Exposing Himmelfarb and Olasky's Victorian Compassion Lie: Baby Farming
Why in the world do Marvin Olasky and Gertrude Himmelfarb consider the Victorians a model for good treatment of the poor? Their books, "Tragedy of American Compassion", by Marvin Olasky and"Poverty...
View ArticleThe DLC: Three time losers!
Can we ditch them yet? If we had run a candidate like Dean who opposed the Iraq war we wouldn't be losers now. The only bright spot is, that jellyfish Daschle lost, so the Senate minority can be lead...
View ArticleStop the PNAC: Draft the neocon kids!
It's the only way to stop the war from expanding into Syria and Iran at this point. This means that when the draft starts and it will, we can't allow any college deferments among other things. Also...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi shouldn't be let off the hook either!
Devastating day for Democrats They're in no mood to play nice on Hill BY JAMES GORDON MEEK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - The day after getting their heads handed to them again in national...
View ArticleWhy They Won By THOMAS FRANK
Why They Won By THOMAS FRANK Published: November 5, 2004 Washington The first thing Democrats must try to grasp as they cast their eyes over the smoking ruins of the election is the continuing power of...
View ArticleBob Woodward: Rove was scared of Dean!
In the epilogue of Bob Woodward's book, "Plan of Attack," the author writes about how Rove saw the presidential race in early February 2004.Noting that Rove believed the war in Iraq was turning into "a...
View ArticleI dislike the dlc, because they have abandoned the poor and working class
Having abandoned them they also made it impossible to win red states. Red staters aren't as likely to be white collar workers. We have no moral appeal to them if we don't emphasize economic issues....
View ArticleDLC BLAMES MICHAEL MOORE FOR LOSS
If this doesn't prove what a bunch of moles and traitors they are I don't know what will. They want to annihalate and dem with the balls to oppose WMD lies and Swift Boat ads. They have no right to...
View ArticleSUPPORT FOR BUSH DOWN 9 PNTS IN SMALL TOWNS
HOW BUSH WON THE ELECTION by Kevin Drum....So what really made the difference in this election? Most of the attention has been on "moral values" and terrorism, and I was curious to see what the exit...
View ArticleDon't have sex with Bush voters till they stop the war!
Bedroom Politics By Liz Langley, AlterNet. Posted November 13, 2004. ALSO IN ELECTION 2004 You don't have to be a pollster to know that 48 percent of the electorate got plastered last weekend. You do...
View ArticleOct.20 Worldnetdaily: CIA purge over missing explosives leak.
I guess we need to go to this site to see where the red guards will be attacking next. Editor's note: Jack Wheeler's unique intelligence site To the Point features concise, accurate analysis of...
View ArticleThe Dean for DNC idea is cool BUT...............................
Just like with the primary season all of the other contenders are dlcers. Look at who has been proposed, thus far, Simon Rosenberg NDN/DLC, John Edwards DLC, John Kerry DLC, Bill Clinton DLC, Donna...
View ArticleDLC Corporate not Moderate!
This is also one of the reasons I don't understand Kos's enthusiam for Rosenberg after Dean. Rosenberg has duller fangs then the other dlcers, but he is still dlc. Rosenberg: ""We're trying to raise...
View ArticleAmputees to return to the battlefield?
Is this another backdoor draft? Military Amputees to Get New Rehab Center Friday November 19, 2004 10:01 PM AP Photo WX102 By SAM HANANEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A state-of-the-art...
View ArticleStrange Events in Iraq???
What could this be about? From http://www.warandpiece.com/ The CIA has raided four offices of the Iraqi National Congress, the INC spokesman reports in a press release: The Iraqi National Congress...
View Article2 DNC Chairs=Neutralize Dean
The reason many of us want Howard Dean as Chairman of the DNC is because we think the Party is corrupted by corporate cash. Yesterday, one of the featured bloggers here ran an article about credit...
View ArticleAlabamians uphold segregated education
I am posting this in responce to those who claim we Dems unfairly tag the race card on Conservatives. Alabama Vote Opens Old Racial Wounds School Segregation Remains a State Law as Amendment Is...
View ArticleI am pro-Peace and pro-Draft!
I believe that there will be a draft and instead of fighting it, I am going to fight to make sure Bush voters and other Neocons get drafted. This means no exemptions for college, anal cysts, or being...
View ArticleDem Gov kicking 300,000 people off of Tenncare
The worse thing is, that this man is a Democrat. He claims he is doing this because of a budget crisis, but Tennessee had a budget surplus last year. Before he became Governer, he was a CEO for an...
View ArticleMentally ill cut from Tenncare, could end up jailed!
I know I am going to get flamed by the people who think we must never post any nasty news from the South, like I did with yesterdays post on Tenncare, but I am posting this anyway. People who don't...
View ArticleTenn Gov. lying about dropping children from Tenncare
This is the third time I have posted on this issue. Since it is getting uglier and uglier, expect more. Also recommend this diary since it is undercovered. The national media has pretty much stayed...
View ArticleUnionized Wal-Mart to Close
I wonder what this UNIONS next move will be? They had to know this might happen, so I hope they have a strategy. Apparenly Walmart has done this before in Texas. Meatcutters unionized and they...
View ArticleCanada: Union Will Fight Walmart Closing
This is a followup to yesterdays post on Walmart closing a newly unionized store in Quebec. The United Food and Commercial Workers are taking Walmart to court. A boycott is possible, and they may ask...
View Articleantiwar.com could go under without donations HELP!
These people are libertarians and I vehemently disagree with there economic views, but they primarily cover the war and believe me, no-one, and I mean no-one has done more for the anti-Iraq war...
View ArticleHomeless Shelters and Soup Kitchens turning people away!
When are Bush voters going to get a clue?he report being released Tuesday by the National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness found a 28 percent rise last year in emergency food...
View ArticleGreg Palast: Tort Reform Blues
I hope demmies voted against this atrocity in large numbers? Anyone know the Democratic Tally?
View ArticleIranian nuclear threat maybe as phony as Saddam's WMD!
Given the fact that ElBaredi of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) has never found any evidence of an Iranian nuclear program, and given the fact that the same people making this claim are...
View ArticleScott Ritter: Bush plans to attack Iran in June
This is kind of a convenient followup to yesterdays diary on the fact that the IAEA has found no evidence of a nuclear program in Iran. This is why the Europeans won't go along with us, and prefer...
View ArticleBush started war to create global stagflation
Consider that the oil companies only make profits when oil prices are rising. Consider that inflation has been so low, even during a booming economy, that many corporate executives were scared of...
View ArticleCanadian Parliament getting mouthy to Walmart!
It looks like Walmart is not going to be able to shut down that store in Quebec. The United Food and Commercial Workers website is expecting punitive legislation against Walmart, should they do so....
View ArticleTake a job as a prostitute or lose unemployment benefits
Sometimes I don't understand why there is always so much support for legalized prostitution on the Democratic messageboards. I always attribute it to the male domination of these boards, because it is...
View ArticlePeter Beinart: Why the DLC is just hopeless!
He is just simply dishonest. Read this latest column on attracting military voters.But it failed. Partly that's because Kerry lacked a clear, compelling message on Iraq and the struggle against...
View ArticleHelp with Dkos please?
I have lost the ability to rate comments. How do I get it back? Has there been a change in the rules or have I messed up a setting? Is Kos tinkering with the program? Yes I will erase this inane...
View ArticleMarkos what are you thinking?
Even Noam Schrieber at (Democratic Weekly Standard)TNR sees how silly this Bankruptcy bill is! But, even worse than that, support for the bill by Democratic moderates betrays a striking obliviousness...
View ArticleVenezuela's Chavez is like FDR not Castro!
Why do Democrats often help the Neoconservative demonize Hugo Chavez, and other members of the Latin American "New Left"? They are social Democrats, not Communists. They were all elected fairly,...
View ArticleDaschle Moving to K Street
I admit, I think we are better off that he lost to Thune. I don't think he was a good minority leader. I like Reid much better! I am not surprised Daschle is working for a republican lobbiest. His...
View ArticleNeocons: "Eliminate all Dictators by 2025"
When will you liberal hawks finally get it through your thick skulls that Bush and the neocons are using "Democracy" for imperialist purposes? They are using Democracy to put us in a permanent state...
View ArticleAntiwar.com needs your help
I know they are right wing libertarians, but they feature a broad variety of antiwar opinion, left, right and center. They regularly featured Juan Cole before any other website. They have only raised...
View ArticleDemocratic Underground Censorship of Neocon criticism
I just got kicked off of Democratic Underground. Why, I have no idea. They don't give explanations. These are two threads they don't like. I am posting as...
View ArticleThis diary is awesome
It should be a front page diary or on the recommended list. I wish this person had been advising Durban.
View Articleal-Samarie: We have an opportunity to leave Iraq with honor!
Bush and the Democrats are ignoring it. His name is Ayham al-Samarie. He is a secular Sunni and former minister of electricity, in Iraq. He claims to represent the insurgents that have not engaged in...
View ArticleParis Hilton Democrats
Why aren't we Democrats fighting the estate tax repeal harder? It is completely unjust to destroy the estate tax. Paris Hilton didn't earn that money. Why the fuck do Democrats think they have an...
View ArticleThieves steal computers at Ohio Dem headquarters!
Oh boy, first the revelation that Rove was the Valerie Plame leaker now a classic Watergate move! Things are really heating up. Maybe I would watch LIVE8 if this didn't seem monumentally more important.
View Article28 Dems block crackdown on corporate tax evaders
Yes, this makes me mad. How are we going to convince the public we stand for the little guy when we provide the margin of victory for the republicans all the time? From David Sirota!
View ArticleIsraeli courts admit fence route was not for security alone!
This is a very interesting developement because as anyone who has debated an Israeli apologist on this site, or on others knows, they always claim it was just done to stop terrorists, and that does not...
View ArticleDems were the margin of victory for CAFTA
If these 10 Senate Dems hadn't voted for it, it would have been defeated. I am really getting sick of this. It still maybe defeated in the House but why allow it to go that far? This report is...
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