The true loss is for GOP moderates and centrists who support them
Speaking as an independent who always seeks a moderate from any party, the thing that saddens me most about this election is the perceived mandate the neocon-right now feels it has. There was plenty...
View ArticleThe case against "gay marriage"
To preface this, I have a sister who is a huge activist for GLBT organizations and a wife who is liberal with a capital "L" but admits in her heart she sees marriage as something between a man and a...
View ArticleThe Partners' Bill of Rights, rough version 1.0
In response to the strong and mixed reactions I got from my previous diary and poll, I thought I might explain/redeem myself with something more constructive. The following represents a new way to...
View ArticleThe Bush who cried Wolf -- a meme to get the truth on SS out
It still boggles the mind to know that the more that the current administration lies, the more the media let the lies pass and the more the public gets misinformed. But, even conservative pundits...
View ArticleThis worked! Got someone to turn off Fox News!
I presented a non-wingnut but diehard republican friend of mine (his irrititating stance it "to hell with everything as long as my taxes are low") with the following argument and it actually got him to...
View ArticleBush aid undercutting UN: ultierior motive?
I heard a report on NPR that triggered a cynical thought (one which may or may not have been an intended result of the way the story was reported). The report was entitled Aid Agencies Organize to...
View ArticleIt is becoming CW that GOP leadership is corrupt!
This occurred to me when I found out that, despite the fact that it is unlikely to change the outcome of the election, it looks like the Democrats are prepared to contest Ohio's electoral votes....
View ArticleGOP fissures -- it's the budget!
Now that political cover is more important and party unity less unified for the GOP, cracks are showing between two factions, the far-right and the misguided near-right. Politics and necessity to back...
View ArticleWe have an activist executive on our hands - impeach him!
We all have heard a lot on activist judges, mostly from the right-wing talking heads. Of course, there are activist judges on the right, too. But what is meant by an activist judge? As I think...
View ArticleThe Media's got me down. I tell you why. You tell me it's not too late.
I'm a little down lately - some work things, some family things, and some politics. Mostly, I just feel like the messages that get out in the media from the left are so filtered, and watered-down,...
View ArticleCataloguing the lies of Gannongate - and renaming it too...
In addition to all the ongoing hard research and soft speculation, two things have occurred to me. One, that the aptly-named Plame and PropaGannon, or Gannongate, monikers be changed to reflect the...
View ArticleFree Enterprise Fund on SS -- Unbelievable!
Over on Redstate they've got an interview with Steve Moore, formerly of Club for Growth and now with the Free Enterprise Fund. Go ahead and read it. I'll give the choicest quotes below, but here's a...
View ArticlePop quiz: How many independent branches of govt do we have?
Frist's spineless showing yesterday has more important implications than Frist's 2008 presidential bid, ones that Democrats can take advantage of. And that is: how many independent branches of...
View ArticleRepublicans (stop short of) defending Rove
What is amazing about the GOP.com publicity statements from Republican notables is that they don't even defend Rove! Not a single Republican Congressperson or Senator will stand up and say Rove is...
View ArticleThe Important Question for 2006
Thinking about the fractured Republican party and the newfound fighting spirit among Democrats, I am becoming more and more convinced that there is one question we should get every candidate for...
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