The cloture (filibuster) vote is set for this afternoon, I think at 4:30 pm. The DailyKos crowd are running full-tilt to bring wavering Dems on board with a filibuster. We'll know soon if they can pull it off. Meanwhile, … [Read more...]
How to lose the news
How disheartening -- and how unsurprising -- to hear our genius Democratic strategists basically cede the illegal wiretap issue to the Bush Administration. We heard statements like this:"...Democrats have to be able to say very very clearly … [Read more...]
It IS a bipartisan scandal (long)
I've raised money for candidates myself, and I've given money to candidates. And you know what? I hate it. I feel like I'm suckered into a game that I know is heavily slanted against me, and whose rules have nothing to do with anything I … [Read more...]
My cousin’s third letter from New Orleans
Last week I made a local connection for supplies. A group called Emergency Community has set up just inside the ninth ward and the man who runs it has created an amazing setup. Huge freezer trucks full of food, and working kitchen that … [Read more...]
Can someone explain how this helps us?
Today's AP story on the Kerry/Alito dust-up: "Democrats squabble over Alito filibuster."Oh, that's great. The Republicans are dismantling the country as quickly as they can, and Democrats are "squabbling" among themselves over whether … [Read more...]
Kerry, Alito, and the filibuster that will not happen
So our junior Senator has decided that Samuel Alito absolutely must be filibustered - and has issued the call from his office in Washington, DC his home base of Boston a cushy economic summit in Switzerland (hey, it could have been worse - … [Read more...]
My cousin’s second letter from New Orleans
I talked to Red Cross representatives about bringing us the supplies we needed: all of the above. They said they could provide us with water, bleach and buckets. Later that day the representative called me back to say that we had been taken … [Read more...]
Alito will be confirmed . . .
âFor today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.â -- Justice Harry Blackmun, New York Times, April 7, 1994 on the Webster … [Read more...]
Time, Washingtonian have the pics
George Bush knew Jack Abramoff. He knew the names of his children. He knew that both he and Abramoff were the fathers of twins.He knew him. The pictures are out there. We'll see them soon. … [Read more...]
That’s. What. I’m. Talking. About.
David Obey and Barney Frank call for publicly-funded congressional campaigns.Either taxpayers en masse pay for campaigns, or we have our current system of legal bribery. The "small donor" revolution of Howard Dean, et al? That's just … [Read more...]
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