Hastert: let's not bother rebuilding NO
Another Bush-era GOPer shows the intelligence and sensitivity for which these folks are so justly reknowned... Hastert: Rebuilding below sea level senseless 05:17 PM EDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005...
View ArticleA "third way" in Iraq?
Hello all. (Apologies for the poor formatting, haven't figured out how to do this correctly yet). I'm writing because I was struck by this morning's NY Times Op-Ed......
View ArticleFitzgerald calling more witnesses?
Sorry for putting up a mini-diary, but I haven't seen anyone catch this Wonkette tidbit yet and thought it really was worth pushing out there for all my fellow Plamegate junkies...here's the beginning...
View ArticleWhy Bush Wants This Deal (Part I)
Ever since the DP World story blew up earlier this week, I've been surfing around trying to find a credible reason that Bush/Cheney are pushing so hard for a deal that so obviously runs counter to...
View ArticleHere's why Ayn Rand
Okay, this has been boiling in me for some time, and this rant about Rand was the proverbial last straw. Let me remind myself at the outset to make this a passionate but not angry, flame-ish diary,...
View ArticleNSA Spying: What Would the Gipper Say?
Reading of the latest Bush administration outrage against the principles of individual liberty and limited government power enshrined in our Constitution, I couldn't help but wonder what President...
View ArticleA moment of human goodness
Amid the endless flow of muck and mire from our nation's capital, and the (deeply) guilty personal pleasures of following every last nasty twist and turn of a scandal that, electorally speaking, could...
View ArticleWhat's (Not) the Matter With Kansas
Okay, let's throw another log on the coming bonfire. This editorial appeared last week in the Johnson County Sun. It's written by editorial board chairman Steve Rose, and the theme is simple: a...
View ArticleEvery once in awhile you see one simple graph...
Thanks, Andrew, for tipping us off to this rather amazing graph from the Heritage Foundation (apologies for my lack of knowledge of how to post this image; one quick look will tell you all you need to...
View ArticleA fervent plea for All of the Above
Who won this election, and why, and what lessons should the Democratic Party take from it? The paint color hasn't even been picked out, let alone been applied or begun to dry, on Speaker Pelosi's new...
View ArticleAre Democrats supposed to consider this idiocy acceptable?
Okay, so I searched back five days, since before the original story appeared, and to my surprise it looks like emptywheel's multiple choice test is the only DKos diary to even obliquely address Jeff...
View ArticleOh, so you didn't get invited to the "White House bloggers briefing" either?
For those of us who weren’t invited to the special, and no doubt right-wingers-only "White House blogger’s briefing" this afternoon, and can’t wait this last hour or so before the President explains to...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Mainstream Media
So I read Devilstower's piece this morning and thought it was so astoundingly off the mark that I had to cancel my usual morning-shuttle blogsurfing plans and knock out a piece in defense of my...
View ArticleBehold, the "If only..." news page
Well, I finally decided that the only way I'm ever going to get a diary on the Rec List is by promoting something exceedingly clever that someone else did. And yes, my DKos friends, that day has come...
View ArticleIn response to yesterday's Hillary slam
Short version of this diary:Oh well, at least you’ll have something to keep you busy next year. Now excuse me while I go jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.Long Version of this dairy:UPDATE: I've removed...
View ArticleWe are large, we contain multitudes
Great news, folks. The Republican Party as we know and loathe it is dying. When it comes to our dear fellow freeper citizens across the aisle, the American people have spoken. They’ve spoken with their...
View ArticleThe Conversion of St. Rudy: A Screenplay in One Act
FADE INA sun-dappled field. Butterflies dance along the gently waving grasses; a few clouds scud by; birds twitter happily in the distant forest, whose leaves blaze in a riot of fall colors.Title Card:...
View ArticleNYTimes: Giuliani (say it ain't so) LIES...
Quick diary, just wanted to alert Planet Kossack to this story that just popped up on the NYTimes list – which is to say, onto the MSM radar, another straw onto the back of the crumbling camel that is...
View ArticleFor My Father: A Prayer for Obama
Okay, so I'm sitting on the shuttle to work, having been up half the night and having weird Iowa caucus dreams the few hours I slept, jittery as hell and oddly emotional, and walking down the hill to...
View ArticleSince when is Obama about hoping *instead* of fighting?
Just got finished reading yet another diary about this supposed dichotomy between Obama's "hoping" and Edwards'"fighting," and I thought I'd throw in my two cents as a longtime Obamaniac. Here's my...
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