Paging Dr. Creepy.. I mean Senator Frist...

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Wednesday May 24, 2006 · 6:38 AM PDT

2006/05/24 · 06:38

I know it's preaching to the choir around here to say that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a pretty creepy guy. But there's something unique and special about this "Off Camera" look at Frist in today's Washington Post.

It turns out he's creepier than anyone ever imagined. Here's a quote to entice you:

"Well, your first patient was a dog," Karyn [Frist's wife] said. In medical school, Frist cut out a dog's heart and held it in his palm. It continued to beat for a slippery minute.
"Watching it beat, the beauty of it," Frist recalled. "I decided I would spend my life centered around the heart."

More on the flip, including a reference to gorilla testosterone. Read More

Bush: A "Very Bad Wizard" (from WaPo's Shales)

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 9:20 AM PST

2005/12/19 · 09:20

Today's Washington Post features a review of last night's Bush speech by Tom Shales, their TV reviewer. If you don't regularly read his stuff, you are missing out in general, but his looks at political events are universally excellent. The highight, though, came at the end... read on. Read More

Washington Post's Terry Neal Smacks Down Lynching Holdouts

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Thursday June 23, 2005 · 7:42 AM PDT

2005/06/23 · 07:42

This Terry Neal column on washingtonpost.com summarizes the issues on the lynching resolution as well as I have seen them summarized.

Here's just a sample, his lead paragraph:

There's not much these days that the two parties in Washington can rally around, as evidenced by the increasingly shrill tone here. You might think that one thing on which everyone in both parties could agree would be a resolution apologizing for the Senate's failure, over many decades, to make it a federal crime for racists to hunt black people like animals and hang them from trees.

More after the cut. Read More

Heath Shuler - A Red State Dem Who Can Win (NC-11)

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Friday April 15, 2005 · 12:44 PM PDT

2005/04/15 · 12:44

Now this is a Democrat who can get elected in a red state. Former University of Tennessee and NFL QB Heath Shuler is contemplating a run against Republican Rep. Charles Taylor (NC-11).

It is hard (for me, anyway) not to love this idea. Shuler is a sharp guy, and clearly popular. Plus, the idea of Heath Shuler returning as a Congressman to the city that hated him so much when he played for the Redskins is an incredible thought. He's been a successful businessman in Knoxville since he left the NFL, but I didn't know he had returned to North Carolina. (more on the flip.)
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A New Argument on Bankruptcy?

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Thursday April 14, 2005 · 6:25 AM PDT

2005/04/14 · 06:25

Maybe it is too little too late, but thinking about the bankruptcy bill last night, I realized I hadn't heard anyone make the argument yet that it will affect young people coming out of college saddled with debt. (Brought to them by the cards foisted on them at every turn on every campus in the country, of course.)

So, I wrote a letter to my Congressman last night. The text of the letter I sent to the not-so-good-and-by-that-I-mean-evil Zach Wamp is after the jump: Read More

What I'd like in my new DNC chair... (w/poll)

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Thursday January 13, 2005 · 1:17 PM PST

2005/01/13 · 13:17

My Gmail just told me I had a new message, and on this particularly boring workday, I was excited to see that the Ragin' Cajun himself had e-mailed me.

But alas, it was from that most annoying of e-mail addresses at democrats.org. I knew then that, once again, the only e-mail I have received from the party was not about a bill to take action on, or anything substantive at all, but instead was just asking me for more cash.

This bugs me now, and really bugged me during the campaign - so here's what I want from the next DNC chair: Read More

Updated: Don't believe the wingnut spin on armor

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Thursday December 09, 2004 · 10:33 AM PST

2004/12/09 · 10:33

The odds are that we'll be seeing a concerted move from the wingnuts over the next few hours and days to change the story about the armor crisis in Iraq.

Drudge and others have been seizing on the fact that the question about missing armor was planted by a journalist with the soldier who asked it. The talk is turning to the old "liberal media."

Don't believe the hype! Update [2004-12-9 14:7:57 by TNliberal]: Keith Olbermann covers the story, spin-free. Read More

Please give this poll the freeping it needs!

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Friday October 15, 2004 · 8:57 AM PDT

2004/10/15 · 08:57

While Chattanooga, Tenn. isn't exactly a major market, Dems in our fair city are laying the groundwork to bring Tennessee's 11 electoral votes back to the good guys. Please vote in this poll if you get a chance, and help us sway a few undecideds!

http://www.chattanoogan.com

It's on the right side, down about 2/3 of the way in a grey box.

Thanks, fellow Kossacks.

65,000 New TN Voters... Since Last Week!

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Thursday October 07, 2004 · 8:15 AM PDT

2004/10/07 · 08:15

Great registration news out of Tennessee in today's Nashville City Paper.

The straight numbers: 65,000 new voters since this time last week, total of 329,000 for the year, with "buckets" to still be counted.

Quotes and full logic after the jump, but the DP here credits the increase to a more relevant Democratic primary held in February as opposed to March. Read More

CNN's Schneider is a fool.

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Wednesday October 06, 2004 · 3:28 PM PDT

2004/10/06 · 15:28

Just got through watching CNN's Bill Schneider tell us all that Dick Cheney most definitely won the debate last night. Why, you might ask?

He counted the number of times the words "John Kerry" were said: 78. Then he counted the number of times either "Bush" or "the President" were said: 35. He then pronounced that this means Dick Cheney was able to "frame the debate" as being about John Kerry instead of Bush, and thus won.

So, I decided to do a little Factcheck.com.. I mean .org.. whatever, about this little theory: Read More

Vote dKos on WaPo Blog Poll

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Monday October 04, 2004 · 11:18 AM PDT

2004/10/04 · 11:18

Nothing like a good meaningless diversion. The WaPo is hosting a "Best Blogs 2004" poll about political blogs of various shapes and sizes. I figure we ought to vote the hell out of dKos where appropriate!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/marketing/blog/

Registration required, but WaPo is especially good about protecting your info.

God Bless the Daily Show

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Tuesday August 24, 2004 · 7:49 AM PDT

2004/08/24 · 07:49

Kerry tonight on the Daily Show, which is great in and of itself, but this column from Lisa DeMoraes in the WaPo has a few good nuggets:

My highlight quote, from Ben Karlin, the show's producer:

"All of us [on 'The Daily Show'] are just blown away by the turn the campaign has taken," Karlin said. "We cannot believe that this is what is being talked about at this juncture. It's so astounding to us. We are trying to work through our amazement and to conduct a meaningful conversation absent of incredulity, because [the interview] is not going to go anywhere if you just say, 'What the [expletive] is going on?' "
Karlin said he will nonetheless suggest that that be the first question Stewart puts to Kerry tonight.
"If you just want to pinpoint the success of the Republican Party and Bush, this is a perfect case study," Karlin continued, "because George W. Bush has put a moratorium on talk about his behavior under the age of 40 and everyone [in the press] is abiding by it. 'Were you or were you not an alcoholic or did you just have a drinking problem?,' 'Were you or were you not a drug abuser?' Meanwhile they're debating whether [Kerry's war] wounds drew blood or were they superficial, or occurred in the same day, or whether he shot a guy wearing a toga. . . . How is that possible?"

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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