There is no deal
I'll put this simply: I don't think John Boehner can deliver the votes needed to pass the agreed compromise budget. If there had been a bill ready to go last night, he could have done it. Instead we...
View ArticleObama and Medicare - Black and Unelectable
The Washington Post is reporting that Obama plans to introduce cuts to Medicare. As somebody living let me be blunt: if Obama does this all many seniors are going to see is the scary black man trying...
View ArticleHuffington Post Sued by Unpaid Bloggers
According to the Washington Post, HuffPo and AOL will face a class action suit by one of Huffpo's unpaid contributors. Jonathan Tasini is the lead plaintiff in the suit against the news site, which...
View ArticleDon't Drink the Water - Details of Budget Compromise
The Huffington post is running a breakdown of the cuts in the deal struck between the White House and congressional republicans. # $600 million in cuts to community health centers. # $414 million in...
View ArticleObama's Tanking Poll Numbers
According to Gallop The current 41% approval rating from April 12-14 polling includes interviews conducted before and after Obama announced his plan for deficit reduction on Wednesday. It also comes...
View ArticleLiquidating the Young
I am completely incensed by something that I just read in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Add to all of that—wait for it—federal stimulus funds. My state's new governor, in his recent State of the...
View ArticleWinning on the Price of Gas
Politico has a nice piece up about the Republican party's plan to beat the Democrats about the head and neck on the price of gas. This doesn't have to happen. Progressives can win this fight if we...
View ArticleSometimes Politics Requires a Thick Skin
I'm sitting here looking at what has to be at least the fifth diary of meta anguish to hit the rec list this weekend. For a weekend we've wracked up a pretty good total of offended groups:...
View ArticleHey Donald - Magna Cum Laude
From the Huffington Post Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League...
View ArticleLabor Demonstrator Block Road, Don't go to Jail
This article out of Newfoundland, Canada caught my attention: Black Duck Cove shrimp processing workers have vowed to continue to block Route 430 every day until fisheries minister Clyde Jackman stops...
View ArticleSaudi Prince seeks to sabotage green energy
Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal would like to see oil prices drop to the $70-$80 a barrel range in a move to thwart western development in alternate fuels. The prince is aiming to do this to...
View ArticleFukushima: Radiation Network reports spike in HI
One of the reasons I haven't been running around like the sky is falling over Fukushima is that number of private geiger detectors in the US. Government official can say what they want, but if a...
View ArticleBreaking: FDR Calls for Overthrow of U.S. Government
I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may...
View ArticleFukushima: Hawaii Rad Spike not a Solar Flare
A couple weeks ago I wrote about a radiation spike detected with the http://www.radiationnetwork.com/ monitoring station in Hawaii. At the time a number of commentators indicated that the spike might...
View ArticleI'm Going to Vote for Mitt Romney
I hate to say this, but if it comes down to a choice between Obama and Mitt Romney, I'm going to vote for Mitt Romney. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to vote for any of the crazy Teahadists if...
View ArticlePredatory Student Lenders Commit Fraud
For the past couple of weeks I have been bombarded with e-mail that looks like this: Subject: SFASU Tuition Bill Due From: Student View (tuition@studentloanview.com) To: Cc: Bcc:...
View Article#OccupyWallStreet are (mostly) Main Street Capitalists!
I just saw this diary by thereisnospoon. The reaction of certain right wing twits got me thinking about the nature of the protest. The right seems to overlook the fact that #OccupyWallStreet is, in...
View ArticleIs Third Way funded by the Koch Brothers?
According to this piece over at TalkingPointsMemo: It's the switchers, Third Way argues, who need to be brought back into the fold in 2012 to assure Democratic victory. That's a fairly conservative,...
View ArticleThe immorality of #occupywallstreet
As per the @occupywallstreet website today. A group claiming to be affiliated with the General Assembly of Liberty Square and #ows has been speaking to the media on behalf of our movement. This group...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs attacks #occupywallstreet's bank
Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New York (assets $30m), the customer-owned community bank that happens to also be the banker for Friends of...
View ArticleNYT: To Save Our Econony Sellout Taiwan, WTF!
To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan: There are dozens of initiatives President Obama could undertake to strengthen our economic security. Here is one: He should enter into closed-door negotiations with...
View ArticleUnemployment Insurance - How we are Losing the Messaging War
Mitch McConnell today insisted that the senate pass the houses houses payroll tax cut, including allowing the Keystone XL pipeline. By defining the fight in terms of Keystone we as progressive have...
View ArticleDemocractic State Senator's Office Firebombed in Texas
A spokesman for Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis says someone has thrown multiple Molotov cocktails at the door of her Fort Worth office. Davis is a Democrat who joined the Senate in 2009. She was not in...
View ArticleLiquidating the Children
"Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate" Andrew Mellon to Herbert Hoover - 1929. The Republican Party has declared war on our nations children. According to an...
View ArticleAfrican American Preacher to Urge Congregation NOT to vote
The Washington Post is running an article on evangelical reaction to gay marriage. As expected, people who wouldn't vote for Obama anyway are now fired up about not voting for him. What struck me...
View ArticleDailyKOS Superpac - Where is It?
The final spending numbers on the WI recall are still being tabulated. At present it looks like we got outspent between 8:1 and 20:1. The result was political vaporization as Walkers relentless...
View ArticleTexas Republican Party Platform - A Detailed Look
All of these provisions are taken from the 2012 Texas Republican Party platform. A copy of the platform can be found at [URL]http://s3.amazonaws.com/...[/URL] I have organized these provisions...
View ArticleAnglo-Saxon Heritage? Well Mitt's lost my vote.
About a year ago, when President Obama was doing few things I approved of, I endorsed Mitt Romney here on the Daily Kos. I believe my comment went along the lines of I wouldn't vote for any of the...
View ArticleBig Bird: How to turn last nights debate into a win
"I love Big Bird. I actually like you too," he said to PBS moderator Jim Lehrer, "but I'm going to stop borrowing money from China to pay for things we don't need." So Romeny does not care about your...
View ArticleGood Faith, the Austerity Bomb and the Crazy Bomb
The current deal diffuses the austerity bomb, but does it do anything for the crazy bomb? I haven't seen full details of the proposed fiscal cliff deal. Since I'm not sure even the Senate has see...
View ArticleGrand Bargain = Failed Negotiations
Not only do attempts to reach a grand bargain not work, they insure that negotiations will fail. We have been working under the assumption that Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare,...
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PCIP: Changing the Rules when Three Months Pregnant
My wife (who has a name but will remain anonymous here) is on the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). She's been on it since about August. Late last year we got a letter saying that the...
View ArticleSteve Forbes is incoherent
Steve Forbes, of Forbes Magazine, has written an op-ed on the Cyprus bank default entitled “Here’s Why Cyprus Could Be a Disaster for All of Us!”Forbes.com A bit flashy for a headline but probably no...
View ArticleThis Day in Congress?
What happened to the daily summaries of upcoming legislative and committee business that use to appear on the Daily Kos every morning? I understand that congress is recessed right now but these don't...
View ArticleThe Stock Market is Not Crazy and the Republicans are Toast
The stock market hitting new highs should not surprise anyone. Stock indexes do not report on an inflation adjusted basis. GDP is above what it was when the market crashed in 2008. GDP growth is...
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Green Energy: Large Scale Battery that Might Work
Researchers at MIT are working on a way to solve the intermittency problem of offshore wind by creating an energy storage system made from huge concrete spheres. The spheres, which weigh thousands of...
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Is the Daily Kos Being Used in a Penny Stock Scam?
From The Motley Fool:That innocuous-looking "From Around the Web" is an ad unit meant to look like editorial content. The company behind that ad unit is HowLifeWorks, which eschews traditional display...
View ArticleWall Street's Dirty Little Secret
Wall Street has a secret. It is perhaps the most explosive secret in the country today. It is a secret that, if it became known, could revolutionize the American political landscape. It is hidden by...
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PRISM and the One Ring
"In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and...
View ArticlePRISM: Is the Government Threatening the Press?
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper criticized the news media Saturday for what he called a “rush to publish” information based on “reckless” leaks about the government surveillance tool...
View ArticleNSA: Aiding Insider Trading?
Bloomberg is reporting that the NSA may have paid off companies for illegal access by sharing intelligence data.Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with...
View ArticleWind Energy: A Response to the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal is running an opinion piece today explaining why they think wind energy will not work. WSJ Op-EdAmong the highlights:But wind farms do take up space. The available data from...
View ArticleReality Hurts and the Economy Sucks
The financial marks are in the midst of a convulsion. Economic reality is reasserting itself. The markets are learning that they depend on aggregate demand, not simply how well the 1% does. I'm...
View ArticleBreaking: NSA Wiretapped Obama
A wistleblower has surfaced claiming that the NSA wiretapped Obama during his 2004 Senate campaign.Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive...
View ArticleThe NSA's threat to Capitalism
Government can now take idea and innovations from the worlds non-white population and redistribute them to white American males. According to Bloomberg:technology, finance and manufacturing companies...
View ArticleAre Progressives Now Violent Revolutionaries?
The New York Times is accusing the left of being revolutionary:The rhetoric of the Tea Party — the far right of the Republican Party — asserts a quite different view: that Obama’s mode of governing...
View ArticleJustice for Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
From the New York Times:SANA, Yemen — I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after he...
View ArticleBreaking: NSA Collecting All the Information Needed to Kill You
From the Washington Post:On the line with the SEAL was the drone operator and a “collector,” an NSA employee at the agency’s gigantic base at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga. The collector was controlling...
View ArticleProud of my party
On the Amesh NSA amendment:Democrats: Yay 111; Nay 83 Republicans: Yay 94; Nay 134We may have problems (I can think of about 83), on the other hand tomorrow is going to be interesting on the...
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