Poll: 70% of Americans, 60% of WHITE EVANGELICALS oppose more troops.
From AP/Ipsos polling as reported in the New Times AP Feed, 70% of Americans oppose sending more troops to Iraq. The split between Democrats and Republicans is Dems: 87% opposed, Reps: 42% opposed....
View ArticleI want YOU to meet Eliot Spitzer.
The good news: There will be a totally cool fundraiser for Craig Johnson, a Democrat running in a special election to take over a previously Republican held seat in the New York State Senate, next...
View ArticleWant to meet Eliot Spitzer?
Hey, Kossak. Want to meet Eliot Spitzer? Want to help turn the New York State Senate from red to blue? Then my loss is your gain. Because I'll be out of town and can't attend the intensly cool...
View ArticleUnified bipartisan anti-escalation measure in Congress.
The Washington Post is reporting that the two major competing anti-surge bills in the Senate (one sponsored by Biden, Levin, and Hagel, the other by John Warner) have been reconciled into one bill...
View ArticleIs this the Daily Ralph Nader? No difference? Feh!
The joyful self-martyrdom of the occasional pro Ralph Nader diarist has convinced me that the vast majority of people here (at least, those who've reached the age of majority) understand just how...
View ArticleSpitzer vs. Democrats.
In what the NY Times calls a "shocking breach of etiquette", newly elected Governor Eliot Spitzer today visited the district of a sitting Democratic State Assembleyman and gave an interview to the...
View ArticleNew tag -- Hit Diary.
I'm a sweet guy, really, and slow to anger. But this ridiculous slamming of Democratic candidates for no good reason has to stop. The latest piece of dog poop to land on this site is this crappy...
View ArticleWhat the heck is happening at Justice?
The past couple of weeks have brought the rapidly unfolding saga of the White House's firing of a number of United States Attorneys for the crime of not pursuing enough politically driven...
View ArticleMcCain takes unfriendly fire from Senator Webb
Bloomberg News is reporting that James Webb is on the offensive against John McCain for McCain's comments disparaging the patriotism of Democrats: "I think that John McCain has been impugning people's...
View ArticleGreedy blogosphere does not appreciate an embarrassment of riches.
Are there limits to our greed? This year the Democratic Party is faced with an embarrassment of riches in our Presidential field. At no time that I can remember have we had a choice between three...
View ArticleWolfowitz -- Change of policy at World Bank.
WASHINGTON, April 30 — Beset by a scandal involving his role in granting a pay raise and promotion to his girlfriend World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz today announced a major change of policy for the...
View ArticleAnother Red Stater Reaches The End(er) Of His Rope.
Although I think they are of at best only anecdotal value, I really enjoy the "Another Republican Throws In The Towel" diaries. Sometimes it's a relative, sometimes a friend, sometimes a coworker. I...
View ArticleThe Ender-Larry Diaries III: Letter To A Conservative On The Edge.
For all of you joining us in progress, you may be interested in the first diary Another Red Stater Reaches The End(er) Of His Rope or Ender's follow-up Why I left GOP (response to LarryInNYC) Dear...
View ArticleEleven Republicans Spit on Constituents
A diary currently at the top of the rec list announces 11 Republicans go to WH and tell W he is not credible on war. Good news? No. In fact: the Republicans who attended the White House session...
View ArticleThis soldier's death is, somehow, worse.
(From the diaries. mcjoan) Josh Marshall has the story of the death, announced today, of Andrew J. Bacevich of wounds suffered as the result of an IED explosion in Iraq. He was the son of retired Army...
View ArticleIn the circle game of war, no easy answers.
I'm forty-five. When I was a child we did not have wall-to-wall news coverage. But whenever we were in the car my father would tune in WQXR, the New York Times classical music station, with news...
View ArticleNow Official -- US in Iraq FOREVER.
From Reuters via the always excellent Josh Marshall: President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a...
View ArticleBloomberg's Plans Revealed!
Or, if not precisely revealed, then deduced by someone who's followed his political career and is not given to hysterics -- yours truly, LarryInNYC. First of all -- don't panic. There's very little...
View ArticleFitzgerald gets scooter.
From War and Piece via the ever-excellent Talking Points Memo comes the information that Patrick Fitzgerald has made his first media appearance -- on the NPR comedy news quiz show Wait, Wait -- Don't...
View ArticleHow the Republicans Can Win the Iraq War (w/ Poll)
Howard Dean said it best when he said "What I want to know is why are so many Democrats supporting this Republican War?" The war in Iraq has been a Republican, neo-conservative undertaking from its...
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