GOP's Reynolds: "More should have been done"
Endangered Congressman Tom Reynolds (R-NY), the National Republican Campaign Committee chairman, just drove a stake through the heart of the GOP's "we did everything right" meme in his latest campaign...
View ArticleA Million Dead: The First Gulf War's Toll
Yesterday's publication in the British medical journal The Lancet of a Johns Hopkins study on the number of Iraqi dead following the 2003 invasion has produced a figure that for some is startlingly...
View ArticleWhat Won't the GOP Do? Alaska, 1998
In this excellent diary, dKos diarist BruinKid warns that Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate (and current Ohio Secretary of State) Ken Blackwell may be about to declare his Democratic opponent, Ted...
View ArticleGet Ready: Bush Says If Dems Elected, "The Terrorists Win"
The cards are on the table this year. In 2002, Bush hinted that Democrats were "not interested in the security of the American people." In 2004, Cheney warned the American people that if they voted for...
View ArticleWaPo Op-Ed Destroys the "Moderate Republican" Brand
Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, in a remarkable op-ed piece appearing in today's edition, has just gone off the reservation and shattered the myth of the moderate Republican. The column,...
View ArticleCohen: Killing is Justified Because Those Who Oppose It Offend Me
Today, Richard Cohen renews his quest to explore the very limits of wankerdom in his latest Washington Post op-ed column. It's valuable for its insight into how the opinion elite in Washington, and in...
View Article"We Have Never Had a Strategy to Defeat the Insurgency"
General Jack Keane, who retired in 2003 as the Army's #2 officer, is one of the architects of the escalation of the Iraq war presently under consideration by the Bush administration. In a recent...
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Iraq Gives Bush the Purple Finger
Who can forget the Iraqi elections, hailed by George Bush as a sign that the US "strategery" in Iraq was on the road to success? Remember how Republican members of Congress stained their fingertips...
View ArticleHATCH ACTORS: A Pattern of Abuse
Over the past few weeks, we’ve become aware of the administration’s pervasive use of "unofficial" communications channels to conduct business. The U.S. Attorney firings, for example, were plotted over...
View ArticleDEATH OF A TRAVELING SOLDIER
Watching Jessica Lynch and Kevin Tillman testify today before Henry Waxman’s committee, I was struck once again by the administration’s obsession with iconography. We’ve seen it in countless ways: the...
View ArticleKY-GOV Primary: Beshear v. Fletcher in Nov
With over 95% of the precincts in, Democrat Steve Beshear holds a 41.2-to-21.5% lead over GOP-allied DINO Bruce Lundsford in the primary for the Kentucky governor's race. If this result holds up,...
View ArticleObama Takes on the "Christian" Right
Disclaimer up front: I've never been an Obama man. It's not that I dislike him; I'd happily vote for him as our nominee, but to this point, he hasn't sealed the deal for me.He just took a big step in...
View ArticleRomney Went to France to Dodge the Draft
An interesting bit of background information on GOP hopeful Mitt Romney: according to the Boston Globe, Mitt Romney has said he "longed" to fight in Vietnam and was "frustrat[ed]" by the fact that he...
View ArticleWho's Looting Iraq? Bank Heist Nets 1/4 Billion
More than a quarter-billion dollars was stolen from a bank in Baghdad yesterday.According to press reports, Iraqi officials claim that bank guards were involved in the heist, which netted $282 million...
View ArticleMarine Testifies: All Iraqi Men are the Enemy
Absolutely chilling testimony in the general court-martial of Marine corporal Trent D. Thomas.Thomas was one of five Marines charged in the killing of an Iraqi civilian in April 2006. Tasked with...
View ArticleWaPo Op-Ed: The "Gutless Wonders of the GOP"
Sometimes -- not often, but on occasion -- the Washington Post reminds me of the great paper it used to be.Today's op-ed by Harold Meyerson represents one of those occasions. Meyerson's angry, and he...
View ArticleFEMA Gassed Katrina Survivors
So many of the people ... were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.-- Barbara Bush Well, except for the poison gas, Babs.The latest bombshell from the cesspool of Republican...
View ArticleThe Surge, Part II: Heading to 171,000 US troops
Don't hold your breath waiting for a drawdown of U.S. forces. By this fall, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq is set to increase to 171,000, according to Army Lieutenant General Carter Ham, the...
View ArticleTHE COUP OF 2012, REVISITED
In 1992, then-Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Dunlap Jr., writing in the Army War College’s official periodical Parameters, published a cautionary tale titled The Origins of the American Military Coup of...
View ArticleGitmo prosecutions falling apart over 2008 show trials?
Last week, Air Force Colonel Morris Davis, the chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, asked to be reassigned. His departure follows that of the chief defense counsel, Marine Corps Colonel Dwight...
View ArticleTIED WITH NIXON: Bush Hits 24% (w/ poll for dKos)
Well, he's done it.According to the latest Zogby poll, Dubya has achieved a milestone: his latest approval rating of 24% is an all-time low for that poll. His approval rating also ties the lowest...
View ArticleBREAKING: Assassination attempt on Pakistani former PM, many dead
MSNBC is reporting twin bomb blasts in Karachi, Pakistan, near the convoy in which former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was traveling. There are apparently injuries on the scene, but no word...
View ArticleThe 22nd Amendment and 2008 (w/poll)
I attended a rally the night before last at the Andre Agassi College Prep Academy in Las Vegas last night. The speaker was President Bill Clinton, who spoke on behalf of Hillary's campaign and the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto Arrested
This is just beginning to break: the Associated Press reports that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is under house arrest.Bhutto returned to Pakistan last month and was the target of an...
View ArticleThoughtless, Tasteless, and Insensitive
Last night I published a diary entitled "BREAKING: WaPo Reports Hillary Dead." The text of the diary linked to a Washington Post story about the passing of Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand explorer...
View ArticleWhy the GOP will win in 2008
Get ready for George W. Bush's third term.The outcome of the 2008 Presidential election is rapidly being written into the history books. Oh, yes, there are some blanks left to be filled out: the name...
View ArticleGov Jindal (R-LA) Admits Ethics Violations
Well, well ... the GOP's wunderkind in Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal, is now under investigation by that state's Board of Ethics for failing to report $118,000 in contributions by the Republican...
View ArticleDemand Justice for Mike!
Among all the excitement of the Democratic races this weekend and the impressive sweep by Senator Barack Obama, there was another story that seems to have been overlooked: the brazen election fraud...
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PRIORITIES IN PADUCAH: Why Do They Hate Us?
If you remember 9/11, you remember the anguished cries of bewilderment: Why do they hate us?Not just the killers from that day: we all understood them to be madmen, and so they were, and so are those...
View ArticleNevada Republicans Sue ... the Nevada GOP
The civil war has come to Nevada.Supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul have filed suit in state district court in Reno seeking to block the state party from appointing delegates to...
View ArticleAnthrax: The Demon in the Mailbox
A few months ago, Plutonium Page wrote a diary about the anthrax attacks that made reference to Richard Preston’s 2002 book on the subject, called The Demon in the Freezer. Because I’d read some of...
View ArticleBREAKING: Arkansas Dem. Chair shot and killed; suspect confirmed dead (w/...
Of necessity a very short diary: Arkansas Democratic Chairman Bill Gwatney was shot today at the state Democratic Party headquarters in Little Rock. Gwatney was taken from the scene by ambulance....
View ArticleIn the tank: WaPo editorial "concerned" about McCain's housing problem
Really, could there be any better proof that the Washington Post editorial board is wholly in the tank for John McCain than this editorial set to run in tomorrow's paper? But, really, do the McCains'...
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Dear God, how did they screw THIS up?
If you watched John McCain give the most important speech of his life, you probably wondered about the building shown on the backdrop behind him:According to Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, the...
View ArticleRepublicans sue to block Troopergate probe
Hadn't seen this elsewhere, and I apologize if I missed it.Five Republican legislators have filed suit, according to the Associated Press, to block the inquiry into Sarah Palin's firing of Alaska's top...
View ArticleTroopergate: Palin's Latest Story Crumbles
The only thing more bankrupt than Wall Street, apparently, is Sarah Palin's ever-shifting rationale for the firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.Palin's latest excuse -- that she...
View ArticleTroopergate: Todd Palin's Latest Lies Revealed
Alaska's "First Dude," the once-and-possibly-future secessionist Todd Palin, has provided an affidavit to the state legislature's Troopergate investigators explaining his role in the firing of former...
View ArticleNevada early voting sets records
Not much of a diary, but I thought the news would be welcome: Nevada early voting began today. In Clark County (the most populous county in the state), 25,592 people voted today. That's nearly double...
View ArticleBREAKING: NV SecState rules against GOP vote suppression attempt...
Fresh news from the Silver State: the Nevada Secretary of State, Ross Miller, has ruled against efforts by the state Republican Party to deny thousands of registered voters their franchise.
View Article"Get out of here before I shoot you" (w/ update)
Panic is an ugly thing. It's even uglier when coupled with pure, unrefined hatred. Today, someone threatened to shoot my wife.Our family is a family of die-hard Democrats. Some of my earliest...
View ArticleOn Cheney, "Hired Help," and Torture (w/ poll)
I would think Bush would not want to further damage his presidency by clearing the hired help.-- GOP operative Roger Stone, explaining why Bush would not pardon Karl Rove Dubya has been very quiet of...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal: Waterboard The Terrorist Who Murdered Dr. Tiller
Time for the right wing to step up to the plate.Dr. George Tiller was murdered today. Dr. Tiller was the subject of prior attacks by political extremists, who targeted him for performing medical...
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Meikan R.I.P. 2005-2009
Meikan, my cat, died last Wednesday. He was four and a half years old.I first met Meikan at a pet store in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 2005. I was in the store to pick up supplies for the four cats...
View ArticleRep. John Boehner takes leave of his Census (w/ poll!)
It was waiting for me in the mailbox.A thick, standard-sized envelope, it was addressed to me by name. The lettering on the outside hinted at a tantalizing promise of bipartisanship, of crossing the...
View ArticleAnd so it begins: The court-martial of LTC Terry Lakin
The U.S. Army has begun the formal process of court-martialing a birther.Army Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin, a doctor assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, has been charged...
View ArticleDENIED: No fishing expedition in birther court-martial
The military judge presiding over the court-martial of Army Lietenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, who earlier this year refused to deploy when ordered to Afghanistan, has denied Lakin's request for an...
View ArticleWhat's Next?
I'm just asking.This time, we have to swallow trillions of dollars in cuts to domestic programs, including Medicare. I know, I know, benefits aren't supposed to be touched. But if payments to doctors...
View ArticleRomney event hosted by convicted cocaine trafficker
Heckuva way to start your Florida campaign swing, Willard.According to local and national press reports, the Republican nominee held a campaign event in Miami last night hosted by Reinaldo Bermudez, a...
View ArticleThe Naval Battle Mitt Romney Never Heard Of
Mitt Romney’s debate performance last night should disqualify him from the Presidency. Certainly it demonstrated that he does not take seriously, and has not attempted to prepare himself for, the role...
View ArticleIn email, GOP chairman calls black Congressional candidate a "street walker"...
It's always instructive when Republicans let their true feelings show.Erika Harold is a Harvard-educated lawyer running in the GOP primary for Illinois CD-13 against incumbent Congressman Rodney Davis....
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