Democratic mercenaries
So we Dems are now doing what we do best: turn on each other. The Clintonistas fighting with the Kerryistas over who gets the blame. Lockhart vs Shrum vs Cutter vs who knows who else. TNR and Newsweek...
View ArticleWhy Dems are seen as pro-abortion
I have been reading through some articles regarding the changes in the Democratic platform regarding abortion rights, and I frankly think the hardline stance taken in 2004, with no "conscience" clause...
View ArticleGreat column: the truth about liberals and conservativess
Steven Waldman is consistently the best nonpartisan commentator i have heard on religious, faith, and politics (he's even better than Jim Wallis).http://www.beliefnet.com/story/156/story_15629_1.html...
View ArticleRendell kowtows to Verizon
Athena had written a great diary on Verizon trying to block Philadelphia's plan to provide low-cost Internet service to everyone.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/23/134435/36 Rendell signed into...
View ArticleWhen red states were liberal
I think folks have forgotten that it wasn't THAT long ago that we had true-blue New Deal Liberals represented in red states, folks like Mike Mansfield, Frank Church of Idaho,George McGovern, Birch Bayh...
View Articlea black POV on religion and gay rights...
Davey D is my indispensible source for hip hop news. Given the pitiful representation of colored folks at this site as seen by the Race poll the other day (and the even more appalling blindness of...
View ArticleBush Ag Secretary and winning rural voters
John Nichols, one of the few progressive writers who consistently understands rural America, writes about the pro-agribusiness, anti-farmer bent of Bush's new agriculture secretary pick Mike Johanns....
View ArticleUnion ads rejected by media
Free Press is an outstanding group on media reform (though they could do better on diversity issues). here is a provocative story i did not realize at all about how hard it is for labor unions to get...
View ArticleLatino Christians use faith to support progressive politics
since folks here still too often are smearing the "evangelicals" and churches and expressing paranoia about letting religion into Democratic politics, here is a wonderful example of Latino Christians...
View ArticleDems losing (white) women
interesting that there has not been much discussion on the fact that besides losing Catholics and not winning Latino voters by enough, Kerry lost in part due to the erosion of the Democratic gender...
View ArticleBush won over the Amish
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35064-2004Dec29.html?nav=hcmodule The GOP hierarchy may exploit religion for their own ends, but unlike our Democratic establishment, they are aware and...
View ArticleGuatemala riles drug companies and violates CAFTA
Among the bloodiest battles you can expect in Congress this session is the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which Congress must pass in order to go into effect. Some GOP folks in districts with...
View ArticleMonsanto/Berkeley help deny tenure to prof
The corporatization of academia i think is one of the biggest threats to our democracy. i didn't see a diary about this, so apologies if it was already reported. a Berkeley professor has been denied...
View ArticleDemocrats and faith
I heard Mara Vanderslice speak at the Emerging Progressives conference this weekend. She was the first-ever religious outreach person hired by a Democratic presidential campaign, a rather frightening...
View ArticleBlack pastors reward Bush
Lupin posted a diary earlier on this LA Times story on how some black pastors voted for Bush.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/18/163119/684
View ArticleQuit calling it gay hatred
Sometimes the partisan knee-jerk liberal ideology only hurts your cause than helps it. Speaking as an evangelical, who knows you have to use two different types of language when you are talking to...
View ArticleSpineless MD Democrats
I don't live in MD anymore, but it's still deeply disappointing to see a state with a 70% Dem legislature not override stupid Ehrlich's veto of the living wage bill and the other one capping public...
View ArticleFuture of Missouri Democrats
i didn't realize how dire the situation was in Missouri and that you poor guys are living under unified GOP control for the first time in 82...
View ArticleBolivia triumphs again over water privatizers
hey, whatever happened to that tsunami that happened? like the one that was one of the most worst natural disasters in history? seems like everyone both in the mainstream media and blogs has all but...
View ArticleHenry Waxman: Dems Eliot Ness
I did not see this posted in the diaries yet, but I think this Nation article paying tribute to Henry Waxman is fine work, showing how much our democracy owes him and his never-ending quest to serve...
View ArticleMUST read on Andy Stern
Matt Bai does a bang up job profiling the fascinating Andy Stern.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/magazine/30STERN.html?pagewanted=1&oref=login those of us with a bias towards globalization/labor...
View ArticleSenate Judiciary passes class action lawsuit
While everyone can debate torture here, another major bill that the Chamber of Commerce and every business group has been salivating to pass for years just made it out of the Senate Judiciary,...
View ArticleTony Campolo: an evangelical to love
Campolo ministered Clinton while in office. These two interviews explore his trenchant criticisms of the [white] evangelical culture.http://www.theotherjournal.net/article.php?id=20 i am in absolute...
View ArticleJohn Edwards and Dems fatal flaw
I watched and read Edwards' recent speech in New Hampshire. It's still a killer speech, esp. the part refuting Bush's "ownership society":George Bush likes to talk about an "Ownership Society." We...
View ArticleTrial Lawyers and the GOP
Thanks for DavidNYC's two posts on the Class Action bill and the upcoming Bankruptcy Reform bill, but i think progressives are not truly aware how cunning the GOP (and Rove) are about why they are...
View ArticleDean vows to reach evangelicals
Music to my ears:http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/107/13.0.html Concede no voter. if Democrats do NOT somehow cut into the GOP's lead among [white] people who attend church regularly, we are...
View ArticlePew Report confirms Deaniac/blogosphere stereotypes
Very interesting report put out by Pew on the Deaniacs.http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=240 Basically confirmed that Deaniacs (like this blog) were whiter, richer, more educated,...
View ArticleMaloney/Lautenberg sponsor Pharmacy bill
www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/14/prescription.bill Cheers to Carolyn Maloney in the House and Lautenberg in the Senate for introducing a bill to help women access contraception.
View ArticleHappy May Day-- US Labor in crisis
I don't know why this major story has not been mentioned, but on this May Day, 4 unions are threatening to defect from the AFL-CIO to try and upend Sweeney's...
View ArticleDEMS selling out on CAFTA
SO far, only three Dems have come out officially for the Central American Free Trade Agreement--Jim Moran, Jefferson (LA) and Cuellar (TX). Jim Moran is attempting to get others on board. If you are...
View ArticleCarter endorses CAFTA--ick
i am heartbroken. Even though i still admire and love Jimmy Carter, and appreciate his calls to close down GITMO, i am deeply saddened that today, he chose to endorse CAFTA, an as anti-human rights,...
View ArticleHow Kerry/DNC screwed up Latino outreach
Since our loss in 2004, many white liberals have tried to whitewash how badly Kerry did among people of color, particularly Latinos. They'll try to say that the MSM lied about the data, that Bush...
View ArticleBlack voters agree with the Christian Coalition...
As a political person who has to deal with explaining to white liberals i work with over and over why the beliefs of people of color are more closely aligned on many issues with white evangelicals than...
View ArticleRight wingers hate Fred Phelps too
I found out about Fred Phelps latest sicko campaign from right-wing Newsmax.http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=90258 Phelps is now targeting soldiers funerals and saying they...
View ArticleLiberal elitists and the Supreme Court
As i have noted before the fundamental cultural divides that separate people of color from the liberal white elite that controls the Dem party (and much of the liberal blogosphere). i am not a Democrat...
View ArticleAbortions have gone down under Bush too...
people sprouting the canard about how abortions have gone down under Clinton and up under Bush need to recheck their facts. it HAS gone down under Bush...
View ArticleKinky Friedman for Gov of Texas
I'm surprised i have not seen more info about this from folks, but I believe a major story is happening in Kinky Friedman's bid to become the first independent governor of Texas since Sam Houston in...
View ArticleJefferson Used Natl Guard While Others Awaited Rescue...
Sorry, but it doesn't matter if it's a Dem or GOP, black or white, abusing public resources for selfish purposes while people are dying is inexcusable. William Jefferson used the natl guard to visit...
View ArticleTANF/Welfare Reform is just as important as ANWR!!
Something that has gone completely overlooked by the media, DC Democrats and grassroot activists and even certain womens groups is the fact that the Budget Reconciliation bill contained the MOST...
View ArticleDNC Fundraising Phone Call -- yuck!
I just received a very frustrating phone call solicitation from the DNC. I think there is a bit of a disconnect between their internet strategy and their fundraising phone call operation.
View ArticleWhile you were bitching about the Democratic Party...
and those who voted against cloture/filibustering Alito, tearing up your Dem registration cards, going on and on and on and on about abortion/spying and all the other issues that most Middle America...
View ArticlePro-Life can be a Winning Position
When folks can get outside SF or Cambridge or their local NARAL meetings, they would realize in many parts of the country, particularly in the rural areas where Dems are now an endangered species,...
View ArticleSecular liberals out of touch with America
This diary pointed out some of the positives of the new very interesting Pew Forum poll:http://www.dailykos.com/... What i want to point out is that the American electorate is fundamentally a very...
View ArticleMegachuches lead to Dem victories in TX
It is always amusing when white liberals wring their hands over the influence of the megachurches and despair over at trying to find alternatives for progressives to organize in. Sure, a lot of the...
View ArticleChristian evangelicals work against modern day slavery
Interesting that there has been so little interest among liberals highlighting the new movie Amazing Grace, about William Wilberforce, the British Christian evangelical credited with helping Britain to...
View ArticleThe US Social Forum: Kossacks Ignorant
The biggest, most diverse, exciting grassroots progressive conference ever held in the United States is about to start tomorrow. and no, it's not the YearlyKos. It's the first ever US Social Forum, an...
View ArticleWhy Liberals are Called "Anti-Religion"
Folks here have a tough time understanding why Liberals get tarred for being "anti-religious" and why this then transfers over into Democrats being "anti-religious."While i admire much of the important...
View ArticleAre Democrats Hypocrites?
I remember back in the day diary after diary on the "nuclear option."Nuclear Option Is ComingBack in 1998, we learned to our collective dismay that Gerald Ford was right all along: an impeachable...
View ArticleStark Should Apologize
Now I see what the right wingers were saying about the extreme left's blind Bush hatred. I find Stark's comments to be totally fine and on target except the words "for the President's amusement." I may...
View Articleabortion and down's syndrome
As someone who subscribes to the personally prolife, but politically prochoice position, I am in wholehearted agreement with prolifers who abhor people who abort on the grounds of discovering their...
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