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08 Jan 20 : 05 | It's Official! It's official: Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States. In a just completed joint session of Congress, the electoral votes from the November 4th election have been tallied, and Obama has been formally declared the winner. As expected, Obama received 365 votes, while John McCain... Source : Daily Kos 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 16 : 39 | Push to Unite Unions in a Single House of Labor This is big news: The presidents of 12 of the nation’s largest labor unions called Wednesday for reuniting the American labor movement, which split apart three and a half years ago when seven unions left the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and formed a rival federation. The union presidents issued their joint... Source : Daily Kos 9 hours ago |
08 Jan 02 : 05 | Kuttner on 'The Competence Dodge' Back in 2004, which, I suppose, translates into two generations ago in Internet time, I started criticizing liberals who kept discussing the blood-drenched occupation of Iraq in terms of "incompetence." Sure, they were right that the Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld troika had displayed stunning incompetence in... Source : Daily Kos 23 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 02 | Midday Open Thread Funny: The candidates for Republican National Committee chair have been talking about how to effectively campaign in the era of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. But it looks like they're having problems with technology that first became widespread back when Eisenhower was president. A C-Span staffer... Source : Daily Kos 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 10 : 45 | Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up Wednesday, and the weather sucks in the northeast. Here's a winter mix of the pundits. Maureen Dowd: And believe me, she talks a whole lot better than the former junior senator from New York, Al D’Amato, who once wailed that he was "up to my earballs" in some mess, and another time... Source : Daily Kos 39 hours ago |
30 Dec 04 : 00 | Worst President Ever? Laura Bush Says No Laura Bush hit the legacy tour trail yesterday and gave her .02 on the idea that the presidency of George Bush will be remembered as the worst in U.S. history: "I know it's not, and so I don't really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way," Mrs. Bush said in an interview that... Source : Daily Kos |
07 Jan 03 : 00 | The Neighborhood Inaugural Ball (And Other News) From President-elect Obama's transition team: In keeping with his commitment to make this inaugural celebration open and accessible to all Americans, President-elect Barack Obama will host the first-ever "Neighborhood Inaugural Ball" during this year's inaugural celebration. The ball will be the... Source : Daily Kos 47 hours ago |
06 Jan 23 : 40 | Obama on the Panetta Decision The dust-up caused by Feinstein's and Rockefeller's pique over the selection spilled over today into the press availability Obama and his stimulus team held today. After pointing out that the official announcement has yet to be made, here's what Obama said about Panetta: ...He brings... Source : Daily Kos |
07 Jan 00 : 45 | Late afternoon/early evening open thread Ha! Well, I guess McConnell is going to have to get used to calling him "Mr. President" soon enough anyway! Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 19 : 50 | Al-Haramain Spying Case to Proceed The Bush administration has had another defeat at the hands of Chief Judge Vaughn Walker in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Walker denied the administration's third motion to dismiss the case. In reviving a suit filed by Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 18 : 40 | GOP Rides a Tall Stack of $20s I just threw up in my mouth. Right wingers often trigger my gag reflex. But I was hoping to get a longer reprieve than usual at the start of this last of the double-zero years. Alas. This time, my stomach's been churned from being listening to Republicans warn about the dire dangers of... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 17 : 50 | Senator Vice President-Elect Biden During today's swearing in ceremony from the floor of the U.S. Senate, there will be one man who really doesn't need the job. Vice President-elect Joe Biden, having been reelected to his seventh term as the Senator from Delaware, will be sworn in with the rest of the incoming class. And with the... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 17 : 30 | Today in (the 111th) Congress In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: House Meets at... 12:00 p.m. to convene the 111th Congress Last Vote Predicted... 7:00 p.m.Quorum Call. There will be a recorded Quorum Call vote at approximately 12:00 p.m. following the Pledge of Allegiance. Election of the Speaker of... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 16 : 00 | John Yoo and John Bolton, Together Again Some things defy all attempts at satire. It is not that it is difficult to satirize them, but that they are immune. Like black holes, they pull all humor near them to a certain event horizon and then beyond, where it is torn to shreds, never to be seen again. Such an event might be, oh, let's... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 14 : 49 | Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... An Open Letter to the 111th Congress Dear Congress, Let's get this out of the way right now: I think you're gonna suck balls. I base my opinion on your performance during the previous administration, and I see no reason to change my mind just because y'all have a... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 11 : 30 | Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up Your one stop pundit shop. Bob Herbert argues forcefully and persuasively against escalating our involvement in Afghanistan: The government we are supporting in Afghanistan is a fetid hothouse of corruption, a government of gangsters and weasels whose customary salute is the upturned palm.... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 06 : 21 | Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds and Expats At The Denver Post, Ed Quillen writes: One of the few positive media developments in 2008 arrived after the national political conventions, when Rachel Maddow got her own nightly hour on MSNBC. Not that I always concur with her politics, but unlike most such hosts, she doesn't badger, talk over or... Source : Daily Kos |
06 Jan 01 : 40 | Paving Paradise Because it's not good enough to set up drillling rigs in the sightline of national treasures, or poison more water, or gut the endangered species act, BushCo is upping the potential permanent damage one more notch. In a massive FU to the people of Montana and Senators Tester and Bingaman (who've... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 23 : 29 | Hey, Steny: Stop doing the GOP's work for them So Steny Hoyer goes on FOX News Sunday, and here's the headline he's rewarded with: Hoyer Says Don’t Expect Stimulus Package Soon Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House majority leader, expressed doubt on Sunday that the Jan. 20 goal set by some for getting a stimulus package before... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 20 : 00 | Obama and Pelosi meet about stimulus package President-elect Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a private meeting earlier today to discuss the economic stimulus package that will be the focus of the 111th Congress that begins tomorrow. They did not take questions, but issued the following statements, courtesy of the pool... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 19 : 00 | Obama names DOJ appointees President-Elect Barack Obama named key appointees to the Department of Justice, which as we all know, has been a troubled and malfunctioning department under the Bush administration. A transition team press release issued this morning gives the following background on each of the nominees: David... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 16 : 00 | This Week in Congress In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: First Vote of the Week... Tuesday 12:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... Friday p.m. MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009 The House is not in session. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2009 On Tuesday, the House will convene for the start of the 111th Congress at... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 13 : 42 | Cheers and Jeers: Monday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Pastor in da hizzouse Long-time Kossack and Street Prophets caretaker pastordan---aka Pastor Daniel Schultz---is "a third-generation minister in the United Church of Christ, and [I've] served congregations in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I grew up in my... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 02 : 39 | Frost/Nixon Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal? Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's not illegal! Frost: ...I'm sorry? To try to put yourself in the environment of Frost/Nixon, imagine it's 2010 and George W. Bush has decided to sit for his first... Source : Daily Kos |
05 Jan 00 : 08 | Why the Employee Free Choice Act Is So Important: The Power of... At the banquet table of nature there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything; and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization. -A. Philip Randolph,... Source : Daily Kos |
04 Jan 11 : 53 | Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up Sunday punditry. Frank Rich: The one indisputable talent of his White House was its ability to create and sell propaganda both to the public and the press. Now that bag of tricks is empty as well. Bush’s first and last photo-ops in Iraq could serve as bookends to his entire tenure. On... Source : Daily Kos |
04 Jan 04 : 00 | AP "analysis": Bush's personality shapes his legacy AP's Ben Feller offers more Halperin-bait: WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush will be judged on what he did. He will also be remembered for what he's like: a fast-moving, phrase-mangling Texan who stays upbeat even though his country is not. For eight years, the nation has been led by a guy... Source : Daily Kos |
03 Jan 23 : 10 | Utter Failure From Reuters: BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. In an interview published on Saturday in the pan-Arab... Source : Daily Kos |
03 Jan 19 : 34 | Obama Is Winning The Public's Confidence Someone's doing a good job with the transition so far, and it ain't President Bush. According to Gallup: Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds support for Barack Obama among liberal Democrats holding steady at 93% despite news reports that his core supporters are disappointed with some of his cabinet... Source : Daily Kos |
03 Jan 18 : 35 | Fiasco Watch: Blagojevich And Burris With only three days until the potential showdown between Roland Burris and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, there's quite a bit of news on the Blagojevich-Burris front. Yesterday, Burris filed an emergency request: ... urging the Illinois Supreme Court to demand that Illinois Secretary of State Jesse... Source : Daily Kos |
03 Jan 00 : 04 | IL-05: Emanuel To Resign Today, Field Crowded for Special Election Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, incoming Chief of Staff for President-elect Obama, is resigning from Congress today, and the pool of potential Democratic replacements in this D+18 district is already large, and only going to get larger. By some counts, there are as many as 18 people who are at least... Source : Daily Kos |
02 Jan 13 : 08 | Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up Friday at last... serious winter stuff ahead. Paul Krugman: The Daddy party runs away from responsibility. I'm shocked. The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And... Source : Daily Kos |
02 Jan 02 : 00 | Transition News When President-elect Obama and his family move to Washington this weekend, they'll be staying at the Hay-Adams Hotel: An exclusive hotel just yards from the White House will become a temporary home "suite" home for President-elect Barack Obama and his family when they move to the capital this... Source : Daily Kos |
01 Jan 16 : 30 | Halperin Hearts Bush What next? Is he going to want to see Bush's face on Mt. Rushmore? Let's take just three things that are totally wrong about Halperin's analysis: 1) Halperin asserts Bush didn't want the presidency as much as most people who seek it. Well this is a truckload of stupid, isn't it? Maybe Halperin... Source : Daily Kos |
01 Jan 15 : 53 | Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up New Year's Day edition! Take some aspirin and consider sleeping in. There are some problems that have not gone away yet. Nickolas Kristof: sex slavery remains real. AlohaOR at Flu Wiki: The 2008 Year in Review – and don't believe H5N1 (bird flu) has disappeared. Just check Indonesia. NY Times... Source : Daily Kos |
31 Dec 22 : 49 | Charles Emmanuel Case Should Be the Rule, Not the Exception As we learned Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice wants Charles Emmanuel to go down hard for torture he ordered and supervised when he was part of a Liberian paramilitary organization called the Demon Forces. He commanded the unit when his father, Charles Taylor, reigned brutally over that west... Source : Daily Kos |
31 Dec 21 : 35 | The Blagojevich-Burris-Rush Follies As the Blagojevich/Burris/Rush psychodrama continues to unfold, it seems that a contest is developing over who can make the most absurd, the most delusional, and the most self-serving remarks in this political soap opera. In the delusional category we have Blagojevich: ...weighing the option of... Source : Daily Kos |
31 Dec 02 : 09 | Republicans readying for bruising Holder confirmation Oh, goody: The confirmation hearing for Eric Holder, Obama's pick for attorney general, promises to be bruising, with Republicans determined to explore Holder's role in controversial pardons under President Clinton, his views on gun rights, and his involvement in the case of Elian Gonzalez, the... Source : Daily Kos |
29 Dec 20 : 00 | What Ifs from the New York Times Note to Peter Baker of the New York Times: When your ostensible attempt to put something into historical context features more switchbacks than a mountain road, you might want to rethink your approach. Unless you're comfortable looking like you're trying to gin up bullshit suspicion, that is. Case... Source : Daily Kos |
28 Dec 21 : 05 | Midday Open Thread Can a president really revoke a pardon, once granted, as Bush has tried to do in the case of Isaac Toussie, the mortgage swindler? Josh doesn't think so. Needless to say, I'm not an attorney or a constitutional expert. But I've seen few if any press write-ups with quotes from people with... Source : Daily Kos |
28 Dec 18 : 59 | Hits and Misses: 2008 I've been blogging since 2005; making me a relative newcomer but, I suppose, not a novice anymore. What I've noticed is that each year seems to bring with it unique challenges and lessons. The pitfalls of trying to understand, predict and explain national and international political events in... Source : Daily Kos |
27 Dec 20 : 30 | Midday open thread John Cole spots a new stupid: The military is unenthusiastic about the new president, based on seven minutes the press was allowed to spend with him as he greeted service members during Christmas dinner at a military base in Hawaii. He speaks for us all when he defuses the stupid and then observes: ... Source : Daily Kos |
27 Dec 03 : 00 | Of ICBMs, Sesame Street, and Arrogance On Dec. 24, Tom Partiff at the Guardian reported that Russia was implenting plans to build 70 new nuclear ICBMs with multiple warheads over the next 3 years. According to Ruben Sergeev, an expert Partiff quotes, this move is designed to give Russia leverage in upcoming arms-reduction talks with... Source : Daily Kos |
25 Dec 16 : 00 | Pardon Me? Only one day after President Bush granted 19 pardons and one commutation, White House officials were re-examining the case of Isaac R. Toussie. Toussie was convicted of housing fraud and sued by 200 families for the very predatory lending practices which helped spark the housing crisis. From Dana... Source : Daily Kos |
24 Dec 01 : 30 | Inauguration And Transition News From an Obama transition team press release: On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible upon which President Lincoln was sworn in at his first inauguration. The Bible is currently part of the collections of the Library of Congress. Though... Source : Daily Kos |
22 Dec 22 : 16 | Midday open thread What happened to the War on Christmas this year? Did the surge win that war too? Had Republicans succeeded in privatizing social security, how many people would've seen their retirement funds go down with Bernie Madoff? CO-Sen: Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter invites constituents to email him their... Source : Daily Kos |
20 Dec 16 : 00 | Obama commits to making U.S. leader in science once again In this morning's weekly address, President-Elect Obama proclaimed the importance of science, named his science advisors and reiterated his commitment to government funding of research and technology. How sweet is it to hear the words, "It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda... Source : Daily Kos |
18 Dec 16 : 50 | A Sign of a Free Society On Sunday, Bush offered an opinion to about Muntadhar al-Zeidi's shoe-throwing that was consistent with his long-held, somewhat idiosyncratic views on the nature of freedom and democracy. Martha Raddatz: Let's start with what just happened. And that is someone threw a shoe at you, whether it's an... Source : Daily Kos |
15 Dec 16 : 20 | NY-Sen: Velazquez withdraws name from Senate consideration Once considered the frontrunner to succeed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Velazquez has withdrawn from consideration for Clinton's seat: Velazquez, one of the state's most prominent Hispanic politicians, says she told New York Gov. David Paterson Friday that she is not interested... Source : Daily Kos |
13 Dec 03 : 30 | A "Center-Right" Nation, Eh? Our faithful friends at Fox, the captains of conservative punditry, have released a new poll of favorables for some national political figures and issues. Note that this is coming from the most reliably right-leaning major news outlet in the country. The poll indicates that: Before even taking... Source : Daily Kos |
