Last chance for marriage equality in NJ
Elections have consequences.And here in NJ, one of the consequences is marriage equality, something that outgoing Governor Jon Corzine said earlier in the year would be passed and signed – even if he...
View Article"Our" votes aren't nearly enough
With all due respect to this post, it isn’t "our votes" that are at issue. Sure, there is an enthusiasm gap right now, but frankly, we are a few weeks out from the most recent election and close to a...
View ArticleMcMahon lays the smack down on wrestlers' healthcare needs
Earlier this year, a lawsuit against the WWE was dismissed as it related to the employee status of wrestlers. There are a whole host of issues associated with whether someone is an employee or not –...
View ArticleTed Kennedy would be disgusted (update)
Update [2009-12-16 14:0:48 by clammyc]:I find it amazing and amusing at how there is less of an issue with the substance of the diary than the title, which was obviously intended to make people think....
View ArticleThe left flank
I’ve written a few times about the "Overton Window" and even spoke on a panel at Netroots Nation about this topic a few years ago (note – if you don’t know what the Overton Window is, you can read...
View ArticleHow to beat the GOP in 2010
Update [2009-12-30 15:4:53 by clammyc]: How embarrassing to write a diary about framing and use a title that talks about a GOP landslide. Oops....*****How about something constructive – a discussion...
View ArticleThe "conservative independent" canard
I’ve heard and seen one too many false references to how this country is not really as progressive as so many issue-based polls consistently show. I’ve heard one too many lazy inferences that...
View ArticleFat cat and rich brat taxes
With a likely focus to some degree over the next year or two on tax policy, coupled with the proposed tax on many employer provided health care plans, I've been doing thinking on the way tax policy and...
View ArticleOther than New Orleans, no US cities were destroyed under Bush
On the heels of Rudy "Mayor 9/11" Guiliani’s assertion that there never was a terrorist attack on American soil under George W. Bush (which I guess can mean "no terrorist attack after 9/11 that wasn’t...
View Articlebreakingest: Palin resigns as FOX contributor
In what can only be labeled as a stunning yet entirely predictable turn of events, former Vice Presidential candidate and "chief common sense haver" Sarah Palin has stepped down from her new role as...
View ArticleNo message, no base, no win
I’m not a believer in finger pointing. However, I am a believer in understanding why certain things happen so as to take stock and see what can be changed in order to make sure that the desired...
View ArticleA "person" is defined as one man or one woman
I’ve already heard a lot of different discussions on how to combat the Citizens United case – different kinds of legislation and various forms of Constitutional Amendments come to mind. Obviously, the...
View ArticleThe power of words
This won't be a long post, but I ask that you please be objective and consider its contents. I'm not going to talk about policy or choices in terms of what actions were taken by Congress and President...
View ArticleActivist Alito must be impeached
I'll be brief.I don't remember where I heard this, but it went something like this: When they put on the robe, they stop being of a political party and they start being servants of the people. Even...
View ArticleThe Bush Republicans used reconciliation to drown us in debt
I’ll be brief.Buried in blue aardvark’s highly recommended diary is a comment that should get much more attention: Republicans, especially the Tea Party types, are going to lose their collective minds....
View ArticleHelp one of our own community members "Crash the Gate"
For those who aren’t familiar with the name "Elliot Anderson", you may be more familiar with fellow Daily Kos community member (and great guy) DemMarineVet - someone who has put his time, money and...
View ArticleAnything short of a liberal Supreme Court nominee is unacceptable
Elections have consequences, right?Well, so far, progressives have gotten the short end of the stick on far too many things over the past year+. Whether it was a lack of a public option, or coddling...
View Article"President Palin" is a weak sauce losing argument
It seems like a very popular rebuttal to any substantive criticism of Congressional Democrats or the Obama administration is met with a "see how President Palin will work out" rebuttal – as if the...
View ArticleThe danger of "reality" vs. "belief"
Something the Dog Said has a very important diary up regarding populist movements and the potential for ignorance to become a motivating factor, all while showing the same basic lack of understanding...
View Article"almost a treason"
It's wonderful to see that this is where things have gone. A highly recommended diary overgeneralizes and paints with a broad brush about "advocates about one issue or another threatening" to stay...
View ArticleHow's that whole "oily drilly thingy" working out?
Eleven people missing and presumed dead. Over one hundred survivors who easily could have been among the missing due mainly to luck and good timing. A sunken oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. A...
View ArticleHelp dump NJ's own "Rand Paul" (only worse)
You think I am kidding, but I am not. Scott Garrett is my Representative, and the best way to describe him is if you combine all of the extreme elements of Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, Grover Norquist...
View ArticleWhere is the Afghanistan exit strategy?
Not that this is long past due as is, but with the leak of tens of thousands of documents that purport to paint a very bleak picture (I say purport because I haven’t read them – just the stories about...
View ArticleA pie fight because one of "ours" kicked @$$???
I know that this will get some of the typical "who gives a shit about what you think or say" comments but I'm used to that and frankly, that says more about the commentators than it does about me.Last...
View ArticlePity the struggling and selfish super rich
Now that the Bush tax cuts are really set to expire, we start to hear about "economic fairness" from those whose worst experience of this mega-recession has been the loss of their 2nd Bentley or the...
View ArticleThe sanctity of marrying your pregnant teenage first cousin
One thing that the right does very effectively is take a position or issue and frame it in the worst possible terms for progressives to defend. And sadly, many on the left don’t like to "go there",...
View Articleoooh, pretty pics and feel good slogans.
So criticism is not allowed - I remember, it was "almost a treason" to dare dissent here.So now, once again, us silly dirty activists should shut our pieholes and marvel at all of the wonderful things...
View ArticleAn army of stupid
and yet somehow, it is a formidable army."Barack Obama is racist". "Barter chickens for healthcare". "I read all of the newspapers that are put in front of me." "I can see Russia from my house" (ok,...
View ArticleHow many jobs could corporate ad spending pay for?
There has (rightfully) been a major focus on the fallout of Citizen’s United and the impact on foreign government/corporate cash being funneled into buying attack ads and influencing elections. One...
View ArticleNJ-Gov: Chris Christie has lost the benefit of the doubt
As many of you know, NJ Governor Chris Christie is one of the "new darlings of the right" and was campaigning for other candidates around the country, yukking it up with David Gregory on Press the...
View ArticleSetting the record straight on the social security tax holiday
Those who have read my writings know two things: (1) employment tax is my area of expertise and (2) I am no big fan of this Administration. And while I find a number of things very disturbing about...
View ArticleA blueprint for economic disaster
Make no mistake – the demonization of public workers is just the latest in a long series of distractions by the right wing and economic elite as they pick the pockets of the “other 95% of Americans”....
View ArticleMaybe you shouldn’t have supported trillions in unfunded wars
What “the great deficit debate” really boils down to is one thing: priorities.Deficits weren’t a priority when nearly all Republicans and a good number of Democrats voted for the ill conceived and ill...
View ArticleThe basic fallacy of "privatization"
I put “privatization” in quotes because it is really corporatization, and quite frankly is a much better term for the further theft of taxpayer dollars for the well connected corporate class.The...
View ArticleGov. Christie is the "bloodsucking public employee" he loves to hate
For those of you not following the latest abuse of office by Republican blowhard"rising star" Chris Christie, you can read a lot here about his use of a state police helicopter to go from a meeting...
View ArticleNJ's RGGI Pullout: the Latest Christie-Koch Wink-Nod?
Cross posted at/from Blue Jersey********As noted recently at Blue Jersey, the lead Iowa Republican funder who Governor Christie met with during “CopterGate” was Koch business partner Bruce Rastetter....
View ArticleReal Americans and Fake Patriots
(also in Blue)*****Ironically but not surprisingly, Sarah Palin and a good number of those on the right like to address their crowds, who have increasingly been playing dress-up as “patriots” (and not...
View ArticleKeeping America Safe
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the current terror threat and precautions is yet another reminder (and reason) for a discussion about “keeping America safe”. The hundreds of...
View ArticleChris Christie's Political Football
Please note that this diary was originally posted at Blue Jersey by a colleague and fellow front pager, the_promised_land. I have been asked to post it here on behalf of the Blue Jersey crew since...
View ArticleIf Christie says he isn’t ready to run or govern, why is he reconsidering?
Also in blue*****In all of the ego stroking, “messiah worship” of the Republican Party and their right wing financiers when it comes to the courting of Governor Christie to run for President – for lack...
View Articlethank you, "anonymous benefactor"...
I know I don't come around here much anymore, and I don't even know if this is going to be read by many since it is really a silly little diary....but...over the weekend, I got one of those "do not...
View ArticleIncome tax cuts are the problem, not the solution
Much has been made about income taxes and income tax cuts – not just by Republicans, who base their entire economic plan on less taxes (which of course will usually vastly benefit their base by every...
View ArticleLook what can happen to somebody who stood up to Chris Christie
-----hi folks - yeah, it's been a while and I know it is full on "top of the ticket time", but here is a pretty cool story about a teacher, a progressive with no prior interest in politics before...
View ArticleSetting the narrative in the event of an Obama victory
I don’t want to get ahead of myself here, but there are a few things at play over the next day and it is obviously very important to get ahead of the narrative before some of the typical “conventional...
View ArticleWelcome to the 21st Century, losers.
As the Republican Party licks its’ gaping wounds with the loss on Tuesday and tries to figure out whether the path of lies or hate or greed or fear was more to blame (or whether it was the fault of one...
View ArticleWhy did Christie meet with Port Authority Chief days before “the email”?
It’s been forever since I posted and I know there are a million Bridgeghazi posts, but I didn’t see this in a quick scan.One thing that jumped out at me in looking over the stories of the newly...
View Article#Bridgeghazi: Why “motive” isn’t all that important right about now
Word is that it was payback for the Democratic Mayor of Fort Lee not endorsing Christie’s re-election or it was payback to NJ Legislative Democrats over the State Supreme Court or a development project...
View ArticleThe intellectual dishonesty of "voter regret stories"
Even though we are less than 100 days in, there seems to be a wave of "I already regret my vote" stories--whether in "mea culpa" form by a prominent conservative or a compilation of anecdotes by mostly...
View ArticleI'll bet a quarter that Trump has no damning "Comey tapes"
We know this:Trump is a bluffer who, when called on it, backs down.Trump said that Comey better think twice before talking about their meetings because, you know, "tapes" and all.Trump is mulling...
View ArticleIf “we can’t stop all gun violence”...
Despite “we shouldn’t do anything because we can’t stop every gun massacre” being an incredibly stupid argument, it’s still a go to argument. As if not being able to stop everything is a reason to do...
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