Archive for June, 2006
Posted in June 28th, 2006
Truthdig takes exception to Obama’s speech The Illinois senator chastised his colleagues for leaving the evangelicals to the Republicans. Electorally, he may be correct, but no self-respecting progressive should be fooled. On the whole, evangelicals are the most regressive people in the country. Just look at the hatred and intolerance they?ve made central to the […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2006
Sirota calls me a liar: One thing I love about the progressive blogosphere is how lies are almost immediately debunked. That’s why I can’t stand it when occasionally blogs on our side lie. Case in point is an assertion by ArchPundit that an amendment to the Bankruptcy Bill by Senator Mark Dayton (D) to limit […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2006
The President insists he will return to pushing Social Security Privatization after the elections. But there’s a second part of the equation to dealing with the current account budget deficit and that is how we spend your money. Now, I’m going to talk about discretionary spending in a minute, but I just want you to […]
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Posted in June 28th, 2006
Getting hit over ethics, go on the attack on your opponents ethics.
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Posted in June 28th, 2006
Because it really isn’t about a stereotype, it’s about how to communicate with people of faith especially since most Democrats are people of faith. Both Atrios and Stoller link to the Washington Post piece which gives me a far different impression than the text of the speech. So let me end with another interaction I […]
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Posted in June 27th, 2006
Apparently a highly qualified pilot didn’t receive an interview to be a state pilot for Blagojevich and others. While I find the hiring issues very disturbing if predictable, it seems the guy who has the most to gain by hiring a less qualified pilot for the Governor is Pat Quinn.
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Posted in June 27th, 2006
Some of the Blagojevich supporters (apparently state employees) were gathering signatures for Stufflebeam. Most disturbingly, it didn’t help. Remember the Blagojevich staff posting pro-Oberweis comments?
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Posted in June 27th, 2006
Alexi’s father passed away and that’s far more important than a race for Treasurer. I’ll take a break from that race for a few days. Radogno is temporarily suspending campaigning as well.
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Posted in June 27th, 2006
Look, if you run for office, there will be a thousand people who tell you how they are going to help you out and try and get cash out of you. Knowing he had only a 90- day window to gather the required 14,000 signatures with a small group of volunteers, Scheurer sought help. He […]
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Posted in June 27th, 2006
This entire meme has taken on a life of it’s own and I even checked with his Senate office some time ago trying to figure out where it started. HE DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE BANKRUPTCY BILL He voted for the Leahy amendment, the Akaka AmendmentS, the Kennedy AmendmentS, The Dodd Amendment, the Boxer Amendment, the […]
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Posted in June 26th, 2006
Judy’s Granny Shorts need to go.
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Posted in June 26th, 2006
For nearly a year before the March 2004 primary I was ranking the contenders for the Democratic nomination to the Illinois US Senate seat in some fashion and it wasn’t until late January that anyone besides Dan Hynes was ever considered anything, but the frontrunner. Matt Stoller brought this up in terms of Barack’s supposed […]
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Posted in June 26th, 2006
Michael Madigan is a regular whipping boy for progressives, but he also illustrates important points about how to win and pass progressive policies. Madigan doesn’t run large, loud campaigns to win as many seats as he can. He runs campaigns that keeps Democrats in the Majority and insulates them as much as possible from waves […]
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Posted in June 26th, 2006
BP did a great job addressing the Obama piece by David Sirota in the Nation Specifically, the attack on Obama’s vote on a class action bill. The bill moved more class action claims into federal court instead of state courts. Trial lawyers were against this because federal judges tend to reign in such cases far […]
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Posted in June 26th, 2006
Apparently John, Illinois Dem Net and I are full of liberal hate. An odd trio to choose, but hey, Fritchey Unhinged can be the new title.
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