Is Karl Rove Above the Law?
He didn't show up to answer his subpoena today. So I guess the answer is: Yes, Karl Rove IS above the law.Of course it would take Democrats to show some character to disprove this statement, to hold...
View ArticleFour More Years of...Palin?
By picking Sarah Palin, McCain has done what they always do. Whether it's Ronnie on his horse or W, the C student, but one who "has a good heart" (well...) they do what OJ's lawyers did to the OJ...
View ArticleMcCain/Fey 08!
It's time for all of us to get together and realize what's necessary for this here United States of America. We've been going down the terlet for the past eight years, and the only solution is either...
View ArticleHanoi Hilton POW Against McCain
I think this is the best Obama ad. It's actually a pac. I thought you all might like to see it--for those who haven't already. It aired last night as a commercial during Chris Matthews.The sad fact of...
View ArticleShout out to Big Oil and Big Insurance
The pathetic GOP is launching this pathetic web ad tomorrow.The goal, start to cast suspicion on Obama, incrementally, before he can pass energy or health. Big oil and big insurance want to make it so...
View ArticleWarren, One of the Lizard People? With poll.
When I was little there was a guy who lived down the block, Warren. He wasn't really a good guy. Wasn't really a bad guy. Just a guy. & Warren, who's asked to give the invocation or whatever it is,...
View ArticleReal Short Meme
This has probably been covered already and excuse the sound byte diary, but why not have Democrats make the simple case that taxes pay for things.Radical, no?For example, if you say you support the...
View ArticleWon't Someone Please Make This "Public Option" Ad?
Montage of GOP several politicians saying the same thing"The Dems want to put a bureaucrat between you and your doctor." Announcer:But Republicans want you to have an insurance company bureaucrat...
View ArticleConcert for the Public Option
If you hear this message wherever you stand. Calling every woman, calling every manThe public option is slipping away due to the corruption and ignorance of Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee as...
View ArticleHave I Been Here Before?
During the presidency of Bill Clinton, the Right tried to render him ineffective by a CONSTANT series of investigations. It started with Whitewater, a real estate deal that happened 20 years earlier,...
View ArticleNew Health Care Mantra - The Medicare Script
It's been said before but should be Obama's and the Left's mantra:Imagine if you could have Medicare at 55. Would you want it?What about Medicare at 45?And 35?Etc.That's a better metaphor than Public...
View ArticleCan Someone Help Me Understand?
In the health care debate, Dems talk about health care that will keep insurers from denying coverage, health care you'll keep even if you change jobs, and health care that will cover pre-existing...
View ArticleWe Have To Respect the Really Stupid
America is a democracy and that means we have to try to represent as many people as possible. As we know, a big part of the American public are so stupid that it's a wonder how they manage to get out...
View ArticleBarack - Do It for the Tea Partiers
Because they too will benefit from a public option, though they're too stupid to know it in advance.I know you want to be a historic president. The way to do that is to break the vice grip that the...
View ArticleThe Real Problem with the Trigger
I just read about how the trigger would work. There would be, in effect, a public option, but it would only kick in, state by state, if the insurance industry doesn't meet income-related benchmarks....
View ArticlePresident Obama - Lead!
You campaigned claiming that you would resist Washington Lobbyists. This whole debate about health care is lobbyists versus the American people.If there's a health care trigger, fast forward to 2014....
View ArticleGarder Bands for Finance Committee Whores
This is what might be called a fluff diary...but I wonder if it would be possible to give Baucus and Grassley bands like strippers have in strip clubs--so they can put it on their thighs and make it...
View ArticleProgressive Pledge - Vote Out Democratic Senators
I don't know if this has been diaried before but can't we, on Kos, pledge that DEMOCRATS WILL NOT SUPPORT SENATE DEMOCRATS WHO DO NOT VOTE FOR HEALTH CARE which INCLUDES A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION.What can...
View ArticleHealth Care Rules
The longer Dems drag this out, the worse the negative repercussions for them. The extreme is if they don't past it, the Congress will go GOP. but if they pass it but take another few months--Americans...
View ArticleRequire GOP To Do Real Filibusters (Please sign the petition)
Dear Harry Reid, There is a simple way for the Democrats to enact their entire agenda. Make the GOP endure real filibusters. Require them to stand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, talking on and on...
View ArticleAnyone See Health Care?
Short diary to ask: What happened to health care? Does the President think that we're going to focus on jobs and and THAT will be more important than spending the first year on health care and then...
View ArticleHappy the Clown McConnell and the Disappearing Democratic Narrative
Dear Mr President,When Mitch McConnell or as my wife calls him, Happy the Clown, says that Obama has been poison to our economy and health care system, you need, that day i.e. yesterday, to be...
View Article$710 Billion Medicare Meme
This will be a short diary, unlike all the great long diaries on Kos. I assume the Obama campaign people are smarter than I am and that they know what they're doing.That said, don't they need to start...
View ArticleUse Rush in Best Possible Commercial for Dems (short diary)
My dream Obama Biden TV commercial:Clip of Rush from August 23, as played on Lawrence)RUSH: (hysterical voice:) "Republicans.If anyone asks you aboutthe rape exception on abortion, just don't answer...
View Article"2016: Obama's America" and the Art of Projecting Your Anti-Americanism onto...
A Republican friend posted on FB that he liked the anti-Obama film 2016: Obama's America, and said that the theater, in the south, broke out in applause at the end. He asked me to go see it.I think I...
View ArticleHow to Beat a Bully in a Debate
You don't have to out-bully him, but you do need to confront him. "Bully" is a metaphor for the dark forces that a president will face. So when the president backed down in the first debate, the...
View ArticleObama Red Meat Debate Talking Points? Suggestions Please. w Poll
President Obama is a decent and highly rational person. Yet if he used some red meat tactics, rather than a strictly rational argument, he'd reassure people's subconscious needs--of a candidate who...
View ArticlePetition to McDonnell for Rigging Electoral College
Should we get massive petitions letting GOP governors know that if they sign bills to rig electoral votes against Dems, that Dems and Independents and fair-minded Repubs will NEVER vote for them...
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