Kossacks! Did Frist hand our kids the Katrina tab on CNN?

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 5:17 AM PDT

2005/09/22 · 05:17

Did I hear right? Did Bill Frist give up a soundbite yesterday about Katrina's costs being passed on to our children? Did anyone else hear this? If so, we should call him on it. I refuse to saddle my children with debts directly incurred by this country's vast rightwing incompetence. Maybe the majority leader could help pay for disaster relief by donating his capital gains from insider trading.

Let's march on DC - just like right-wingers!

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Monday September 19, 2005 · 6:46 AM PDT

2005/09/19 · 06:46

The antiwar movement has been marginalized, demonized and completely outflanked by the powers that be.
Don't count on the press carrying the antiwar message to the far corners of the land. Corporate-owned media will never legitimize that which threatens their access to the movers and shakers. Sure, a few photos of some outrageous costumes to reinforce the "freak show"public image of the looney left. We will be portrayed as social malcontents, unpatriotic and weak, silly and dangerous.The vindictive junta in DC has already sent the message, your either with us or against us. Nothing will shake their resolve except, of course, a taste of their own medicine. Read More

What more do those liberals want? Loud and Clear!

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Friday September 16, 2005 · 6:38 AM PDT

2005/09/16 · 06:38

Final notes for speech: The South will rise again. (use the drawl for regional connection with historical context) Nearly 60 billion dollars (punchier, emphasize the "B" for maximum impact.) Minority owned businesses will thrive (a shout out to the "peeps" in the 9th ward) entrepreneurs will save the day (boomtown for money grubbin' carpetbaggers). Faith based groups will continue their good works.(a wink to my bible thumpin' brethren) Together, we can do it! We've done it before, we will do it again (Pull those national pride heartstrings with your reassuring smirk) We will review emergency planning in every state of this great nation. (don't laugh, don't laugh)
This is classic Rove, cut your critics off at the knees then let the right wing pundits count coup on their broken bodies with your talking points. Read More

Bush's "Mea Culpa" is in the Iran Contra playbook

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 5:58 AM PDT

2005/09/15 · 05:58

Listen, take no solace in current poll numbers. Half this country voted for Dubya. The GOP has their Spin Machine and every branch of the Federal Government. This administration will rise again. Though the horrific images of unimaginable suffering have troubled our national psyche, there will still be more water cooler conversations today about Britney's baby than about what the President may say tonight. Karl and Co. know that score. Read More

Dean to the DNC, or else.

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Tuesday January 11, 2005 · 5:33 AM PST

2005/01/11 · 05:33

We progressives are the life blood of the Democratic Party. They think we have no place else to go. Let us inform the party poobahs in no uncertain terms that we are not to be taken for granted. If the powers that be decide to install a moderate/ quasi conservative as DNC Chair we should leave the party en-masse. Make a really big deal out of it. We could create a coalition of the willing to battle the status quo.
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Gonzo admits he's not perfect - me neither!

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Friday January 07, 2005 · 5:18 AM PST

2005/01/07 · 05:18

One of the easiest things for people in authority to cop to when the sledding gets tough is being fallible. It humanizes these leaders, brings them a little closer to us, why it even has the distinctive evangelical -"I have sinned" kind of ring to it. This "glass house" defense works like a charm. These confirmation hearings are yet another Democratic exercise in futility, something the party could do en masse in a Saturday morning infomercial. The Futile Workout - and shrug your shoulders, one two, now wring your hands and three and four and point to the left, now point to the right, now curl into a ball, and cower and cower, now shake it off. With far bigger fish to fry, Bushco has us chasing the minnows.
Remember, the fish rots from head down.

Put the past in the past!

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Tuesday December 28, 2004 · 6:43 AM PST

2004/12/28 · 06:43

As human beings it is so easy for us to view past events as a window to the future. We take the election of 2004 and hypothesize about the "winning formula" for '06 and '08. But this sort of ruminating leaves us hopelessly stuck in the past, and guarantees our party will be out of step with the country when those elections roll around. We Democrats need to paint in broad strokes, anticipating trends, not following them - setting agendas instead of merely reacting to the country's current far right game plan. America isn't conservative or liberal, right or left, our country simply like WINNERS! Real winners know how to take their lumps and persevere. Winners inspire confidence and that confidence is both contagious and self generating. We've got to get Back to the Future!
Real Democrats don't trust pundits or poobahs!

An "Oh, wellian" nightmare

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 · 7:27 AM PST

2004/12/22 · 07:27

As things go from bad to worse in Iraq, it is now time to blame those who are responsible. The liberals. All of us. Bill O'Reilly said as much this week - Why, if we weren't always whining and complaining about human rights, we could have our troops really kick some A-rab butt, "Hey Osama, who's your Daddy?"
And the neocons nestle all smug in their beds, while visions of terrorists dance in their heads, they scheme and they plot, they distort and they lie, they build up their empire as our children die. And here in the US of A we give a collective shrug, roll our collective eyes and sharpen our collective claws to defend freedom by taking it away from others.
Oh, well... quick, change the channel- there's a biography and an exclusive interview of that guy who was on "The Apprentice".

Now is the Winter of our Discontent, a nation torn asunder by this Son of a Bush.

CIA critic Gary Webb's suicide: Troubling!

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Monday December 13, 2004 · 9:16 AM PST

2004/12/13 · 09:16

Well, yet another investigative reporter writing about evil doings in our government has committed suicide. Gary Webb, author of "Dark Alliance", an exploration of the CIA's involvement with crack cocaine and contras was found dead on December 10th. Oh, the conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one. But there is a more pressing issue raised by Mr. Webb's untimely passing. We simply must do something about the rampant depression that afflicts so many of our government's most vocal critics. Maybe we need a congressional hearing to find out what makes these writers who dare to question authority so very sad...

GOP is just biding their time...

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Friday December 03, 2004 · 7:36 AM PST

2004/12/03 · 07:36

So Congress comes back next week with the President proclaiming that he wants an Intelligence Bill. Reading between the lines, it is safe to say the GOP would just as soon start over again next year. 5 bucks says nothing happens. A house Republican on radio yesterday said he believed a much better bill can come out of the next Congress, a more conservative Congress. I say good - let them hold up this bill, let them reintroduce a bill that the uber-cons can be proud of, a bill with even more Draconian provisions, maybe bundled with a Patriot Act 2005 that has some real teeth to it. Let's give 'em all the rope they need.

"Perpetual War and Endless Fear, but we're opening a Walmart in Fallujah next year..."

Our America: the reality show nobody watches

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Tuesday November 23, 2004 · 10:39 AM PST

2004/11/23 · 10:39

Nobody in W's America gives a flying Wallenda what really goes on in DC or out here in Bloggyland. Our righteous indignation at the administration's hypocrisy falls upon deaf ears. Hello? A war in Iraq based on lies, a radical right wing domestic agenda, a unilateral foreign policy - and still the GOP wins - we are a nation in crisis. Look at Chile, people so upset with US policy this weekend that they were SHOT WITH WATER CANNONS! (Not to mention that we had assassinated their president a few years back)
We are soft here in the US. Here in the winter of our discontent, smug in our illusion of democracy, we debate whether Scott Peterson has gotten a fair trial, or who deserves to be fired from the Apprentice while Trump's casinos go bankrupt, again. Never mind global warming - who's going to be the new Gilligan? Creationism vs. Evolution? No, it's Concerned Parents vs. Desperate Housewives. Our children will want to know how this happened. What will we tell them when they ask what was a Swift Boat Veteran for Truth...

Fallujah: Send in Walmart! ;)

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 7:30 AM PST

2004/11/19 · 07:30

I'll tell ya what we need. We need a Walmart in Fallujah. Once them A-Rabs get a taste of good old fashioned capitalism there sure to quit blowing up their own folks. Nothin like a blue smock, low wages and mountains of crappy Xmas gifts from China to make a Muslim give up his jihaddin ways. Make sure they see them low prices in those aisles of Christian Music. It could help in their conversion. If they still want to worship that there Allah god, they can always pick up a matching prayer rug and placemat set.
(Smile, its Friday)

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