It's Flag Day! Let's Honor the American Flag.
I hope I won't be considered a bumptious jingoist for this diary. Perhaps I am though. When I was a youth in the late 1950s and early 60s, we went through considerable flag-drill and patriotic...
View ArticleYes, Ma'am, it DOES Boil Down to a Single Issue. POLL
The more I think about it, the meaning of the Lieberman challenge does boil down to a single issue: Bush. George W. Bush's illegal and catastrophic Iraq War, Bush's suppression of our civil liberties...
View ArticleNew Dem Buzzword for the GOP: DYSFUNCTIONAL
"Dysfunctional." The Republican Party is the Dysfunctional Party. Let's make the name stick. Sorry for such a short diary. I am on the run between the hospital and a historical society meeting today.
View ArticleWishes, Dreams, Predictions for 2007 [w/Poll]
It's that time of year again. Every prating pundit and babbling blogster must now ring out the old and ring in the new by organizing the old year into some schema like "the most significant events of"...
View ArticleThe Day Bush Melted Down in 2007 [w/Poll]
President Bush Breaks Down; Vice President Vanishes in Gas AttackAP - Fri Mar 19, 1:15 PM ETWASHINGTON - The nation reeled today under a string of successive shocks, as a President and Vice President...
View ArticleHillary Clinton & the Democratic "Strong on Defense" Disease w/poll
Vituperation and ad-hominem attacks are not the aim of this diary, which is to place Clinton's stance on the Iraq war and her 2002 vote in some historical context. I have some extremely critical...
View ArticleSenator Clinton, are you afraid of the Netroots?
First of all, Hillary Clinton has never diaried on Dailykos, to my knowledge. Democratic Senators Kennedy, Boxer, Kerry, Edwards, Webb, Durbin, Schumer, Feingold, and others, plus a quite a number of...
View ArticleSomebody, please explain to Hillary Clinton
...that this is a primary, not a general election campaign we're in now.Hillary Clinton addressing a crowd in South Carolina:In response to an audience member’s question about the war — one of eight...
View ArticleThe Murdochian Candidates
Do political parties whose leaders consort with Rupert Murdoch abandon their core principles and alienate their constituencies at the polls? History suggests that this happened to Tony Blair's Labour...
View ArticleBush is Dumb, Now With Added Dumbness! w/poll
The other day an astute Republican, a campaign operative of Mitt Romney, penned a memo containing the following gem:'Like every Republican in the race, Romney faces the delicate task of how to talk...
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Is the Vice President on "24" Based on a Real Person?
I want to complain about the TV series 24. Not about the torture and xenophobia, although that's bad enough. The character of "Vice President Noah Daniels" is a completely PREPOSTEROUS figure. Here's a...
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A Farewell to Gonzo Gonzales Abu! A Ballad w/poll
The Ballad of Gonzo Gonzales Abu The thugs of our President seldom are hesitant At doing things not straight and true, But the dirtiest imp to do dirt for the Chimp, Was Gonzo Gonzales (Abu)!If he...
View ArticleWho is the All-Around Worst Republican? w/poll
This is a frivolous diary. I can't sleep. I keep seeing Senator Inhofe's [R-OK] contorted features, saliva spraying from his mouth as he tried to bully and harry a garrulously wonky and imperturbable...
View ArticleIt Was All About Carol Lam, Always.
My theory is that Carol Lam was originally the sole target. The Rove White House and the Dept. of Justice assembled a list of seven other US Attorneys plus Lam, in order to create a plausible cover...
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BREAKING! Bush Names Next Attorney General! w/poll
President Bush Supports, Then Dismisses Attorney General GonzalesPres. Bush has named own criminal lawyer Jim Stark as next Atty. General MORE STORIESEx-Mayor Giuliani withdaws, cites need to spend...
View ArticleSept: Jeff Gannon sez tell-all book to come out!
Take a break from Karl Rove for just a minute.Of course, we know that everything is militarized in BushGooperWorld Except for GOP leaders' offspring, of course. Why, just a few days ago, presidential...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Abu Gonzales! w/pole
The Ballad of Gonzo Gonzales Abu(to the tune of "Abdul Abulbul Amir")The thugs of our President seldom are hesitant At doing things not straight and true, But the dirtiest imp to do dirt for the Chimp,...
View Article"The Great Media Wh*re," now with added pole
"All Republican political figures are gay, especially the men."- James WolcottJeff Gannon's new book, The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report is available on www.amazon.com! I have not read this book...
View ArticleGeorge Bush and Dick Cheney, I Curse You.
George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, I curse you.In the name of the one million slain Iraqis I curse you.In the name of the 3,800 American soldiers who died because you lied I curse you.In the name of...
View ArticleHCW - Hello, Cruel World!
You say goodbye, and I say hello, Hello, hello! I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello ~ Paul McCartneyI have stopped reading every GBCW diary that makes the Rec list (and you'd be a fool to...
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