Burning the Constitution
When I read other blogs, I see a lot of scoffing at the importance of desecrations of the Quran. It's a religious document, after all, and we as a nation explicitly reject reverence towards any...
View ArticleOkay, Hillary...
I've supported Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic nomination, despite her votes on the 2003 AUMF and the recent vote on the status of Iran. With the newest step by the Bush administration,...
View ArticleYour turn, Senators Biden, Dodd, and Obama
It turns out the Hillary had already done what I'd asked her to do...last month. According to TPM, she submitted a bill which would ban expenditures on any SoFA with Iraq which wasn't a formal treaty....
View ArticleWhy I am not a progressive
If you looked at my positions on the issues, you'd probably call me a progressive. I've worked for years for gay rights and womens rights, even when that work was unpopular, at least in the case of...
View ArticlePolitics and first love
Those of you who have had a short first love and then started another courtship will know the odd feeling of falling in love a second time. There's something...missing. It's not the passion, or the...
View ArticleUniversal healthcare: saving cents makes sense
We're going to lose the argument for universal health care coverage until we stop ceding our best ground to our opponents. There's a simple, straightforward, reason that UHC makes sense -- it saves...
View ArticleMy friends hang out with a subversive
I'm calling out rb608 for his wonderful diary here. His friends hang out with (fictional) drug dealers. He's got nuttin. Mine hang out with an unrehabilitated (fictional, of course) subversive.
View ArticleWA-08: An open letter to Stephanie Condon
I live in Washington's First Congressional district, about four hundred yards north of the boundary with the Eighth Congressional district. (In fact, my state legislative district has two...
View ArticleI wish -- but I know better
From his dairies, I get the impression that DarkSyde and I are roughly of an age. Like him, I had the requisite Estes D-based model rockets. I had the hand assembled, scale-model Saturn V; Saturn...
View ArticleA dirty story about our rocky times.
You've seen them before -- they have the sign which says "God Bless. Every little bit helps." There are more of them in my neighborhood every day. Today I saw one which perfectly captured the Bush...
View ArticleWhy I fight for health care...
Today, I got an email which reminds me why I fight for health care for all. It was sent out by the Lake Washington Youth Soccer League as an email blast entitled "Midnight Maddyness - Opportunity to...
View ArticleThe most vulnerable Representatives in the House
Two things struck me as I was looking as the Washington Post's summary of the vote last night. The first was that, whatever the reports may have said, mandatory insurance works: the eleven districts...
View ArticleA conflict
I supported Clinton in the primaries until it became clear that she could not run a campaign. Then, I moved to the candidate who I felt was best able to run a campaign, and, I hoped, the White House:...
View ArticleWhat now?
OK, the battle is over. We didn't get a public option, and we're going to be stuck with a hideous abortion amendment. We did get a much better bill than we would have if we hadn't been willing to...
View Article"Art therapy" and right wing frames
I wish people would stop making "art therapy" jokes about the leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen. Yes, they were released to inadequate supervision, and that shouldn't have happened. The problems with the...
View ArticleFixing the filibuster
During the most heated part of the dKos pie fightdebate over the Senate HCR bill, I promised someone that I'd write a diary about "fixing" the filibuster, provided that he or she would agree to not HR...
View ArticleWhat the rules say.
One of the associate editors has a post on the front page today in which he talks about Reid [doing something at] "the beginning of the next session of Congress when the Senate adopts its new rules"....
View ArticleGetting around the Senate rules
I've posted a couple of previous diaries about the Senate rules in the last few days. In the first one, I talked about what the Senate rules are, and how they can be changed. In the second, I talk...
View ArticleFixing the filibuster (5 of 2)
[T]here is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong -- H. L. Mencken I've been trying to convince people that the filibuster must be fixed through the rules, and...
View ArticleWhy we should primary Blanche Lincoln
Let's get something straight right away: Bill Halter, decent fellow that he may be, is not going to win in November. The only Democrat in Arkansas who could possibly hold that seat for us it is named...
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