Reid & Obama to Republicans: Checkmate! w/ 3 updates

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Monday October 26, 2009 · 2:34 PM PDT

2009/10/26 · 14:34

Contrary to almost all commentary on Reid's "Public Option Optout" decision today, it seems to me that the decision itself is a masterstroke of political strategy.

Barack Obama has been portrayed to be weak by progressives in supporting triggers just before the Reid decision. Hey, I've been banging on him to everyone I know. But Obama's pledge was not that we would always like what he appeared to support. His pledge was that he would deliver health care insurance reform.

We got more than just health insurance reform today. Let's review the reality of what has happened here after the jump.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 10:36 AM PDT

2008/04/01 · 10:36

The BBC has captured the impossible on video: flying penguins.

If penguins can fly, Hillary Clinton can win the Democratic Party nomination for President.

Here's the link.

More information after the jump...

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Friday September 28, 2007 · 3:00 AM PDT

2007/09/28 · 03:00

I've scheduled a meeting with Congresswoman Tauscher's (CA-10) District Director next week to discuss Tauscher's MoveOn vote.

I explained over the phone to the District Director that I'd like to know why the Congresswoman voted to condemn MoveOn.org when she hasn't called specifically for the condemnation of Senator Chuck Hagel for his equally negative statements about General Petraeus.

Does Congresswoman Tauscher believe that ordinary citizens should not be allowed to condemn the activities of a military official who has repeatedly misled the American people? Does she believe that only Senators and members of the House have the right and responsibility to condemn these military officials for their mendacious activities?

I outline what help I need to prepare for the meeting below...

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Friday September 21, 2007 · 2:29 PM PDT

2007/09/21 · 14:29

The US military, including General Petraeus, ought to be very worried about what is taking place in this country. We citizens who are members of MoveOn.org number now in millions.

We know, and our military leadership knows also, that the Bush Administration has politicized the military and run it into the ditch. We know, and our military leadership also knows, that the War in Iraq was a catastrophic mistake.

The US military has become complicit in the dissemination of misleading statistics and outright misstatements of fact about the tragedy that is this Iraq War.

That is why the MoveOn.org advertisement in the New York Times which has generated so much discussion was entirely appropriate and even necessary.

Update #1
I've updated the title based on great comment feedback. Diary text not edited yet to match title change emphasis. When I've completed the diary edit, I'll repost Diary text.

Thanks to many readers for great comments.

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Monday July 23, 2007 · 9:42 AM PDT

2007/07/23 · 09:42

The constitutional crisis we face is more serious than we imagine. The consistent and persistent attacks by Bush/Cheney on constitutional principles and practices are well documented in detail elsewhere so I won’t go into it them here. But Bush/Cheney attacks on the Constitution aren't the crisis for our Republic that I'm concerned about.

No. I’m writing about a different constitutional crisis, namely, the crisis in the House of Representatives of the United States.

When members of the Senate and the House take office, they take the following oath.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Follow me below the fold for more details on the oaths that 3 of my very favorite CongressPersons apparently believe they have sworn.

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Saturday September 09, 2006 · 8:29 PM PDT

2006/09/09 · 20:29

I had a long talk with my children today. My wife and I have 4 kids. We are a "yours, mine, and ours" kind of family.

We're upper-middle class, educated professionals. I'm 51 and I trade and do trading related programming for a living. My wife is 47 and a relatively senior exec at ATT. We are FAR, Far, far away from being the 20ish, wild-eyed, extreme blogger types depicted in the traditional media. Read More

FLAME as a key to the TraitorGate puzzle?

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 7:14 PM PDT

2005/10/18 · 19:14

Novak used the name "Valerie Flame" in an article appearing in a Human Events article in October 2003.

This is old news I know that I hadn't looked closely at before today. Before Judy testified, this would have been seen as a mere typo...

In the Diary below, I list a few facts that may be helpful in understanding where this TraitorGate story is going. Observations about Judy, Novak, Carville, Chalabi, Hannah, Dickey follow.

Get ready to get dizzy below the fold... Read More

On Fitzgerald's Scope and Legal Security

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Thursday October 13, 2005 · 12:27 AM PDT

2005/10/13 · 00:27

If you're like me, you're concerned with two questions related to the investigation triggered by the disclosure of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

The first question has to do with the investigative and prosecutorial scope of Patrick Fitzgerald's Special Counsel's office.

The second question is the concern that Patrick Fitzgerald may be removed as Special Prosecutor in a replay of Nixon's removal of Archibald Cox as Special Prosecutor during the Watergate "Saturday Night Massacre."

Both of these issues are important, of course, and the latest great analysis of them is discussed below the fold.

Read and rest a little--just a little--easier... Read More

Where's Cheney?

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 10:07 AM PDT

2005/10/11 · 10:07

The MSM is all concerned about what's happened to Cheney what with his being absent on policy and personnel decisions as well as his being missed at the National Review dinner.

Well, the answer is so obvious that I'm thinking that Bill Keller and his crack team at the Times will be talking about the answer any day. Hmmm, well, maybe not...

Cheney not long ago bought a house in the Washington area real close to Rummy.

Now, why would the Vice President buy a house when he already has a terrific one provided by the government? Obviously, it must be that he figures he won't be living in it much longer.

I wonder why he thinks that?

Judy Miller's Jailtime: Rethinking The Reason

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Monday October 03, 2005 · 7:39 PM PDT

2005/10/03 · 19:39

Interestingly, some right-wing sites have put together a better explanation of why Judy Miller went to jail than anything I've read here at dKos or at any other progressive blog.

The well known headline here is that she spent time in jail until she had a guarantee that questions from Fitzgerald would be limited to questions about her conversations with Libby or about the Plame matter.

We have assumed that the other sources she was concerned not to talk about were sources connected in some way to the Plame affair. But, in fact, what makes the most sense is that they weren't. Read More

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