FDL says "Grow the F**k Up! Get Coakley Elected!"

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 11:11 AM PST

2010/01/18 · 11:11

In case there's any doubt that it really is just a few frustrated outliers in the progressive blogosphere who are not supporting Coakley in this election, please go on over to the infamous Firedoglake and check out the latest frontpage post:

Just so there’s absolutely no ambiguity, let me get something out of the way: Democrats and progressives and anyone who doesn’t want crazy people running the country should get off their asses tomorrow and vote early and often for Coakley.

“Punishing” the Democratic Party by helping elect a Bush/Cheney Republican is the equivalent of cutting off your head to spite your nose hairs.

Grow the fuck up, please.

GreenSooner

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Saturday January 16, 2010 · 12:39 PM PST

2010/01/16 · 12:39

A number of diarists and commentators on this site have suggested that a Coakley loss wouldn't be bad for the Democratic Party, since it would serve as a valuable "wake-up call" for the party leadership. The Democratic base has been demoralized by the compromises that this Administration and Congress have made with both monied interests and the Republican Party. A Senate loss is a deep blue state will surely show the leadership of the Democratic Party the error of its ways. Or so the argument goes.

Unfortunately, our politics doesn't work like this.

GreenSooner

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Thursday October 22, 2009 · 6:40 AM PDT

2009/10/22 · 06:40

Much as we all love to bash wingnut pundits, some of the most damaging and aggressively silly punditry in American comes courtesy of self-described moderates whose shtik consists of finding false equivalencies while dragging the Overton Window steadily rightward.

And one of the most egregious of these "moderates" is the historian Gil Troy, who spent last year blogging the presidential race. Last October 26, in a post entitled "Partisan Myopia Test," Troy used his blog to argue that Sarah Palin and Al Franken were equally unqualified for the offices they sought, and, further, to demand that everyone agree with him or reveal themselves to be fatally partisan:

How many people are willing to denounce both Sarah Palin and Al Franken as unqualified for the respective positions they seek? Even at this late date, it is important to test ourselves and each other for consistency, to see if we have any objective standards – or it is all a matter of partisan positioning.

GreenSooner

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Thursday October 08, 2009 · 6:02 AM PDT

2009/10/08 · 06:02

With full apologies due to ~~my fellow~~ Democrats in deep red states, I must nevertheless admit that I really love the idea of overturning Roe v. Wade.

Not because it's the best idea by any means. A national right to choose would be the best idea. Not because tens of thousands of real Americans won't die, tens of thousands of children won't suffer, in states with morally bankrupt legislators. They will.

But it would do wonders to completely reframe the entire debate over abortion in general by allowing, at long last, those states with Randian ideological pedigrees to truly "go Galt", in a head to head test of ideologies to see who comes out ahead and why. If we play our cards right, it might just be the ticket to Democratic victories in the South. And it might be, over the long run, the best avenue toward real reproductive freedom for everyone.

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Monday September 14, 2009 · 7:18 AM PDT

2009/09/14 · 07:18

For the last several months, much of the Obama administration's healthcare reform strategy has been framed by discussions of the lessons of '93 (when Clinton unsuccessfully rolled out his healthcare reform plan) and '94 (when the Democrats lost Congress).

Last week, I diaried about the administration's (and its supporters') failure to learn the real lesson of '94: don't piss off the base. Today, I'm going to discuss the unlearned lesson of '93: you can't pass real healthcare reform by trying to bring the insurance and pharmaceutical industry on board your reform efforts.

GreenSooner

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 12:09 AM PDT

2009/09/08 · 00:09

Looming over the Obama White House's healthcare strategy has been the specter of 1993 and 1994, when Bill Clinton failed to accomplish healthcare reform and the Democrats lost both Houses of Congress.

The Obama White House is, of course, sensible to try to learn from the experience of the first two Clinton years. But its ability to do so has been hampered by the fact that the lessons are largely being drawn by former Clinton insiders themselves, most notably of course White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Perhaps unsurprisingly then, the lessons drawn by the Obama White House largely concern political tactics and tend to reaffirm the basic strategic and ideological tendencies of the Clinton White House: triangulate; pander to the "center"; ignore the policy desires of the progressive base, while taking them politically for granted and, occasionally, scoring political points by attacking them.

GreenSooner

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 7:46 AM PDT

2009/08/19 · 07:46

After avoiding his district for the first half of the recess, Congressman Dan Boren, the only member of the Oklahoma Congressional delegation too dim to figure out he's a Republican, emerged from his hidey hole to conduct three Town Hall Meetings in McAlester, Muskogee, and Pryor.

Boren's 2nd CD is in eastern and southeastern Oklahoma. I'm in central Oklahoma (where I'm "represented" by Tom Cole). So Boren is not my Congressman. And having done my duty and attended a Cole Town Hall last week, I didn't drive the two hours plus to get to one of Boren's yesterday.

Reports suggest that, at least for my blood pressure, I made the right call.

GreenSooner

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 8:44 PM PDT

2009/08/13 · 20:44

Despite all the excellent organizing by progressives on health care reform, we've pretty clearly lost Round One of the August Recess wars. Don't get me wrong. I don't think healthcare reform is fatally wounded by any stretch of the imagination. But the right has framed the issues and we've found ourselves playing defense.

So while truth-squading the Deathers is necessary and should continue, it's no substitute for an offensive strategy. So this diary is my modest attempt at suggesting one.

GreenSooner

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Sunday August 09, 2009 · 4:29 PM PDT

2009/08/09 · 16:29

Robert Reich, one of the most reliably progressive Democratic voices, has just put up a blog post decrying the recently announced deal between the White House and the pharmaceutical industry.

In order to buy the industry's support for its healthcare reform policies, the Obama administration has pledged that whatever reform emerges will "bar the government from using its huge purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices." This is, as Reich points out, the same deal that the Bush Administration struck over the Medicare drug benefit. And it basically assures that one of the main forms of cost cutting that healthcare reform could bring won't happen.

But as Reich points out, the deal is not only bad for all of us. It's bad for democracy.

GreenSooner

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Friday July 17, 2009 · 8:37 AM PDT

2009/07/17 · 08:37

One of the frequent features of this site is the Liveblog. Just this week, we've had active liveblogging of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings and of the various House healthcare markup sessions. Liveblogging both creates a record of an ongoing event and helps Kossacks communicate with each other about an event as it's happening.

Over the years, the practice of liveblogging has developed on dKos. Liveblogs require multiple diaries, or they quickly become ungainly. And in the past, this would require frantic, coordinated recomends and unrecommends to push the active liveblog onto the recommend list, and take the inactive liveblogs off of it. To deal with these problems, Kossacks have adopted the Mothership system. But we can do better.

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Wednesday July 15, 2009 · 7:55 AM PDT

2009/07/15 · 07:55

This is no longer the active child diary. The next child diary has begun here. See the Mothership for the current child diary.

This is the liveblog for the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor is testifying today. The hearings began at 9:30 am EDT. Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) led off the questioning this morning. He was followed by Sen. Cardin (D-MD). As this child diary started, Sen. Coburn (R-OK) was questioning Sotomayor. Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI) has also questioned her. Following a fifteen minute break, Sen. Klobuchar (D-MN) is now up.

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Tuesday July 14, 2009 · 6:50 AM PDT

2009/07/14 · 06:50

THIS CHILD DIARY IS CLOSED PLEASE GO TO THE CURRENT CHILD DIARY TO COMMENT.

This is the liveblog for the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor is testifying today. The hearings began at 9:30 am EDT.

DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DIARY. PLEASE RECOMMEND THE MOTHERSHIP DIARY.

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