Jun 05 2009
The disparity between the super rich and everyone else grows by the day, despite public bailouts, despite the economic clusterfuck I am calling “The Great Oppression”
Our rights are still under attack.
War crimes are going un-punished.
The opposition on the right is increasingly racist, insane and growing towards violence.
and not a single Democrat seems to have the stones to call this what it is.
Class warfare.
Jun 04 2009
The Obama administration just approved two-dozen more of what you see in this picture.
It’s called “mountaintop removal”. It’s a somewhat accurate name, like “detainee” is a technically accurate name for “political prisoner”.
Fuck Obama. This guy fucking lied to us to get into office so that he could continue the policies of the Bush administration.
He’s a goddamn liar, nothing but a slick con artist who manipulated millions of people’s emotions and passions and good natures so that he could get into office and be nothing but a tool for the same gangsters and crooks who have had their way with us for countless years now.
May 13 2009
(Crossposted at The Free Speech Zone)
(Part 3 of a 13 part series)
VOTED NAY on Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
Current Office: U.S. Senate
Seniority: Senior Seat
First Elected: 11/04/1958
Last Elected: 11/07/2006
Next Election: 2012
Party: DemocraticBackground Information
Gender: Male
Family: Widowed
2 Children: Mona, Marjorie.
Birth Date: 11/20/1917
Birthplace: North Wilkesboro, NC
Home City: Sophia, WV
Religion: Baptist
Education:
BA, Marshall University, 1994
JD, American University, 1963.Professional Experience:
Author
Butcher
Gas Station Attendant
Musician
Produce Salesman
Store Owner/Small Businessman
Welder/Ship Builder.
Political Experience:
Senator, United States Senate, 1958-present
Senate Majority Leader, United States Senate, 1977-1980, 1987-1988
Senate Minority Leader, United States Senate, 1981-1986
Senate Democratic Whip, United States Senate, 1971
Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1952-1958
Senator, West Virginia State Senate, 1950-1952.
Delegate, West Virginia House of Delegates, 1946-1950.Organizations:
Sunday School Teacher.Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees:
Secretary, Senate Democratic Conference, 1967
Congressional Fire Services Caucus
Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee
Senate National Guard Caucus
Senate Rural Health Caucus
Senate Steel Caucus.
May 12 2009
(Crossposted at The Free Speech Zone)
(Part 2 of a 13 part series)
VOTED NAY on Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
Current Office: U.S. Senate
Seniority: Junior Seat
First Elected: 01/22/2009
Next Election: 2010
Party: DemocraticBackground Information
Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Susan
3 Children: Caroline , Halina , Anne.
Birth Date: November 28, 1964
Birthplace: New Delhi, India
Home City:
Religion: Jewish
Education:
JD, Yale Law School
BA, Wesleyan University.Professional Experience:
Managing Director, Anschutz Investment Company
Superintendent, Denver Public Schools
Chief of Staff, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice.Political Experience:
Senator, United States Senate, 2009-present
Appointed, United States Senate, January 22, 2009.Organizations:
NONE!Committees:
Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Member
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Member
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Member
Special Committee on Aging, Member
May 11 2009
(Crossposted atThe Free Speech Zone)
(This is Part 1 of a 13 part series)
VOTED NAY on Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
Current Office: U.S. Senate
Seniority: Senior Seat
First Elected: 11/07/1978
Last Elected: 11/04/2008
Next Election: 2014
Party: DemocraticBackground Information
Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Wanda Minge
1 Child: Zeno.
Birth Date: 12/11/1941
Birthplace: Helena, MT
Home City: Missoula, MT
Religion: United Church of ChristEducation:
LLB, Stanford University Law School, 1967
BA, Economics, Stanford University, 1964.Professional Experience:
Attorney, George and Baucus Law Firm, 1971
Attorney, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1967-1971.Political Experience:
Senator, United States Senate, 1978-present
Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1974-1978
Representative, Montana State House of Representatives, 1973-1974.
Executive Director, Committee Coordinator, Montana’s Constitutional Convention, 1972.
May 02 2009
Once in a blue moon I stumble across an essay by Mark Morford and, as always, I am automatically compelled to share it with other Progressives. For better or worse, Morford has a style you don’t easily forget. He can make you laugh and cry all in the same sentence.
Evil overlords to flaccid clowns in the blink of Jesus’ eye. Adorable!
Mark Morford:
This much we know: Hand evil a big, sticky gob of power, and it quickly becomes a feral monster, dangerous and cruel and willing to sell its own shriveled heart and the heart of its very remorseful mother for a shot at everlasting infamy, even more power and maybe some fresh, raw kitten blood, intravenously, just for the hell of it.
Oh, but take that same vile leviathan and suddenly strip away all its power and influence and capacity for wickedness, and watch it deflate like a wheezing circus tent, quickly turning into a trembling caricature of its former self, a tiny, elfin thing small enough to fit into a shoebox of panic and pathos and residual Godspit.
[…]
But weep not for Miss California, who’s happy as a Prozac clam to take on the title as the new face of Republican hetero marriage. Isn’t she lovely? A skinny, fake-breasted blonde mouthful of air who does exactly as she’s told and never questions her scary Bible and doesn’t really like sex and you want to stick that thing where? Ewww! She’s perfect.
Apr 28 2009
In a move the Dog thought would never happen, Sen. Arlen Specter announced today that he will join the Democratic Party!
There had been lots of talk about this as Sen. Specter faced a very tough Primary challenge from the Club for Growth member Pat Toomey. This combined with the fact the Republican Party is shrinking and getting more not less conservative (more on that shortly) made it a good bet the Senior Senator from Pennsylvania would switch.
His last ditch effort to woo Republicans to rally to him by opposing EFCA turned to dust because Sen. Specter was willing to vote for the stimulus bill, if we cut somethings we kind of needed (Swine Flu anyone?)
Today Chris Cilliza of Washington Post is confirming Specter will change sides. When, not if, we seat Senator Franken that is the ball game boys and girls, we will have 60 votes in the Senate!
Sen Specter said the following:
“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.”
That sound about right to the Dog. What do you think?
Apr 08 2009
Cross-posted from Progressive Independence.
A while back I linked to a blog entry that reported on the abandonment of Howard Dean’s fifty-state strategy that put Democrats back in real political power after sixteen years in favor of what’s shaping up to be the DLC’s preferred method of losing elections by ignoring everything but the so-called “swing states.” This horrendously bad decision is bound to cost the party dearly next year, especially as voter dissatisfaction with the current dictator’s failed economic policies and ever-more-fascistic behavior grows. As early as January, prominent Democrats voiced their concerns over the dismantling of a successful electoral strategy:
(Full story reproduced below the fold.)
Apr 05 2009
Do you want action on the issue of the Bush Administrations apparent State Sponsored Torture program? It is an easy enough question, but you should consider it. Not, do you think it will happen or should happen, but do you want it to happen? Knowing the answer to this question can inform your next steps, so even if you think you know take a couple of minutes and really think about it.
Mar 26 2009
This post is really for all the Democrats out there. Independents (or as we call them in CO Unaffiliated), Progressive, Liberals or other folks are welcome to read and comment, of course, but it is pointed toward those that identify themselves as Democrats. Markos Moulitsas the redoubtable Kos himself has pushed the idea of electing better Democrats as a part of his mission. It is a good mission to the Dog’s way of thinking but the better Dems has to not only extend to those we elect, it has to extend to those of us in the Party as well.
Mar 23 2009
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.
I first became aware of William Greider after the publication of his 1981 Atlantic Monthly profile of President Reagan’s embattled Office of Management and Budget Director (“OMB”), David Stockman. At the time I was just a kid and the Reagan administration insisted they could simultaneously balance the budget, cut taxes and increase defense spending exponentially.
Greider’s reporting however exposed that even Stockman, doubted the fiscal prudence of Reaganomics. After the article’s publication, Stockman absorbed public humiliation when President Reagan took him “to the woodshed.” I trace that article as a seminal moment in my own political awareness.
Mar 06 2009
Original article, by Lance Selfa and subtitled “The Republican Party is hoping its screeds against “big government” will catch fire as patience with Obama’s attempts to fix the crisis runs out. But that strategy may not work out the way the GOP hopes,” via Socialist Worker (US):
PERHAPS ALL we need to know about modern conservatism and its party, the Republicans, was captured in Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s nationally televised response to President Barack Obama’s February 24 address to a joint session of Congress.