Richardson Shows Iraq Leadership... and Kossacks sleep
Tue Jun 19, 2007 at 09:46:07 AM PDT
Markos may still be upset about Bill Richardson's uninspiring stop on MTP, but in the meantime Bill Richardson (full disclosure: I've already decided that Bill Richardson has my primary vote, and I don't think baggage-laden Hillary Clinton, professional presidential candidates Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, or political neophyte Barack Obama have a snot's chance to convert me) has made himself stand out as the only serious candidate with a plan to bring all the troops home.
It should be front-page news (and it briefly was on Yahoo!). But (what a surprise) here on Kos it's nowhere to be found. Can it be there's more threads on the... flu pandemic... than this?
"Bonfire of the Imus" - Imus situation and "racism" [UPDATED]
Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 02:48:15 PM PDT
You may think that the whole Imus affair has everything to do with Imus saying a slur against African-American women. You can be forgiven for thinking this is true, but the truth is much stranger than that. Like Bonfire of the Vanities pointed out nearly two decades ago, there are bigger forces at work here not unlike the forces detailed by Tom Wolfe.
More on the flip.
[UPDATED]
Even Bush's Puff Pieces are Disasters
Mon May 08, 2006 at 08:01:40 PM PDT
You're Bush. Your poll numbers are in the garbage. You've just nominated a guy to head the CIA that basically all of Congress has said is wrong. You're upstaged - and basically torn a new one - by Stephen Colbert at the correspondent's dinner. Even al-Queida terrorist tapes aren't bringing up the poll numbers. Everything you touch is simply turning into lead.
So you'd think that a puff piece talking about soccer's World Cup, would be the type of thing that folksy Bush would hit out of the park, right?
Right?
Think again.
Missles in Iraq for Minutemen in New Mexico: How is this not a recommended diary?
Wed Apr 26, 2006 at 12:20:08 PM PDT
How is this not a front-page item on DailyKos? It is a front page story on Yahoo!
Senate Shifts Iraq Funds to Border Partols
The skinny is that a Republican-led coalition, pandering to their Latino-hating hearts, have actually led a vote to TAKE MONEY, BODY ARMOR AND MEDICAL CARE from OUR TROOPS and given it to "border security". Doesn't this frame itself?
Tearing Brooks (NYT) A New One
Thu Feb 16, 2006 at 06:50:10 AM PDT
I really should know better than to read David Brooks in the morning. But I never seem to learn. In the event, I choked when I read this in
Brooks' column today (reg'n required):
The Battle of Corpus Christi is but the latest example of our capacity to transform fact into stereotype.
On a personal level, the Cheney-Whittington accident was a sad but unremarkable event. Two men go hunting. Both are sloppy, and one friend shoots another. The victim is suffering but gracious. The shooter is anguished in his guilt.
...
In normal life, people would look at this event and see two decent men caught in a twist of fate. They would feel concern for the victim and sympathy for the man who fired the gun.
I couldn't stand it. I fired off the following to the New York Times and Brooks himself. It's there, in it's full glory, below the flip. Hopefully the NYT will print it.
Where did DailyKos go so wrong? RANT ALERT
Thu Feb 09, 2006 at 11:41:25 AM PDT
Have DailyKos readers ceased to have any pretense of impartiality and sense?
The first thing we do is call Alito "Scalito" and go nuclear against him - even though we didn't have the votes to filibuster.
The next thing we do is go after Joe Lieberman. Now, I'm no huge fan of Lieberman, but we slam him and basically say: "The Democratic Party - conform or die."
Finally, today, I read we're calling a former Dean staffer, running as a Republican in the bluest state of the nation (Vermont), and we're calling her "Turncoat Kate".
I've had enough.
We skewer moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans. We cackle with glee when "basically a Democrat" Lincoln Chafee is neck-in-neck in the Rhode Island senate race. Anyone who differs even slightly from the extremes of "D" and "R" opinion are drilled.
We're becoming the jackbooted thugs of the left. Everything we all hate about the Republicans, we are becoming. And I don't like it.
My story on the flip.
I scooped Frank Rich, or The Kossification of the MSM
Sun Jan 22, 2006 at 06:08:41 PM PDT
I don't want to pat myself on the back too much, or gloat, or anything like that. Well, OK. Yes, I am patting myself and gloating profusely about my scooping of Frank Rich's wonderful Sunday Column. All you needed to do was read my diary called "The Truth" on Friday.
Links, and quotes, below the flip.
The Truth
Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 06:37:34 PM PDT
In a way, this diary is a follow up to Jerome's excellent diary on Why Bother?, but this is something I was tumbling around my head today, and it fits very well into his topic of the day. Basically, he says:
Why don't others just see it? Are we crazy? Are we actually extremists, out of touch with the rest of humanity?
Why are we so few in thinking that torture is wrong? That selfishness should be tempered? That there is such a thing as the common good? Why are we so few to care? How do we fight the fact that's it's easier to just tune out?
I was thinking about this very issue today too. And I think I may have figured out the answer. It's below the flip.
Bush Admits Ties to Abramoff... and no diary? UPDATED
Wed Jan 04, 2006 at 07:57:30 AM PDT
Let me get this straight, Bush admits to taking money from someone who pled guilty to fraud in an ongoing corruption investigation that hopes to swallow the Republican party whole - and there's no diary on this yet?
Here's your link - right on the front page of Yahoo!. Hello? Hello? Bueller?
[UPDATE 1: Quoted more of original article. WH Scott McClellan may already have started the ball rolling on pooh-poohing the Bush/Abramoff links by saying they "didn't know each other". Perjury?]
Who's In Charge? Bush or Cheney?
Mon Nov 07, 2005 at 08:14:48 AM PDT
If you watched the press roundtables this weekend on Meet the Press or Chris Matthews, there's lots of speculation about where "Scootergate" is going. Is Bush going to be tainted? What will happen to Cheney? Will Bush make some changes? Will Bush fight back against the WMD intelligence criticism? (When that op-ed was flashed on MTP yesterday, I basically, said, oh, please, pretty please, could the President try to defend WMD intelligence?)
There's something important here, though, and I think it should be the key meme for this whole business. Who's in charge?
Rovian False Memos Aside, They Can't Win With Alito
Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 05:52:31 PM PDT
The blatant Rovian false memo about Democrats smearing Alito several seconds after his announcement doesn't hide the truth - that this isn't Bush's and Rove's first choice as SCOTUS nominee, and that Alito is plainly and clearly a fop to the Pat Buchanan's and Rush Limbaughs of the world.
Smoking Gun: Interesting Language in Miers' Resignation
Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 10:22:36 AM PDT
The Smoking Gun has what they say to be
Harriet Miers' resignation letter given to President Bush. There's a lot of follow-up questions I would love to ask after reading this.
The quick-n-dirty version is (paraphrasing):
I'm withdrawing because we need to preserve the independence of the executive branch, and my confirmation will cause repeated inquiries into my legal activities for you.
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Yeah, I don't buy it either. More analysis on the flip.
Lance Armstrong with a Repub-like denial
Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 07:02:33 AM PDT
And you thought Rafael Palmeiro's stringent denial of steroids in front of Congress was right out of the Bush playbook...
As much as it is painful, people are going to have to begin to accept that Lance Armstrong doped himself up to win the Tour de France, if not more. His Republican-like denials on Larry King aren't enough.
Why? More on the flip.
In the dead of night... Private SS accounts die in house
Wed Jun 22, 2005 at 06:12:33 AM PDT
In the dead of night, probably determined not to embarass a reeling president, the House worked on a SS bill
without private accounts.
Media "Deep Throat" Each Other and Ignore New Scandals
Wed Jun 01, 2005 at 12:05:04 PM PDT
I'm sick and tired of this.
We have investigations that need to go forward on Ohio campaign contributions. Corrupt politicians in Washington State. Guckert. Abu Gharib. Downing street and the run-up to war. How "Big Oil and Big Coal" formed energy policy.
And our MSM is having a big circle jerk about the idenity of "Deep Throat". How two reporters doggedly pursued a story that the MSM at the time wouldn't touch and in the process (to some) helped bring down a President.
But WHERE IS THE MSM NOW?
Bush Breaks the Hypocrisy-O-Meter Today
Tue May 31, 2005 at 09:00:07 AM PDT
Did Bolton Leak Plame's Name to Novak?
Thu May 19, 2005 at 06:19:42 AM PDT
I don't know for sure. But that ABC News report detailing how Bolton
tried to use George Tenet shows a suspicious pattern that leads to the Plame outing.
Bush/Abramoff ties - Oho! What do we have here?
Mon May 16, 2005 at 02:34:50 PM PDT
