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C'mon Kossacks, Don't Be Such A-holes

Hey Folks,Thanks for checking in.  I haven't been blogging much in a few months, life and family and work have kept me away.  I was broken hearted not to be at YearlyKos, and I know that it was a...

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Virginia Republicans Abandon All Hope

After watching Republicans wage their war against American Greatness in Virginia and nationwide over the course of the last few years, it's hard to have any sympathy for their fading strangle hold on...

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Who Won the News Cycle? MoveON.org

It's been nearly a decade since a few loyal Democrats , sickened by the excesses of the Republican jihaad against President Bill Clinton, got together to implore the American public to simply censure...

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Britney, Conservatism, and the Cost of a Servile Electorate

[Warning:  big diary with lots of pics.]How did Britney Spears, the living embodiment of unattainable, innocent, youthful excitement, become a worldwide embarrassment, fallen, pitiful, hapless, and...

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Can Rudy Guiliani KBE Serve as Potus?

In February 2002, Rudy Guiliani was dubbed a Knight of the British Empire by queen Elizabeth II.Giuliani received the award in recognition for his work following the September 11 terrorist attacks in...

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Virginia's Desperate, Grim Old Party

Even the most disaffected Virginia voter must look with dismay at the pitiful efforts put forward by Virginia Republicans in this election season and in their years of ascendancy in the Virginia...

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A Few Thoughts on Guy Fawkes Day

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."- Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896It's fitting that Virginia has elections every year within days of the holiday that commemorates a...

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Huckabee: Jesus Wants More Crucifixions

The year: 1997.  The place: Arkansas Educational Television Network.  The event:  The most blasphemous quote in the history of American politics.The Arkansas Times Jan 22, 1997:"Interestingly enough,"...

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Bush to Kids: If You're Not Rich... Please Just Die

Well, he did it again.U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill expanding a popular children's health care program for the second time, angering Democrats who are locked in a fight with...

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Stimulus Won't Cure the Disease of Weak Dollar Conservatism

Have conservatives stolen a half a million bucks from you?  If so, that kinda makes that $300 check you got from the Bush "tax cuts" look like chump change, and leaves you wondering "who's the chump"?...

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Obama Must Leave Hillary in Karl Rove's Swamp

This is a very simple point and I'll try not to belabor it.  Barack Obama came to a critical test of his campaign message in the South Carolina debate last night, and he failed it.  He failed it...

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7 Principled Reasons Edwards Folks Can Support Obama

John Edwards is one of those rare political figures who is both capable of inspiring hope while taking up the most difficult and tumultuous fights.With the announcement of his pending withdrawl from...

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Where's the Beef?

I finally made it through a steaming pile of right-wing smears against Barack Obama.  There are the craven attacks about who wrote what, and then there are the desperate attacks degrading those who are...

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Progressivism Learns the First Law of Branding

Among the great lessons of Western Civilization, there are few more universally ignored by progressive politicians than the lessons of marketing.  These lessons are followed with slavish devotion and...

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Video: Si Se Puede Cambiar (Yes We Can Change)

Written and performed by Andres Useche. Directed by Eric Byler.This is a video Directed by Eric Byler who was a founder of the Real Virginians for Webb and who documented the rise of  Creative Class...

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You Know John McCain's Crazy When..

You know you've just got a crazy, and potentially delusional candidate in John McCain when: He bills himself as the great campaign finance reformer, denounces Obama over campaign finance, and then...

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You Know John McCain's Crazy When... (2)

You know you've just got a crazy, and potentially delusional candidate in John McCain when: He Sings! He tries to convince America that it's a bunch of other bad bad people who are calling Barack Obama...

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You Know John McCain's Crazy When... (3)

You know you've just got a crazy, and potentially delusional candidate in John McCain when: He talks about war: He talks about the same war on different days:

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American Has Waited Over 200 Years

America has waited for over 200 years for the moment when we as a nation would overcome the divisions and the disaster of race.  For the first time in American history, a major American figure has...

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Use this Frame: The McCain Moment

So, the McCain troops think they got a free ride from the McCain base (the press), after Angry McSame conflagrated Iranian Shia and Al qaeda Sunni.  Also that addled depiction of the Hebrew celebration...

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Republican Obstruction Will Amount to Mass Murder

In the face of falling fortunes in electoral politics, Senate Republicans have undertaken a campaign of scorched-earth obstruction that threatens to undermine a century of American moral leadership....

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Rope-a-Dope

The only way John McCain can win in November is to somehow convince voters that he is more American than Barack Obama.  To that end, today has not helped the McCain campaign.  There's been only one...

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McCain Lacks the Judgment to Lead

McCain's actions prove General Clark right.The events which unfolded following General Wesley Clark's appearance on Face the Nation this Sunday, have exonerated the General and proved conclusively that...

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$50 Bn of American Greatness

If you're ever asked to name one good thing that George W. Bush has done while in office, remember this word:  PEPFAR.  This lifesaving program, first authorized in 2003, saved the lives of millions of...

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McCain is Weak on Afghanistan

As Barack Obama ends his landmark trip to the Middle East and Europe, he has proven his grasp of the critical issues facing the US and the world.  He has also proven that he is ready to fill the role...

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Unity, Emotion, Resolve - VA Delegation Reacts

Delegates and party leaders were overwhelmed with emotion even as they steeled themselves for the brutal election season ahead as Hillary Clinton unified the party and affirmed the official nomination...

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For those just tuning in...

I've watched both speeches this morning, and as a fierce Obama partisan I'm concerned to say the least.Pundits always say that polls don't matter until after labor day.  Well, here it is after labor...

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Reckless Ambition

The big question about the election these days is "What's up with McCain?" On every issue under the sun, McCain seems completely out of control, so what's the deal?There's evidence that what we're...

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Bailout Bust - Another Massive McCain Failure

Today the Congress failed to pass a measure seeking to address the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.  At every step of this developing story, John McCain has show impotence and...

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The Progressive Role in Obama's Post-Partisan America

Conservatism has failed.  Reaganism has failed.  Necon philosophy has failed. Miltion Friedman Market Fundamentalism has failed. Rovian "Culture War" politics and Xtian Dominionism / Pseudo-Christian...

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Want some fries with your new McWorld order?

A friend of mine from college was in town today and I got a chance to sit down for lunch with him.  He works with international banks."Every central bank in the world dropped rates 50 basis points and...

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McCain Loses the Pitchfork Wavers

McCain Calls Obama "Decent" as Crowd Jeers, GaspsMcCain looked into the face of the flames of hate and violence stoked by his campaign, and sounded a retreat, of sorts.  

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VA Bloggers Call "All Hands on Deck"

Operation Enduring Progress - BlueCommonwealth.comThe announcement of the demise of RK: The Voice of Progressive Virginia has caught the Virginia Blogsphere by surprise.  We are all profoundly proud...

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VA-Gov: Why I'm Supporting Terry McAuliffe

Crosspost at BlueCommonwealth.com - Virginia's Enduring Voice of ProgressAs a progressive observer of the Virginia Gubernatorial race, this hasn't been a very enjoyable time.  Creigh Deeds and Brian...

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VA-GOV: Almost a Good Point

Crosspost at Blue CommonwealthBlueweeds has opened up a discussion about Tuesday's straw poll in which he remarks - emphasis mine:From one progressive to another, is the straw poll an indicator of...

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VA-Gov:  Moran's Selective Outrage

This (Friday) morning, Brian Moran appeared on the Kojo WAMU Politics Hour Show with Kojo Nnamdi.   The subject of Terry McAuliffe’s fundraiser last week with the bipartisan lobbying BGR came up....

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BACKLASH

The "greed, lies, and gullibility" crowd have had quite a run. They've dominated the headlines and cable shows for nearly a week, and now a deranged micro-minority seems set to undermine the will of...

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Calling BS on Gallup Headline

Here's the headline from Gallup:Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological GroupRidiculous.David Sirota eviscerated this idiocy years ago: Conservatives have spent the last 30 years turning liberal...

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DEM is the New ACORN

The challenge I see is that progressives went into 2009 with a narrative of "transformative change and a new New Deal" and heading towards November 2010 we feel like we've been handed a new narrative...

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Obama at the Lunch Counter

Obama acts entirely within the tradition of mainstream African American political strategy and tactics. The epitome of that tradition was the non-violence of the Civil Rights Movement, but goes back...

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I'm Not the Bigot Whisperer

Hey Friends.  It's been a LOOOONG while since I posted here, but I had a personal/political experience that I thought might interest the community.  As any of you who are "friends" with me will attest,...

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Once In a Lifetime Opportunity

Forget four years ago.  Are you better off now than you were TWO years ago?Remember back in 2010, when the Tea Party lied its way into power in Congress?  We sat there wondering how this...

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Obama's 3-D Chess Game, Progressive Embolism, and the New New Deal

It goes without saying that I am a dedicated Obama supporter. That said, this guy pisses me off like no other politician in history.I'm convinced that Obama is playing the same 11th dimensional chess...

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You Win or You Die...

Let's take the Obama Megafail in Denver as a teachable moment, shall we?  In fact, this could be the most important teachable moment we as progressives and Democrats have seen in decades.  What's that...

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TOP 10: What We Learned from the Debate

10. Even President Obama sometimes drinks coffee. 9. Romney's pension is bigger than Obama's. Romney's IRA is bigger than Florida's. 8. President Romney has a great plan to bring down gas prices, it's...

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Hold Victory in Your Heart

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,...

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Operation Lemon Juice: Concern Troll Congress

Being politically active means getting an endless array of petition, action, and "speak out" appeals, which we all know are painfully impotent and largely fall on deaf ears.  How many of us marched on...

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A Time to Lead

The election of Donald Trump is the end of what we know as America and everything that made the 20th Century America's Century. Uninformed voters wanted to take a wrecking ball to neoliberalism,...

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Forget the “Third Way.” Democrats Must Return to the First Way — Populist...

(crosspost from Bluevirginia.us)For more than 20 years now, I have worked endlessly to serve as a progressive thought leader. This is not a fun job. Centrist Democrats have held power this entire time,...

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Hold Fast. This Too Shall Pass.

“The stormy seas as dark as coal, Preventing the sailors from reaching their goal. Battered and bruised, but still they fight… Staring ahead into the dead of night. Rocking and rolling as they try to...

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