looks like a kidnappers ransom note created from cut out magazine text...Hardly persuasive...Yet she and Brady, from this "so-called evidence" make a blanket assertion about all Indian Tribe contributions to democrats being directed by Abramoff.

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Posted at January 23, 2006 6:32 AM in response to One More Look at the Washington Post Clown Show...

Republicans in Kansas are using that very technique in attacking the Kansas Supreme Court, made up incidentally, of mostly republicans, for demanding that the public schools be funded in a "suitable" manner, in contradiction to the state legislatures' desire to cut school funding.

Otherwise, I like your suggestions, but I think it is pretty naive to believe that the media can be "educated" by the blogosphere although that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

Peter Daou has explained the "triangle" (blogs, media and political establishment) and why the blogs alone cannot ever be very successful. 

Posted at January 16, 2006 6:22 AM in response to Supine politics and the Supreme Court

Then Katrina exposed their disasterous incompetence and showed Bush to be naked in the face of national emergency, revealing that he'd been lying to us when he said he was keeping us safe.  Then he badly bungled the Harriet Miers nomination.  All the while Iraq was melting down even further and the clock kept ticking on Senator Pat Roberts's unkept promise to carry out phase two of the investigation into the Administration's use of prewar intelligence and then last Friday, Fitzgerald brought the big hammer down on Scooter and anyone with a brain knows that Scooter wasn't acting alone.  Then today came and I feel better about today than about last Friday or just about any day this year from a political standpoint. But remember, the republicans haven't really done anything but "promise" to do something and we all know how they keep their promises.

Posted at November 1, 2005 7:21 PM in response to Power Shifts

Saw him speak at Demofest in Wichita, Kansas and he really bored my pants off...Lots of bloviating and platitudes but no substance...the head of the New Democrats...who really hate real democrats...

Harmon, too,  is way too conservative for me...to the point of irrelevancy...

Other than that, I think they'll be great..  ;) 

Posted at September 23, 2005 5:24 PM in response to Big Week Next Week

 whether you realize it or not....

A basic animosity toward (what is normally defined as the reason for) government.

You're just defining it a little more completely, in my opinion.  And have you forgotten Reagan...Government is not the solution...Government is the problem...Isn't that basic hostility.

Posted at September 5, 2005 11:56 AM in response to noteworthy

I didn't think it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen, but it was good. I found myself wondering about the haircuts.  Did the ancient Romans have short haircuts like that or was that a modern affectation?  And there was the kid from Master and Commander I believe who was pretty good.  Pompei seemed a bit old and fat, but maybe that was accurate for his age at that time and I wondered about Caeser, did he have the gravitas necessary to have the type of charisma he was supposed to possess?  But all in all, it was definitely worth a look at the second episode at the very least.

Posted at August 29, 2005 7:58 PM in response to Rome?

I really thought the guy was the better of our two Senators...and the frightening thought is, he may well be...

 I worked hard to defeat Brownback but my candidate had no money and not much organization.  It's very costly to run for the Senate, even in Kansas.  My candidate got the KC Star's endorsement, but it did no good.

 I plan to call Roberts office tomorrow and see what they say...

Posted at July 25, 2005 7:50 PM in response to White House sends Sen. Roberts after Fitzgerald

in the press corps kid gloves treatment of the Administration  will change after one day of tough questioning.

Scotty seems regularly dishonest and evasive in these gaggles day after day and I heard a report on one program, Today I think, that he is "well liked" by the press corps.  How could that possibly be?

Posted at July 12, 2005 5:20 AM in response to Ooo! Questions!

I'm sorry but I've heard too many "life long" democrats call in to C-SPAN....They are REGISTERED as democrats, mostly in the South, but they don't support democrats.

 If you don't believe in democratic ideals I would suggest you become a republican or start a third party.

Posted at June 15, 2005 8:10 AM in response to Dean's "Sister Souljah" Genius

We need to invoke Dennis Kucinich's plan "Medicare for All"  We could start by letting those between 55 and 65 buy into Medicare or those between 62 and 65 if you want to start smaller.

 Your post is very informative and thought provoking though.

 I believe Hillary Clinton's plan failed because of democratic hubris in the Congress and her attempt to mollify the special interests by maintaining too many aspects of the current system.  They turned on her like dogs and killed the plan, with the help of the idiot dems in Congress who thought they'd be in power forever, no matter what they did.

Posted at June 15, 2005 6:25 AM in response to Hold That Bandwagon!