Obama is winning the housing debate... here's how he can keep winning

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 6:05 AM PDT

2008/08/22 · 06:05

The recent debate about John McCain's houses is really gaining traction in the MSM and beyond. What is clear is that Barack Obama can use this to reinforce the idea that it's John McCain, not he, who is the elitist and out of touch with the "average" American. Now, with the Republicans hitting back with the Rezko nonsense, they've opened a third front on this battle and all three fronts are primed for easy tactical and (ultimately) strategic advantage of the Democrats, 529's and the Obama campaign. Follow me below the flip for how this can be the "supermarket scanner" episode of the 2008 election...

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 1:44 PM PST

2008/03/07 · 13:44

I was talking with a co-worker about the current political situation (he's from Canada) and discussing the primaries and we were trying to come up with a way to resolve the Michigan and Florida situations. We were discussing the costs of primaries and the debate between the DNC and the Governors of FL and MI when the news announced that Obama had raised $55 million for the month of Feb. and an idea occurred to me on how to solve two problems and garner a lot of positive press for Obama at the same time...

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Monday June 11, 2007 · 9:46 AM PDT

2007/06/11 · 09:46

I hope that this isn't duplicated, but I just saw this on the Reuters courtesy of Yahoo! news.

Apparently, the Appellate court has ruled that the military cannot indefinitely detain a "enemy combatant" and has ordered his release.

Of course this will still end up getting to the Supremes -- and we can all start taking bets on which way that's going to go.

I'll add more later -- but wanted to get this news out ASAP.

UPDATED -- to correct for the "non-Gitmo" status

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Wednesday May 30, 2007 · 7:25 AM PDT

2007/05/30 · 07:25

Over at Andrew Sullivan's blog today, he's got an article on the original source of "enhanced interrogation" -- and ... wait for it ... wait for it -- it's the classic irony of being a truly Godwin moment.

More after the flip...

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Sunday February 05, 2006 · 3:10 PM PST

2006/02/05 · 15:10

For the past several weeks, we've been hearing about this "New" NSA program to track down and spy on suspected al Qaeda terrorists in the USA. I'm not setting this diary up to discuss the relative 4th Amendment issues, whether the Bush admin. was spying on people they shouldn't have, or anything other than why, from a strictly mathematical mindset, this program could not work with any efficiency.

Rove in charge...of New Orleans reconstruction?!?!

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 12:12 PM PDT

2005/09/15 · 12:12

OK --- Caught this on Americablog (courtesy of Dan Froomkin at WaPo). Apparently Karl Rove is now in charge of the reconstruction effort following Katrina!

The speculation from Froomkin is that this is a political move as a combo CYA and an effort to dilute the Dem base in NOLA (pretty much the only blue part of a pretty red state). This story needs to be spread to the MSM, if only to ask the essential question "What experience does Karl Rove have in disaster recovery?"

The nice thing about this question is the fact that there are two good answers:

The straight answer is "None". Rove has been a political hack all his life and has no experience with emergency management.
The snark answer is "Just look at GWB's career and his re-election". Of course this will be the more fun answer for the likes of Bill Maher and Jon Stewart.

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Monday August 01, 2005 · 4:37 PM PDT

2005/08/01 · 16:37

An article on the NYT website reports on an unnamed CIA analyst who has filed a federal wrongful discharge suit against the government. Apparently, this individual had received information from an informant in Iraq (in the spring of 2001) that Iraq had essentially dismantled their uranium enrichment program. In fact, the Iraqis were apparently so serious about not getting back into the nuclear game that the equipment was up for sale.

More after the break... Read More

New Zogby Poll -- Bush's Dead Cat Bounce has ended

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Thursday June 30, 2005 · 1:44 PM PDT

2005/06/30 · 13:44

Here's a link to the new Zogby poll -- following up on the prime time speechifying by GWB.

The headline on the poll reads:
"No Bounce: Bush Job Approval Unchanged by War Speech; Question on Impeachment Shows Polarization of Nation; Americans Tired of Divisiveness in Congress--Want Bi-Partisan Solutions"

His overall approval drops 1 point (within the MOE) to 42%.

The coolest thing is that 42% of Americans are starting to express interest in the "I" word -- impeachment (if the Prez misled the nation about the reasons for war in Iraq -- If???, If??? -- this guy and the administration kept stepping forward with phrases like "grave and gathering threat" and the infamous "mushroom cloud")

Maybe this will get things moving on the DSM -- of course -- this is only the populace, not Congress.

BREAKING ... Bolton Nomination Still Stalled

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Monday June 20, 2005 · 4:33 PM PDT

2005/06/20 · 16:33

The Dems have again held together to block the cloture motion on John Bolton's nomination. I heard a clip from Joe Biden on Ed Schultz' show where he basically said that the White House doesn't get to decide what the Senate may need to evaluate an appointment.

Of course, this was the likely outcome -- and the impending Independence Day recess will be the point where GWB will send Bolton to the UN as a recess appointment (based on all the scuttlebut).

The only drawbacks are that:
1) We still end up with Bolton at the UN, doing little to further the image of the US in the eyes of the world.
and, most importantly,
2) We'll (or, more to the point, the Senate committees) will apparently never see the info on the NSA intercepts requested by Bolton to be able to determine which US officials he was spying on. Read More

PATRIOT act suspends freedom of speech ... for Congress

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Friday June 10, 2005 · 6:17 PM PDT

2005/06/10 · 18:17

In what may soon be one of the most bizarrre events in the debate regarding the impending renewal of the "PATRIOT" act, House Republicans walked out of a hearing to discuss some potential problems with the law. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee had requested a hearing on the act with witnesses who oppose the law. All of a sudden, Sensenbrenner just got up and walked away, leaving the Dems ona the witnesses without power -- see videos here.

Props to John at AMERICAblog for catching this, and I thought I'd pass along the news. Read More

Recruitment -- or Kidnapping?

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Wednesday June 08, 2005 · 1:51 PM PDT

2005/06/08 · 13:51

In light of the recent crappy news on recruitment figures comes this story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Apparently a "few good men" means those who have lost the willpower to resist constant phone calls, abduction, and sleep deprivation. The story doesn't make it clear whether this happened before the recent recruiter "stand down" (to deal with agressive pursuit of potential recruits), but this Marine should (probably) be brought up on charges of kidnapping.

Welcome back to the good ole days of press gangs. Read More

More Bad News From the Islamic World -- and again it's our fault

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 11:46 AM PDT

2005/05/13 · 11:46

Just when it looked like there couldn't be anything worse in the middle east, along comes this report (courtesy of Reuters News)

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-05-13T165527Z_01_N13352 686_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-RELIGION-AFGHAN-DC.XML

Just when it seems like we just can't do enough to piss off 1 billion Muslims, add this to the Abu Ghraib photos. The short version is that interrogators at Gitmo were throwing the Koran in the toilet -- and flushing. One has to wonder what Dobson, Frist and Bush would think if the Saudis were flushing the King James Bible. Read More

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PATRIOT act suspends freedom of speech ... for Congress

Recruitment -- or Kidnapping?

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