Protest at the Source of the Teabaggers
After reading Jed Lewison's Diary on threats by teabaggers and their targeting of SEIU over this fight, we need to hit them at their heart as well.We need to not only have folks at our meetings and...
View ArticleRepublican Senator to Daily Kos - Healthcare Advice
Now, it may be unusual for a Republican Senator to be posting on a radikly left wingy site like this'un here, but you all crossed a line for this good ol' boy.I'm Senator Lee Pitchahissy from Lighthead...
View ArticleOpt-Out : The Missouri Compromise of 2009
There are some tremendous diaries about the opt-out public option here : Slinkerwink, thereisnospoon, and Volsky at wonkroom all contribute greatly to the conversation.But I want to add a perspective -...
View ArticleMy Little Cat Died and a Memorial
I know DKos is a nationally known site for progressives and political discussion. All my previous posts and diaries have pretty much centered on such topics, sometimes strenuously. On occasion I've...
View ArticleMurkowsi vs Lieberman : the Politics of Support
In 2006, the Democratic Party abandoned the candidate chosen by their party, Ned Lamont, in favor of long time former Dem Sen. Joe Lieberman despite his deeply problematic behavior and opposition to...
View ArticleDemocrats, You Have Worn Me Out
I know the tax cut compromise is extremely important. I know DADT is important. I know the DREAM act is important. I knew FISA and Bank Regs and the health care bill were important.But instead of...
View ArticleGet Married, Stay Married : Brownback's Kansas
Looks like Brownback in Kansas has called in every hard-core marriage-is-forever-but-only-for-heteros fanatic to come visit and help him put formulate a real winner of a plan. Topeka Capital...
View ArticleWhat OCCUPY WALL STREET Says to me
I have not been to NYC in a long time. I have not taken part in any OCCUPY events, nor will I. I only know what I read here and elsewhere and what I see on the tube and the interwebs.But what I see,...
View ArticlePayroll Tax Cut Imperils Social Security
I am all for helping out working Americans, but continuing or expanding the payroll tax cut is a danger to Social Security, and Republican opposition seems a like Brer Rabbit asking not t be thrown in...
View ArticleLiberal Victory to Progressive Defeat : Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald has an excellent piece up that serves as a warning to the progressive about what may very well happen again this cycle if we let it, in 6 easy steps: By all rights, they [liberals -...
View ArticleWyatt Earp to NRA's LaPierre : You're Wrong
NRA CEO and Executive Vice President LaPierre has called for, on behalf of the NRA, a National School Shield Emergency Response Program, with it's central point being the placement of armed police...
View ArticleGeneral Election Worries About Hillary
One thing is becoming clear to me: Trump has spent months chewing up Establishment candidates, and Hillary is an Establishment candidate.So, getting this out of the way, I am a Bernie Supporter, but I...
View ArticleProtest at the Source of the Teabaggers
After reading Jed Lewison's Diary on threats by teabaggers and their targeting of SEIU over this fight, we need to hit them at their heart as well.We need to not only have folks at our meetings and...
View ArticleRepublican Senator to Daily Kos - Healthcare Advice
Now, it may be unusual for a Republican Senator to be posting on a radikly left wingy site like this'un here, but you all crossed a line for this good ol' boy.I'm Senator Lee Pitchahissy from Lighthead...
View ArticleOpt-Out : The Missouri Compromise of 2009
There are some tremendous diaries about the opt-out public option here : Slinkerwink, thereisnospoon, and Volsky at wonkroom all contribute greatly to the conversation.But I want to add a perspective -...
View ArticleMy Little Cat Died and a Memorial
I know DKos is a nationally known site for progressives and political discussion. All my previous posts and diaries have pretty much centered on such topics, sometimes strenuously. On occasion I've...
View ArticleMurkowsi vs Lieberman : the Politics of Support
In 2006, the Democratic Party abandoned the candidate chosen by their party, Ned Lamont, in favor of long time former Dem Sen. Joe Lieberman despite his deeply problematic behavior and opposition to...
View ArticleDemocrats, You Have Worn Me Out
I know the tax cut compromise is extremely important. I know DADT is important. I know the DREAM act is important. I knew FISA and Bank Regs and the health care bill were important.But instead of...
View ArticleGet Married, Stay Married : Brownback's Kansas
Looks like Brownback in Kansas has called in every hard-core marriage-is-forever-but-only-for-heteros fanatic to come visit and help him put formulate a real winner of a plan. Topeka Capital...
View ArticleWhat OCCUPY WALL STREET Says to me
I have not been to NYC in a long time. I have not taken part in any OCCUPY events, nor will I. I only know what I read here and elsewhere and what I see on the tube and the interwebs.But what I see,...
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