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Saturday, March 10, 2007
Idiot of the Day: Nevada State Democratic Party
By VictorM: On their website, the Nevada Democrats proudly informed us that "FOX News, the Nevada Democratic Party and the Western Majority Project have jointly announced that they will host a 2008 presidential debate, which is expected to attract the top Democratic contenders for President." WTF?! Luckily the liberal blogs revolted, Edwards refused to participate and Richardson recanted on his initial yes. And now, thankfully, the whole stupid idea went down the tubes. The (liberal) Girl Next Door, has the right idea:I hope this is the beginning of the Democrats refusing to legitimize Fox “News” by appearing on their network. Sure, you can reach a lot of people if you go on Fox “News” shows, but if Fox viewers want real news, they need to change the channel.What I want to know is: whose head is going to roll over this stupidity? Someone out there needs to find a new line of work. Stupid Democrats need to be purged!
Labels: democrats, fox news, nevada debate, stupid democrats
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Iraq: Democrats should not settle for half-measures
By VictorM: Democrats continue to wrestle with ways to address the Iraq war. But anything short of total opposition to the president will taint the Democrats. As Senator Russ Feingold correctly said: "It’s still George Bush’s war, but we run the risk of gaining some ownership of it if we don’t make it absolutely clear that we are the party that wants to get out of there." Democrats should insist on ending the war now, and say it loudly, clearly, and repeatedly. If they come up short -- and they will because the Republicans will block them -- then let it be all Bush's way. Don't settle on half-measures like playing games with defunding. If they stick to this plan, the Democrats win either way: if they prevail the American people will reward them; if they don't prevail, Americans will know who to blame -- the Republicans!
Labels: democrats, Iraq war, republicans, russ feingold
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Let Republicans have their war
By Atrios: Republicans want to continue the war and Democrats want to end it. It's that simple. Any other debate is about what the best method to get George Bush to end the war is. I think even now too many Democrats... are scared they're going to be painted as traitors by the wingnut noise machine. But that's about politics and strategy, not the desired result. Democrats want to end the war, Republicans want to continue it. Make it partisan. The Republicans are. Let them have their war.
Labels: atrios, democrats, Iraq war, republicans
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Democrats Back Off Opposing Iraq War
By David Sirota: The renewed refusal by Democrats to use their majority in even the most basic way to stop the war is a declaration that the new majority is not close to using even the most basic powers afforded to it to stop or slow down the war. In other words, in backing off, the Democrats have just weeks after the 2006 anti-war election mandate effectively declared themselves as supportive of the Bush administration's stay-the-course policy - a truly sickening act of cowardice.
Labels: David Sirota, democrats, Iraq war
Monday, February 26, 2007
Idiot of the Day: Betty
By VictorM: In Betty's Page, a right-winger's blog, Betty is either confused or blatantly ignorant about recent history. Talking about Iraq, she asks: "[Democrats] say that our troops should just be used to train the Iraqi forces and not be used for combat. Hey, isn't that basically what Bush was doing for most of 2006 while the situation kept deteriorating and all the Democrats demanded that he alter?" The answer: No! Betty is wrong on the characterization of both the Democrats plan and what Bush was doing in 2006. I guess the people who are too idiotic to see how they screwed thing up are equally idiotic about recognizing a real solution.
Labels: democrats, idiot of the day, Iraq war
Friday, February 23, 2007
Dick Cheney: Amazing track record of being wrong continues
By VictorM: Dick Cheney continues to attack Nancy Pelosi saying the Democrats' policy would "validate the al-Qaeda strategy." One question: how does Dick Cheney know what al-Qaeda's strategy is? Is he trading emails from his bunker with the guys in the caves? Does he get a briefing from the terrorist group? Or he just guessing what al-Qeada's strategy might be? I think it's safe to assume he's guessing because if he KNEW we'd be doing much better against them. Based on Cheney's track record, if we simply did the opposite of what he says we should do, we'd be doing great. So, I'm taking his criticism of the Democrats' strategy for Iraq as a strong sign that it will work.
Labels: al-qaeda, democrats, dick cheney, nancy pelosi
Friday, February 16, 2007
Republicans do it better than Democrats
By VictorM: Republicans have, all by themselves, screwed up the Iraq war in every manner imaginable. Yet they are almost always on the offensive. If you criticize them or the war, you’re a traitor, weak, a coward, an appeaser, emboldening the enemy, siding with the terrorists, etc. Yet Barak Obama was immediately on the defensive about using the word “wasted” and Hillary is on the defensive about a vote from years ago. Seriously, why is that? What is about the dynamics between the two parties that makes Republicans so good at attacking and Democrats not? Why haven't Democrats mastered the skill of politically having their opponents on the defensive?
Labels: attack, democrats, republicans
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Jews: Republicans aren't our kind of people
By Jennifer Rubin, on why few Jews vote Republican: The dustup over the location of Mitt Romney's presidential announcement — the Henry Ford Museum — may be revealing... Ford, of course, was a notorious anti-Semite... The GOP has become a rural, overwhelmingly Christian and Southern party. It is not populated by urban ethnics who, even if they aren't Jewish, understand Jews' cultural references and sensibilities... the Republicans are not just our kind of people, many Jews say. They don't sound like us, they don't talk like us and they don't understand us. Unless and until that changes, Jews likely will likely be voting overwhelmingly Democratic for years to come.
Labels: democrats, gop, jennifer rubin, jews, Mitt Romney, republicans
Monday, February 12, 2007
The Real Culprit for the Iraq War Fiasco
By TPM Reader BW: Hillary [Clinton] is right to remind Democratic Primary voters that the mistakes in Iraq belong to Bush... Focusing attention on Bush's conduct of the war, and how the conduct of the war has contributed to the hopelessness of the current situation -- there Bush's responsibility is unambiguous and unshared... The story of how Bush conducted the war, and how that conduct led to the on-going fiasco and catastrophe, which is Iraq, is the story ALL Democrats should be telling, over and over, until nothing else can be heard in this country, and the U.S. gets out, out, out.
Labels: democrats, George Bush, hillary clinton, Iraq war
Sunday, February 11, 2007
John Howard's Attack on Obama and Democrats
By VictorM: John Howard, Australia's Prime Minister said: "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would... pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for [US Senator] Obama, but also for the Democrats." Besides being highly innapropriate for a foreign leader to take sides with a political party in another country, this is just another sign that Mr. Howard comes from the same stock as Mr. Bush. In 2004 Americans blew their chance to remove one of these two war mongers from power; I hope Australians exercise better judgment and give Mr. Howard the boot.
Labels: al-qaeda, australia, Barack Obama, barak obama, democrats, Iraq war, john howard
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Giuliani: To the left of a good number of Democrats
By Josh Marshall, commenting on Rudy Giuliani's candidacy for president: [Dick Morris says:] "Conversations with conservative activists also show a remarkable openness to supporting Giuliani - a belief that he can overcome (perhaps finesse) his pro-choice, pro-gun-control, pro-gay-rights and pro-immigration positions." Let's be frank. On most or all of these issues, Giuliani is to the left of a good number of Democrats outside the northeast and the west coast.
Basically, for social conservatives, Giuliani is way on the wrong side of every signature, litmus issue. But there's a "remarkable openness." How about remarkably desperate? They just don't have anybody in this race at the moment that's catching any kind of fire in the nomination process and has any chance in a general.
Basically, for social conservatives, Giuliani is way on the wrong side of every signature, litmus issue. But there's a "remarkable openness." How about remarkably desperate? They just don't have anybody in this race at the moment that's catching any kind of fire in the nomination process and has any chance in a general.
Labels: democrats, republicans, rudy giuliani
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Republicans Own It
By VictorM: All Senate Republicans voted not to debate the Iraq War as part of a non-binding resolution. Good. There should be no debate – Republicans own this disaster all to themselves, including the latest escalation, and that’s the way it should stay until 2008. I just hope Democrats have the balls to remind voters of this.
Labels: democrats, Iraq war, republicans, senate
Monday, February 05, 2007
Bush Outreach: Words But Not Deeds
By VictorM: In the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin says: "President Bush was self-deprecating but unapologetic during his Friday visit to a gathering of House Democrats -- a delicate combination, even for him, and the latest example of his willingness to reach out to Democrats in words, but not in deeds." The truth is that referring to the Democratic party as the "Democrat party" was no accident or mangling of the English language, as Mr. Bush suggested. The man was just being a prick, as usual.
Labels: democrats, George Bush
It's not over till Bush goes home for good
By matt: It appears that Bush is trying to kill two birds with one stone: begin the process of gutting Social Security while at the same time sacrificing the future retirement security of the poorest working Americans in an attempt to stimulate spending now with the refunded taxes. It’s comforting to hear that Congressional Democrats describe this plan as “dead on arrival,” but this and Bush’s executive order governing agency regulations certainly are warning shots to anyone who thinks that Bush is a lame duck with two years left.
Labels: congress, democrats, George Bush, social security
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
More on the missing "ic"
By assyrian64: When a Republican says "Democrat party" this, on an unconscious level, I think, immediately communicates a negative, Tom Delay view of the Democratic Party. The correct phrase "Democratic Party", on the contrary, brings up, on an unconscious level, positive things such as FDR, the New Deal, JFK, etc. Today's Republican leaders are failures at governance, but masters of advertising and propaganda. They are currently unpopular because the terrifying reality they have created has exceeded their talents at misinformation.Labels: democrats, politics, republicans
Sunday, January 28, 2007
It's Time to Grow Some Balls
By VictorM: During the anti-war march in Washington, DC yesterday, the dominant theme, besides bringing the troops home, was the push to have Congress assert its authority to control the purse and consequently shut down the funding for this criminal war in Iraq. According to a Newsweek poll “Congress is criticized by nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Americans for not being assertive enough in challenging the Bush administration’s conduct of the war.” Undoubtedly, right-wing crybabies will try to blame Congress for losing the Iraq war, but come on, let’s face it, who cares what these people have to say anymore? This Democratic-controlled Congress better grow some balls and do what the American people demand.Labels: congress, democrats, Iraq war
Friday, January 26, 2007
Republicans: From Riches to Rags
By Kevin Drum: Aside from the obvious fact that Democrats are hungrier than Republicans because they've been out of office since 2000, the Republican field is remarkably weak this cycle. Compared to Democrats, who have half a dozen genuinely strong contenders, John McCain is really the only high-profile candidate they've got, and even he's hardly setting the world on fire. It's pretty amazing, really. From being on top of the world a mere two years ago, Republicans are having trouble just treading water these days.Labels: democrats, john mccain, republicans
Thursday, January 25, 2007
He just can't help being a jerk
By VictorM: At the start of his State of the Union Address, president Bush congratulated the 'Democrat majority' -- a term most Democrats take as an insult. The prepared remarks say "Democratic majority". It's obvious that the petulant, petty, and sore-loser attributes of Mr. Bush's personality took the best of him when delivering the speech. Or, most likely, he was just being himself.Labels: democrats, George Bush
Iraq: Democrats vs Republicans
By Kos: It's frustrating that despite the lessons of history and the GOP's own actions, so many Democrats are still afraid to actually lead on Iraq. They couch their "opposition" to Iraq in so many layers of caveats and rhetorical fluff that clarity and force of conviction are sacrificed. Take a look at how Webb did it: "[Democrats] might bring the war in Iraq to a proper conclusion that will also allow us to continue to fight the war against international terrorism, and to address other strategic concerns that our country faces around the world." See, it's that easy. The contradiction between the parties is stark -- one wants to end the war in Iraq and focus on truly battling international terrorism, the other doesn't. We want out, they want to escalate.Labels: democrats, Iraq war, republicans, webb
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
You hit us, we hit you back
By Thers: I'm watching McCauliff (Now HRClinton's campaign committee manager) on the Daily Show, and he's telling Stewart "hit us, hit Hillary, we'll hit back harder." I like it -- mostly. I wish our elections would be decided rationally, on issues, but they aren't. But if the Dem candidates have learned at long last to be feisty, hell, it's about goddamn time.Labels: daily show, democrats, hillary clinton, politics
Simple Question, Simple Answer
By VictorM: On his right-wing blog, Jules Crittenden, asks: Psychopaths are out there trying to kill Americans. That’s the Number One issue. What is the Democratic Congress going to do about it? Um... they might do what Bush hasn't: hunt them down and kill them without killing thousands of innocent Iraqis and diverting billions of our dollars to their friends!Labels: conservative, democrats, Iraq war, liberal
Friday, January 05, 2007
Then they couldn't, now they can
By VictorM: Democrats took over the House and Senate. The Washington Post says: "Last night, the House nearly unanimously approved a broad package of internal rules changes designed to sever the cozy links that have developed between lawmakers and lobbyists... The measures were approved 430 to 1... This was a remarkable change considering that House Republicans could barely pass a far weaker measure last May and ultimately did not enact any measure because they could not reach agreement with the Senate." Regardless of your party affiliation, you have to question why Republicans, who controlled all branches of government, had problems with this issue but the Democrats could hit the ground running with it. If nothing else, this is a sign of how rotten things have been with the Republican majority.Labels: congress, democrats, ethics reform, republicans
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Americans on the Issues That Matter
By VictorM: One political party represents the views of the America people, one party doesn't. I ain't saying which is which but here's that the American people think (agree/disagree): Allowing the government to negotiate with drug companies to attempt to lower the price of prescription drugs for some senior citizens: 87/12; Raising the minimum wage: 85/14; Cutting interest rates on federal loans to college students: 84/15; Creating an independent panel to oversee ethics in Congress: 79/19; Making significant changes in U.S. policy in Iraq: 77/20; Reducing the amount of influence lobbyists have in congressional decisions: 75/21; Implementing all of the anti-terrorism recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission: 64/26; Maintaining the current Social Security system to prevent the creation of private investment accounts: 63/32; Funding embryonic stem cell research: 62/32... Boy, if it weren't for prejudice and fear, we'd be a one party country.Labels: democrats, minimum wage, republicans, stem cell, student loans
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Partisan or Good for America?
By The Sideshow: the... Press is going all-out to tell each other how important it is that Nancy Pelosi rein in the partisanship in Washington. Every time a pundit says something like this, a little bell should go off in your head that says, "I must ask this person immediately how Pelosi is supposed to stop the Republicans from being so viciously partisan." It wouldn't hurt to start reminding people that "what is partisan" and "what is good for the country" are two different issues, and it is the latter that matters. If the Republicans oppose programs that are good for the country, the Democrats have no choice but to appear "partisan" - because this isn't about being a Democrat, it's about being an American.Labels: democrats, nancy pelosi, republicans
Friday, December 29, 2006
Growing up under Bush
By ReadHead: I was born in 1988. I was 12 years old when President Bush was "elected". I will cast my first vote in the 2008 election... the American political system has been dominated by the incompetence of the Bush administration. One might expect such a repulsive executive would lead to outrage among the youth... Instead, it's lead to widespread apathy and detachment... Instead of taking to the streets with signs and songs, the youth has taken no unified public action... Basically, we lack inspired leadership... Policy-wise, no leader has articulated a position that engages the youth enough to activate us... If the Democrats are counting on this generation for their future well-being, they had better adjust their television screens. They're risking creating the most politically-disengaged generation ever. This is what the Republicans are counting on, because when these MBAs-to-be grow up primarily concerned with their finances, that's who they'll turn to.Labels: democrats, republicans, youth
