Debate Winning Math (2.8 x 50 = 90)
(First diary, so please be gentle)There were a lot of stupid moments in Romney's "winning" performance. But I think the one that stands out the most to me is the egregious math mistake that he made,...
View ArticleThe time for debate is over
It strikes me, as we watch this tragedy in Connecticut unfold that the reason why "today is not the day" for debate is that there's no longer any purpose to debating gun control. We could have a...
View ArticleNo, Inequality Isn't Decreasing Because There Are Rich People In China
The NYTimes other resident idiot (Douthat) focused today's nonsense column on the Pope. The column itself was devoid of substance, but it did have one controversial assertion: Finally, it’s true that...
View ArticleTo the Mat For Planned Parenthood
This is how they destroyed Acorn. This is how they'll destroy Planned Parenthood. By defining and controlling the debate on emotional terms, rather than rational ones.The question isn't "did anyone at...
View ArticleThanks Debbie! DK5 is why Democrats will lose in 2016!
Little know fact, Debbie Wasserman Shultz was in charge of the DK5 redesign. The reason the first debate was held in October is that DWS was too busy working on debugging the “new comment” popups so...
View ArticleIs this Sanders Bump about Guns?
In the Summer of Bernie I remember reading on DKos a comment by someone saying quite explicitly that Clinton’s anti-gun position would be devastating for her electoral prospects. At the time, with...
View ArticleThanks Debbie! Sunday's Democratic debate is in prime-time on network...
Just a quick heads up in the hope of clearing up any confusion.Sunday night on NBC at 9pm, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin O’Malley will gather in Charleston, South Carolina for the fourth...
View ArticleClinton Did Not Diss Sanders' Grandkids
There is a silly diary on the rec list right now calling out Hillary Clinton for... well... saying that her granddaughter is extraordinary. (Apparently Sanders has trademarked that word. Who knew?)The...
View ArticleObama burned the first two years of his Presidency to get the ACA
Today, Hillary Clinton said something that has a lot of people that don’t want her to be the Democratic nominee very upset.I don't want us to end up in gridlock. People can't wait. People who have...
View ArticleNYC to get $15 Minimum Wage in 2019 [Updated]
According to the New York Times, (now being reported by plenty of others) New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has hammered out an agreement with the state legislature to push the minimum wage in the city...
View ArticleSanders Campaign Insists on Their Right to Make the Same Mistakes That...
Yes, it’s true. In 2008, the Clinton campaign made many dumb moves. They miscounted delegates or merely ignored the fact that the contest was about winning delegates and fell decisively behind early....
View ArticleThere Is No Political Power in Not Voting
In the next couple days/weeks I expect we’ll see a lot of diaries and discussion about what Clinton (no Sanders! no DWS! no Jeff Weaver! BBB! Bobswern!) needs to do to unify the party/mollify the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Hillary Clinton Seen Palling Around With USAG's Boss
That’s right! The man who Attorney General Loretta Lynch reports to, the person who appointed her to that position, President Barack Obama, has been seen together with Hillary Clinton who — I remind...
View ArticleTrump was hand-picked to beat Hillary Clinton
There’s been some discussion of how damaging FBI Director Comey’s announcement that Clinton should not be indicted will be (or should be) for Clinton’s campaign. The general consensus is that it should...
View ArticlePitting Trump-ism Against Republican-ism Will Shred the GOP
There’s been plenty of reaction to today’s speech from Hillary Clinton. This diary is only tangentially about that speech. Since the convention, Clinton has been hammering home the message that Donald...
View ArticleWhy Trump Picked Pence (And Why Clinton Picked Kaine) On Display In Last...
Pence was not Trump’s choice for VP (that would be Ivanka). He had his arm twisted by the GOP leadership. They told him he needed a traditional Republican on the ticket to mollify the donors and assure...
View ArticleEcuador Cut Off Assange's Internet
So some noise was made overnight about poor Julian Assange not having access to the internet as he hides in an Ecuadorian embassy in London. Much speculation that US covert ops or some other nefarious...
View ArticleWhere Are Donald Trump's Tax Returns
Donald Trump flat lied about releasing his tax returns. He will never do it. And, going forward, no candidate will ever do so again.Simply because there’s no penalty for not releasing your tax returns....
View ArticleHillary Clinton is This Election's Agent of Change
Hillary Clinton is the agent of change in this election. The media narrative about “change” elections like this one is that the Presidency switches parties because the voters want to go in a new...
View ArticleTrump's Going to Name a Wall Street Hedge Fund Manager to Run Treasury
Who didn’t see this coming?Trump is going to drain the swamp using snakes as his subcontractors.Per the LA TimesSteven Mnuchin, 53, a wealthy Wall Street executive and successful film financier who...
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