Iraq: The Third Option
Currently, debate about what the US should do in Iraq centers around two broad possibilities, both disastrous: "stay the course" and "cut and run". "Stay the course" means continuing to sacrifice...
View ArticleBush Nominates Horse to Supreme Court
President Bush caught the pundits by surprise yesterday in nominating his horse Harriet Neighers to the Supreme Court. Many Democrats who had been concerned that Bush's next nominee would have extreme...
View ArticleWhat Does Dobson Know?
The discussion of Dobson's remarks has made too little note of how strange they really are and has therefore tended towards insufficient explanations. Here's what he said:" when you know some of the...
View ArticleGrounds for Impeachment: A Foundation
"If the President knew or should have known that the intelligence justifying the war with Iraq was falsified or deliberately distorted, it is grounds for impeachment." This is something the Democrats...
View ArticleRosa Parks and What is Wrong with Libertarianism
One element of the Republican coalition that may feel that can claim Park's legacy without embarrassment are the Libertarians. After all, Libertarians would certainly oppose a government telling people...
View ArticleOnion Burglarizes Presidential Seal
White House Officials disclosed today that the Presidential Seal of the United States had been burglarized by "The Onion", evidently a newspaper of some sort. "We actually wanted the Illuminati one,"...
View ArticleFilibuster "Martial Law"
The Republican majority has declared "martial law", by which they mean rushing bills through with the Congress having no time to review them. That they choose the term "martial law", rather than...
View ArticleMuslim Radiation Story a Distraction
US News and World Report is a conservative source, and the story about the NSA (update: rather FBI) searching Muslim homes and public areas for traces of radiation is a Republican ploy to move the...
View ArticleDirge for New Orleans excerpt: The Waiting
The following is an excerpt from a long poem I began during Katrina, dealing with its effect on New Orleans. It is not easy for me to write this, but I'm going to try to return to it. The Waiting The...
View ArticleDid the FBI Investigate Foley Before Now?
One question I have not seen addressed in the discussion of the Foley scandal is whether the FBI began an investigation of him a few months back. Citizens Blogging for Responsibility and Ethics in...
View ArticleAd: Terrorists Want the Republicans to Win
This is the text of a radio ad I'm proposing in response to the "ticking" Republican ad. I'd like to know what people think. Update: I've revised this in response to critiques of verbosity. Voice...
View ArticleJames Carville: Why Centrists Logically Become Traitors
All the anger, anguish, and alarm over Carville's recent attacks on Dean and, by proxy, the netroots, while justified, miss that this is not only a defense of personal power, but an attack on the...
View ArticleWhy Rumsfeld Went Down
Bush has been telling us he decided to dump Rumsfeld months ago, but vowed the opposite publicly, as he did not want to play politics with the decision. The only appropriate response to that claim is...
View ArticleThe Lieberman Maneuver is a One-Punch Ticket, or Let's Lamont Them Again
A dangerous incrustation of conventional wisdom, congealing around us as we speak, is that the Lieberman victory invalidates the strategy of primary challenges against conservative Dems. However, that...
View ArticleTo Save Afghanistan, We Must Leave Iraq (and Dems must say so)
Richard Armitage, who is reasonable and intelligent by (former) Bush official standards, has hammered the last nail into the coffin on Iraq. Afghanistan is in serious danger of being lost to the...
View ArticleHow to Prevent a "Stabbed In The Back" Myth
Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly and Swopa at firedoglake, among others, are concerned that, by denying Bush and McCain their "surge", the Democrats will again be subject to demonization for a...
View ArticleNow, the Military Supports the Surge: How Democrats should respond
A couple of days ago, I wrote a diary entry laying out how I thought the Democrats should respond to the surge proposal so as to undermine any potential "stabbed-in-the-back" (SITYB) myths that might...
View ArticleDems: Subpoena all outside emails. This is now a national security issue.
One of the things that has emerged from the USA scandal is that many high-level administration figures have been using common consumer email and messaging services such as those of Blackberry and AOL...
View ArticleHow Obama Can Respond to Racially-Tinged Material
The best thing for Obama to do would be political judo. Present a couple of the remarks frankly, so that people can see them for what they are. But instead of attacking their racism, turn them into...
View ArticleThe Most Important Question for Democratic Candidates
Do you vow to fully and vigorously investigate and prosecute all crimes that have been committed by the Bush Administration, yes or no?When Clinton came to office, one of his first acts was to shut...
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