I was really touched by this Gail Collins column in The NYTimes
Clinton is very much a product of the generation that accepted a certain amount of humiliation as the price of progress. She wrote in her autobiography that when she ran for president [...]
Cry us a RIVER, Big Al! Nobody wants to hire a hack of an ex-Attorney General who serially lied to Congress and the public, not to mention the fact that he tried to make torturing prisoners seem quaint. Karma is a bitch
Alberto R. Gonzales, [...]
Negative reporting on a presidential candidates does not necessarily mean the press is biased against the candidate. For example, it is perfectly legitimate to report on the "Macaca" issue, or "Bomb Iran," pretending to dodge snipper fire or Rev. Wright's rants. What is not in anyway acceptable is to pile [...]
In today's flip-flop of the day, McSame was against telecom immunity for warrantless spying on US citizens before he was all for it. This guy lies so often about his voting record (Katrina aid, the housing disaster, tax cuts, etc.) he can't keep his stories straight. [...]
DLer Mike F. sent me this Crooka and Liars link. Do yourself a favor and read the comments. You will die laughing!
Overshadowed by the hype of Barack Obama?s victory lap on the Senate floor today is a simmering dispute between Majority Leader Harry [...]
That is the most out of touch speech imaginable. Ehhemmmm. Hillary? It's over. Obama won fair and square.
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A long-awaited Senate Select Intelligence Committee report made public Thursday concludes that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made public statements to promote an invasion of Iraq that they knew at the time were not supported by available [...]
OMG. McShame gave the worst speech in history last night. We've all seen and heard some monumentally bad speeches over the years, but McCain raised the bar SO high last night it might never again be breached. He even managed to look barking mad while delivering his negative, uninformed flop [...]
Woo Hoo! Thanks to Hank for this link
On Thursday night in Hell?s Kitchen, an impassioned discussion of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s remarks about the Bobby Kennedy assassination as a reason for her staying in the presidential race took place [...]
While you're waiting for tonight's primary votes to come in, and see who the Dem nominee is, check out the makeup of the Montana primary here at TPM
As of yesterday, an estimated 78,000 absentee ballots had been returned to the Montana's office of Secretary of State. The [...]
Speedy recovery, Senator Kennedy! From the Times
?I am pleased to report that Senator Kennedy?s surgery was successful and accomplished our goals,? Dr. Allan Friedman, chief of the division of neurosurgery in the surgical department at Duke in Durham, N.C., said in a statement about 2 p.m. [...]
The Loyal Bu$hies in the Military "justice" system are denying fair trials to prisoners. That is nothing new, but it is sickening. What does the WH and Pentagon do when an independent minded judge tries his hand at running a fair fair trial at Gitmo? [...]
Hoo, boy! No where to run, nowhere to hide.
With his approval rating hovering around 30 percent, [wrong! it's in the lower double digits] Vice President Cheney nevertheless went to Virginia yesterday to rally conservatives around the Bush administration. The Virginian-Pilot reports that he urged state Republican activists [...]
Nuff said.
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Scott McClellen!
Scott McClellan takes the Bush administration to task in his new memoir, but he had quite a different tune when he was the president?s mouthpiece. Here?s what he had to say about Richard Clarke?s post-administration book: ?Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had [...]
The corporate US Press corp. Scott McClellan is correct when he asserts that had the press done its job better, the Iraq *War* may not have had such overwhelming support. After 9/11, anyone who questioned the motives of Bu$hCo in the run up to, and aftermath of, the war were [...]
I find it bizarre that a lawsuit was filed to seat ALL of Florida's delegates even though the consequences of breaking party primary voting date rules were clear. Here's the latest:
A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from [...]
McShame is in so thick with lobbyists he can scarcely tell how to dis-entangle himself or his campaign from their corrupting influence. Former Senator Phil Gramm, McShame's top economic adviser, was lobbying Congress to relax banking regulation at the same tiime he was helping McCain formulate policy. Remember how McCain [...]
I know it's early in the race, but Ditch Mitch has a terrible record to run on and his steadfast embrace of Bu$h is a real deal breaker for most folks. Could this be the year we finally Ditch Mitch?
The Senate [...]
Thanks to Hank for This Link
Guest Commentary: Freedom of speech in Louisville?
By LEO Weekly
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BY CAROL RAWERT TRAINER
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I am an Air Force veteran, 60-year-old grandmother, community volunteer and member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Louisville Peace Action Community. Last Memorial Day, [...]
You cannot make this s**t up! From Think Progress
In an editorial this morning, the New York Times chides President Bush for his resistance to the GI Bill, which he has pledged to veto:
Having saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war, having squandered soldiers? lives [...]
Good for Obama. I'm really, really tired of the anti-Hispanic hatred those two are sowing. I'm really ashamed of CNN for airing Lou Dobbs fact-free hatred every day.
At a fundraiser in Florida Thursday night, Barack Obama accused anti-immigrant crusaders Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh of "ginning things up" [...]
This Memorial Day we remember our war dead. It is particularly sad to think of all the service men and women killed in a war of choice by Bu$h and the neocons and based on a pile of lies. Bu$hCo will rightly go down in infamy [...]
Are pissed off Hillary supporters and "I'll never vote for a black guy" voters REALLY willing to have this guy for a president?
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Could there finally be some sanity from the courts on this issue? It seems possible
The federal appeals court in California on Wednesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the military?s ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy, which allows gay men and lesbians to serve in the [...]
Neither Mcain or Bu$h supports a bill to expand college benefits to Veterans that has the overwhelming support of Congress. Why? Because these fools argue that it is too expensive and it would cause an exodus of service members. OMG. Bu$h sent "the troops" into poorly planned [...]
You don't see this happen every day. McCain has been losing top campaign aids due to their sleazy work as lobbyists, some even working for some of the most oppressive governments/junta in the world. This resignation is something entirely different.
? Senator John McCain?s chief advertising strategist, Mark [...]
All KY DLers are most welcomed! Please rsvp to LOUISVILLE@Drinkingliberally.org.
Here is a Google map to help find us. The Caboose cars are in the back of the Stadium. We will be throwing in down at car #6.
"> Be there or the Liberals will cry
[...]Good for Obama.
[...]Chris Matthews is not exactly a stellar political pundit, but he handled the unhinged wingnut radio yacker, Kevin James, exactly right. He asked, "why are you screaming?" Matthews repeatedly asked if James even knew what Neville Chamberlain did to appease Hitler (hint, he He signed the Munich Agreement, conceding half [...]
From Hank, of course:
Your government is going to send most folks a 'tax rebate.' If we spend it at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China .
If we spend it on gasoline, the money will go to the Arabs. If we purchase a computer [...]
Bu$h chose Israel, of all places, to launch a lying smear campaign against Barack Obama without actually having used his name. We all heard the dog whistle, however. Throwing Hitler's name around in a Jewish state was a particularly vile tactic.
JERUSALEM (CNN) ? [...]
The wheels have come off the bus of the GOP machine in a big way since '06. Dems are winning in the deep South and in Western districts long ago written off by old school Dem "strategists." Howard Dean deserves much credit for this as does the voting public. They [...]
Hoo, Boy! Here's the C-J's take on the Dem debate last night.
In a live debate on KET, their only debate before the May 20 primary, they talked of the economy, Iraq, gas prices and other issues.
The best-known and best-funded candidates, Louisville businessmen Bruce Lunsford [...]
Hoo, Boy! Here's the C-J's take on the Dem debate last night.
In a live debate on KET, their only debate before the May 20 primary, they talked of the economy, Iraq, gas prices and other issues.
The best-known and best-funded candidates, Louisville businessmen Bruce Lunsford [...]
Forgive me for bragging, I'm just really proud of my son. He won first place at Bennington's music fest and will now perform with these other Luminaries. Blake is the one in bold at the end.
Of Montreal. Rainer Maria. Kimya Dawson. Bennington College’s [...]
Mike Cassaro will be at Drinking Liberally at the BBC Thursday, May 15 some time after 7:00 Come out to DL and meet him and ask him questions about his policies and how he will Ditch Mitch. Here is a snip from the profile the C-J ran [...]
This Washington Post article leaves no doubt about what is driving with "white, working class" voters in some states.
For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism [...]
Hahahahahaha. Are scary Mitt and Roy Blunt on crack? Think Progress indicates that they've "lost their bearings."
On CNN’s Late Edition today, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) claimed that the argument that John McCain would, in effect, be a third Bush term “isn’t going to stick”:
BLITZER: [...]
I guess the Military is so short on "troops" that they are prepared to enter the 21st century!
For quite some time, U.S. troops have supported repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy. A December 2006 poll of servicemembers who had served in Iraq or [...]
Fux Newz continues to give that hacking clown, John Bolten, an avenue to express his wingnuttery
In a Fox News interview this afternoon, former UN Ambassador John Bolton discussed his desire to bomb camps inside Iran that are reportedly training and arming Shiite insurgents [...]
This is truly a crime of manslaughter at the very least
The general manager and possibly other senior staff at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, where 9 miners died in August 2007, hid information from federal mining officials that could have prevented [...]
John McCain is no "straight talker." Flip Flopper? Indeed. He's not a moderate Republican and he exhibits no leadership qualities at all. He is, however, showing more "senior moments" all the time as his sad campaign of "100 more years of *war* in Iraq " goes on. [...]
It's a disgrace that the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's odious voter ID law. There is already hard evidence that some IN voters, nuns, were not allowed to vote today, but it makes you wonder how many regular voters just didn't bother to show up to the polls [...]
Orwell couldn't make this stuff up. As is typical in the Bu$h WH, Bloch acted like other industry insiders and loyal Bu$hies: he thought his main job was to promote GOP positions and protect WH lawbreaking and wrong doing. Seems he got too "creative" at last. From the NYTimes:
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Let's review all of the accomplishments since Bu$h dressed up in a flight suit costume and strutted around an aircraft carrier proclaiming victory! OK, let's not. How about how well the surge worked? Oh yeah, April was the most deadly month since the "surge" was completed.
A pair [...]
