The Pelosi Club's Imminent Obama Endorsement [Updated]

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 12:41 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 12:41

Kossacks--recall that back in Speaker Pelosi affirmed that she would support the winner of the pledged delegate majority in the race for the Democratic Nomination. Shortly thereafter, a host of other Dem federal officer holders followed suit. Their names are here.

Well, this morning Ben Smith passes along the math on the pledged delegate count per Politico's expert. Jump on over for the details on the math and the Pelosi Club list.

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Tuesday October 03, 2006 · 1:13 AM PDT

2006/10/03 · 01:13

I just had a funny feeling right now, and I thought I'd toss out this notion before I head to bed. I searched for a diary on this and didn't see anything. If someone's covered this, I'll delete.

I assume that Rove is looking hard for any Democrat with a sex scandal he can spin into a "both parties" narrative to try to limit the damage. And I gotta think that if he doesn't find anything he can use, he will at least consider making it up. Mr. Attack Your Opponent's Strength just got a new line of atack. In the event he tries to pull something along those lines, we have to be ready. My thoughts on that are in the extended. Read More

Ummm, Wow. Colbert is the MAN.

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 11:33 PM PST

2006/02/09 · 23:33

Did people see Colbert tonight? This show is getting so good it's making me simultaneously shiver and grin with deep satisfaction on a regular basis these days. It's really potent. Sort of like Jesus' General has his own show, but I'd argue it's even better because it uses the ugliest part of the traditional media--the screeching heads--to make its point, and thus make it more relevant than just any old insane wingnut. It's a show about a wingnut who has power, and it's scary good when Colbert's on.

But tonight was above and beyond. Colbert tore Packer and all of the "Liberal Hawks" a new one in the space of a couple sentences. Read More

Two Can Play at that Game: Project Mike DeWine Wets Himself

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Tuesday February 07, 2006 · 6:11 PM PST

2006/02/07 · 18:11

The communicative principle of Rovian zerosum politics:

Rove scared of x = Dems benefit greatly from x.

We can deduce from this principle that we need more eggs in this Judiciary Committee hearings basket. Feingold's a stud, but this could be the whole ball game. The big "I". We can prevent two more Alitos (Stevens' and Ginsburg), plus end the war, plus never have to look at another budget as revolting as this new one, plus a million other things you guys already know. So why are we sitting around here chatting? His name is Mike DeWine. Don't stop until you hear him spell "uncle" backwards. Read More

A Touchy Question about WP, Fighting Dems...

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 1:04 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 13:04

Preliminarily, let me just say that the Fighting Dems effort kos, AAR, Seder, et al. have put together is an excellent idea, and will help us take back the house next year. It's important to present ourselves as a party with new perspectives, intent on breaking through the beltway cocoon. Our image in the 2006 campaign should reflect this, and the Fighting Dems are a huge asset in that respect. But we need to think through all of the challenges that we may face if we put novices in front of cameras, and essentially dare the mainstream media to point out and exaggerate their mistakes and lack of experience. Read More

FRAME SHOP: Alito is "reactionary," not "conservative"...

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Monday October 31, 2005 · 6:17 PM PST

2005/10/31 · 18:17

FRAME SHOP: Alito is "reactionary," not "conservative," and STOP SAYING ACTIVIST!

The single most extreme element of the entire Federalist Society, right-wing judicial-industrial complex is their Interstate Commerce Clause (ICC) jurisprudence. Many of the most egregious examples already circulating follow directly from the "Constitution-in-exile" ICC ideology, which basically asserts that since the early 20th century, round about the time of the New Deal, the judiciary began to systematically undermine and disobey the constitution, as they read it. Read More

I heard "One" by Metallica on the radio the other night...

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Friday October 14, 2005 · 2:36 AM PDT

2005/10/14 · 02:36

I teared up. Actually, fuck that, I cried. I just started crying in my car. It's so depressing when you think about. A guitar-player's song. A band that I learned to play guitar with. Even when they acted like idiots about napster, it could never ruin their old stuff. They taught me to love music when I was 13. This song of theirs that made me want to learn how to play guitar--just to be able to play this song. Me and a couple million other guys my age. Read More

Critiquing Kos' exchange with Wittman, Kilgore, the DLC, and a Modest Proposal for a Larger Solution

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Saturday March 19, 2005 · 6:58 AM PST

2005/03/19 · 06:58

As a long-time lurker/first-time poster, I am probably biting off far more than I can chew here. I know I'm late on this, but a tension seems to be percolating through out many subsequent conversations on this site, and if we take a step back to focus on what purpose we want to ultimately serve, hopefully we will see a more constructive way to approach these moments in the future.

Let's say we keep score of the points of intellectual substance in the recent debate between Kos, Kilgore and Wittman over the bankruptcy bill, Lieberman, and the larger issue of the DLC's attacks on bloggers, and the party's left-wing in general. Clearly Kos has the DLCers out-pointed. Jonathan Chait, a DLC-style Dem centrist, admitted as much over at TPM when he pointed out that Wittman never offered a rational defense of Lieberman's vote against cloture. And Kos is correct that the DLC affiliates do hit the talk show circuit as designated-bashers of the left wing of the party, and in doing so they are harming the party and its efforts to unify. Read More

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