CALL TO ACTION: Redstate SF Supporting Blue Dogs on Budget

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 12:52 PM PDT

2009/03/25 · 12:52

I haven't a lot to add to this, but it looks like the Redstate Strike Farce is giving blue dogs false confidence in their perceived support levels. I don't get their emails, but balloon juice has:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/...

Dear XXXX:

We need to get the Blue Dog Democrats to slow down budget approval in the House of Representatives. The vote in committee is tonight.

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

PICK UP THE PHONE.

CALL 202-224-3121....or your red-state/conservative/weak/blue-dog dem

Ask for Rep. John Yarmuth’s Office. ...or your red-state/conservative/weak/blue-dog dem

Please ask Congressman John Yarmuth to vote no on the budget tonight. We can stop the budget if you will pick up your phone right now. The vote is tonight.

Sincerely yours,

Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

*italics mine

gallivant

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Thursday March 19, 2009 · 4:07 PM PDT

2009/03/19 · 16:07

Why is this news now and not months ago when it was news?

It seems ridiculously obvious there was a "moderate" calculation by the administration to placate the pro-business class and avoid future socialist name-calling by the republicans by not outlawing excessive compensation to a company 80% owned by the people. Right or wrong be dammed, its cheaper to pay then pay for lawsuits we're told. We on the left don't want to discuss this or mention it. Same as Murtha's shit, we ignore pleas from Kos to make it a big issue and set ourselves up for a too-quick fall from power. Needlessly.

Mr. Liddy heads the board of AIG as well as being CEO. The board is paid and paid well via compensation. If Liddy wants to boast about his $1 salary and that he's a good guy in all this, newsbrokers need to ask him if he is accepting the board compensation and about his deferred intensives.

gallivant

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Wednesday March 18, 2009 · 7:57 AM PDT

2009/03/18 · 07:57

...If the financial products division was located in London--probably for this very reason--how could/would any 60%+ tax have any way to touch a foreigner's income? I mean, if Japan imposes a large tax on auto employees receiving Japanese Bailout tax yen, there is no sudden tax here for U.S.Toyota factory workers or their U.S. office workers. Is this not obvious? Can someone explain why 2nd-grade logic seems to have escaped the entirety of government, MSM, and everyone else?

Something doesn't pass the smell test in all of congress and all of the executive branch. ...unless subtracting that amount from the next 30 billion dollars is the only possible way to 'get back' that money...I agree with everyone that says this isn't new news, this was in the news multiple times last year and all during the stimulus debates. So what's going on?

gallivant

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Wednesday February 25, 2009 · 12:05 PM PST

2009/02/25 · 12:05

Piyush "Bobby Commie Kennedy" Jindal was raised a turban-wearing terrorist! He is forced to admit it because there is too much proof to deny it, email naysayers his wikipedia page as proof!! His wife is also a terrorist and doesnt even hide it! Have you seen her horse-ass? Americans dont look like that.

Did you know his pregnant parents came here to take advantage of our naive hospitality??? She obviously came here to give birth and forced to get to stay here because she birthed an "american" baby, but SHE WAS ALREADY MORE THAN FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANT before she even set foot here! Probably came for an ABORTION that is of course illegal in the world but realized they could have a better life in AMERICA on welfare - its true, 4 months pregnant and no job and immigrants, but they just were handed OUR scholarships and grants and loans and used that money to have an anchor baby so they cant be kicked out instead of paying for education like was its purpose!! They probably got more welfare for just having a baby anyway -- in fact, WHY HASNT JINDAL RELEASED HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE?????? What is he hiding?????

gallivant

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Thursday January 22, 2009 · 6:57 PM PST

2009/01/22 · 18:57

Not much of a diary, but, can anyone find any definitive information on what contact and information our detainees and enemy combatants have with the outside world? Unless guards are gossiping in front of them, are they given any information from the outside world? I've seen virtually no news on this in a google search, and what I did find ended up being contradictory in nature.

Post anything known in comments, I'll update this with the info, in case there's a strong interest in finding out.

UPDATED BELOW:

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 3:28 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 15:28

Sooooooooooo............... hating Lieberman, feeling conflicted about his senate position. And I was thinking, if Lieberman represents his "constituents" in Conn, he vote's with Democratic positions 75-85% of the time (basically most things except the war and defense, right?), wants to bash weak liberals, is old, old friends with Reid, McCain, etc., is respected(read:tolerated) by a faction of the Republican party, does not "count" as a Dem, but an independent, in the senate already, and Iraq and us are practically agreed already to shifting forces from Iraq to Afghanistan over the next 18 months, besides the hard feelings we have for him, wouldn't Lieberman be WELCOMED by Dems as a bipartisan-leader of the Republican Party? Perhaps even respected-as a republican-a little?

Imagine a Republican Leader that actually agrees with centrist social positions? Forgetting this being about Lieberman revenge or what he deserves, isn't this the perfect trojan horse to use to plant seeds of republican support for our social policies into a wide-open crack in the weakened GOP right now?

gallivant

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 5:12 AM PDT

2008/11/01 · 05:12

From an interview with PBS via "blogger" Ben Smith, Geraldine Ferraro endorses Obama, albeit a bit bitterly. Behold, the benevolent sound of a ringing endorsement:

[on Obama] I don't know him that well. I've never met him. [In picking Joe Biden] it seemed to me that not only is he smart, but he also knows where he could use help. And he's ready to pull that help in and share that power of the White House.

Yes! I can't imagine any other combination of words that could possibly convince anyone that its even possible for her to be any happier and more excited about this thing!

-other words after the jump
Update [2008-11-1 8:29:5 by gallivant]: it's been pointed out to me that this was diaried already! Sorry, i assumed it was news this morning, and completely missed the diary yesterday, but it was posted during the prime-time 10-minute diary races. Forgive!

Joe Klein Baits McCain Big Time: Plane Snub Payback?

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 5:59 AM PDT

2008/10/22 · 05:59

Pre-P.S. ::Let me know if this was diaried already, I couldn't find it!::
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Wow, of all the people in the this United States of ours, I must admit Joe Klein is probably the last person I expected to see try to bait McCain into a rage tantrum, but I'll be just gosh-darned if that's not what he seems to be doing. Here's Joe, from Time's Swampland:

But, seriously, you have to wonder why John McCain has spent so much time questioning the patriotism of others, especially his opponent, in this campaign. Is it because he once signed a prison "confession" that he considered treasonous?

Sure sounds like someone's a tad upset he was booted from the McCain Plane after all!

gallivant

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 7:18 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 07:18

I found myself stunned beyond all belief at McCain's response to Mr. Ayers attacks. I instantly thought for sure this line would be this decade's "I Knew Jack Kennedy" moment. As I pondered the implications of the thought process of McCain's [handler's] that could somehow possibly develop this sentence, let alone speak it during the last debate of a general election, I found myself more and more stunned, yet frustratingly confused, by Republican ideology, governance, tactics, and patriotism. I actually thought this was way more damning than his "allegedly air quotes" gesture to women's health.

Here is the specific quote:

MCCAIN: Yes, real quick. Mr. Ayers. I don't care about an old washed-up terrorist.

Read the quote again. Think about the possible meaning of this seemingly incomplex sentence.

I honestly felt sorry for the Republican true-believers, thinking this line would be 120-pt font banner headlines in every newspaper by morning, their entire ideological farce shaming even the most hawkish members of their constituency. I thought it would be the line instantly repeated. I was wrong. It was not even noticed.

Help me figure out why below.

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