Jane Harman - Against the Iraq Supplemental (But Not Really)
crossposted at Calitics. Update: Diary updated to include link to Harman's press release announcing No vote.OK, more than a week has passed since the Iraq supplemental vote, and I'm pretty dumbstruck...
View ArticleIraq Supplemental: Why Jane Harman's Words Matter
(crossposted at Calitics)As discussed previously:Jane Harman, unbeknownst to her constituents, was going to vote FOR the Iraq supplemental up until the last minute. She'd voted Yes on a supplemental...
View ArticleDon't HOPE Gore Runs, MAKE him Run
Do you think if there were thousands of people who sent some of their hard earned money here or here that Al Gore would take notice? And the media, for that matter? On a regular basis Al Gore diaries...
View ArticleRepubs on Hill Just Now 'Speaking Out' on Iraq: Colbert Hits a Home Run
Tired of hearing people applaud Republicans for vague language about bringing back troops, when these same Republicans opposed Democratic efforts to do things that would actually have caused that to...
View ArticleGetting a Pro-Forma Session of Congress to Happen
OK, so Alberto Gonzalez announced his resignation today. He said he won't be stepping down until September 17. And Harry Reid has apparently made some deal with Bush that Bush won't do any recess...
View ArticleGang of 8: Did they know of Secret Torture Memos?
Kevin Drum pointed out from the NY Times article today on the secret torture opinions in 2005 that some lawmakers actually knew about the existence of at least one of these opinions: Later that year...
View ArticleUPDATED: What to Do to Fight the Dirty Tricksters
[This diary is being constantly updated to improve upon it. If you have any suggestions, please share them. Check back in occasionally to see if there are any updates. X-posted at Calitics....
View ArticleThrow Dan Lipinski the Anchor(IL-03)-Give to Pera & I'll Match
UPDATE: It's 10:18 and so far there's 9 separate contributors and with $145 raised. You all rock! I'll honor the pledge through midnight pacific. If no one else chips in, then by tomorrow morning I...
View ArticleMake Me Open My Wallet for Mark Pera
If you - or your friends or family - give to Mark Pera on my Mark Pera fundraiser page by next Saturday, I'll kick in a matching donation of my own. Check it out. (I've done this kind of matching...
View ArticleMake Me Open My Wallet for Pera - Again
UPDATE: We're now up to $625 -- just $325 to go and one more whole day to get there. I want to thank those of you that donated to Mark Pera in my weeklong fundraiser for Mark that ends this Saturday...
View ArticleRE:Pera & D. Edwards: MoveOn, What are You Waiting for?
UPDATE: Since I posted the diary, I have found the email from MoveOn that asked us members to participate in their survey. It was from 9/6/07, and at the end it said We'll report back to you next week...
View ArticleCBS hosting inflammatory Letterman clip against itself
Earlier today, I wanted to see highlights of last night's Late Show with David Letterman which I unfortunately missed. I didn't go to Youtube because I thought that any clips posted there would be...
View ArticleMoveOn endorses Donna Edwards! Yeehaw! Just the Start?
Better late than never! I haven't received any email from MoveOn yet concerning their endorsement, which will really be what results in donations for her campaign, but I imagine this is forthcoming....
View Article3333 contributors by Midnite for Pera, I'll give $333. UPDATE
UPDATE: The 'IL-03:3333' mini-challenge will be extended until tomorrow midnight. The total new donors today exceeded 300 and tomorrow's total will need to keep up the same pace to get there. It'll...
View ArticleObama Organizing Fellow Program - Deadline Coming
This is the kind of effort that needs to be done to make real progressive change -- building the grassroots expertise amongst active young people. It's a win for Obama, because this will means lots of...
View ArticleHoward Dean Knows How to Play Fox's Game(VIDEOS)
Update: The whole interview is now available, and I'm swapping out the videos with 80% of the interview for the ones that have the whole thing. After viewing the whole thing, I don't feel any...
View ArticleBlue Dogs Threatening to Hold Up GI Bill [updated]
Can't the Blue Dogs see their hypocrisy? After all their free passes they gave hundreds of billions for Iraq war funding, now they are threatening to hold up Jim Webb's GI Bill because the couple...
View Article_Clinton's_ Super Delegates Can End This
Hillary Clinton has been banking her campaign for months on the idea that superdelegates (SD's) are going to come around and endorse her because she's so electible. Well, as we have seen, if she's had...
View Article"The Nearest Competitive Cong. Dist" Mapping Tool
If you are like me, and a bunch of other Americans, you live in a safely held Democratic congressional district. You know that it won't flip to Republican in a million years. So making a big effort...
View ArticleMaximizing the McCain Search Engine Optimization
Chris Bowers had an awesome action item diary on Thursday aiming to bring down McCain by making sure articles that demonstrate why he'd be a horrible president are the ones that come up at the top of...
View Article'My Nearest Competitive Cong. Dist.' Tool (part 2)
I recently postedabout my desire to have an online tool that would allow you to plug in your address or zip code and up would pop the nearest competitive congressional district where you could put your...
View ArticleIf It's Clinton, then It was Her All Along
And that's why as an Obama supporter, I'll be extremely disappointed in him. You'll recall that she changed course on a dime and was the good soldier, telling her supporters to get behind Obama. If...
View ArticleHow Many LTE's Can We Get Out about the Housing Issue?
I am Oh so tempted to keep reading diaries and coverage about this - it's fun. However, if we want to help make this thing take off we need to do our part. Letters to the editors to the local papers...
View ArticleScrew the VP Talk-Jed's Got a New Video Up
Pretty good one covering the housing coverage. Titled 007:GoldenMansion.His site deserves the hits, so I'm not embedding it here. Not much more to say on it, other than Jed's really been more than...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH: Prime Time Convention Speech Uses McCain's Keys!
I can't divulge how I got my hands on this, but what follows is a portion of one of the prime time convention speeches that picks up on joeyess'fantastic idea of the jingling McCain keys. I think...
View ArticleSERIOUS BLOOD SHORTAGE - Urgent Call to Donate
I just saw this press release released Monday from the American Red Cross - So. Cal Region, and I was pretty surprised I'd not heard of this serious public health emergency we're in. URGENT APPEAL...
View ArticleCA-46 Debbie Cook - You Give, I Match (LIMITED TIME)
This will be a short diary - my message is pretty simple. * Debbie Cook is a great candidate, a good progressive, and will represent the 46th district with distinction; * Dana Rohrabacher is a bum * If...
View Article[IL-05] Are Kossacks Going to Piss Me Off?
In short, yes you will if I can't get enough of you to chip in some money on Tom Geoghegan's congressional campaign by midnight tonight. You see, I need to max out my donation limit on my...
View Article'Bipartisanship' bad, but Advocating Partisanship Sells Us Short
We have definitely seen that capitulating on your position and getting nothing in return except demands to give up even more is very damaging. We get quite upset when Democrats engage in this...
View ArticleTom Geoghegan Files Suit to Force IL Special Election
UPDATE: Title corrected - I had mistakenly indicated that Geoghegan was trying to invalidate Burris' appointment; rather, he's trying to force the state to do a special election rather than let him...
View ArticleSelling NN Registration-No Minimum/Will Donate $ to NNFT
I will not be able to attend the convention, which has me bummed. I got so much out of attending the Austin NN last year.However, in the interest of turning lemons into lemonade, I'd like to donate...
View ArticleSupport Republican for CA Lt. Gov! (to help Dems. ACTION)
This is a quickie diary for fellow Californians. We are withering on the vine here because Republicans have been using the 2/3 rule against us. But thanks to 2 Republicans, we now have a great...
View ArticleReminding Folks Why Blanche Lincoln Must Go (Rich Brat Taxcuts)
Blanche Lincoln has been getting a lot of attention for calling the League of Conservation Voters extremists, and for obstructing progress on health care reform, particularly on the public option. But...
View ArticleHelp Marcy Winograd - I'll match your donation
The purpose of this diary is to get you to donate to or volunteer for Marcy Winograd's campaign. I'll match the first $5 you give to Marcy at my ActBlue page for her. Also, if you pledge to phonebank...
View Article"Shop" at the Boot Boehner Golf Store
In case you haven't seen it, the ad from Blue America PAC targeting John Boehner for his out of control golf habit is just brilliant. In "honor" of Boehner's every-third-day golf habit (paid for by...
View ArticleHow We Can Prove Colbert's Efforts Are Helping Farmworkers
I'll try to make this short. Stephen Colbert has made the media focus on the plight of farmworkers who are abused because they have no rights, and done this better than anyone else for a really long...
View ArticleDebra Bowen Supporters:Let's Get Calling
Hopefully, you're already on board supporting Debra Bowen as the next representative for the 36th Cong. District in California in the seat that Jane Harman quit from just a couple weeks ago. (If...
View ArticleDebra Bowen Supporters-Making Up the Difference
I had intended on doing another diary on phonebanking for Debra Bowen's campaign, which is a really effective way to contribute. My first phonebanking diary earlier this week was on virtual online...
View ArticleDebra Bowen Fans: Let's Get Calling! (T-Minus 8)
There are only 8 weeks until the May 17 election for CA-36 In my previous diary, I discussed phone banking for Debra Bowen's campaign from somewhere outside of the district, something which can be done...
View ArticleDebra Bowen Gets DFA Endorsement for CA-36
Congratulations to Debra Bowen for receiving the endorsement of Democracy for America for the congressional race to replace Jane Harman in CA-36. The organization had begun a poll prior to Marcy...
View ArticleDebra Bowen News 3/25 (Courage Campaign Forum + more)
Yesterday, as many of you know, Debra Bowen participated in a candidate forum held by the Courage Campaign along with Janice Hahn, Marcy Winograd and Republican Mike Gin. The forum was streamed live...
View ArticleHoward Dean Asks Grassroots to Support Debra Bowen
Howard Dean yesterday endorsed Debra Bowen and is asking for your help:I rarely endorse candidates in Congressional primaries. But Secretary of State Debra Bowen is a rare kind of leader, so when I...
View ArticleCA-36 update - DFA members step up for Debra & canvassing report
I saw something on my screen tonight that made me do what you see on the cartoons sometimes, where a character will rub their eyes in a very exaggerated fashion because they thought their eyes were...
View ArticleCA-36 update - DFA members flood Bowen w/contribs & my thoughts from wkend...
On Monday night, I saw something on my screen that made me do what you see on the cartoons sometimes, where a character will rub their eyes in a very exaggerated fashion because they thought their eyes...
View ArticleBREAKING: BofA sends out Dear Depositor Letters re: derivative shift!!
My brother just shared with me this too-amazing-to-believe letter he received from Bank of America. It was apparently sent to all depositors to its bank subsidiary that now has derivatives sitting on...
View ArticleArtist Performs 99%-er Song in Front of Obama & World Leaders at APEC Conf...
I'm not seeing any diaries on this, so just have to post. It appears a performer has gotten into the APEC summit in Hawaii and sang a very anti-1%-er song for 45 minutes. He was showing a "Occupy...
View ArticleLimbaugh Ads - KFI Los Angeles 3/6 thru 3/8/12
NOTE: I've used the tag "Rush's Local Advertisers", not knowing of any existing tags to track these kinds of diaries that follow the local radio broadcasts of the Rush Limbaugh Show to track who's...
View ArticleThought SOPA/PIPA Were Bad? Now introducing TPP
It's no suprise the MOTU were not going away after not succeeding with earlier efforts to take away the internet from the people. Now it's via something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement....
View ArticleIL-02 I Match Your Robin Kelly Contrib Buck for Buck (Act Now)
Supporter of Robin Kelly in IL-02? I gave a bit when I was first alerted to the campaign after DKos endorsed her campaign, but since then I've become even more positive on Kelly's chances and how our...
View ArticleI'm a small donor for Bernie, & Citizens United bedamned, I'm feeling empowered!
Not much to say, other than this: I gave to Bernie Sanders' campaign yesterday and it's been a long time since I've given money to a candidate and had a real sense that my donation - and the policies...
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