Why Bush is so arrogant about Iraq
The reason why we will never leave Iraq and why Bush is so arrogant about it is because of the willingness of our elected Representatives in Congess to not address the real problem. Or more plainly, it...
View ArticleWe have a candidate to take on Gordon Smith
In less than an hour, we will have an official announcement of a strong candidate who will take the fight to the single, statewide elected GOP office-holder here in the state of Oregon. Senator Gordon...
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AUMF-er ...what animates the arrogance of Bush
Cross-posted at wisess.org Back at the beginning of April, I put up a piece which laid out the political/legal basis for why we have witnessed unprecedented arrogance on the part of George W. Bush, and...
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Tired of all those salmon?
Cross-posted at www.wiseass.org Gordon Smith played politics by subverting conservation laws and destroying endangered salmon simply to win re-election. In order to secure rural southern-Oregon votes...
View ArticleMartyr of another 9/11
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Those words were given in a time of fear, of injustice, of inhumanity. For those words, and the struggle behind them...
View ArticleGeneral McPeak Endorses Obama
Cross-posted at Wiseass.org On Friday, an ad went live on Barack Obama's website in which retired four-star Air Force General Merrill "Tony" McPeak endorses Obama for President. Gen. McPeak, who is...
View ArticleWhen a Disney Witch Hunt Goes Off the Rails
The other day a diary by SteveUFT made the recommended list which was about the alleged evils of the Disney corporation because it removed a teachers name from a list of honorees of a now defunct...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Tester & Merkley Play Taps for Smith
Cross-posted at www.wiseass.org This past Saturday evening at MacTarnahan’s Taproom in Northwest Portland, Montana's Senator and grassroots hero Jon Tester joined Oregon's Speaker of the House Jeff...
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OR-Sen: Gordon Smith, Whoring For Racists
Yesterday there was a new piece at BlueOregon on the problems Oregon's junior Senator, Republican Gordon Smith has stepped into over his defending outgoing Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott's praising of...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Gordon Smith's Office Spins Another One
In the ongoing firestorm over Oregon Junior Senator Gordon Smith's defense of outgoing Senator Trent Lott's infamous praising of segregationist Strom Thurmond's failed 1948 Presidential bid, Smith's...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Merkley Maps Out an Education Plan We Need
Cross posted at www.wiseass.org Oregon Speaker of the House Jeff Merkley, who is running to replace Republican Gordon Smith as Oregon's Junior Senator in the United States Senate, unveiled a robust...
View ArticleRight Girls, If You Won’t Do Your Job I Will
Look gals, I’ve already got a lot on my plate... I work full time (and NOT as a blogger), I’m raising a WONDERFUL young kid, and I already spend about 4 or 5 hours an evening on sites like this...
View ArticleOR-Sen: A First and Second Look at Merkley
I had the opportunity to meet with Oregon's Speaker of the House, Jeff Merkley, who is running to be the Democratic candidate to replace Gordon Smith as Oregon's junior Senator in the United States...
View ArticleBill Richardson endorses Barack Obama
I just got an email alert from Governor and former candidate Bill Richardson wherein he endorses Barack Obama for President. Here is the email that Gov. Richardson just sent out: During the last year,...
View ArticleHow condescending is this Hillary?
Cross posted on wiseass.org In the recent imbroglio over Barack Obama's comments at a fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday, where he had the audacity to point out the truth, that people in the...
View ArticleDelegate Reality Check (updated)
With all the hand wringing and spin that is currently in full force, it is worthwhile to take a deep cleansing breath and look at the cold hard math. Go to CNN's delegate counter... (see below the fold...
View ArticleSuperdelegate movement is breaking loose
As per the latest from DCW, since Tuesday's elections in Indiana and South Carolina, the net tallies of superdelegates has been starting to accelerate. The day after we saw Rep. Heath Shuler (NC) come...
View ArticleClinton admits she's ok with overturning the will of the voters
In her interview with Brian Williams just before John Edwards officially endorsed Barack Obama in Michigan this evening, she spun out a torrent of points in response to being asked about her...
View ArticleHillary as VP on the ticket yes or no?
Afterhours on MSNBC with Dan Abrams, had the second half of their show after the events of the night occurred, discussing and talking about Hillary for VP, yes/no? Here is my quick reply giving the...
View ArticleNot quite a GBCW
But pretty close. The pack mentality and flailing hostility by the majority here against people pointing out that while the reworked rescue plan was far from perfect, its failure is again risking full...
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