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The Edwards Mystery

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Bill of Rights, Main Street Express, Joe Biden, Mormons, Lawyer, China, Christian, South, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Kevin Bacon, Mormon, John Edwards, Al Gore, North Carolina, Bush, War, Free Trade, Democrats, Nafta, Fast Track, Patriot Act, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Devil Worship, Rudy Giuliani, Class Warfare, Iraq, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Republicans, Russ Feingold, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Edwards has been inconsistent, both in his positions and in his behavior. How many "mistakes," as he has openly called a number of his previous decisions, can he expect us to move beyond?

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Priorities 101

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Bush SCHIP Veto, Bush SCHIP, Bush, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Children's Health Insurance, Schip, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Mr. Bush's SCHIP veto reflects not only his ideology, but the mindset of the his party which pledges to protect the so-called "right to life" while spitting in the eye of the living.

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No Joke: Politics In The Era Of Late Night Reruns

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Tv Host, Ted Haggard, Primary, Sex Scandal, Poll, Joke, Larry Craig, Comic, Election, Conan O'Brien, Bush, Primaries, 2008, Writers Strike, Jay Leno, Gallup, No Joke, Late Night, Host, Candidate, David Letterman, Politics News
Chris Weigant

It seems to me that the bump in Bush's popularity began right around the time the television writers decided to strike.

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Waterboarding Our Democracy

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: House, Tapes, Speaker, Bush, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, 9/11 Commission, Waterboarding, Democrats, Torture, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Not only did the congressional Gang of Four fail to inform the public about the use of torture by our government, but it also kept the 9/11 Commission in the dark.

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America: Are You F**king Brain Dead?!

Steve Young | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Neocon, Bush, Right Wing Media, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, John Bolton, Neoconservatives, Fox News, Podhorertz, Right Wing Pundits, Nie Iran Report, Levin, Politics News
Steve Young

It isn't that we shouldn't be concerned by whackjobs around the world. What is troubling is that we choose to believe a bunch of right wing whackjobs right here in America. We may be just elect the new warmonger next time.

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House Dems War Cry: Surrender!

Tom Andrews | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Bush, Budget, War, Stand Up Congress, Funding, Iran, Democrats, Tom Andrews, Win Without War, Steny Hoyer, Politics News
Tom Andrews

In the battle over the military occupation of Iraq, House Democrats have apparently decided that the only way to avoid losing is to not show up.

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To Form a More Perfect Union

Justin Frank | Posted 12.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Giuliani, Clinton, Kucinich, Huckabee, Thompson, Romney, Mccain, Obama, Edwards, Dodd, Richardson, Biden, Bush, Politics News
Justin Frank

What follows is parable anticipating 2008, inspired my wife's observation that George W. Bush is like the worst boyfriend ever.

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Friday Talking Points [Vol. 11]

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Military Families, White House, Majority Whip, Cloture, Nuke, Cia, Jane Harman, Welfare Queens, Mccain, Iraq, Nuclear, Lieberman, Bush, Putin, Reagan, Iran, Special Prosecutor, Blackwater, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Russia, Obstructionism, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Inspector General, Jay Rockefeller, Hugo Chavez, Tapes, House, Specter, Army Field Manual, Mitt Romney, Dick Durban, Heckuva Job, Durbin, Condi Rice, Oil Companies, State Department, Independent Counsel, Nie, Sheldon Whitehouse, Republican Tool, Interrogation Tapes, Venezuela, Mddotw, Uranium, Leahy, Afghanistan, Waterboarding, Nixon, Pooty Poot, Senate, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

It's been a week of circular logic from the political world. To begin with, Mitt Romney gave a speech on religion. This speech was brilliantly summed...

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Santa's Letter to Me

Ellis Weiner | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Republicans, Santa, Bush, Cheney, Politics News
Ellis Weiner

Dear Ellis: Well, young man, I've got your letter here and, while I normally don't bother sending replies to individual requests (especially at this ...

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Bush Vows To Take Out Iran's Non-Existent Nukes

Tony Hendra | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Cia, Israel, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons, Dana Perino, Nie, Bush, Politics News
Tony Hendra

"The complete absence of evidence that Iran has hostile intentions towards the West is the most conclusive evidence we have yet seen that Iran has hostile intentions towards the West," said the president.

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Letters From Bush Have That Personal, Hostile, Suspicious Touch

236.com | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, George Bush Letter, Kim-Jong-Il, President Bush, North Korea, Bush, Politics News

This week, President Bush sent a personal letter to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, asking the dictator to dismantle a nuclear reactor and disclose...

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Bush Spinner Talks Media, Bloggers & 2008

Ari Melber | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Hillary Republicans, John McCain, Harriet Miers, Dan Bartlett Interview, Brent Bozell, Karl Rove Barack Obama, John Kerry, John Edwards, Dan Bartlett, Ed Morissey, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ari Melber

Reading anything into Dan Bartlett's statements about the Democratic candidates is like asking Karl Rove to give Obama campaign advice.

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Let George Do It

Justin Frank | Posted 12.06.2007 | Home

Read More: Kyl-Lieberman, Pelosi, Schumer, Nie, Bush, Home News
Justin Frank

Nancy Pelosi and George W Bush have something dangerous in common: they both ignore the voice of the American people. In November 2006 the people vo...

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No Budget? No Paycheck.

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: House, Budget, Appropriations, Paycheck, Federal Budget, Congress, Veto, Republicans, Democrats, President, Senate, Bush, Politics News
Chris Weigant

President Bush has been proven wrong in some big and spectacular ways this week. But while he continues to channel his foreign policy advice from Plu...

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Oppenheimer, Bush, and the Bomb

Justin Frank | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Death, Bush, Destroyer, A-Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, War With Iran, Iran, Atomic Bomb, Politics News
Justin Frank

A genuine peacemaker is aware of his destructive urges and potential. Bush is unaware of his destructive desires, of his pleasure at the possibility of destroying even more lives.

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A Cost of Doing Business

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Regulation, Conservatism, Theme Parks, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Nord, Bush, China Products, China Toys, Theme Park Safety, Cpsc, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Markets self-regulate, conservatives tell us. Just get government off our backs, companies tell us (after we pocket whatever subsidies we can grab).

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NYT's Tom Friedman is Wrong on Global 'Weirding'

Joseph Romm | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: GM the Volt, Carbon Emissions, Global Weirding, Lomborg, Luntz, CAFE Standards, Google Energy, Bush, Dan Reicher, Cheaper Than Coal, Rocky Mountain Institute, Climate Change, Hunter Lovins, Newt Gingrich, MIT Energy Club, Global Warming, RE, Fuel Economy Standards, Tom Friedman, Politics News
Joseph Romm

The people we are waiting for are the politican leaders. Everyone else needed to solve the global warming problem has been around for a while.

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Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn't

Tony Hendra | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Impeachment, Tehran, Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Nie, Israeli Intelligence, Bush, Nukes, Nie Iran Report, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Tony Hendra

No one seems willing to grasp a very large nettle: the axis of evil that has this great nation in its paws, has been lying about Iran at least since August and probably far longer.

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Suspicions Confirmed: An Enduring Quagmire

Richard Klass | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Defense Authorization Act, Declaration of Principles, Maliki, Kyl-Lieberman Iran, Iraq War Funding, Status of Forces Agreement, U.S. Permanent Bases Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Defense Appropriations, Politics News
Richard Klass

The "declaration of principles" signed by President Bush and Prime Minister Malaki is designed to not only keep American military forces in Iraq indefinitely but also to ensnare America into Iraqi domestic politics.

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Rove Cheerleads Obama for a Reason: He Thinks He is Easier Prey for the GOP than Clinton

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iowa, Black Democrats, Bush, Barack Obama, Karl Rove, Black Voters, Bill Clinton, Gop, Presidential Primary, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Karl Rove Barack Obama, 2008 Election and Race, Race, Rudy Giuliani, 2008 Election, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

An on-the-attack Obama who dogs Clinton at every step can create havoc in the Democratic Party and plunge it into an orgy of Clinton-Obama sniping, bashing, and finger pointing.

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I am a Parisian Prisoner

Norman Horowitz | Posted 12.01.2007 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Bush, Putin, Media News
Norman Horowitz

I have been in Paris for almost a week visiting my daughter and granddaughters. The only English language television broadcast that is available in my...

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Friday Talking Points [Vol. 10]

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Karl Rove, Patrick Leahy, Chris Dodd, Fema, Congress, Iraq, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Chuck Hagel, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Permanent Bases, Fake News, Bush, MDDOTW, Trent Lott, Immigrant Bashing, MIDOTW, Harry Reid, Washington Post, Immigrant, Scruggs, Maliki, Newsweek, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Welcome back to the weekly roundup of the good, the bad, and the ugly, and (as always) my humble suggestions of things Democrats should say in media i...

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Things I Wish I Didn't Know

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 11.30.2007 | Home

Read More: Joe Eszterhas, Underage Sex, Hillary, Vince Vaughn, Yves Montand, Extramarital Affair, Bush, Republican, Sidney Blumenthal, Home News
Barry Yourgrau

What price wisdom? Some things I've learned recently, I wish I hadn't. In increasing order of import (maybe not): About Joe Eszterhas That son of...

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Iraqi Lawmakers Walk Out to Protest 'Humiliating' Green Zone Treatment

Los Angeles Times | Ann M. Simmons | Posted 11.29.2007 | Politics

Read More: The Green Zone, Baghdad, Warwire, Iraq, Iraq Parliment, Bush, Iraq War, George W. Bush, Politics News

Dozens of Iraqi lawmakers walked out of parliament Wednesday to protest what they view as overly aggressive and humiliating treatment by U.S. soldiers...

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Reading The Pictures: Camp David, Oslo, Now This

Michael Shaw | Posted 11.29.2007 | Media

Read More: Annapolis, Bush, Camp David, Condi, Oslo, Annapolis Peace Conference, Media News
Michael Shaw

2007-11-29-20071129CondiAnnapolisfp.jpgIn an absolutely brilliant gesture, newswire photographer Jason Reed of Reuters offered this visual commentary, and last word on the embarrassment in Annapolis.

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