The popular liberal Daily Kos website had this — no kidding around here — as the 3d sentence in a front page Post there today:
Brown’s victory gives Republicans the numbers in the Senate to filibuster most Democratic legislation…
Yes, it does, if one goes by the reasoning of the New Yorker’s Hendrik Helzberg, where the Filibuster [...]
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Yes, Republicans Will Be Able to Filibuster Everything!!
Posted: 24th January 2010 by admin in Congress, Government, Political Communication, Politics0
Turning Diamonds into Cow Manure
Posted: 20th January 2010 by admin in " "Health Care, Political Communication, Political Strategy, PoliticsTags: " "Health Care, democratic paty, glenn greenwald, Lanny Davis, Republicans
How Democrats can miss the central things going on in terms of politics outside of their own choir, and repeatedly play directly play into their opponents framing, is hard to fathom. But they can do it.
We hate the current health care bill, for reasons to be skipped here. But we agree that given the enormous [...]
Hmmm, Where Have We Heard this Before?
Posted: 20th January 2010 by admin in Congress, Political Communication, Political Strategy, UncategorizedTags: Boston Red Sox, Curt Schilling, democrats belittling opponents, Democrats taking voters for granted, disparaging, Jon Stewart, Martha Coakley, Mike Dukakis, NY Times, political commentator, Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan, in a NY Times column online:
Of course, Martha Coakley, the Democrat who lost in a state where only 13 percent of voters identified as Republicans, ran a campaign that should be a mandatory lesson for all her supporters in Cambridge.
Among other great sins, she belittled the retail politics of her opponent, who stood [...]
Just How Bad Are Democrats At Controlling the Debate?
Posted: 20th January 2010 by admin in Comedy, Congress, Political Communication, Political Strategy, PoliticsTags: " "Democrats, " "Health Care, coakley, health care bill, health insurance, health insurance companies, Republicans, the note
Ponder this Headline under Time Magazine’s “Top Headlines” today:
Does Brown’s Senate Win Mean End of Health Reform?
This was the actual title.
And it’s not like Time pulled this out of the blue. Many Democrats and other sources before the election, had been wondering the same thing. Maloney: Health Care Dies if Coakley Loses. Here are a [...]
What Democrats Repeatedly Miss
Posted: 18th January 2010 by admin in Political BS, Political Communication, Political Strategy, PoliticsTags: " "George Will, " "Democrats, Atlantic, Donkey Party, Fox advocacy channel, fox news, glenn greenwald, Liberal, Obama Administration, Paul Krugman, political misjudgements, Political Strategy, rush limbaugh, salon
Paul Krugman is a Democrat, and a Liberal. However questionable, the Atlantic ranks him as the most influential commentator in America. (Then again, it ranks Rush Limbaugh as number 2, and George “I know nothing about science” Will as number 3.)
Whatever one thinks of his politics (or his recent “debate” with Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald) [...]
Who is Chris Matthews Mocking Here?
Posted: 3rd October 2009 by admin in Congress, Political Communication, Political Strategy, PoliticsTags: " "Democrats, Alay Grayson, Chriss Matthews, Hardball, Republicans
Chris Matthews says some incredible things at the beginning of this video, but truly, there is little that is more incredible than this statement at around minute :30.
How come you knew that the way to beat these guys was to put em on defense.
The common sense mind boggles. It reels. Very uncharacteristically, it grasps for [...]
A Michael Moore Dilemma
Posted: 3rd October 2009 by admin in Famous People, Knowledge, Media, Media Slant, Political BS, Political Communication, Political StrategyTags: " "Democrats, "Far Right, AOL, Left, Media, Media Slant, Michael Moore
This is a Michael Moore Dilemma, and it is one that is created by the far right, and somewhat lopsidedly, played into by the media.
Full Disclosure: We are not fans of Michael Moore. Some on the left may likely get angry with that statement, and dismiss what we are trying to do (somewhat comically, since there [...]
A Great Ad For Republicans
Posted: 26th September 2009 by admin in Congress, Government, Political Communication, Political Strategy, Politics, SportsTags: " "Democrats, " "Health Care, " Medicare, " Obama, "Joe Wilson, Congress, DCCC, Fundraising, health care debate, Healthcare, Lie, Medicaid, Mislead, National Defense, NRCC, Paul Begala, Political Attacks, Republicans, Spin
Both the Democrats and Republicans are apparently trying to raise money off of the health care “debate” and Congressman Joe Wilson’s, um, unusual “involvement”(causing some to wonder this). This post gives part of the two fundraising solicitations, one from each party:
From this morning’s fundraising email from the NRCC, signed by [Joe] Wilson:
There has been a lot of debate [...]
The Enormity of the ACORN Scandal, in Perspective
Posted: 26th September 2009 by admin in Congress, Government, Media, Media Slant, Political Communication, PoliticsTags: " Obama, "Far Right, ACORN, Alan Grayson, Big Government, Bills of Attainder, CEO, Chief Counsel, Congress, Constituion, Defense Contractors, Defense Industry Fraud, Dick Cheney, Federal Reserve, glenn greenwald, Government Fraud, Halliburton, Iraq, Matt Taibbi, Military Contractors, Pimp, Prostitute, Rolling Stone, Scandal, Taxpayer Funding, Taxpayers, Tea Partiers
The far right has been constantly complaining about how the “media” has not covered the latest Acorn scandal enough. That is, the fact that the already scandal plagued poverty assistance organization had some random employees caught on film giving rather nefarious business advice to 2 undercover operatives, posing as pimp and prostitute. (The most damning [...]