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    have democrats never played poker?

    You don’t show your hand before everyone antes up:

    President-elect Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders in Washington on Monday to discuss his economic stimulus package, a plan that reports say will include $300 billion in tax cuts.

    The tax cuts for individuals and businesses would account for about 40 per cent of the stimulus package, which is expected to be between $675 billion and $775 [...]



    Palinology

    David Michael Green publishes another near perfect post about Palinology:

    Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America (collapsible content, click to show/hide)

    I can’t tell you how despondent I’ve grown in the last weeks.

    Is there really no hope for this country, after all? It now appears so.

    In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but [...]



    la belle dame sans merci

    The fevered dream of the GOP continues.

    I was going to quote some of Sarah Palin’s odious speech, but its Dr. Laura sarcasm and patina of lies made it impossible to stomach.

    The GOP has nothing but god, guns, abortion and war. There was nothing in last night’s speech – or in this entire convention – about how a McCain/Palin administration would solve the credit crisis, [...]



    all i can do now is pity her

    Former Hillary Clinton volunteer Carol Anderson of Vancouver, who is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver, made New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s snarky political column Wednesday with her less-than-charitable observations about Barack and Michelle Obama.

    Anderson stood in the back of the room at a meeting of the Democratic Women’s Caucus wearing a Hillary T-shirt, a hat signed by the New York senator, and [...]



    another deft obama campaign headfake?

    Or the best news since Al Gore won his Nobel?

    WASHINGTON (AFP) — “Vote Both,” a group dedicated to persuading Barack Obama to pick former foe Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, is folding, as hopes of a “dream ticket” fade.

    Organizers Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Arora said they were halting their campaign, based on indications that the presumptive Democratic nominee was looking elsewhere for [...]



    i’ve called – have you?

    Call or email your Senators on FISA. Now. The vote is tomorrow.

    I live in Washington and work in Oregon. I called Senators Cantwell, Murray, Smith and Wyden, and Harry Reid, Barack Obama, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for good measure.

    If you’re shy, here’s what I said:

    I’m calling to ask Sen. ___ to vote NO on the FISA bill. There is no need [...]



    but will a spineless congress support all the troops

    if it means supporting the gay troops?

    WASHINGTON (AFP) — Four former US generals have joined a growing call for a policy that bars homosexuals from serving openly in the military to be axed, after a study showed it is out of step with the times and harming the armed forces.

    The retired officers from the Marine Corps, Air Force, Army and Navy, found in a year-long [...]



    don’t shuffle and slouch toward the center -

    Use your left hook to knock those Republican fuckers out.

    The FISA debate is going on this morning (voting tomorrow – CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW OR EXPLAIN TO YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS WHY YOU DIDN’T).

    Running parallel to the FISA debate is the progressive renting of garments over should we or shouldn’t we be pounding Obama for his shift to the center.

    David Bender, in for Rachel [...]

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