Rudy campaign screws Iowa volunteers

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Friday May 11, 2007 · 7:54 AM PDT

2007/05/11 · 07:54

Man, this makes the Obama MySpace kerfluffle look like, well, a kerfluffle.

To the extended text!!

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Saturday October 28, 2006 · 3:28 PM PDT

2006/10/28 · 15:28

There's a comment in the thread about Wes Clark's ad for Ned Lamont that should hit us all about as hard as a heart attack. Prose of Sharon writes: "I have no doubt in my mind Bush will be convinced by Rove that they can kill two bird with one stone. Appease the critics of Rumsfeld, and give the appearance of bipartisanship with an accompanying scold of the Dems by appointing Lieberman as the new Secy."

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but this one is so obvious we should be ashamed for missing it. I'll go farther than Prose of Sharon. In fact, I'll go past the jump. Come on over.
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Hangin' with Ned and John in the Elm City

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 9:09 AM PDT

2006/08/18 · 09:09

John Edwards came to town (New Haven, CT, that is) yesterday to support Ned Lamont. There were at least two events on the Edwards/Lamont agenda: A public rally at Yale-New Haven Hospital, superbly reported by Mbair in this diary (with video, no less!!) and a private, invite-only, mostly for trial lawyers, hush-hush cocktail fundraiser at the exclusive Quinnipiack Club. (Yes, that's the same Quinnipiac - no k - that gave its name to the pollsters, but other than taking their names from the same mighty river, the Club and the poll, there's no connection between the two.) Because the other diary covers the public rally so extensively that, after the jump, I'll just comment briefly on that. I'll provide more detail, tedious and irrelevant as it may be, about the later event. Read More

George Will's trap for Al Gore

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Sunday June 11, 2006 · 1:54 PM PDT

2006/06/11 · 13:54

In a new column available at the right-wing site Real Clear Politics, George Will sets a trap for Al Gore. I'm more than reasonably certain that Gore will refuse to take the bait, but it's worth analyzing Will's column and trying to expose the hidden assumptions underlying his attempt to create a no-win situation for Our Guy.

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The Swift-Boating of Al Gore begins

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Wednesday May 24, 2006 · 9:41 PM PDT

2006/05/24 · 21:41

Thank goodness there are still patriotic Americans brave enough to stand up to elitist hypocrites. The good folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, with the support of Matt Drudge, have launched a Swift Boat style attack on Al Gore to coincide with the opening of Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

Oh, sure, Gore SAYS he's spreading the word on the dangers of CO2 emissions. But did you know that the former Vice President has himself emitted CO2? Yup. He has. Lots of it, too.

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The Conservative Nanny State

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 8:33 AM PDT

2006/05/12 · 08:33

Many of you are, no doubt, familiar with the work of economist Dean Baker. Baker is an innovative political thinker and has a gift for presenting economic issues in a clear, coherent way. He is particularly good at unmasking the hidden assumptions built into the political discourse about economic issues, and demonstrating how those assumptions, if unchallenged, will continue to put progressives on the defensive and, in the process, inflict economic damage on the country as a whole.

Baker has written a new book. It's called The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. The book provides a handy guide to exposing conservative reliance on government intervention into the market economy. It may well change the way you think about economics, markets and the like. Jump with me for more. Read More

Gore-Zinni in '08?

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Tuesday April 11, 2006 · 8:56 AM PDT

2006/04/11 · 08:56

Ya know, when "longtime political strategists" from the Democratic party start offering advice, my first instinct is to duck beneath the desk, stick my fingers in my ears and start singing loudly, "I can't hear you!! Neener neener neener!" Democrats seem to choose strategists like baseball teams choose managers: Experience trumps all. Never mind that the veteran's experience consists mainly of losing. Once you're in the club, you can count on getting recycled ad nauseum, and I do mean nauseum.

So I was a bit surprised to find that this rather cogent '08 analysis, advancing a dream ticket of Al Gore and General Anthony Zinni, came from an apparently experienced Democrat strategist. Extend for details. Read More

Happy Suckers' Day, everyone!!

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Thursday November 24, 2005 · 8:08 AM PST

2005/11/24 · 08:08

Don't forget, folks, as you chomp down your Thanksgiving turkey, that the more historically accurate holiday, Suckers' Day, follows Thanksgiving as night follows day.

Suckers' Day honors the many times Europeans told Native Americans, "We come in peace," while thinking to themselves, "Suckers!!"

Fittingly, we celebrate Suckers' Day the day after Thanksgiving, in the traditional manner: by indulging in a consumer spending spree. In this way, we symbolically assume the role of Native Americans by willingly handing large sums of American money to merchants who assure us that they have our best interests in mind.

Chow down, folks!!

Gang of 14 reins in DeWine, Graham

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 8:18 PM PST

2005/11/03 · 20:18

(From the diaries -- kos)

Reuters reports that, after a full meeting of the so-called Gang of 14, Senators Michael DeWine (R-Ohio) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) backed off from earlier statements that the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court would not constitute "extraordinary circumstances" justifying the use of a filibuster:

Earlier this week, Republican Sens. Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both members of the Group of 14, said they would oppose a filibuster. DeWine said he would even vote to cut off Democrats' rights to launch judicial filibusters if they attempted one in this case.

But DeWine and Graham, two of the group's more conservative members, emerged from a meeting of the full group on Thursday, saying members were taking a wait-and-see approach.

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What juvenile delinquents can teach us about the Bush White House

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Thursday October 20, 2005 · 7:58 PM PDT

2005/10/20 · 19:58

David Corn suggests that the White House staffers who leaked the account of President Bush's anger at Karl Rove to the New York Daily News believed they were helping the President by showing he was really, really angry about the leak(s) identifying Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA operative. In fact, they have opened up new questions about the President's level of involvement in the matter.

Jump to read (or reread) Corn's comments and to see how juvenile delinquents may help us understand the psychology here. Read More

F*ck "accountability." We're talking about lives. A rant.

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Tuesday September 13, 2005 · 7:49 PM PDT

2005/09/13 · 19:49

I'm getting a bit tired of the hand-wringing and the debates over how to "frame" this administration's unforgivable incompetence. Yes, we've all noticed that the media sheep bleat the Bush talking points on cue: "Baaaah! Blame game. Baaaaah!" But what do we offer in response? "Well, Don, the Bush administration is simply using these cutesy phrases as a way of avoiding accountability."

Well, duh.

But accountability, in case no one's noticed, is, how to put this gently? A fucking abstraction. That's what. A big motherfucking abstraction, lovely for policy wonks and lawyers. But for actual communication with real people? Not so good.

If you're still with me, hold your nose, close your eyes and
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I dub thee "prominent Republican Pat Robertson"

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Thursday August 25, 2005 · 6:28 PM PDT

2005/08/25 · 18:28

Unsurprisingly enough, the leadership of God's Own Party has been distancing themselves as fast as it can from poor ol' Pat Robertson. As James Wolcott observes:

Yesterday we saw the backfire over Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. It was rather comic how, even in the condemnation of Robertson's statement, the man behind the mouth was diminuitized as a sort of quaint old garden gnome whose name recognition was all out of proportion to his influence. The State Department called his murdermongering "inappropriate" (pretty rough language there, sailor), but described Robertson modestly as a "private citizen." He's rather more than that. A former Republican presidential candidate and former head of the Christian Coalition, he isn't just some guy popping off at the end of the salad bar.

Follow me to the flip for more evidence of this unholy dis and a suggestion as to how we might stand up for Pat's honor.
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