"We must have a foreign policy that is both strong and smart. Yes, the Republicans have been strong, but they haven't been smart. And the policy is one big mess, everyone knows it."
- Senator Chuck Schumer
View Article  It _Can_ Happen Here
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From It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935):
Congress shall, immediately upon our inauguration, initiate amendments to the Constitution providing (a), that the President shall have the authority to institute and execute all necessary measures for the conduct of the government during this critical epoch; (b) that Congress shall serve only in an advisory capacity, calling to the attention of the President and his aides and Cabinet any needed legislation, but not acting upon same until authorized by the President so to act; and (c) that the Supreme Court shall immediately have removed from its ...   more »
View Article  Weekly "Bush Twins in Uniform" Watch
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It has now been 798 days since Jenna and Not-Jenna Bush, the slacker offspring of Preznit Numnutz, graduated from college and they are still not in the uniform of the US armed services.

Why? Because they have other priorities. They are too busy partying down in Georgetown to show their support for the war by enlisting their chickenhawk-child selves into the military service, that's why.
View Article  From the Let Them Eat Cakers
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Some call them Cadillac Conservatives, others call them Right-Wing Lunatics. I prefer to call them Let Them Eat Cakers, and the New York Times captures exactly what I’m talking about. In a story about skyrocketing housing prices, a Federal Reserve Bank economist goes on record to show us exactly how the people who pull the [...]
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View Article  IRAQ / WHERE WISHFUL THINKING BECAME FANTASY
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Iraq is indeed, where wishful uninformed thinking met hard reality and it's rose colored projections have now become a costly fantasy destined for the dusty book shelf of history ~ a footnote to where America lost its soul and moral bearings in the world.
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View Article  Progressives' Middle East Dialogue and the Danger of Falling into the Right Wing's Deadly Trap
Op Ed News - Progressive
Progressives are in danger. If they don't talk out and talk through what's happening in the mideast, rather than just echoing standard recriminations, the right wing will lure and outflank them into taking positions that could kill the momentum to take back the congress.
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View Article  From His Glass House, Lieberman Attacks Lamonts Wife
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It just gets more ridiculous, folks. The New York Times reports that at a campaign stop, Sen. Joe Lieberman trotted out a surrogate to attack Ned Lamont’s wife. The paper reports that speaking in support of Mr. Lieberman at his stop in Bridgeport, Paul Ganim, who is running in a primary for Bridgeport probate judge, [...]
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