in my earlier diary digby hegemony and the policypersonnel debate i wrote that wednesday nate silver weighed in with what purports to be a fairly comprehensive sorting of obamas policy initiatives into their ideological positions showing a huge overall tilt in the progressive direction. i think nates categorization is somewhat questionable but i do think that the im......
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filed under republicans humor media education conservative columnist kathleen parker whom you may recall urged sarah palin to step down as john mccains vp nominee after a series of disastrous television interviews seems to think our whole country needs to resign. bas ed on the results of a study by the isi yes the people who built the six million dollar man she w......
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ibon foundation released wednesday the results of a new survey that gauged public dis 41satisf action regarding president arroyo and her performance as leader. clue to the results arroyo is in the same sinking boat as george w. bush. in sum about 71 percent gave arroyo failing marks. asked to rate her performance as chief executive only 6.63 percent have arroyo a satisfactory rating.......
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southpol muppetpants via xmattiusx my point is that his platform wasnt get shit done.a his platform was hopea and change .a one of the main reasons i held the opinion that this platform was dumb was that 1 these two things are immeasurable and 2 theyre pretty impossible to achieve.a by being able to compare obamas choice with thos......
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the obama marketed as the man who would cha nge politics america and the world has stumbled out of the starting blocks. his selection of cabinet members has most people wondering if there are enough clintonera political retreads left around to fill all the obama administration slots. cha nge just doesnt seem to be coming through with all the cabinet selections w......
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what highprofile policy change has the support of 75 percent of the american public and could be implemented by changing a very few simple statutes at essentially no cost to the american taxpayer that would be a repeal of public law 103160 the 1993 measure more commonly known as dont ask dont tell which prohibits openly gay persons from serving in the united st......
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i usually post things like this in my diary section but this is too important. i am putting it up front here for a while and will move it later. keep in mind as you read this that i am not a republican. i agree with some of both sides and vote thirdparty. i am very concerned when the news media is in the business of electing presidents. this leans much too far in the direction of a state run medi....
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i am reminded of those dancing hippos in disneys fantasia. everyone is dressing up nice flying on their fanciest corporate jets puffing themselves up before the camera. congressmen titans of failing industry senators talk show babblers union leaders. its all a dance with far more attention to the drama than to the facts of the issue. will a bailout help america isn......
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four year ago as we democrats were on the short end of a republican trifecta we had to engage in soulsearching similar to what republicans face now. the conclusion democrats arrived at was that our problems were mainly nonideological and related to strategy and infrastructure. this conclusion could be seen with the dncs election of howard dean on a fiftystate strategy platform in the ......
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filed under democrats barack obama gay rights ballot measures view poll there are a couple of opinion pieces out today that posit black support for proposition 8 was partially due to the rallying cry gay is the new black from conservative dennis prager gay is the new black is one of the mottos of the movement to redefine marriage to include two people of the sam......
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the new york times asks so how did the famous 1953 quotation from the former general motors president charles e. wilson that what was good for our country was good for g.m. and vice versa become a dated notion to so many people the answer the carmakers for example fought hard in recent years against two congressional efforts to raise fuel economy standards at a time when......
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notes on adam grahams reply to my original post on the political viability of religious conservatism i. what it omits because comments on them are absent i assume that he is conceding the point on the abortion referendums. in the comments section similarly the issue was completely utterly ignored by every social conservative on this website. i implore all of you to go back to the......
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a fine post from john schwenkler ... if the prolife position on abortion is unpopular then so is the prochoice one or rather each is unpopular under certain descriptions and popular under others in ways ill make more precise in just a moment. when you look at the polling on the issue what you see is that while there may be a slightly higher preference for the always lega......
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despite losing badly in 2006 and 2008 many republicans continue to console themselves that america remains a centerright nation whatever that means. the only problem as tod lindberg of the conservative hoover institute points out in todays washington post the centerright nation exits stage left according to lindberg the centerright nation......
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nico pitney reports for the huffington post presidentelect barack obama offered sen. hillary clinton the position of secretary of state during their meeting thursday in chicago according to two senior democratic officials. she requested time to consider the offer the officials said. this is a highrisk highreward opportunity for hillary clinton. if she accepts and serves out six or eig......
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as is typical when republicans lose a debate is occurring in the gop and the conservative movement over the role of social conservatism in the party.a there are those that think incorrectly that social conservatism is a drag on the party .a the arguments include the idea that a majority of people in this country are prochoice the young support gay marriage etc.a the problem with these ar......
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did you know the bush administration censored the views of epidemiologists from the center for disease control concerning scientific surveys of the death toll in iraq no well neither did i. i dont how or know why i can be at all shocked by that but somehow i am. the major flaw with the roberts health ministry and undp ilcs studies is that none of them go past ju......
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now that the security situation has improved so much in iraq i am keeping a sharp eye out for the next poll of the iraqi people. the media used to conduct such polls on regular basis in their righteous zeal to instruct the world public about the evils of the illegal american invasion and subsequent incompetent occupation. initially such polls included a question that i always considered to be th.....
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there is a barometer for americans to assess how well the dems and obama are doing the right trackwrong track poll numbers. since the election usa todaygallup checked the pulse of america and the election of obama has not moved the needle it is still pegged at 13 right track and 84 wrong track. people want to see results they are not buying into promises and fantasies. so we shou......
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ap in one of the economys darkest hours in decades it looks as if people are taking barack obama up on his exhortations for hope and change. seven in 10 or 72 percent voice confidence the presidentelect will make the changes needed to revive the stalling economy according to an associated pressgfk poll released tuesday. underscoring how widely the public is counting on its n......
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whether youre a cnn analyst an angry mccain supporter or an rnc spokesperson looking for excuses its important to look back and figure out why election night turned out the way it did. in politics as in sports looking for a scapegoat after a big loss is a timehonored tradition . with this in mind we look to the numerous forces both inside and outside the campaigns that affect......
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they just. cant. let. it. go. with apologies to tennessee the titans arent the best team in football. who cares if theyre undefeated they play in the afc south which is the sarah palin of divisions . the titans arent in the same class as the giants. new yorks offense is far superior and its defense just as capable if not better than tennessees. yes......
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today presidentelect obama paid his first visit to his future office. the reports i saw said obama spoke with president bush about his desire to see an economic stimulus package passed during the lame duck session of congress. id be surprised if much of anything gets done before the inauguration. with approval ratings in the midtwenties i dont see there being much incentive fo......
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