this thing."

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