Short memories cause catastrophes: What DailyKos should see

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Saturday November 06, 2010 · 3:05 PM PDT

2010/11/06 · 15:05

I saw this story at HuffPost and I think Dan Rather has likely captured what many of those critics on the left have felt and written at Daily Kos. He's wrong IMO but he's captured the feeling.

At the Georgetown conference, at the very least, he was far from the only one who thought the administration's shortcomings were to blame for 2010. Harold Ickes, a longtime Democratic operative, argued that the White House has "not done a good job explaining what the good things are in the health care bill," which, in turn lent the legislation to being demonized. But the coup-de-grace came from former CBS anchorman Dan Rather, who accused Obama of coming off as "soft."

I think this is bullshit and the best way to show this is start w/the stimulus fight that happened in Jan/Feb 2009.

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Tuesday October 19, 2010 · 12:36 PM PDT

2010/10/19 · 12:36

I've been reading the diaries on the mortgage mess we've been watching unfolding andjust saw this story.

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating possible criminal violations in connection with the national foreclosure crisis, examining whether financial firms broke federal laws when they filed fraudulent court documents to seize people's homes, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Obama administration's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force is in the early stages of an investigation into whether banks and other companies that submitted flawed paperwork in state foreclosure proceedings may also have misled federal housing agencies, which now own or insure a majority of home loans, according to these sources.

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 7:28 AM PDT

2010/09/13 · 07:28

Republicans are buying this election.

In the last six weeks, Republicans have outspent Democrats $20 million to $13 million in television advertising, according to an analysis by The New York Times of 56 of the nation’s most competitive House and Senate races. The Republican advantage includes $9 million in spending from outside groups, compared with $3 million from left-leaning interests.

The disparity in spending, particularly from third-party groups, is the central reason Mr. Obama has agreed to step up his fund-raising efforts for the party in the coming weeks, aides said, and why Speaker Nancy Pelosi is asking leading donors to dig deeper.

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 6:01 AM PDT

2010/06/03 · 06:01

I just read this recommended diary at DailyKos. I, personally, didn't learn anything from it. I know there is a moratorium on deep water drilling and the diarist is outraged this doesn't extend to shallow drilling as well. Given the need for oil which lubricates every sector of our economy; I don't understand the tradeoffs of stopping all drilling and what that would do to a nascent economic recovery already threatened by this disaster.

But what I do know: James Carville saw BP CEO Tony Hayward and Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen eating dinner together and that is apparently VERY fucked up people. I mean, WHOAH, how about that shit.

BlatantLiberal

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Wednesday April 28, 2010 · 8:03 AM PDT

2010/04/28 · 08:03

Did you all see this story this morning, I'm betting that you did.

Why Reporters Are Down On Obama

Reporters say the White House is thin-skinned, controlling, eager to go over their heads and stingy with even basic information. All White Houses try to control the message. But this White House has pledged to be more open than its predecessors, and reporters feel it doesn’t live up to that pledge in several key areas:

I say bullshit. This story outraged me on so many different levels that I had to post.

BlatantLiberal

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Monday February 08, 2010 · 8:06 AM PST

2010/02/08 · 08:06

I am not posting this to attack Tom P, but in genuine bewilderment and anger at the content of this post b/c it's the same thing I'm seeing throughout the progressive blogosphere. Because, I think the anger comes at the idea the administration isn't following THEIR lead and THEIR demands.

50 senators could pass the fixes needed and then the House could pass the fixes and the senate bill. Instead, we get circuses televised.

On a deeper level, if we keep reaching for a bipartisanship that can not exist with the regionally dominated Republican Party (The South), we continue to send the message that the Democratic Party cannot govern and that it is weak. Why should people fight for ideas when we are constantly told that Republicans have good ideas also. Really? Which ones? Screwing working people? Women? Minorities? The Environment?

I am sick of "bipartisanship."

This meeting isn't about bipartisanship. It's about allowing the viewers at home, without filter, to watch a debate btwn Republican and Democratic ideas. It's why the Republicans are freaked out about this!

BlatantLiberal

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Saturday February 06, 2010 · 1:58 PM PST

2010/02/06 · 13:58

There is a bipartisan movement demanding that the QT President Obama and House Republicans had becomes a regular part of our political discourse.

This makes me so angry that I do not know how coherent I'm going to be about this, so forgive me if I sound like a rambling jackass.

Bullshit. This question time reaction is bullshit and a result of a media that does not want to WORK and a failed political messaging from Congressional Democrats and their allies. Barack Obama did NOTHING that any other "democratic strategist" on cable shouldn't be able to do, say that this is bullshit when they hear bullshit. Only, politely of course. He didn't do anything the media couldn't have done, called bull on the Republican claims that the stimulus did nothing. This is an independently proved lied, the sort the MSM should easily illustrate but they don't care about Republican lies.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 5:01 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 17:01

We have House Democrats suggesting we spend the rest of this year passing piecemeal legislation to enact the popular parts of health care reform.

We have senate democrats kicking the can to the house and unwilling to commit to reconciliation unless they're sure the public option is not included; at least that is how I read Kent Conrad's comments.

Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND), who would likely take the lead on moving such a package through the Senate offered no promises either.

"If the House passed the Senate bill, could reconciliation, that process, be used to fix things that might be improved upon? Yes," Conrad told reporters yesterday. "Would I support it? I can't know that without knowing what would be included in the package."

We have the White House MIA and pivoting (at the same time!) towards financial reform in a bid to separate Republicans from the quasi populist banners they've rapped themselves around.

Welcome to the clusterfuck, my thoughts below the fold.

BlatantLiberal

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Monday January 11, 2010 · 6:28 AM PST

2010/01/11 · 06:28

So, likely you've already seen this clip from Hardball. Chris Matthews asked the simple question that should define the Democratic Party's messaging from here on out: What have the Republicans done for you?

Well, the coming fight over the budget should crystallize this message.

BlatantLiberal

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Friday December 25, 2009 · 5:19 PM PST

2009/12/25 · 17:19

Let us be VERY clear what it means to White Water the administration. It means you create a climate of investigation and political slander and lies; it does not create a legislative climate. It destroys it.

That's how you end up working on school uniform bullshit, people.

I really respect Cenk Uygur a lot but he is dead wrong about Jane Hamsher and the jihad she's on against the Obama administration. This bullshit about Rahm Emanuel is not going to do jack squat but impede legislative work and destroy 2010.

BlatantLiberal

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Wednesday November 18, 2009 · 5:44 PM PST

2009/11/18 · 17:44

ITA w/Digby and think Democrats need to make this a national story; something they failed to do with unemployment insurance which they screwed up.

BlatantLiberal

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Thursday November 12, 2009 · 2:44 PM PST

2009/11/12 · 14:44

Mike Allen is reporting this at Politico.

President Barack Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan will include a plan for "how we’re going to get folks out" after a secure environment can be passed to the Afghan government, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday.

"We have been there for eight years. And we’re not going to be there forever," Gibbs said. "It’s important to fully examine not just how we’re going to get folks in, but how we’re going to get folks out."

Gibbs spoke en route to Alaska, where the president stopped at an Air Force base in Anchorage before traveling on to Tokyo for his maiden Asia trip, which will take him to Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea.

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Short memories cause catastrophes: What DailyKos should see

Feds investigating whether banks broke law in foreclosures.

DEMS outspent by 13 to 20 million on air.

Progressive FAIL...I'm sick and tired of it.

The MSM's warning shot at the administration in Politico today.

Surrender Barack? I think you're projecting.

Question Time: How Pathologically Weak are Dems?

Shutting down the govt. saved Clinton: Learn from this.

Obama to include fee on banks in next budget to recoup bailout.

Clapping Harder will not make Jane Hamsher right. No matter who says.

Republicans Gouging Credit Card Customers For Holidays.

President's Afghan plan to include an exit strategy.