Big Hole in Winger Defense of Honduran Military Coup

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 10:37 PM PDT

2009/07/01 · 22:37

The right wing blogs are abuzz with the same argument: Zelaya acted illegally in pushing for a referendum to get a 2nd term. (Conservatives reflexively support military coups in Latin America).

Except the referendum would not give him a second term. It was a non-binding referendum to decide on a vote in this November's Presidential election to hold a "National Constituent Assembly" (like a Constitutional Convention)

Yes, the same Presidential election where Zelaya's successor would be elected.

So, how the hell can Zelaya be furthering his stay in office by this referendum? It doesn't make sense. Not plausible.

AlphaLiberal

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Wednesday March 04, 2009 · 9:41 PM PST

2009/03/04 · 21:41

For years, even decades, now Republicans have flaunted their ignorance to flout the Democratic Party by calling it the "Democrat Party". It's bad grammar, it's bad manners and it's a childish thing.

But it does bug many Democrats and lovers of English and civility. We don't have to just take it but we can respond with cutting humor: "The Republicant Party."

There has been some fine pushback as of late. The everfeisty Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo) took Rep Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) to task for playing the silly name game. She politely and firmly pointed out we don't refer to the Republican Party as the "Republic Party."

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What should be the Republican equivalent of "Democrat Party"

Republicant Party

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Republic Party

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Republicanistical Party

7 votes

Reptilian Party

7 votes

Repub Party

3 votes

Rethug Party

10 votes

Republican Party

3 votes

A Bipartisan Tale

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Wednesday February 04, 2009 · 7:02 PM PST

2009/02/04 · 19:02

I'll leave it to the reader to figure out which critter is Republican and which is the Democrat. No prizes.

One day, a traveling scorpion came upon a river that ran wide and swift. He couldn't see any way across, upriver or downriver. The scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation.

He noticed a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 8:44 PM PST

2009/01/20 · 20:44

There's a neat web site, at Goodbye.us, where people can post their heartfelt letters to George Bush. I didn't think I'd have anything to post, but, of course, finally did:
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Dear Former President Bush:

I really have little to say to you anymore. It's time to focus on the future and the only thing I care about from you in the future is to resist your inevitable attempts at historical rewrites.

Instead, your Presidency should serve as a warning beacon to future politicians to shun lying the country into war, not to deregulate wildly, to govern by uniting and not dividing, to embrace science over fantasy, to avoid politicizing the Justice Dept (at least), to help the people in their need (Katrina).

If we let you rewrite, gloss over and falsify these last eight years, you turn off the beacon. Your ideological heirs could run us up on the rocks again.

AlphaLiberal

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 9:29 AM PDT

2008/05/07 · 09:29

Clinton backer Paul Begala sunk to new lows on CNN yesterday. Begala goes out of his way to repeat and reinforce the Republican stereotype against liberals, describing us as "Volvo drivin', NPR tote bag totin'" liberals.

Memo to Paul Begala: You have made yourself an enemy of liberals and you have forfeited our respect. To propagate the false, divisive and destructive Republican stereotypes is to side with the Republican Party and to legitimize their hateful message.

The Clinton camp is openly at war with liberals. They openly scorn us on network television! And they want our support?!?!?

AlphaLiberal

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Tuesday April 29, 2008 · 8:37 AM PDT

2008/04/29 · 08:37

Josh Marshall flags some shameless shilling for John McCain from the Associated Press. We've seen this enough times in enough elections to know the biased reporting has only just begun.

Well, we need to start pushing back early. Four years ago, Sinclair Broadcasting made plans to show false and misleading Swift Boat reports. The netroots mobilized and pushed back hard. Sinclair had to back off, their stock dropped and they were shown to be Republican shills.

Well, let's not wait until they do their worst this year!

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Did you call?

Yes! I called!

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No, I just emailed.

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I didn't call or email, I just resigned myself to despair.

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Finally, someone asks about Saudi militia support in Iraq!

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Sunday July 15, 2007 · 12:12 PM PDT

2007/07/15 · 12:12

Listening to George Bush, Dick Cheney, Joe Liebermanand the otherwar advocates inflatethe Iranian role in Iraq has been frustrating. Another nation bordering Iraq is also involved in supporting militias hostile to US forces; Saudi Arabia.

The press almost never asks a challenging follow-up question to Iranian-induced paranoia: "Should the United States also care about Saudi Arabian support for Sunni militias?"

Editor and Publisher highlights a journalism outbreak at the LA Times. The Times lays out the facts that would stir a chorus if we still had an active press corps:

AlphaLiberal

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 10:24 AM PDT

2007/04/16 · 10:24

One of the frustrating parts of the US Attorney firing scandal is the ability of the Bushies to simultaneously argue:

US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President.

There is some confusion over who ordered the USAs fired.

If Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President, then any firings were done by the President. US Attorneys don't serve at the pleasure of the White House Political Director (Karl Rove) nor the Attorney General (Alberto Gonzales). (Unless the Republicans want to make such an argument...)

Bush is responsible for the exercise of Presidential power and doesn't get to say he doesn't know who exercised his power.

This is a simple matter, but many of our brightest lights seem not to "get it." It was George Bush who fired the US Attorneys under very suspect circumstances.

If Bush delegated such Presidential Authority to others, then that should be its own separate issue.

Powerline and Ann Althouse lie about John Kerry

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Thursday December 28, 2006 · 8:52 AM PST

2006/12/28 · 08:52

Both Powerline and Ann Althouse are pepetuating a falsehood against Senator Kerry. It's not the worst as these things go, but a despicable lie nonetheless.

Here's the issue:
Powerline alleges that on his recent visit to Iraq John Kerry was shunned by the troops. they show a picture of Kerry talking to some people over a meal as "proof." But the picture, itself, gives the lie to their smear.

AlphaLiberal

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Tuesday June 06, 2006 · 8:23 PM PDT

2006/06/06 · 20:23

Millions of people have died of AIDS around the world. In the 1980s, conservatives didn't want to do anything about it because it primarily struck gays. Instead, they joked and they cut funding and they erected obstacles to effective prevention policies.

Conservatives turned a blind eye to a burgeoning plague because it affected people whome conservatives dislike and because the prevention policies made the con's squeamish. Worse, they ran interference to effective policies. Read More

Time for a port pivot

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Monday February 27, 2006 · 7:42 AM PST

2006/02/27 · 07:42

The Democrats have done a pretty good job of raising the port security issue. (However, they do need to raise the stronger reasons, raised online, regarding the specific concerns with UAE ownership of some of our port operations. This to undercut charges based on open trade and anti-Arabism).

My main point here is that national Democrats would be smart to do a pivot on the issue. We need to raise the broader issue of port security, for all port operators, while continuing to press on the UAE/Dubai Ports World (DPW) issue.

Democrats need to unveil a plan to increase America's security by increasing port and airport security. Here is why they should do so now: Read More

Rep Mark Green implicated in Wisc scandal

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Friday February 24, 2006 · 7:27 AM PST

2006/02/24 · 07:27

The news out of Madison today is that Rep Mark Green, one of two Republican challengers to Gov Jim Doyle (D), was implicated in testimony yesterday in former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen's official misconduct trial.

While in the Assembly, Mark Green was Caucus Chair. The testimony says that staffers worked on campaign material for Mark Green and many others while at their taxpayer-funded jobs with the Assembly Republican Caucus. You can find the story here.

Green and his flacks make very lame and disingenuous denials that he did anything wrong. Apparently, while in the Assembly, Mr Green donned his halo every morning and went to work in a place where everyone but him knew wrongdoing was taking place.

Green's Chief of Staff, Mark Graul, is involved in the testimony and the denials. Mark Graul has already been implicated in Abramoff scandals.

The scandal is bipartisan and explained below the fold. Read More

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