Hold Fast

Howie Klein and the other Blue America blogs (FireDogLake, Digby, and Crooks&Liars) are showing more principle than we saw yesterday in the Democratic Senate caucus. Howie explains how-so at DownWithTyranny: OK, so last night Stevens was defeated bringing the Democratic majority to at least 58. An intense recount procedure looms for Minnesota, where only 206 [...]

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This is very interesting and I’d like to know more. Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was quoted in the NY Times two days ago saying that retroactive immunity for telecom companies who illegally spied on Americans with the Bush administration could be reversed under an Obama administration. In perhaps the most critical test, [...]

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At least the Alaska Independence Party stands for something…

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I think we need to stop for a moment and recognize Joe Lieberman as the smartest politician in Washington. He correctly made a bet about the fortitude of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and he is right, against all apparent odds. Again, with Lieberman staying as committee chair, he has shown himself to know [...]

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Shorter Democratic Senate Caucus: Dear Joe, We want to apologize to you for not enjoying it while you were screwing us before. In the future, we promise to enjoy it while you screw us. Shorter Shorter Democratic Senate Caucus, per Atrios: Strength Through Weakness!

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Lorelei Kelly has a really important piece up at Huffington Post, calling on 20-something bloggers to go work on Capitol Hill. So here’s my pitch: You twenty-somethings who are reading this, if you can’t take your day job after being part of such a political earthquake like last week’s election, go find your local Member [...]

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I have many more thoughts on this that will be on hold until tomorrow, but BooMan nails the back assward nature of the deal currently being reported between Senate Democrats and Joe Lieberman. CNN reports, and MSNBC concurs, that Joe Lieberman will keep his gavel on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Both outlets [...]

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Lisa Miller of Newsweek, for penning a column that is not satire called “Is Obama the Antichrist?” Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect’s home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the [...]

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Frank Rich delivers a brutal analysis of the Republican Party in the NY Times today. The G.O.P. ran out of steam and ideas well before George W. Bush took office and Tom DeLay ran amok, and it is now more representative of 20th-century South Africa during apartheid than 21st-century America. The proof is in the [...]

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Via Jane Hamsher, things are looking up for Joe Lieberman and his relationship with Connecticut Democrats over two years after he defeated the Democratic Party’s nominee for Senate. In Connecticut, it may have taken some energy from a campaign to have the Democratic State Central Committee censure Lieberman. The committee is supposed to consider the [...]

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