MoveOn, the Cornyn Amendment, and Spineless Senate Dems: What Burns Me

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Wednesday September 26, 2007 · 11:30 AM PDT

2007/09/26 · 11:30

I want to tell a story about how 22 weak-kneed and spineless Democratic U.S. Senators just made my life and active participation in the political process just a little bit more difficult. It took me a week to figure out why I was so angry, but I just figured it out. Follow me beneath the fold to understand my full rage....

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Wednesday May 23, 2007 · 12:37 PM PDT

2007/05/23 · 12:37

Who knew the Daily News would be right? Well, maybe not right, but they did get the label right; Our party leadership surrendered to President 28 Freaking Percent!

This is looking like a wholesale sellout by the Dems in Congress:

First it was a sellout on ethics reform.

Then it was a sell out on fair vs free trade.

Now they're selling us out on the freaking ~~war~~ occupation.

Weren't these the three main issues that got us control of the House and, if it weren't for Holy Joementum, would have given us control of all of Congress?

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 3:09 PM PDT

2006/10/02 · 15:09

Every single time there is a crisis that looks as if it might seriously impair Republican power or even make the Republicans look real bad to the American public, there always seems to be an event or further 'new' crisis that manages to change the subject in the MSM. This, of course, is what Olbermann pointed out in his show that he rebroadcast several times, showing the 'coincidences' between major scandals and ramping up the terror alerts, etc.

Heck, as horribly disgusting as Foleygate/pedopheliagate is, it conveniently changed the subject of public discourse from the torture bill and our loss of habeas corpus, to pedophelia, a sleazy housemember, and "naughty e-mails" (damn Tony Snow--what a sleazebag shyster.)

So, I was just sitting here thinking about all the other nasty Republican stuff I have been fretting over for the past week and began to think: well, the standard Rove move is to find something big enough to change the topic of discourse in the MSM in order to distract the American people.

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NY Times: "Dems have a better chance at winning Senate than House in '06." ( WITH POLL!)

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Monday January 02, 2006 · 8:54 AM PST

2006/01/02 · 08:54

In this article from today's NYT, the reporters suggest that,

[i]n truth, Democratic hopes of winning back the House are somewhat remote. They have a better shot at capturing the Senate.

I don't know that this is all that much of an issue, but it seems to me that this goes against all conventional wisdom (at least conventional wisdom here at dK--are we that out of it?) With the House scandals in process of blowing up in the MSM, I don't get the reasoning here.

Whitehouse Spying: Correct Me If I'm Wrong

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Friday December 30, 2005 · 9:13 PM PST

2005/12/30 · 21:13

"Justice Dept. Probing Domestic Spying Leak" link
This seems to me to be something the Democrats--including, if not especially, John Dean--should be all over and slamming down the freaking throats of the Republicans. I know we do not have the 'noise machine' or 'echo chamber' that the Republicans do, but wtf? Have all members of the Democratic leadership had too many egg nogs? Have they drifted into Santa's blissed out heaven? Got too lit up in Chanukkah? Discovered their roots in Kwanzaa? Pick one, any one, but WHERE THE DICKENS ARE THE DEMOCRATS?

One thing I think we need to have learned from the fascist noise machine is that IT NEVER STOPS!!!! NEVER!!!

And we do not need to make 'noise' like they do, BUT, like the 50 state strategy, we need to respond to every lie and every misrepresentation. These effing liars are AT IT AGAIN. (Surprise!)

Let's do more than wish them a freaking happy HOLIDAY! PLEASE?

Dems back down to Sensenbrenner?: "Congress Extends Patriot Act for One Month "

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 8:24 PM PST

2005/12/22 · 20:24

I am afraid that this is a huge mistake on the part of the Democrats. I think, as many suggested last night, that the Dems need to extend the Patriot Act debate well into the beginning of the 2006 voting cycle. I am concerned that the Dems are too anxious to get/stay home for the holidays to stand up to Sensenbrenner's insistence. One point worth thinking about is that the House leadership (in order to give itself enough time to put on its knee-pads for DeLay) has already decided to reconvene in late January. One month from now is late January. Because of this, a one month extention is problematic for the Democrats to have accepted, and I am afraid we are going to end up with the same freaking situation we were just in. Why let the Republicans get away with this brief extension?

NYTimes gets in on Dissing Fitzgerald

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 8:36 AM PST

2005/11/17 · 08:36

Did anyone else notice this? Even the NYTimes is getting in on the 'dis Fitzgerald' game (p.2 first paragraph of the article).

The existence of Mr. Woodward's mysterious source came as a surprise to lawyers in the case, because it hinted that Mr. Fitzgerald had failed to learn a significant fact after two years of investigation, despite his reputation as a ferocious investigator who spent weeks digging out the smallest details before seeking indictments.

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Powerful Anti-war video from Bring It On!

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 10:37 AM PST

2005/11/04 · 10:37

A friend of mine just sent this link to me from the Bring It On! site. Among all of the anti-war materials I have both read and viewed, this is one of the more compelling. It is titled "Do You Know What 2000 [Deaths] Looks Like?"

I haven't seen it posted here yet and will delete it if it's already been posted.

"Do You Know What 2000 Looks Like?"

economics vs what's right

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Wednesday February 16, 2005 · 10:57 PM PST

2005/02/16 · 22:57

EUNICE, N.M. - Like many others in this former boomtown, Mayor James Brown knows more about isotopes, centrifuges and uranium-235 than your average college student.
Brown's recent crash course in nuclear physics was a prerequisite: Many of his constituents are counting on the jobs and economic trickle-down that are being promised if a $1.3 billion uranium enrichment plant that would make fuel for nuclear power plants comes to town.
Critics say the proposed National Enrichment Facility could pollute the environment, guzzle scarce water and leave this oil-producing town with tons of radioactive waste and nowhere to put it.
But the mayor warns that without the plant, Eunice faces extinction. Read More

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MoveOn, the Cornyn Amendment, and Spineless Senate Dems: What Burns Me

SURRENDER MONKEYS INDEED!!!

How will the Republicans (i.e., Rove) change the subject from "Foleygate"?

NY Times: "Dems have a better chance at winning Senate than House in '06." ( WITH POLL!)

Whitehouse Spying: Correct Me If I'm Wrong

Dems back down to Sensenbrenner?: "Congress Extends Patriot Act for One Month "

NYTimes gets in on Dissing Fitzgerald

Powerful Anti-war video from Bring It On!

economics vs what's right