Hold Fast

Gabe at CT Local Politics goes into far greater detail rebutting the lies and distortions of CT GOP chair Chris Healy on the Protect America Act and retroactive immunity that I covered yesterday. Gabe takes about a dozen separate hits on Healy while breaking down the release step by step. I liked this part:
If I […]

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One of the things that has made the Republican Party successful for much of the last twenty-five years or so was their willingness to take a politically unpopular position and stand by it, wedging people between their attacks and their principles. It’s a strategy that created the electoral mentality where a voter might say, “I […]

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Yesterday I brought up the new, completely false narrative Republicans are using to attack Democrats on FISA. They’re accusing Democrats who’ve defended the rule of law as being in the pocket of trial lawyers (!!). This is wrong, as the cases being brought against the telecom companies are being litigated by lawyers for two not-for-profit […]

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You know things are getting bad for the Republicans when their main line of attack on retroactive immunity becomes completely reliant on falsehood. Conservative columnist Robert Novak pens a column in today’s Washington Post that peddles the lie that Democrats are only opposed to retroactive immunity to protect the interests of the trial lawyer lobby. […]

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Some thing’s fishy in the McCain campaign. Washington Post:
McCain had already taken a $3 million bank loan in November to keep his campaign afloat, and he sought from the same bank $1 million more shortly before this month’s Super Tuesday contests, this time pledging incoming but unprocessed contributions as collateral. He never used the funds […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQuok8WOf4o

Channel 12 in Connecticut covers the reaction of Chris “Mad Dog” Russo to Chris Shays actions in Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball. This might have legs as the cycle progresses.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uCS9wcyQ4

Congressman John Larson (CT-01) has the GOP pegged. Via email:
“The political theater enacted by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle today was akin to Otter and Boone leading the Deltas out of the student body at Faber College. If this issue wasn’t so important to the nation, we would have […]

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“Mike and the Mad Dog” is the drive time sports talk radio show on WFAN, in the tri-state area. It has a huge audience and its hosts, Mike Francesa and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo are very respected sports commentators in the New York sports media with their show being simulcast on the YES cable network […]

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One of the things that we’ve always been told about Joe Lieberman is that he votes with Democrats most of the time, but might buck the party from time to time on issues like the war in Iraq. Having watched a great deal of the 110th Congress’s 2nd Senate Session in the last month, I […]

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John McCain in November on using the Army Field Manual to govern interrogation techniques:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLKSV5pJBBw

I would hope that we would understand, my friends, that life is not 24 and Jack Bauer. Life is interrogation techniques which are humane and yet effective. And I just came back from visiting a prison in Iraq. The army general there […]

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