Norquist: WW2 Generation "Un-American"
Have you read Grover Norquist's view of "the Greatest Generation", the one that lived through the Depression and made real sacrifices to fight WW2? Jonathan Chait subbing for Josh Marshal at Talking...
View ArticleRED ALERT To keep California Blue
Progressive Democrats & Democracy for America activists in CA are both urging everyone to flood Sacramento with calls RIGHT NOW. Please help! Don't let California get another Kenneth Blackwell for...
View ArticleALERT: The Georgia Republican Party is assaulting voting rights
(Atlanta) The Georgia Republican Party is assaulting voting rights. They are trying to make it harder to vote in Georgia than anywhere in the United States. They are trying to dilute black voting...
View ArticleHow to frame the Social Security debate
So remember: America once had a fully privatized system. It failed. That is why we have Social Security. It doesn't make anyone rich, but it prevents many people from being poor. "Personal accounts"...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Army Reservist Witnesses War Crimes
April 1, 2005--Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1, 2003 through April 1, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq,...
View ArticleHow to counter Karl Rove.
We all know him, we've posted diaries and made insulting cartoons. We know who he is and what he does. We go around and around and we know his tactics don't we? In many regards Karl Rove is a genius,...
View ArticleALERT: Help the DCCC Hammer the Hammer
From the DCCC: For his history of intimidation and arm-twisting, DeLay is known affectionately by his allies as "The Hammer." Now it's time to Hammer the Hammer once and for all. The DCCC has set an...
View ArticleThe Montana Project
In Montana there is now a Democrat Majority in a state were there was none before. The Democrats control the state senate the state house and the governers seat. We must learn from there examples.
View ArticleThe Democratic Agenda is....
This diary is in response to another one of those "the Dems need an agenda" diaries. I'm sick and tired of those and the misinformed people who right them. Its as if you've never looked or tried to...
View ArticleThe Democratic Agenda: May/8/05 Edition
Thanks to some suggestions and numerous complaints about the Democratic agenda or lack there of I have decided to do a series of diaries with updates about the ever so unknown Democratic Agenda. And...
View ArticleThe GOP will use the Army Base Closers as an 06' issue.
130+ base closings announced. Base closings affecting Democratic districts as well as republicans ones. The media says that the base closings are not political for this reason. The media talks about...
View ArticleGovernor to get package of election reform over GOP protest
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The Illinois House sent the governor a package of election reforms that Republicans complained will help elect Democrats. The measure would require the creation of voters' guides,...
View ArticleSantorum Takes Money From Stem Cell Researchers
This is from the DSCC blog. Question of the Day for Rick Santorum: Can Stem Cell Research Cure Hypocrisy? Senator Rick Santorum this week re-emphasized his opposition to stem cell research, stating...
View ArticleMore GOP Dirty tricks
Well we all know about the Republican voting machines. And thanks to us several states now have laws in place requiring Verified paper ballots. But let that not fool you the RNC still has dirty tricks...
View ArticleHow to Kill an Elephant
Theirs a beast out there trampling all over the United States. A large evil elephant is ruining the country that elephants name is GOP. But how can we kill this seemingly unbeatable beast? Well first...
View ArticleForgotten Districts: CA-19
The 50 state strategy brings allot of hope to those of us who are have been fighting for a Democratic Congress. But for those of us who live in the forgotten districts it still brings little hope for a...
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