Critical Thinking On Roberts Votes, Please
There is a breakdown here. The Roberts nomination has always been a problem for us. We need to understand a few things. Bush was going to keep nominating wingnuts no matter what. And the next one might...
View ArticleMetaJesus Asks: Is DailyKos The Hustler Mag of Blogs, And Is That OK In...
This diary is not really about what Kos or frontpagers should do. It is an exploration of what we users might expect the site to be able to accomplish. But it does hopefully provide food for thought to...
View ArticleWargaming McCain/Feingold vs Clinton/Clark 08 [POLL]
First off if you don't want to think about 08, don't read this. Shove off. Thanks. Some time back I ran a diary with a poll positing aHillary Clinton versus John McCain 2008 presidential race. McCain...
View ArticleDirty Tricks: Help Create Rightwing Nader For 2008
Enough wondering what will happen in 2008. Let's shape a reality that can win. Let's realize that we can and should play the same trick the Repugs play when they shape progressive politics to divide...
View ArticleHow Feingold Can Lead A Miers Filibuster To Sweep 2008
The subjects covered in this diary are how Russ Feingold can win the general election for the presidency in 2008. (Winning the nomination is a different battle, and the toughest part will be doing that...
View Article3 Stories You Should Not Have Missed, With Bearing On 2008
In the year 2008... I predict... These three stories will bedevil us all. But now, that hellish battle lies ahead, in the unfathomable mists of three more years of BushCo. While now... A horrible...
View ArticleGlobal Apocalypse, Now!: Epic Tribal Conflict, This Week!
The global revolution is happening now. It's all bad. It's the elite seizing power, re-consolidating it, now that the important movements of the 20th century have been completely undermined. Terrorism...
View ArticleProtect The Country Clubs From Terrorists
While of course I am privy to no special information (Heck, I don't even want to spare money to receive quality television news in my home), I have nevertheless had a terrible fear. The fear is the...
View ArticleRepublican Reality Gap: Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings...
There is one point that really needs to be hammered hard, right now, by all Democrats. I didn't invent this point, but I can see it very clearly, and I hope you can too. It is drawn from the strong...
View ArticlePoll: What Is McCain's Constituency Here?
I have noted that in match ups here versus centrists Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Senator McCain fares well here. I don't agree with that, but I want to gauge it. While McCain actually has much more...
View Article2008 Crunch: Clinton Versus Kerry [Poll]
Of those with a big profile, these two are the likely 2008 candidates with the least support here. In the ungoing tradition of jackass polling when I should be writing something substantive about the...
View ArticleWin Big In 2006 With The Superfriends
The all-or-nothing mentality that our electoral system promotes is pure kryptonite. It doesn't bother Republicans but any one candidate or agenda carrying off "the soul of the party" is our bane. Yep,...
View ArticleBloomberg Democrats Bear Blame For Transit Strike
This will be a short and simple statement.If you voted for Michael Bloomberg... You voted against the man who would have, with great certainty, prevented this strike. Freddy Ferrer. While the mayor...
View ArticleStraw Poll Time Again!
Previous Kos 2008 straw polls have been posted around this time. In fact, since their inauguration, we've always had one already by this time of the month. I'm interested to see what the results will...
View ArticleEmbrace Osama Bin Laden's Niece?
Wafah Dufour, one of Osama bin Laden's large family, and California-born, seeks American acceptance. She lives here, an aspiring singer, but was raised in a conservative backdrop in Jeddah, Saudi...
View ArticleParty Discipline Starts With You
I'm mad, you're mad. Use it, don't lose it. What this filibuster effort achieved for us is vast. I am not talking about impact on the Republicans, the media, or the people. I mean what it achieved for...
View ArticleBush's Energy Policy The Same As His Moon Landing Policy
The purpose of this diary is to help show that Bush's alternative energy talk is lighter than air.Remember how Bush declared the US would soon return to the moon? He fluffs his speeches with...
View ArticleSeeking A New Real-World Political Power Base
Republicans look like they are in charge, because they are part of a hierarchy that is in fact in charge... The ruling class. In some rare cases they are not born into it but the important distinction...
View ArticleDaily Affirmation: "It's My Party, Not My Birthday"
There is a reason armies shoot deserters. It's because, whatever your intentions when you take to the field, when the going gets tough a lot of people are tempted to get lost. Like an army, we should...
View ArticleBruce Willis: "I'm Not A Republican"
Who cares what Bruce Willis thinks? If only to stick the thermometer in the goose, read on....MovieHole has this for us today:Willis has become politically impassioned over the years, and no more than...
View ArticleThe Death of Imette St. Guillen's Civil Liberties
All crimes are a denial of liberty. In my book if it doesn't meet that criteria its not a crime. But the more it meets that criteria the worse the crime is. To be kidnapped, bound, violated, and in the...
View ArticleYou Can Vote On Censure By Taking This Poll
I'm going to forgo the theatrics, but rather I have a very simple, straightforward vow to share."I will support no Senator for higher office, who does not openly support Sen. Russ Feingold's censure of...
View ArticleBeing Liberal Means Having Balls
Ladies and Gentleman, Read no further. The following is written in a testosterone idiom without reserve. Everyone else: Accept the fact that all "liberal" really means is "having balls." The history...
View ArticleJoin The New Plain Old Yellow Ribbon Campaign
We know that this War in Iraq was always intended to be semi-permanent, because there were no simple yellow ribbons, as festooned zillions of trees, doors, mailboxes, and poodles nationwide back when...
View ArticleMirroring My RedState Diary: What's Non-Negotiable?
What Positions Do You Wish Weren't Negotiable? By: RightDirectionhttp://www.redstate.com/... I want to know what issues you wish were off the table between the two parties. Or issues where a bipartisan...
View ArticleInvitation To Provocation Of An Iranian Invasion Of Iraq?
Before I go any further, let me be clear that this diary can serve no better purpose that alert you to the fact that this premise is plausible enough to occur to me independently, and to give you this...
View Article9/11: So Over It
There is a post on, of all places, www.militaryphotos.net, which I think you may find heartening, posted by "FreedomFighter."
View ArticleMy 9/11 Diary Made The Wall Street Journal
...The WSJ.com OpinionJournal "Best of the Web Today," anyway...Of the many diaries I've posted here, 9/11: So Over It is the one I put the least thought into the composition of, but the most of myself...
View ArticleHow BushCo Could Make Itself Useful For 33 Months
Many people have the idea that the right and left wing serve indespensible purposes, each. There is talk of pendulum swings which, to those not on one end or the other, are not events that are...
View ArticleA DailyKos Statistical and Polling Comittee?
There's an obvious need. Objective polling. And informative reporting in order to obtain quality opinions. I'm going to state the obvious, hopefully attracting the necessary talent and assistance.This...
View ArticlePolitical Manifesto On Expression And Information Rights
Today LoganFerre attempted a A Left-Libertarian Manifesto earnestly while generic outrage at "wiretapping," frankly without any point beyond wishing it were 1999 continued all over the site, and...
View Article34-Dollar-An-Hour Job Americans Won't Do
Courtesy of the LA Times by way of Chicago Tribune I bring you proof of that elusive, and some have suggested illusory beast: The job Americans won't do. And it pays good money.A Job Americans Won't...
View ArticleCoalition Politics: Building Blocs
People vote a certain way for one of two reasons: 1) As an individual 2) As a member of a voting block. Voting blocs are not ways of looking at voters. This isn't analysis, this is purely factual....
View ArticleWill DailyKos Learn From Mistakes Of Movements Past?
Having attended YearlyKos I am both excited, and worried, about what I had encountered. And oftentimes for the same reasons. There are a great many people involved in our community here, who are very...
View ArticleForced Equivalence: The Conservative Monkey On All Our Backs
This is something that I'm seeing everywhere that really hurts rational discourse and a healthy society. It is Forced Equivalence. And it is one of the evils of misperception and misdirection. You see...
View ArticleEverybody's Cousins Killing Everybody's Cousins
We're all Hatfields and we're all McCoys by blood relation. Science and the Good Book agree on one thing for sure: Every human being is cousin to every other human being. I don't happen to be very...
View ArticleI Am A Small-Minded White Racist
A few days ago I flipped out a bit when someone wrote:Is there a human heart beating in there, or just a Jewish heart?And I called that person, who is actually a good poster here, anti-Semitic. In...
View ArticleThis Is Prison: How Not To Get Raped Or Shanked
This is somewhat opposite from the methods that sometimes seem to be most prominently advocated here; namely attacking the figures of authority while staying above the fray on the messy individual...
View ArticleWhat It All Means To Me, Personally
Everybody has got a story. And it pertains to their place in politics. I'll share mine because, what the Hell, I'm going to sign my John Hancock properly because I'm old enough to know that if you...
View ArticleA Fresh, Hard Look At Civil Liberties And The Parties
(Let me warn you this diary is not going to make you happy. That is, unless you let it do so in its own way.) I'm a little late in renewing my ACLU and Amnesty International memberships this year. I've...
View ArticleHow To Win The War
Whether wiretapping everyone is the right way to combat terrorism or not, is a stupid argument. Sorry. What we ought to be saying is: "Wiretapping is too soft on terrorists." Just round the bastards up...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Set Iraq Flypaper For Us
You can make a career out of stating the obvious. Here goes:"Fight them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here" would make much more sense from a terrorist perspective. An American...
View ArticleTough Patriotism
I'm an advocate for something I'll call "tough patriotism." Naturally I'd like to see this minted as a Democratic Party term as we head into 2008, but more importantly I think it is a summation of the...
View ArticleBe Careful What You Ask Dubya Claus For...
What if I told you that plans exist to put vast numbers of Americans into camps where they will be stripped of all civil liberties, potentially be subjects in medical expiriments, exposed to great...
View ArticleThe Zero Where Utopia Used To Be
It seems to me that Americans agree on one thing: That the future is a black plain under a hellish sky. One camp looks forward to wearing the jackboots and deciding where to lay the barbed wire.The...
View ArticleThor Hammers Northern Europe
This is not a science diary; I am not even an amateur meteorologist. But one thing I do know about is the personification of storm in the hands of a red-bearded god with a temper, a hammer only he can...
View ArticleClark's Announcement
...If he is indeed running...Needs to be prepared for and respond victoriously to the way the war room still engaged against Democrats will try to frame it. You can see by the way Biden's innocent...
View ArticleRed Tape Means Worse Communication
Red tape means that communication is worse, not better. Wouldn't you say?This is from an article on the filming in NYC of "I Am Legend":Creating such a tableau would be difficult in any large city, but...
View ArticleWhat I Like About You... Yes, You
Yeah, you. Really. The person reading this.What I like about you is that you have good intentions. That much is obvious or you wouldn't be reading this site. You also have a healthy self interest being...
View ArticleComic Books
Comic books have tackled politics themselves and the political climate increasingly. But this isn't about that.Comic books have historically been the subject of much controversy and politicking. But...
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