Do not dare to UTTER her name.
I have been in transit the last few days, and this is my first chance to post about this, but I wanted to make sure to register my outrage. Mr. Bush on Thursday made a great show of signing a bill to...
View ArticleUp to 30,000 more people tried to vote for Gore in FL. (UPDATE II)
(Please see update below for important corrections.) Lance deHaven-Smith is a professor in the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He has long been deeply...
View ArticleEvery Kossack, Every Lurker: Wage WAR on Alito!
I agree with Jane and Chris Bowers: This turkey can be beaten. There is so much about him that is unappealing, if the case is made to the public. The strip search, the membership in a clearly racist...
View ArticleAchievements of Republican Government.
We do a lot of griping around here about the Republicans. It's time we showed how big and broad-minded we are by acknowledging some of the achievements they've managed, especially in the warm glow of...
View ArticleKaloogian fib photo mystery solved.
I'm sure we are all aware of the puzzle posed by Anthony LA. Where was that photo taken? Here is the answer. (I posted this as a comment in Anthony's diary, but with 700 comments it's hard to find.)
View ArticleMy BBC interview.
I'm supposed to have a brief on-air telephone conversation with Chris Vallance of the BBC radio program "Up All Night" tonight at 9:25 or so, Eastern time (I guess that translates to 2:25am London...
View ArticleTHIRD Alleged Homeland Security Pedophile?
We all are familiar with the sad, strange case of Brian Doyle, the Deputy Press Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security who has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex from a 14-year old...
View ArticleMy slogan for the Democrats.
Doing canvassing a while ago, I was struck again by how many people complain that the Democrats have no positive message, no ideas. This annoys me, because most of the things that actually work about...
View ArticleVirgil Goode (VA-05) applauds Hastert.
We've seen GOP'ers scrambling to distance themselves from Denny Hastert. Many have cancelled appearances with the guy. Some are calling for his resignation. Sterling Newbery has quipped that he may...
View ArticleVA-05: Rays of Hope, plus interrogate and Google-bomb Virgil Goode!
I hope that folks have not written off the prospect of retiring Virgil Goode from his less-than-stellar career in the House. Diarist Gordie over at RaisingKaine has posted a review of poll numbers...
View ArticleDon't post on DailyKos!
Over the next few days, if you have some burning observation on why your representation in Congress stinks and how it's urgent to toss 'em or toss 'er out of office, don't post it here. Take it to your...
View ArticleThe Best Blog Post Ever?
I want to flag a post today by Josh Marshall, which is a remarkable summary of all of the multiple scandals swirling around our heads at the same time. It explains, concisely, clearly, and with brutal...
View ArticleVote now on Impeachment!
There's an online poll on MSNBC on the question "Should Bush be Impeached?" The interesting thing is that, without any mention on DailyKos, the voting at this moment is already running at 88% for...
View ArticleWhat to do when the Dems call for cash
My disappointment with our Congress is deep and bitter. They caved on the war, then they caved on FISA. They are now making noises as if they will buy the administration's line on the escalation of...
View ArticleVirginians: Act NOW on Warner.
John Warner is wavering on the Webb amendment. That is a big disappoinment. And this matters for the whole course of the Iraq debacle: If he supported the amendment, as "Mr. Moderate Republican" he...
View ArticleHow about this for a coup-de-grace?
One thing we can be sure of is that over the next few weeks there will be a tsunami of Willie-Horton-style smears, a last-ditch onslaught of mendacious and spiteful ads from the McCain camp in swing...
View ArticleA precision strike on McCain-Palin (Video).
Here is an amateur commercial that I think takes a very effective shot at that terrible, terrible ticket. It makes three points:(i) Governor Palin is pretty rotten.(ii) She is rotten not because of...
View ArticleSenator, your answer on Countdown stank.
Senator, I am proud to call you my candidate, and dearly, dearly hope to call you my president in a few months. I'm knocking on a lot of doors for this, giving money, the whole bit. But it behooves me...
View ArticleEven Kissinger agrees with Obama.
So Obama has said that we should talk to other governments with which we have points of conflict -- including, certainly, Iran. And when asked should we do it "without preconditions," he says, well,...
View Article"I just spent "$50,000 to destroy your family."
Here is what we are up against. Just look at the level of commitment of the grass-roots homophobia behind Proposition 8 in California. From the Sacramento Bee, we learn of the Patterson family, a...
View ArticleThank you Newsweek: Marriage Equality and the Bible: UPDATE.
This week's Newsweek has a cover article by religion editor Lisa Miller that just knocked my socks off. It addresses the claim by one fundamentalist homophobic leader after another that marriage...
View ArticleAnthrax: Is this a tell-tale sign?
I have always been angered by the 2001 anthrax attacks, and troubled by the fact that -- unlike 9/11 -- we still do not know who perpetrated them. The FBI have lately tried to pin it on Dr. Bruce...
View ArticleLou Dobbs: Franken's victory is a "scandal."
Like most of you, I am thrilled by Al Franken's squeaker victory in Minnesota. It's the result not only of Al making his case to the voters and Norm's poor performance, but also of the Democrats'...
View ArticleReady for a war crimes commission? Here's your chance.
This could be very good news. Rep. Conyers has introduced a bill to create an independent commission to investigate Bush-era crimes related to war and infringement of civil liberties. The commission...
View ArticleTexas Articles of Secession.
I for one applaud Governor Perry. He is reaffirming a long, spunky tradition of independence in Texas, and it's only natural for him to want to stay in touch with his heritage.Let's remind ourselves...
View ArticleMr. President: Your Move.
This week's terrorist attack on health-care providers has brought a lot of ugliness into the open. We have Bill O'Reilly slandering Dr. Tiller over and over again, saying that he would "kill a baby,...
View ArticleNow Scott Brown will give us... the public option.
As a result of the disaster in Massachusetts, no legislation can pass the senate with 60 votes. This, I believe, will wind up being a very positive thing.The "ping-pong" gambit is unlikely to fly: The...
View ArticleTeabaggers target Perriello's family.
It's getting scary. Following his vote for the healthcare bill in November, Danville, VA "tea party" activists made plans to burn Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and Nancy Pelosi in effigy, before public...
View ArticleBoehner vs. Obama -- THE REMATCH (VIDEO).
Like everyone else, I was struck by the petulance and sourness of John Boehner's big speech on Sunday, and amused by its echoes of a famous speech by a certain President we all know. I thought it...
View ArticleSB 1070's biggest fans: Stormfront.org.
Seeing as how Arizona Senate Majority Leader Chuck Gray, one of the leaders who got SB 1070 passed into law, follows Stormfront.org on Twitter (or did until he was caught), I thought it would be...
View ArticlePerriello -- Hero -- shows how it's done (re 'mosque').
We are all sick of the cowardice shown by Democratic leaders on the insane controversy regarding the Burlington Coat Factor Islamic cultural center. One shining exception is Al Franken, who has spoken...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: A Stunning Case in Point.
Meet Jeffrey Clark. He is the teabagger challenging Tom Perriello, one of the most principled members of Congress (yay!). He is running as an independent in protest to the Republican nominee, Robert...
View ArticleSarah tries again: Much better.
After the somewhat disastrous video that our favorite Wasilla soccer mom released early this morning -- which amazed us with its weird stilted delivery and at the same time managed to offend every...
View ArticleTea Party: Strip Black History from the Curriculum.
The title is only a slight exaggeration. The Tennessee tea party groups have come together and made some demands of the state government. They want the government to "reject" Health Care reform, and...
View ArticleCatholic Profs: Ryan budget is "anti-life"
It's been noted on the front page and elsewhere that dozens of professors at Catholic University have signed an open letter protesting the House Republicans' budget on the occasion of Speaker Boehner's...
View ArticleIt's beginning to look a lot like... Gingrich!
I found this delightful piece of holiday merriment on Bob Cesca's blog. I think that you will enjoy it.I don't know who this Andy Duva fellow is, but he seems to be an up-and-coming theatre and...
View ArticleMr. President, please spike this ball!
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled on PPACA, we need our president to speak to the American people and explain what this means.One of our big and frustrating problems has been that strong majorities...
View ArticleUPDATE 3: New DNC web ad nails it: the "Romney-Ryan-Akin platform for women."
I am impressed, actually flabbergasted at how this new web ad from the DNC connects the dots. It starts with Akin's infamous line, then traces it to the fraudulent Dr. Willke, then points out that...
View ArticleGotta admit -- new Romney vid is MOVING. Game changer?
As per usual practice, the Romney campaign has prepared a video to introduce the candidate to the world for his big moment at the convention, and today they leaked a teaser of it. People have been...
View ArticleThe Real Benghazi Scandal.
We now know that CBS News ran a fraudulent story on 60 Minutes about the Benghazi tragedy. The security contractor Dylan Davies told a story to the network that now appears to be complete fiction, but...
View ArticleSpeaking of Solomon Northup -- Save Shockoe Bottom.
A lot is known about the life and ordeal of Solomon Northup. For example, it is known that he was taken by the prominent slave trader James Burch, a pillar of commerce in Alexandria, VA, from...
View ArticleMeet the toughest political ad in memory: "Republican Cuts Kill."
The Agenda Project Action Fund has come up with the most brutal, direct political ad I think I've ever seen. It ties the Republican budget-cut mantra directly to the disastrous slashing of CDC and NIH...
View ArticleLaura Ingraham shouts it from the rooftops: DailyKos was so, so, so right!
[Hat tip: TPM.]In response to Jeb's much-discussed gaffe of explaining that if he knew what we now know he would still have invaded Iraq, extreme right-wing partisan and Fox-news commenter Laura...
View ArticleHorrific anti-Muslim terrorist plot thwarted: "We will cut them to shreds."
Maybe I am the last to hear about this. A group based in Tennessee and led by a gentleman named Robert Doggart had planned to attack a Muslim community near Hancock, NY (right in the middle of the...
View ArticlePlease support TAA -- regardless of your view of TPA.
Many of us have been following closely the issues of Fast Track (or Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP),...
View ArticleSea change on the Confederate flag -- an opportunity for Virginia?
I am flabbergasted that we suddenly seem to have consensus in this country that the Confederate flag is not an acceptable thing to fly on public buildings. Even Republican leaders seem to be...
View ArticleCharlottesville alt-right update: "Come here, ya JEW!"
Many of you read this week of a gathering of White-nationalist, “alt-right” individuals who demonstrated at night with tiki torches in Charlottesville, VA a few days ago, to protest the city’s plan to...
View ArticleContact info for undecided senators on Trumpcare.
The quickest, most minimalist diary ever: Here are the five senators identified by Talkingpointsmemo as on the fence on the taxcut-for-billionaires-and-denying-people-healthcare bill now before the...
View ArticleTime to review Glenn Reynolds'"Run Them Down."
In light of the devastating attack in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend, in which (among many other acts of violence) a car was rammed into a crowd of people protesting White Supremacists, killing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hey, rape survivors: It's your own fault for being "naive" and "unprepared,"...
State Senator Amanda Chase represents the 11th Senate District of Virginia, which includes Amelia County and part of Chesterfield county, west and south of Richmond. According to the Virginia State...
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