The Culture War is On
[reprinted from my blog at goodshow.net] I've been a bit upset, you see, because George Bush and his merry cabal of robber barons continue to get away with all manner of crimes against the American...
View ArticleOpen Memo to Clintonista Anti-Dean Democrats
[reposted from my blog]MEMORANDUMFrom: Chris Bellomy, Amateur Radio Guy and Longtime LeftyTo: Establishment Anti-Dean DemocratsDate: December 9, 2003Re: Electability Back in July, even before I went to...
View ArticleOpen Memo to Karl Rove
MEMORANDUMFrom: The American PeopleTo: Karl RoveRe: Valerie PlameDate: December 11, 2003 Please be advised that we haven't forgotten.
View ArticleBush's Approval Falters... in TEXAS
From the Yellow Dog Blog we learn that Bush's approval rating has fallen in his home state (and mine) from 71% in June to 58% now. The Houston Chronicle has it here.
View ArticleRemember: Today is "Write Like Nedra Pickler Day"
While Democrats are quick to criticize the President about the budget deficit, they fail to mention the savings he has achieved by cutting funding for programs like Americorps and veterans hospitals.
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Ralph Nader
[Reprinted from my blog, Southpaw, where we would really like for you to visit and take a look around. We think it's pretty good and getting better.] Dear Ralph, I see that you're close to running for...
View ArticleFight Fire with Fire
[Another reprint from Southpaw, the blog I publish. Swing on by and bookmark us if you like us.] I woke up this morning to find this headline on the front page of the Fort Worth...
View ArticleEchoes of Hoover
[obligatory mention of my blog goes here] You'd never know it from reading SCLM stalwarts like the WaPo or the NY Times, but we have a very real human crisis unfolding in this country. To their...
View ArticleCourts Uphold Texas Redistricting
[reprinted from Southpaw] The three judge panel hearing the lawsuit challenging Texas redistricting has predictably split down party lines and ruled against the people of Texas, disenfranchising most...
View ArticleRepublican Class Warfare
[Another reprint from Southpaw] I've recently been going through my FDR literature in search of quotations relevant to the realities of today. My favorite so far, with the possible exception of our...
View ArticleWhy We Bother
[Another reprint from Southpaw, the lefty blog that loves you and craves your attention] I'm a precinct chairman for the local Democratic Party. Last night, we held an executive committee meeting, at...
View ArticleDomino Theory
[Reprinted from Southpaw, the lefty blog that sends flowers!] Yesterday's underwhelming jobs report, showing an addition of 1,000 jobs in December while the labor force shrank by 309,000 as people...
View ArticleWhither Pollkatz?
Just as the polls were starting to get fun, Professor Pollkatz quit updating his pretty graphs. Does anyone know what's up with him? I'd dearly like to see how Dubya's numbers are starting to...
View ArticleSend a Warblogger to Iraq!
[Reprinted from Southpaw. Comments here will probably be read... comments there will definitely be read!] Because our Liberal Media is so unreliable, causing us to miss out on how happy and excited...
View ArticleAudio Fun with Rush Limbaugh
I'm lucky enough to have a four hour radio show each week on KTCU-FM in Fort Worth. While it's primarily a music show, we do get the opportunity to comment a little on current events as we go, maybe...
View ArticleAudio Trailer to New Bush Movie
Getting ready for my radio show tonight, I found this audio trailer from a new movie detailing George W. Bush's brave service in the dangerous mailrooms of the Alabama National Guard. All hail Our Leader!
View ArticleSixteen Years of Republican Futility
We haven't lost a presidential election in 16 years. We aren't the ones having to overcome minority status with the electorate. They are. When you go out into the world, remind people of this. Remind...
View ArticleCBS' Memos Don't Matter
And as long as everyone stays fixated on the finer points of 1970s typewriters, Rove wins. So stop it already. Look, Bush knows whether he received a direct order to report for a physical in spring of...
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Electoral College Preview, With Map and Poll
[This is excerpted from my home blog, Southpaw, where you can find the entire piece.] It's October now, so at long last I think we can say that the polls actually mean something. My goal is to post an...
View ArticlePaging Annatopia to the White Courtesy Phone, Please
Those of you who know, read and love Annatopia will surely be distressed, though not surprised, to see that she has (hopefully temporarily) shut down her blog. I tried to send her email, but to no...
View ArticleFraud / No Fraud: A Modest Proposal
The anger and irritation in our ranks over the question of fraud in the election just passed is wasted energy. I think we can all agree on that. After some mulling, I think I've figured out a way of...
View ArticleHappy FDR Day! (w/poll)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on this day in 1882. I think it's a damn shame that January 30 was never christened a national holiday. It should be one, lest we forget. May Democrats everywhere...
View ArticleMy Letter to Time
I doubt it'll see print, but what the hell:As a regular reader of Time for nearly 30 years, I was stunned to find the hateful image of Ann Coulter on the cover this week. Worse still was John Cloud's...
View Article(Poll) Rove to be Indicted Under the Espionage Act?!
Yesterday, Mark Kleiman posted a remarkable analysis of Judge Hogan's remarks to the media after yesterday's hearing. If Mark is reading the tea leaves correctly, Rove (or whomever the target might be)...
View ArticleJudy Miller: Reporter, or Propagandist?
[reprinted , with edits, from Southpaw, home of liberal Texans and other impossibilities] Last night, SusanG lectured those who applauded the jailing of Judith Miller with this story of journalistic...
View ArticleWhy Cooper and not Miller?
By now, hopefully everybody has seen the story in the New York Times detailing Matt Cooper's decision to testify after Rove's attorney let his hubris get the better of him:"If Matt Cooper is going to...
View ArticleValerie Was Covert and They Knew It
At the time of the leak, Valerie had a day job that was no secret: she worked for Brewster-Jennings. Discount for now whether the leaker should have known that Brewster-Jennings was a CIA front --...
View ArticleOur Narrative Has Arrived
Insofar as one can find a silver lining around a cloud as dark as the Katrina catastrophe, such a lining exists for us now. It's the same one we found in 1930 and further defined in 1932, and it's very...
View ArticleDelicious Irony: Cheney is Indictable
With today's big news about Cheney being Libby's source in mind, it's now time to fully ponder what happens next with ol' Dick. Many voices in left blogovia have already expressed skepticism that...
View ArticleCheney: Caught In a Vise
I'm not blessed with the time to assemble exhaustive compilations of evidence complete with appropriate links, but there is an angle to the Libby-Cheney drama that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in...
View ArticleRude Pundit on the Air Tonight!
For five years, I have co-hosted an idiosyncratic radio show in Fort Worth called The Good Show, specializing mostly in underappreciated music of many flavors, but dabbling also in original comedy and...
View ArticleNever Surrender, But Enough is Enough
God bless Meteor Blades. Blades is right -- we cannot stop to feel sorry for themselves. But God bless Maryscott as well. She's right, too -- there is no party in Washington that represents the...
View ArticleUse the 25th before they use the nukes
I assume by now everyone is aware of Seymour Hersh's story that the White House neocon cabal is making plans to nuke Iran. This diary is meant as a suggestion for one way to pressure Congress to stop...
View ArticleThe Italian Connection: What I Didn't Know About Neocons
[Crossposted, with minor edits, from Southpaw:] In the course of researching other things, I recently came across this interesting little nugget at Wikipedia about Strategia Della Tensione -- the...
View ArticleCalling Out Markos: Diary of a Blogofascist
I've got my clipboard, text books Lead me to the station Yeah, I'm off to the civil war I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots I'm runnin' in the rain Gonna run till my feet are raw -- Peter D. B....
View ArticleLieberman Hacking Story Improbable: A View from Up Close
My company's servers live in the same building as Lieberman's, at The Planet in Dallas -- or, at least this was true before they moved their hosting to another company this afternoon. (Traceroute to...
View ArticleToday, our government betrayed these people
American Casualties Revolutionary War: 50,000 War of 1812: 7,800 World War I: 360,000 World War II: 970,000 Other wars, including Iraq and Afghanistan: Uncounted but not forgotten This country was...
View ArticleShifting of the Zeitgeist: Texas
Greetings from Fort Worth, seat of Tarrant County, recently the most strongly Republican county of its size in the United States. I'm a lifelong resident of 41 years, having seen this blue collar town...
View ArticleFDR as Howard Dean: The Past is Prologue
In college all those many moons ago, I was assigned to read Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in developing a historical...
View ArticleTakin' It to the Streets: Independence Day Beckons
[UPDATE: madame defarge suggested in comments that everyone as disgusted as us wear black armbands to July 4 parades and other observations on Wednesday, with signs calling for justice for Scooter...
View ArticleI Hate Fox News With The White-Hot Fire Of 1,000 Suns
There are times in life when truths that have gnawed at you finally crystallize into a single moment of uncompromising lucidity. Maybe it's the friend you've admired for years whom you one day realize...
View ArticleFour Years Later: Raise a Toast to Howard
[I sent the following to a dear friend who spent two weeks in Iowa in 2004 working for the Dean campaign. I share here with all of you because I think it's important to remember where we've been as we...
View ArticleWhy the Netroots Must Stop Hillary
UPDATE: While I call in this diary for the Anybody But Hillary netroots to coalesce behind Obama, I am not a particularly devout fan of his. He is not The Perfect Candidate. He will not be The Perfect...
View ArticleReaders Strike at Daily Kos
This is an open letter to the progressive blogosphere...I’ve been reading DailyKos for nearly six years now and started reading diaries in support of pie back in June of last year. Over the past few...
View Article[Texas] After the Flood: Fixing Our Caucus System
Crossposted at BOR:Two days after the big meltdown here in SD10, and already those of us who served on credentials and had a hand in running the convention are trading emails speculating on how we can...
View ArticleThe Insurance Companies Can't Save You Now, Blue Dogs
Just a little open letter to our friends in the DLC here.Ladies and fellas, I hate to bring you down from your pedestals of centrist self-importance, but somebody needed to let you know that you are...
View ArticleDon't Blame BP
Pissed.I know that's the first feeling I get looking at the photos of the devastation of the gulf coast. I'm pissed that people were so stupid, so mindlessly greedy, that they were willing to play dice...
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