Moral Equivocation Brigade

11:06 pm EST June 25th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 21 Comments

According to Jon Henke, it isn’t okay to point out the corrosive agenda of the right-wing, because we have to preserve the pretense that “both sides” are equally bad. Does anyone wonder why journalism is so bad? Does anyone still wonder why so many liberal pundits stink? They buy into this nonsense.

Topic: Conservative

Is John Kerry Reading OW.Com?

6:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Democrats | 7 Comments

Just noticed this email from him uses “Washington Republicans” twice…

A Real Greatest American

6:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Politics | 19 Comments

Citizens United, along with a bunch of other far right websites are trying to skew the results of Discovery’s “Greatest American” program by voting for Reagan. Please go there and vote for anyone but Reagan (my choice is Martin Luther King, but I feel the others are similarly worthy).

Ronald Reagan is not The Greatest American or else its time to pack up and go home.

Will The Left Finally Get It?

5:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Democrats | 17 Comments

Here’s Patrick Ruffini, until a few months ago a paid member of the Bush-Cheney re-election team unleashing a long string of spin about how supposedly liberals have not been supportive of the war on terror. Patrick even goes so far as to revive the canard about John Kerry waging a more sensitive war on terror when both Dick Cheney and George Bush urged sensitivity in the global war on terrororism.

Is this an oversight on Patrick’s fault? Did he just forget? No, not at all. This is how they operate. If it means smearing half of our nation in order to prop up their political idols, the right is ready willing and able. If they can get help from the useless liberal wing of the left, the better for them, but they’ll defile our side any way.

I have been harping on this for years now, I thought people would wake up after 2000, wake up after the 2002 midterms, wake up after the 2004 election: these people are the enemy and the only way to defeat them is to fight back as hard as they kick us down.

Are we learning yet, folks, or do you want to lose some more?

Step Back, Jack

5:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Republicans | Comments Off

Maybe he realized he’s in a blue state and holding on to his seat by a thread but Rick Santorum says that Karl Rove doesn’t speak for him…

Submitted for The Record

3:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Politics | 10 Comments

“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
-Governor (and now President) George W. Bush (R-TX), 1999.

“This has been an unmitigated disaster & Ask the Chinese embassy. Ask all the people in Belgrade that we’ve killed. Ask the refugees that we’ve killed. Ask the people in nursing homes. Ask the people in hospitals.”
-Representative Joe Scarborough (R-FL), 1999.

“President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.”
-Senator Rick Santorum, 1999.

Just Stop

3:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Politics | 13 Comments

Ron Reagan says the Dems need to stop apologizing.

A Liar In Franken’s Lair

2:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Politics | Comments Off

Ed Klein, the hack contracted by the right to smear Sen. Clinton is going to be on The Al Franken Show at about 2:20EST, along with the great Joe Conason.

UPDATE: No surprise, Klein told another lie on air.

1,380

12:06 pm EST June 24th, 2005 | Democrats | 32 Comments

What’s that number?

That’s the amount of days that have passed since 3,000 Americans were killed by terrorists under George W. Bush’s watch.

That’s the amount of days that have passed without Osama Bin Laden’s capture and the smashing of the Al Qaeda network.

The Bush administration likes to parallel this conflict with World War II. Let’s.

Here’s another number: 1,365. What’s that number? That’s the amount of days between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the surrender of the Japanese to end World War II.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman, two Democratic presidents who smashed the axis and saved the world.

It’s Time To Stand

9:06 pm EST June 23rd, 2005 | Democrats | 30 Comments

I am not one of the people who feels Karl Rove is a political genius. I think he’s a talented political operative with a good dose of luck on his side. That said, does anyone believe the flag amendment and his attack on the Democrats just happened out of coincidence? Rove’s legacy will be tied to George W. Bush and right now he sees his great triumph, Bush’s re-election, currently stuck in the second term blahs. The few legislative achievements he’s got are paybacks to his supporters, but not the sort of transformative work Presidents want written in their obituaries.

The Republican party stands for nothing if they aren’t demonizing the Democratic party as anti-American. They did it when Bill Clinton was President, and they’ve done it since the moment George Bush obtained the White House. That is what they’re doing now. They’ve got nothing more than passing legislation that does nothing to actually help America, preferring instead to gin up the slack jawed folks who are their most ardent supporters with a neverending river of bigotry, hate, and bile. To date the left has become their enablers, preferring to play to some form of mythical “moderation” while these idiots defecate on our national foundations. Many Democrats (including myself in the past) have preferred the path of least resistance, trying to appeal to the mythical center while at the same time ignoring our core values.

We have to stop this now. In order to preserve this nation, we must stop giving in to the Republicans and their hatred of America’s diversity of race, thought, ideology, and values. In the early part of the 20th century, those who championed racist hatred were in the majority. For many, the “right” thing politically would have been to walk in lockstep with the klan and their ilk. But they were wrong, and the people who supported them were wrong. We have to stand up for the right things, even if you’re in the minority, even if you’re not doing the politically expedient thing, because standing up for what’s right is the moral thing to do.

To the Hillary Clintons, Harry Reids, John Edwardses, Joe Bidens, and other leaders of our side – it is time to draw a line in the sand. It is time, at long last, to cease with the smiles and the well-wishes and to make clear that the time to declare open political warfare on these people is long past due.