To the REAL Progressives on This Site
I have finally had it up to here with our capitulationist corporatist so-called Democratic neolibreral triangulating DLC Third Way triangulating Blue Dog conervadem Trojan Horse Neville Chamberlinian...
View ArticleWhat does Obama need to do to win back conservative white men?
My title is apropos the latest Daily Kos/PPP/SEIU poll, which showed an ugly drop from last week.The poll shows a week over week shift from a +5 51-46 favorability rating to a -5 45-50 favorability...
View ArticleBarack Obama a Wall Street Shill? Oh, Please! (An Occassional Series)
[Foreword: I originally intended this diary to be, more or less, an encyclopedic rebuttal to all of the accusations of progressive malfeasance directed at President Obama. However, it quickly became...
View ArticleDear Fellow Kossacks: Thank You For Restoring My Faith In This Site
This morning, I was very pleasantly surprised by something that happened, or rather didn't happen, here at Daily Kos. As my eye was running down the recent diary list, this title jumped out me: Yves...
View ArticleNew Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP Poll: Republicans United In Hatred Of President
The latest Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP poll was released today. If you'll recall, last week the President's favorable rating dropped from a +5 51/46 rating to a -5 45/50 a big, fat 10 point drop, while his job...
View ArticleDissent Is NOT the Highest Form of Patriotism
I do not mean to speak ill of the dead. Howard Zinn has a well-deserved place in the hearts of all liberals. However, the aphorism refered to in the title is an unfortunate legacy of that good man,...
View ArticleYesterday's Wall Street Journal Was a Revelation *Updated to Acknowledge Error*
I picked up a copy of the Wall Street Journal yesterday and what I read in there was an absolute revelation. Just reading that one issue of that one newspaper I learned more about the ways this...
View Article"What the Left Doesn't Understand About Obama"
The Producers - I'm In Pain And I'm Wet Get More: The Producers - I'm In Pain And I'm Wet Jonathan Chait, of The New Republic, has delivered a much needed rhetorical slap to the collective face of...
View ArticleSome facts about, and a partial defense of, Jehovah's Witnesses
I was raised Jehovah's witness, my parents are Jehovah's Witness and many of my extended family members are Jehovah's Witness. The Jehovah Witness lifestyle and philosophy leave a lot to be desired and...
View ArticleSyria does not = Iraq
It seems our apparently imminent military engagement with Syria has some people experiencing de ja vu. The parallels with Iraq are obvious. Neither country attacked us. Both are muslim nations. Both...
View ArticleWhy I support authorizing the President to use military force in Syria
I support authorizing the President to use military force in Syria because Assad's use of chemical weapons calls for the strongest possible response. Preventing the President from punishing Assad...
View ArticleComey Was More Worried About Being Perceived As Doing the Right Thing Than...
I don’t believe James Comey wanted to put a thumb on the scale for Donald Trump or the Republican Party. What I do believe is that Comey would eventually have to disclose this information, likely to be...
View ArticlePutin Interfering in Our Elections Should Be the Biggest News Story Since the...
I feel like the stakes of this election have not emerged the way they should have. It’s been nearly a month since the President formally accused Russia of interfering with our election. The New York...
View ArticleMy Biggest Fear About Wikileaks
This is going to be a very quick diary because I have very little time and am writing on my phone. But I just want to raise this point for the purpose of discussion. Yesterday I wrote a diary in which...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal Re Chaffetz Comeuppance
Congressmen, particularly in a Republican majority, have virtually no oversight at all. There isn’t much we can do to hold a guy like Chaffetz accountable for his utter disregard for the serious...
View ArticleDon't Over-Learn the Lessons of 2016
Hillary Clinton narrowly lost this election in key battleground states while winning a fairly substantial majority of the popular vote. This was not a repudiation of the Democratic platform or of...
View ArticleMichelle Obama 2020
I kind of hate that I think this after we just ran a former First Lady who lost, but as of right now Michelle Obama stands head and shoulders above everyone else in the Democratic field as a potential...
View ArticleIgnore Bannon. Ignore Medicare. Blind Trust.
Donald Trump and the Republicans have a lot of very troubling plans for immigration, the Supreme Court, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Social Security and a host of other public policy issues core to...
View ArticleCivil LIBERTARIANS, Stop Gaslighting Liberals About Russia
There was a rec-listed diary recently celebrating the “righteous takedowns” by Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald of recent Washington Post article titled Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake...
View Article270 for [Fill In Trump Alternative]
President Obama put it quite nicely and succinctly during the campaign when he said “Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be President.” Mitt Romney’s remarks during the primaries were also very...
View ArticleWaPo: Trump expected to pick ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson as his secretary...
Breaking in the Washington Post: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name as his secretary of state Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, who has worked extensively around the globe...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong with Democrats? Too Much Damn Introspection.
There is mounting evidence that the Presidency (along with the Senate) was just stolen from Democrats by a loose federation of elected Republicans, Republican officials, Russians, Wikileaks and other...
View ArticleI Just E-Mailed My Congressman
I just sent this email to Representative Joseph Crowley, Representative from New York’s 14th District:Message Subject: Thank You for Representing My Values in CongressMessage Text:Dear Representative...
View ArticleWe Need a Canon of Presidential Ethics
I just published a petition to change.org calling for the creation of a Commission to promulgate a Canon of Presidential Ethics. This may sound like some lame blue dog bullshit to some of you all, but...
View ArticleThe Emerging Democratic Majority
I’ve been thinking about the way our two party system has evolved and what attracts people to each party and it's occurred to me that the Democratic Party’s existence is almost completely independent...
View ArticleCounting fire extinguishers on the Titanic
I am finding the focus on stories like the Rob Porter story to be extremely frustrating. I feel like talking about how dangerous it is for the sensitive intelligence to which a close advisor to the...
View ArticleDirty Donald is crazy like a very dumb fox
I really don’t have one for much of a diary or for links, but I want to lay down a marker right here. Donald Trump suddenly blurred out his new tariff policy on March 1st with absolutely no roll out,...
View ArticleI Suspect Trump is on the Cusp of Attempting to Fire Sessions/Mueller
I suspect a major motivation for Trump’s sudden spring cabinet cleaning fever is that he feels that firing Jeff Sessions will not appear to be as nakedly addressed to obstructing the Mueller...
View ArticleTrump probably can't fire Mueller
There seems to be a widely shared belief that Donald Trump can fire Robert Mueller at will and the only thing restraining him is a fear that he might set off a shitstorm big enough to force congress to...
View ArticleOn the terribleness of Trump’s lawyers
Putting myself in Michael Cohen’s shoes and adopting his ethical framework, I can’t begin to understand why he handled the Stormy Daniels pay off the way he did from beginning to present. First, if...
View ArticleThe Trump/Kim summit was a sign of the collapse of U.S. influence
The charitable interpretation of what just happened in Singapore is that a naive and desperate-for-a-win Donald Trump got played by a shrewd Kim Jong Un. The facts do not support a more optimistic take...
View ArticleMy quick take on Manchin’s ‘aye’ vote
I felt a lot of frustration that Manchin provided the aye vote to create even the tiniest fig-leaf of bipartisan support for Kavanaugh’s nomination. Having said that, I’m withholding judgment as to...
View ArticleWhy can’t Trump be Charged as a Principal or Accessory to Russian Interference?
I have much to say on this subject and little time right now, but I’m just dying to get it out here. Everyone is mostly carrying on as though Trump has more or less been cleared of complicity in...
View ArticleLet America Be America Again
I was just thinking about the Langston Hughes poem Let America Be America Again, and I was thinking what a great counter-slogan to Make America Great Again it would be. I imagine all the LABAA hats and...
View ArticleEchoes of Abu Ghraib
The most recent stories breaking about the conditions at immigration detention camps and the behavior of Customs and Border Patrol officers is disturbing in a way that is giving me flashbacks to Abu...
View ArticleWho are the Four Women of the Squad and Why is Nancy Pelosi So Darn Mean to...
I found the above photograph in Glamour Magazine. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted it to her Instagram account on November 12, 2018, six days after they each won elections to become freshmen members of...
View ArticleThe President is Guilty of Bribery
I’ve seen it said a lot that the President isn’t technically guilty of bribery. I’ve said as much myself, arguing that his behavior looks more like extortion than bribery. However, watching Cass...
View ArticleTrump's Own Words are Still the Most Damning Evidence Against Him
Listening to the hearings and reading much of the reporting on the hearings, it is easy to lose sight of just how much of Trump’s intentions with respect to Ukraine are spelled out in the transcript of...
View ArticleThe Main Crimes Proven Against Donald Trump
A favorite Republican talking point during the Intelligence Committee hearings has been that the Democrats rationale for impeaching Trump keeps shifting — it used to be treason, then collusion, then...
View ArticleNo True Republican
I firmly believe that our news media is largely responsible for Trump’s victory in 2016. While the editorial boards of nearly every newspaper in the nation lined up against Trump, reporters were...
View ArticleWhat Unites Us
For the 2020 presidential campaign, I think we need a candidate who makes the focus of his or her campaign the issues that unite Democratic and potential Democratic voters. In my view, those issues...
View ArticleLet America be America Again
I have been pushing the idea that now is not the time to be running on radical overhaul of our healthcare system, or our system for paying for college, or our tax code. A lot of people assume that’s...
View ArticleMy email to Jeff Van Drew
This email was not well formatted because I had to send it in one of those forms through his website, but here it is just as I sent it just now:Dear Rep. Van Drew: I am a resident of Upper Deerfield...
View ArticleIt’s Too Late for 2020, but Democratic Primaries Need Ranked Choice Voting
With four primaries/caucuses in the can, we have five candidates who have been awarded delegates:Sanders — 56 (39%)Biden — 48 (33%)Buttigieg — 26 (18%)Warren — 8 (5%)Klobuchar — 7 (5%)Let’s say, for...
View ArticleRank your choices
I published a diary very early yesterday morning arguing for ranked choice voting. I will not re-hash that now, but since I published that diary both Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have bowed out of...
View ArticleJoe Biden will be the Democratic nominee because he ran the best campaign
When I say Joe Biden ran the best campaign, I mean the best of a sorry lot. Joe Biden’s message was simple: I was Barack Obama’s right hand man, and I know how to get this country back on track.It’s...
View ArticleLet's be fair to AOC and each other
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke her Fox News embargo to go on Brett Baier’s show in support of the compromise coronavirus legislation being advocated for by Nancy Pelosi, toward the end of the...
View ArticleDemocrats need to focus 100% on preventing and ameliorating suffering right now
First, do no harm. As Democrats move to address the medical and economic crisis that is currently worsening exponentially, we need to bear in mind this foundation of modern medicine. What is needed...
View ArticleDemocrats should not even consider packing the courts
Mitch McConnell has been packing the courts. He did everything he could to throw sand in the gears of the appointment of Obama nominated judges when he was Senate Minority Leader, and once he became...
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