Thank you, Sen. Brown (MA)
During the great long healthcare debate, everyone kept asking why the Dems didn't use cloture, even though they could, in principle, win one. Now, when they can not, in principle, win a cloture vote...
View ArticleEverybody's favorite misstatement...
There's an important diary up on the rec list right now. I won't point to it, so as not to write a call-out, but it's by someone whose nick refers to the non-existence of eating utensils, and everyone...
View ArticleTake that!
One of the things which I find repulsive are the "press shield" laws which provide protection to 'official' members of the press while claiming that the plebes in their pajamas have no such...
View ArticleI really am one of the 1%
Sarahproudandtall has a snarky (and very funny) diary up this morning about being a member of the Hated One Percent. It's not meant to be a factual statement, I know, but...well, you see, I am a...
View ArticleSeriously, Luntz, couldn't you pick a new dog whistle?
So, Frank Luntz amused us all by telling funny jokes: He joked a bit to warm up the room. [...] "I actually have a 'Run, Barack, Run,' bumper-sticker but I put it on the front of my car," he...
View ArticleThere will be no Republican White Knight
It seems like everyone here is busily arguing about whether there will be a Republican White Knight if Santorum wins Michigan on Tuesday or wins a majority of the delegates on Super Tuesday, March 6....
View ArticleGreece, Germany, the EU, Wyoming and Red Counties
OK, I'm fed up with this. There's yet another front page diary pointing out that a Red State or county is a net money sink. (In this case, it's Wyoming, but that's kind of irrelevant. I've certainly...
View ArticleLeave the statue up
I keep hearing that Penn State should tear down the Joe Paterno statue. I disagree -- it's a piece of Penn State history, and Penn State should not be forced to bury that history. An artist worked...
View ArticledKos ads from hate groups?
Recently, I've seen a spate of "Obama grants Amnesty" ads show up on daily Kos. My response has been to shrug and laugh, saying "Well, that's a wasted impression, and someday I'll get around to...
View ArticleIt aint so, Joe
The frequently (and often justly) maligned Joe Klein has done it again. He written something in Time magazine which he ought to regret -- although, of course, he never will. He's written a piece in...
View ArticleObama's gonna win this! What do we do now?!?
At this point, it's hard to find a route for Romney to be competitive in the next nine weeks. It's not impossible that he can take this in the end, but it's very, very unlikely. Awesome. You should...
View ArticleShoot! Mitt, ya got me. Ya figgerd me out
Well, darned if Mittens didn't figger me out. Ya see, like Mitt said, I'm one of them welfare-mooching, subsidy-grubbing, fully-subsidized Obama voters. Except, gosh, there one thing I don't quite...
View ArticleDo you know what evisceration looks like?
No, seriously. Do you know what it looks like? If you do, I'm sorry. If you don't -- I won't describe it to you. I recommend you keep it that way; evisceration is one of the few worst ways to die,...
View ArticleHow 2012 is unlike 2004
The new emerging pundit story seems to be that 2012 is like 2004, and, as a result, Democrats had better watch out.The parallels are pretty clear. In 2004, the Democratic candidate for President was a...
View ArticleWhy we should love the filibuster
You'd think, given all the hoorah about filibuster reform on the front page, that we hate the filibuster. Actually, of course, we love it, and will continue to love it until at least January 1st --...
View ArticleWhat do you mean, nothing?
Look, I don't like tonight's deal. It's...bad.But let's not forget what else the sequester cut. It didn't just cut defense spending. It cut virtually all "discretionary domestic spending". It left...
View ArticleConsensual fantasy
No, no, no. Not THAT kind of consensual fantasy. I'm talking about government, money, and democracy, not about sex.I have been thinking a lot about the Platinum coin option, and I think that I...
View ArticleAfter the Filibuster fight -- one man one vote
The Republicans in Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are (or maybe are not -- Virginia seems to be bucking the trend) about to launch one of the most undemocratic gambits in many generations. By...
View ArticleSLFL
This is not a TTFN -- I'm not going to "take a break for my sanity" or whatever other reasons folks have given -- but it is a "So Long For Lent". Lent starts tomorrow morning, and this year my Lenten...
View ArticleThe MSFT-NSA conspiracy theory
There's a diary on the front page today about a long-discredited theory about security vulnerabilities, the NSA, and Microsoft here. The short form of what I'm going to write is that the story it...
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