CIA Leak Case: Armitage was Novak's original source

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Wednesday August 30, 2006 · 10:22 AM PDT

2006/08/30 · 10:22

CNN is now reporting that Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell, was the original leaker of Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak:

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If Lieberman supports the troops, he should lay the fuck off of Kos

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Wednesday August 16, 2006 · 10:21 PM PDT

2006/08/16 · 22:21

Many of you have undoubtedly read this little tidbit from the so-called "Stupidest Man in Politics," Dan Gerstein (Lieberman's communications director):

Why should anyone outside the Sharpton/Kos wing of the Democratic Party believe Ned Lamont will represent their views in Washington.

For a lawyer and career politician who has never sacrificed for this country, Sore Loserman has a lot of lip sending out his weasels to smear a patriot and army veteran like Kos, who, at almost half Lieberman's age, has already sacrificed more for our country than Lieberman will in his entire life. When Lieberman attacks Kos as a member of the "antisecurity wing of the Democratic Party," he is attacking all of us here. More so, he is attacking hundreds of thousands of veterans and Americans of all political stripes who believe the war in Iraq was a mistake. Read More

Debate Impressions - Joe Lieberman: polished speaker, obnoxious individual

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Thursday July 06, 2006 · 9:43 PM PDT

2006/07/06 · 21:43

My two cents: The Lamont-Lieberman debate looked remarkably similar to a debate that I timekept for as a volunteer for a local campaign I was working for this past fall. Why do I think tonight's debate will bode surprisingly well for Ned, even if he isn't as polished as Loserman? Because what's more important than the exact meter you speak in or how comfortable you look is how you present yourself....in other words, how you come across as a person. And this is where Joe Lieberman will undoubtedly piss off a large portion of the CT electorate. Read More

Ned Lamont - the reluctant leader

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Saturday April 22, 2006 · 10:56 AM PDT

2006/04/22 · 10:56

I happened to stumble upon an interesting article about Ned Lamont, Connecticut's Democratic challenger to Joe Lieberman, in The New Republic, of all places. While many of the New Republic's writers tend to be centrist to conservative Democrats, this article is actually quite reasonable and fair to Lamont, and doesn't take any unnecessary potshots at him personally, although it does not portray some anti-Lieberman bloggers in the most favorable light. So, what does this article tell us about Ned that we might not have known already? A few things you wouldn't expect, actually. Read on. Read More

The New Republic on Russ Feingold's chances at President

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Thursday November 24, 2005 · 6:49 PM PST

2005/11/24 · 18:49

The New Republic recently published a long, interesting article about Sen. Russ Feingold's chances at becoming President. However, this article is more about the qualities and beliefs of the man himself rather than about how he'll fare in 2008. The title is "Will Iraq make Russell Feingold the new Howard Dean?" yet the article acknowledges that the two men aren't the nearly the same, despite both of them gaining popularity for opposing the war. Feingold's principled, consistent approach to politics is what endears him to his fans but also often angers his Senate colleagues, including those on his side of the aisle, prompting one of the Senators to say "Feingold, if we go into Iraq, we're strapping you onto the first missile!" Feel compelled to learn more about this complicated, articulate, principled man who may become President? Read on. Read More

I'm volunteering for a Republican

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 1:00 PM PDT

2005/10/07 · 13:00

That's right, you heard me correctly. This year our town of Orange, CT is having its local elections, and our local head of government is the First Selectman. For the first 173 years of our town's history, a Democrat was never in the First Selectman's office. For the last 10 years, Democrats have had it. The Democratic incumbent has done a pretty good job over his six years in office, bringing plenty of new business to town to keep property taxes down. So why am I volunteering for a Republican? Read More

Obama tells the truth about Bush's "Ownership Society"

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 9:33 AM PDT

2005/08/24 · 09:33

I hadn't read Barack Obama's commencement speech at Knox College until yesterday, when I found it while surfing Obama's website. Like almost all of his speeches, it's a fantastic speech, and beautifully written, but the best part comes near the end, as Barack eloquently tears into the Republican frame of the "Ownership Society."

Like so much of the American story, once again, we face a choice. Once again, there are those who believe that there isn't much we can do about this as a nation. That the best idea is to give everyone one big refund on their government - divvy it up into individual portions, hand it out, and encourage everyone to use their share to go buy their own health care, their own retirement plan, their own child care, education, and so forth.

In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society. But in our past there has been another term for it - Social Darwinism, every man and woman for him or herself.

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Tuesday July 12, 2005 · 6:09 AM PDT

2005/07/12 · 06:09

Rick Santorum, trailing badly in the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania polls to popular state treasurer Bob Casey, is trying to attack Casey by tying him to the liberal group MoveOn.org after MoveOn raised over $150K for Casey. Man-On-Dog's media consultant says that they will expose Casey as "aligned with the ultra-liberal left." All Casey has to do to spin this back in their face, and turn their strongest issue (security/patriotism/terrorism) into a weakness is make one simple statement over and over: "I find it pitiful and almost comical that a person who supports a proven traitor to the country as his party's head political strategist now has the audacity to challenge my patriotism." If he gets this word out enough, the GOP's so-called "advantage" on patriotism will be fully exposed as a sham and a lie.

Dean is our Goldwater

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Sunday June 12, 2005 · 9:11 AM PDT

2005/06/12 · 09:11

Just over 40 years ago, Barry Goldwater rocked the Democrat-lite GOP establishment by puttting an end to the "me-tooism" that had killed the party for over 30 years, and promoted a vigorous platform of small government. He was ridiculed by the liberal wing of the party, alienated many Republicans, and went down in flames to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 in the biggest popular vote landslide in history. However, 16 years later, Ronald Reagan, who deeply admired Goldwater, won on a similar platform of small government, strong defense, and fiscal responsibility. It wasn't a politically easy move, but Goldwater came first in re-defining the Republican Party, and helped them immensely in the long run. Therefore, all true Democrats should be thankful for what Howard Dean is doing today. Read More

Bill Weld considering run for NY Governor

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Tuesday April 26, 2005 · 9:09 PM PDT

2005/04/26 · 21:09

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, a popular moderate Republican, is
considering running for Governor of New York
should George Pataki not seek re-election. Read More

Democratic Foreign Policy Divide

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Sunday February 27, 2005 · 11:18 AM PST

2005/02/27 · 11:18

There is a divide emerging between Democrats on foreign policy. One group is the Joe Biden group, who believed Bush on Iraq, now feels somewhat mislead and that Bush doesn't know how to handle reconstruction, but generally agrees with the Democracy through force argument. The second faction is the Howard Dean faction, which opposed the war before it was popular (on account of Iraq not being an imminent threat), but believes in spreading democracy not only militarily but also economically, and puts emphasis on retaining our moral authority. The third faction is the isolationist group.

Which vision should we follow? Read More

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