A lot more important than Lieberman OR Net Neutrality
Brief diary, but please recommend and get the word out: this is a big honkin' freaking deal, people. Here's the scoop: The Republican Party, apparently sensing that they may not be in control of...
View ArticleDavid Sirota is just plain wrong
I made a brief comment with this analysis yesterday, but when I read David Sirota's frankly delusional description of how the various possible outcomes of the Connecticut Democratic Senatorial Primary...
View ArticleGCI, Canvassing, and Political Reality
This is a complicated diary to write, but I think it bears saying. I may have to meander a bit, so please bear with me. If you haven't already already read littlebrudders diary on this topic, please...
View ArticleThe Intelligence Community's October Surprise
It seems pretty odd to me that with all the divining of entrails and reading of tea leaves around the NIE and its bowdlerized public release, SOMEBODY would have noticed the political subtext. Anybody...
View ArticleKos, this is what I was talking about. Please listen now.
Once upon a time, I wrote a diary you can find here. It was in response to Kos' ill-considered characterization of anti-war "hippies". In it, I pointed out that by dint of his position as operator of...
View ArticleObama is the new Chauncey Gardner
C'mon, folks--just how gullible are you?Suddenly, the MSM has seized on a mediagenic face and is trying like mad to convince anyone who will listen that he is a viable candidate for President in 2008....
View ArticleOn Pragmatism and Revolution
Today, Occam's Hatchet posted a diary,"On Gettysburg, Impeachment, and the Left Flank", which begins as follows:Once upon a time, a group of people on the Far Left side of a great battle took a stand,...
View ArticleA Reality Pill for Lieberman
Over at Salon, there is a great article about the current political climate in Israel and the perception of the state's security in the wake of its generally recognized defeat in last summer's war with...
View ArticleBREAKING: Lantos retiring
Tom Lantos is retiring due to esophageal cancer, leaving the field open for Jackie Speier to take his Congressional seat. I wish him the best with his health, but I'm glad he's leaving the House....
View ArticleRemembering 40 years ago tonight
This has been an emotional year for me. As of this year, I've been an ardently political person for 40 years. I remember 1968: I was 6. I remember the Tet offensive, the body counts delivered by...
View ArticleSetting the Record Straight
I was wrong, and it's overdue that I say so.This has been bugging me for awhile--me, and, I'm sure, no one else. But on Dec. 2, 2006, I posted a diary entitled "Obama is the New Chauncey Gardner". In...
View ArticleMcCain's Last Gambit
This is a what-Obama-must-do diary. I know what opinions are like--and that everybody's got one--but I've been in politics for a long time, have run a bunch of campaigns, and I've got a pretty good...
View ArticleA Personal Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama
It's been three days now since the election of 2008. Since that night, I've struggled with a foggy exhaustion, a feeling almost like the disconnected underwater dream of hypothermia, as the hangover...
View ArticleThe Meta Impact of HCR's Passage
Okay. We've been over every tiny detail of the policy and politics of HCR getting passed. We know what it isn't, we know what it is, and we know what it says about President Obama--and, to be fair,...
View ArticleThe HCR Package: overview and analysis
This started out as a note on Facebook to my friends, which I compiled at the request of my wife, many of whose friends were venting various accusations about the historic reform just passed. I pulled...
View ArticleNot new conduct standards: new technology
Okay, we've been through another round of discussion about how to try to bring the level of civility back up here.I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, I like that we duke it out around here...
View ArticleCA-6: Jared Huffman is the best choice
With Lynn Woolsey retiring at the end of this term, voters in one of the most progressive districts in the nation now must choose who will represent them after 2012.Woolsey has been a reliable...
View Article“This may bring my Presidency down”
A reflection, in light of these words, on those who have characterized Barack Obama as "weak" or a "sell-out":Ahem.Wake the hell up, you craven, tactically clueless fools.This man has principles, and...
View ArticleIn Which Defenders of the President are Vindicated.
And there you have it. No grand deal, because Barack Obama did not cave. QED.Look, I understand that the greatest fear is the fear of the unknown. People have been frightening themselves with what they...
View ArticleThe Better Angels of Our Natures
We must all hang together, or we shall surely all hang separately. --Benjamin FranklinI'm going to do a bunch of things in this diary that are...
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