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Progressives (Finally) Tired Of Getting Slapped Around On Health Care

Signs of hope and change in America.
Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.
Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being [...]

Dave “Mudcat” Saunders Is An Idiot And No Democrat Should Hire Him

In an interview with the London Times, political consultant and apparent snake oil salesman Dave “Mudcat” Saunders says the following:
“The Democrats talk of tolerance, but in reality the only tolerance they ever exhibit is for their own intellectual arrogance — and they don’t have tolerance for my culture,” says Mudcat. “They think we’re a bunch [...]

Stopping The Wedge

Progressives beat back Ward Connerly’s anti-civil rights bill designed to turn up conservative votes in Missouri.

Paging The Wahmbulance

Shorter Matt Stoller: Quit acting like babies. Waaaaaaaaaaaah. The world is ending because Sen. Obama doesn’t personally read every blog and conduct online polls asking the “netroots” what color underwear he should wear.
Do these guys know that a presidential election isn’t all about candidates catering to their personal idiosyncrasies? I don’t think so.

Who Are We?

A few months ago I wrote about how I really really want the president of the United States to be someone who is the national leader of the country and not just a party chairman. I feel the need to point this out again in the middle of some of the typical blogosphere whining over [...]

Hillary Clinton’s Two Faced Attack On MoveOn

She’s standing on a platform of Jello. Via MSNBC’s Verdict with Dan Abrams here is Sen. Clinton slamming MoveOn (and by extension everyone who’s ever had the desire to be a progressive/Democratic activist) and here is Sen. Clinton just a year ago saying what great work she thinks MoveOn has done. This of course is [...]

Apparently I’m Not A Progressive

At Shakesville, writing about Obama and abortion Kate Harding writes this intriguing bit
Progressives? Do not respect the anti-choice position.
Really? This is the road we’re going to go down now? I think being pro-choice is a necessity for a Democratic candidate. It’s a showstoper for me, and I couldn’t support a presidential candidate who wasn’t pro [...]

Kamikaze McClinton

Hillary Clinton and her surrogates sure feel a strong need to echo right-wing attacks versus Sen. Obama. And that’s fine with me. At the end of the day this will teach us that no matter what the Clintons cannot be trusted anywhere near the leadership of the Democratic party in the future. At the same [...]

Progressive And Proud

That’ll Show Them!