Category Archives: Democrats shooting themseves in the foot

This fucking week…

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

So, let’s review… MONDAY: The Boston Marathon gets hit. Death, Blood, gore, sadness. TUESDAY: The Senate The GOP minority in The Senate plus four Red State Dems totally fucks all of us on Gun Control via the Filibuster. And while Sharron … Continue reading →

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Obama, Chained CPI and the War of Attrition.

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

Via Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon… Today may mark a nadir in the often strained relations between President Obama and the “professional left,” as Robert Gibbs derisively called the progressive movement, which has been pushing for months to prevent Obama from … Continue reading →

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My very short response to the failure of filibuster reform vis a vis Harry Reid’s failure of will.

Posted on January 26, 2013 by

We should have taken the hit from Sharon Engel.

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You can take a Neo-Con to water but you can’t make him not use it for a board.

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

So, that plan to avoid blogging about politics for the next week…yeah…not working out all that well.  (Via The New York TImes.) Last September, Mitt Romney’s advisers were so determined to attack President Obama from every direction and to revive long-discredited … Continue reading →

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My response to every progressive on Twitter who’s angry at Jeremy Scahill….

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

MSNBC VIDEOS DO NOT EMBED ON WORDPRESS!  FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SEE WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. I’m going to make this short and sweet because I don’t want to spend more time on this then I have to. If you … Continue reading →

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Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban…Because you can never have enough lying in your Government.

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

And this is why I’m calling Wyden and Merkley today! An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current … Continue reading →

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John Edwards, “Two Americas” and the Moon.

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

The John Edwards trial moves along with the speedy sadness of a grieving widow strapped to a rocket bike. (Via The New York Times.) GREENSBORO, N.C. — For hour after grueling hour, Andrew Young sat on the witness stand in a … Continue reading →

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Obama, indefinite detention and a call for some form of unity.

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Let me say this right up front.  Odds are this post will piss you off. Half of you will say that I’m a ObamaBot, willing to let this slide because  he’s my personal Jesus Christ. (Not true.) And half of … Continue reading →

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Maybe Detention…Maybe indefinite…Maybe …(UPDATED.)

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

I’m looking at the state of play with the NDAA and I bang my head against the nearest wall. (Via “Mother Jones”.) The new bill still mandates military detention without trial for any non-citizen terrorism suspect apprehended in the US who is determined … Continue reading →

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Indefinite Detention Update…

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

The news is not good… WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial — prompting White House officials to reissue a … Continue reading →

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