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Could anybody really be this stupid?

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Mark Halperin gets to occupy real estate on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, while confessing to a level of stupidity that can only be described as mind-boggling: MORE than any other book, Richard Ben Cramer’s “What It Takes,” about the 1988 battle for the White House, influenced the way I cover campaigns. […]

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The limits on our discourse

Friday, November 23, 2007

What with Thanksgiving and all, including a visit from my kids, I won’t be writing much over the weekend, but that doesn’t mean I won’t inflict my ravings on my helpless readers at all. Today, an object lesson in the sort of unconscious limits that we place on the acceptable realm of debate in this […]

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Kerry issues a challenge

Friday, November 16, 2007

Good for John Kerry: Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman’s offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. … Kerry said he would […]

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Today’s task

Friday, September 21, 2007

Give money to Moveon, $500,000.00 and counting. I’ve given already. Except for a possible concert post, that’s it for me tonight. I have Charter Revision work to do.

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Bush prepares to go out Cheney style

Sunday, September 9, 2007

A few weeks ago I predicted we’d be hearing more about Bush’s plans to complete the destruction of the United States of America, starting with the environment, before he left office. I was hardly going out on a limb. Anyone could have predicted it. Today we get a glimpse of some more of the damage […]

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Why Democrats are so pathetic

Monday, August 20, 2007

A couple of articles today, one from the Seminal (mostly quoting Jonathan Alter) and one from Firedoglake, set me to thinking about a critical difference between Democrats and Republicans. Oddly enough, the contrast illustrates how each party is deficient, in contrasting ways. Alter discusses the cave in by the Democrats on the FISA bill, and […]

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Deja vu all over again

Saturday, August 18, 2007

While wandering through the blogosphere I came across this post at Down with Tyranny in which Howie Klein discusses the recent spate of official factfinding visits to Iraq, during which the visitor is squired around the green zone and fed a line of bull by the military. These folks, most of them already war supporters, […]

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Breaking the filibuster

Thursday, August 2, 2007

I love it when I see things on the net that echo something I’ve already written. I realize that such a reaction is rather childish, but there it is. I direct my readers to this article (Challenging the GOP’s Filibluster) from the American Prospect. In it, Andy Balkan makes the same points about the Democratic […]

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Still pawns in their game

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Digby has a (as usual) excellent post today in response to David Frum’s observation that Republicans would be ahead even among the youth of this country if we only count white people. Frum makes no attempt to hide the fact that his underlying assumption is that white folks are the only legitimate Americans: the legacy […]

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Keeping politics out of it

Monday, July 30, 2007

Tonight we held a public hearing for our Charter Revision Commission, meaning we heard from citizens who has suggestions for possible charter changes. One speaker, who was otherwise quite reasonable, admonished us to “keep politics out of it”. This has become a standard piece of rhetoric in the debased —(get ready, here it comes)–politics of […]

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