Schadenfreude (revised) + POLL
As part of visualizing victory, let's anticipate whose on-air reaction we most want to see tomorrow night. I did one round of this & have revised based on many suggestions & the early voting....
View ArticleOn Canada/blue states
Obviously the blue state/Canada reallignment speculation is mainly a fantasy and a way to dream. But my Canadian progressive friends are not amused, and react with eyerolls about how little...
View ArticleShaming the wingnuts
Kos and lesser blogs have been effective in creating and spreading the great phrase "101 Fighting Keyboarders" and then challenging the wingnut trolls and others who back Bush to put themselves on the...
View ArticleIs Bush TRYING to make things worse?
As we watch Dante's Inferno continue to unfold under our eyes. I try to understand what is going on with the administration. In my work and life, I always have found trying to figure out the other...
View ArticleMajor electoral college reform - how do we feel?
Below the radar, the California State Assembly has hitched on to an intriguing idea.http://www.latimes.com/... In brief, they passed a bill and sent it to the Senate a reform to California's electoral...
View ArticleIf David Vitter resigns
I am not from Louisiana, but have a passing knowledge of its election law and local politics. It would be better for someone from there to greatly supplement what I am writing here.If more details of...
View ArticleACTION ALERT: GOP California mischief
As most of you know, California has a fairly easy proposition process which overrides state law and anything the (overwhelmingly Democratic) Legislature can do.The GOP, clearly led by Karl Rove, wants...
View ArticlePetraeus as the GOP nominee?
Just had a thought - with the pygmies running in the GOP race, and Giuliani likely toxic (the recent immigration sanity from him won't help), what are the chances that if there is still a divided field...
View ArticleDoesn't Clinton need the FL, MI dooevers?
Pardon me if this has been written about. And also upfront - I am as ardent an Obama supporter as anyone here.Also because this was misunderstood, I am rewriting the beginning.Irrespective of the...
View Article1st exit polls (CNN/2:43 PM PDT)
The early pre-candidate vote exit poll results are dribbling out. (They have only teased us with this for more than 90 minutes)For what it's worth, in Mississippi today, only one breakdown given for...
View ArticleEdwards did NOT endorse anyone
Via TPM, from Greg Sargent:Edwards Didn't Endorse Anyone On Leno Tonight, NBC Flack Confirms By Greg Sargent - March 20, 2008, 9:02PM John Edwards just finished up taping his appearance on Jay Leno...
View ArticleGallup now 49-45
Brief note - TPM reports that today's 3 day tracking indicates a narrowing of the Obama lead to 49-45%.This four point shift most likely indicates a combination of two better Clinton days Sun and...
View ArticleWe started Operation Chaos
Daily Kos is like my second home, and my admiration for Markos is tremendous.But he is human, and like all of us, makes mistakes.One of them was last January, when a number of posters started diaries...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan: The case for Obama/Clinton
First, some explanations and background.Andrew Sullivan loathes Hillary Clinton as much as anyone here (he nearly drove me from his site until I realized he was on to something). He is also a major...
View ArticleGallup 5/4: Obama back to 4 pt lead
Obama back to a lead in Gallup; must have had a real strong Saturday showing
View ArticleJames Wolcott gets it
As many Kossacks know, the very erudite (and progressive) Vanity Fair writer/blogger has been a marginal Clinton supporter, and has written somewhat about his concerns with how some Obama supporters...
View ArticleSen. Kennedy, peacemaker
I submit this diary with care and some trepidation. If the consensus is that it is unseemly and inappropriate, I will delete it.Inspired by the picture of a smiling, vigorous looking Sen. Ted Kennedy...
View ArticleGov Paterson (Clinton del) sees desperation
Just follow the link - Gov David Paterson, who is a Clinton superdelegate, was answering questions from listeners on a NYC radio show - (he is Gov of NY)He is not changing his vote, but he did worse as...
View ArticleReid's hands likely tied re: Lieberman
The impassioned and angry strong support for punishing Joe Lieberman is getting a full airing on a recommended diary.The desire to take action is totally understandable.The purpose of this diary is to...
View ArticleHuge Afghanistan news: major prison break
Just before the Tim Russert news, MSNBC reported that suicide bombers attacked the main prison in Kandahar, and that this resulted in a mass prison break, with all or nearly all prisoners escaping,...
View ArticleThe big VP timing questions no one asks
On this and all the other blogs I read, on all the cable political shows I watch, in newspapers available to me, I have yet to see any serious discussion of possibly the second most important decision...
View ArticleUPDATED: Indiana 2nd Obama stop Saturday?
Just in from Marc Ambinder via the Nashville Post - as he says, doesn't mean that Bayh is the choice, but it is interesting:
View ArticleNBC censors gay Olympic history (4 UPDATES)
For those of you who watched the Olympics last night, you saw one of the great upsets - Australian Matthew Mitcham winning the gold medal in the men's 10 metre platform. He won on his last dive,...
View ArticleMalawi gay couple pardoned
Sorry for the short diary, but this hasn't been reported here that I see and unlike a lot of stories it has some (somewhat) good news.While checking the BBC for their reports on the attack on the Gaza...
View ArticleStanley Cup will be in Chicago Gay Pride parade
Sorry for the brief diary, but this is too good to pass up.The Chicago Black Hawks and the NHL have announced that they have arranged to fly the Stanley Cup back to Chicago for the upcoming Gay Pride...
View ArticleHow Rick Perry wins and changes the US forever
My hope is that this is a feverish nightmare and my fellow Kossacks can convince me that this is silly and will never happen.Still, my mind tends to race to game plan theories and futuristic scenarios...
View ArticleJust now on MSNBC: Lieberman breaks w/ McCain over Rice
Minutes ago, on Andrea Mitchell, on the subject of Susan Rice, Joe Lieberman just advised his colleagues to "have a little mercy" on Susan Rice, saying that what she did - repeating the Intelligence...
View ArticleMichael Moore Speaks Out on Zero Dark Thirty
I assume Michael Moore has credibility on this subject as both a proven progressive but also an acclaimed political filmmaker.He has just written on Zero Dark Thirty on Huffington Post, and has written...
View ArticleDone deal: Nate Silver hired by Disney/ESPN/ABC
From Deadline Hollywood - Nate Silver is moving next month from the NYTimes to ESPN (for sports) and ABC (for politics), including presumably both blog and live work. Disney owns both...
View ArticleHysteria over Nat'l Geog overblown
Apologies on being contrary, but I am posting this in hopes a lot of my Daily Kos friends don't buy into the hysteria over the cutbacks at the now Murdoch-owned Nat'l Geographic operation (magazine and...
View ArticleTheory: Back up RNC plans to block Trump
Here’s my theory as to how the Repub establishment might be best able to stop Trump and make their own choice for the nomination. It sounds far-fetched, and likely wouldn’t work beyond getting rid of...
View ArticleThe most important decision of Obama's presidency.
To cut to the chase:Obama needs to nominate someone, and in his first pick, who will be approved (very tough) and move the court to the left of Scalia.I’d take Sandra Day O’Connor at this point, but in...
View ArticleIt's 1/20/17 - Either Paul Ryan or Amy Klobuchar becomes president
Save this post. I could be the first on your block to predict this.Trump is threatening to run as a 3rd party candidate. Michael Bloomberg is likely to as well if it looks like Sanders is the Dem...
View ArticleObama speechwriter Favreau: Electing HRC in 16 more crucial than Obama in 2008
Well known Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, known to most Kossacks, just wrote a smart article putting it on the line. He adds his own experience working with Hillary Clinton during her cabinet...
View ArticlePrimer on Trump replacement if needed
Additons/corrections eagerly asked forWhat happens if Trump withdraws:As someone who has suggested all along that there'd be some chance that either Trump ir Clinton might be replaced as nominees due...
View ArticleGaping holes in post-convention party rules
The speculation over a possible Trump withdrawal exposes some uncharted areas in election procedure. I covered the way he’d be replaced earlier. But I think both parties need to explore certain details...
View ArticleA radical proposal - save progressive values by expanding state power and...
One of the ways the left suffers compared to the right is the raising of concrete, practical ideas within the context of the status quo to promote its agenda. The right wing think tanks come up with...
View ArticleObamas' Plane Diverted to AFB west of Palm Springs
Cable is off, not seeing this elsewhere.I waited about 90 minutes across the street in the rain for the Obamas to arrive at Palm Springs International Airport. Wanted to see Executive One (what Air...
View ArticleThe Obamas out and about on a sunny first full day of vacation
A break from yesterday’s flight which caused a four hour delay and unexpected ground travel before they arrived in Rancho Mirage. Far more rain (all over So Cal — some estimates of six inches tomorrow...
View ArticleMichelle Obama leaves Palm Springs for British Virgin Islands
The almost historic rain since the Obamas arrived may have gotten to her.She was spotted getting on a private jet (apparently owned by Virgin Airways owner Richard Branson), with the tracking data...
View ArticleWho knew - Jason Chaffetz's half brother is a Dukakis family member
Too weird not to pass along, apologies if others have caught this. Utah Rep Jason Chaffetz, spineless chair of the House Government Oversight Committee, resigning with rumors he is head to Fox News...
View ArticleMcConnell & Gardner's back up plan - it's obvious
I'm not that bright but I see what McConnell and Cory Gardner (the latter head of committee within Sen Repubs to elect Repubs) are doing - they know the anti Moore stuff could backfire and make sure...
View ArticleA modest proposal for 4 Repub Senators with supposed decency
I hold zero faith they’d do this, but here is how Sens Collins, Flake, Corker, McCain, all of whom have made feints at sanity and putting country over party, could prevent Mueller’s firing or if done...
View ArticleDetails clarified in initial Waffle House suspect bail
Many Daily Kos readers were understandably upset when Travis Reinking initially had bail set at $2 million after his capture.Though it was impossible that he could satisfy that amount (assets totaling...
View ArticleParliamentary experts: A possible way to block nominee?
I saw a tweet from someone who claimed 51 votes are needed to change the Senate rules so a filibuster can’t stop a Supreme Court nominee. Not 50, not a majority of those present, 51.With John McCain...
View ArticleWhoever wrote the Op Ed is likely connected and working with someone
My guess on the writer of the NYTimes Op Ed is that it is someone who is very much a movement member, thinking long term, concerned about the election and as worried as much about the long term...
View ArticlePossible Kavanaugh replacement: Lindsey Graham?
This is so obvious. People have speculated on Graham’s motives for toadying. They are clear to me — the Senate is his life, the only barrier is primary opposition in 2020, so he sidles up to Trump (as...
View ArticleJason Kander leaves KC Mayor race to deal with PTSD
Have not seen this posted.Jason Kander, who nearly won the Missouri Senate race in a tough 2016, has announced his is leaving the race he led to become Kansas City Mayor. He announced in a statement...
View ArticleWeird local political ads showing up on California cable
This is minor and random but lots of political oddities junkies out in DailyKos might be interested.On Thursday’s MLB showing of the Colorado/Milwaukee NLDS game, I saw an ad in Palm Springs CA for...
View ArticleWhy the NRA might want to speak out against Trump's birth citizenship order
To the extent it was given any thought, Trump's idea of using an executive order to end birthright citizenship raises some ideas conservatives might not like.Why? Implicit in the order is that changed...
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