im not much of political blogger preferring to share my thoughts on the direction of our country and government over a beer or the dinner table. however i do admire those that can and do participate in the neverending great online debate.
one of them is my friend josh schrei one of the best critical thinkers and eloquent rant writers that i personally know. he has been on a real tear...... [Show More]
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disclaimer if you are going to play this drinking game which i dont recommend choose a few of the options below. and do not under any circumstances try this in public.
another disclaimer you may notice that there are more elements dedicated to palin than biden. i dont care. face it palin is way easier than bid...... [Show More]
updated with a few additions at the bottom... dont forget about our blue hampshire bash in concord on may 3rd. should be loads of fun. more reminders as we get closer to it and thanks jon. grant bosse hits hypocritical horn over her lobbyist money we shouldnt be surprised that our selfproclaimed frontrunner wants other candidate...... [Show More]
you know i saw this and started to feel bad for him. i mean he is our president after all and he is a human being but then i remembered the whole going to war on lies thing and how many innocent people have needlessly died as a result. so now im not feeling so bad about it. thats what i like about historians. they have a professional responsibility to make their j...... [Show More]
tibet is back in the news in a big way with chinas heavyhanded actions sparking protests around the world driving world leaders to boycott the olympics opening ceremonies and driving wedges between china and its longtime allies . as usual blogs are offering great analysis.
matt brownherhamlin notes that apparently china is treating the largely peaceful protests as an a...... [Show More]
first saw this via matt browner hamlins site and i threw up in my mouth a little. mccains first slogan is john mccain the american president americans have been waiting for. i guess george does not qualify i wonder what some of the rejected slogans were john mccain the american president true americans have been waiting for....... [Show More]
the longest sustained demonstrations in two decades turned violent as shops burned in the tibetan capitol of lhasa reported the associated press.
matt brownerhamlin noted that radio free asia reported that with 80 tibetans killed martial law was declared. cnn reported that china blacked out tibet cutting off electricity and telephone services. the protests are the largest since th...... [Show More]
heres what the congressional democratic lead ershipquo t is enabling by allowing retroactive immunity to pass
the fbi acknowledged wednesday it improperly accessed americans telephone records credit reports and internet traffic in 2006 the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.
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it was cau...... [Show More]
one interesting note about the fisa fight is how it is politicians from more conservative areas who are both holding the line and calling for retreat. i wont go deeply into the bush dogs 21 of whom signed a letter calling for immunity for telecom companies who broke the law. more interestingly are people like nancy boyda and bill foster who bravely spoke out on the issue and...... [Show More]
the pointless party Post Source: leadorgetoutoftheway.com Posted: Mar 04 2008 20:21:11
whats the point of the democratic party i know that technically its job is to get democrats elected to office. but what of it
what is the point if democrats dont use the power that they gain in holding office
what is the point if democrats give their power away
what is the point if democrats let themselves get played for suckers over and over again in the most predictab...... [Show More]
matt brownerhamlin informs readers that william f. buckley passed away at the age of 82 and directs our attention to a piece written by rick perlstein at the campaign for americas future. writes brownerhamlin
though he was no role model of mine i highly recommend perlsteins piece as it provides a great insight into how buckley modeled the way the battle of ideas between liber...... [Show More]
four more years
vote for mccain for four more bush republican years
why vote mccain
because you want less jobs and more wars .
oh and torture ... lots and lots of torture ......... [Show More]
forget the presidential race. yesterday was one of the darkest days of the bush years as the senate with the help of too many democrats gave up its interest in upholding the rule of law over the rule of bush. john e. sununu and judd gregg rushed to keep giant corporate telecoms from obeying laws you and i must uphold every day. they have no problem with the fact that phone companie...... [Show More]
its for sale you know
last december sen. chris dodd dct successfully filibustered consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance. but in the senate today an amendment by dodd and sen. russ feingold dwi to strip retroactive immunity from a senate intelligence committee bill failed to r...... [Show More]
missing in action. Post Source: mccs1977.com Posted: Feb 12 2008 18:08:09
nothing to say .
via holdfast
the doddfeingold amendment 3907 to strip retroactive immunity from the underlying ssci bill just failed 3167. 51 votes were needed to pass.
voting with the republicans were the following eighteen democrats again rough count
bayh inouye johnson landrieu mccaskill ben nelson bill nelson stabenow feinstein kohl pryor rockefeller s...... [Show More]
im too enraged to write anything thought provoking or witty. the leadership of the democratic party is a bunch of spineless cowardly weak feckless cowardly asshats who all need to be primaried until they die. when they retire from the senate we need to primary their retirements. when they die and go to purgatory they are too milquetoast feckless traitorous and weak to justify ...... [Show More]
well all your phone calls letters and faxes to ken salazar on fisa and telecomm immunity went for naught. his admin actually told me once that he was getting just as many calls that supported immunity for illegal spying the doddfeingold amendment 3907 to strip retroactive immunity from the underlying ssci bill just failed 3167. 51 votes were needed to pass. voting with the republicans were...... [Show More]
ari melber the nation a trio of democratic house committee chairmen are stepping up the fight against...... [Show More]
wakey wakey Post Source: www.iamtrex.com Posted: Feb 08 2008 14:44:14
matt brownerhamlin responded to the post i wrote the other night where i said that as weird as things may be for the netroots right now at least were not you know those sad sacks at the nro.
my angst over the impending failures of democrats to win the fisa fight is compared positively to the angst republicans at the national review online feel about the impending victory of john mc...... [Show More]
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