March 2006

Isn’t March a Little Early For an Incumbent To Go Negative?

March 27, 2006

I can’t find the text yet, but I had the priviledge of hearing the latest advertising nonsense from Senator Burns today. The ad starts by ominously asking the listener to imagine a Senate filled with Hilary Clintons and Ted Kennedys, a Senate filled with people who don’t want to defend America, A Senate filled with [...]

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Intelligent Discontent’s First Annual Klindtest

March 27, 2006

Intelligent Discontent is happy to announce our first (and last, we presume) annual Klindtest. How Do I Win? How does one win the Klindtest? It couldn’t be easier. Demonstrate your finely honed rhetorical skills by manufacturing an absurd, tangentially related quotation about a genuine news event. Here’s an example, when Mr. Klindt was ‘discussing’ the [...]

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Poverty: A Downer

March 26, 2006

Every time I mention John Edwards, I feel the need to preface my remarks by saying that he’s probably not the candidate I would suppport for the Democratic nomination. That said, I think his intention to make poverty prevention a central focus of his work is an important one. It’s also telling how people responded [...]

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I know the recruitment numbers are down, but…

March 25, 2006

This was amusing… Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Moments When I Truly Feel Afraid

March 24, 2006

I am afraid for the future of my country, given the right-wing theocratic cabal that rules it now, but I have faith that a future administration will roll back some of these draconian, kleptocratic policies. I fear that future generations will be saddled with enormous debt, ill will from much of the world, and a [...]

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Principles are Better Politics; Feingold and Censure

March 24, 2006

John Nichols of the Nation has a great take on the failure of the Democratic Party to support Russ Feingold’s censure proposal. His thesis? That the Democrats are following the same overly cautious approach that cost them the elections in both 2002 and 2004: The opposition party that too rarely opposes appears to stand for [...]

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Conrad Burns: Man of the People (and FartOilGas)

March 24, 2006

It sounds like you’ll have to check out the April issue of Rolling Stone, which has a piece explaining the best way to meet Conrad Burns: pretend to be a lobbyist. Taibbi heads to Burns $500 plate birthday party with a set of fake business cards that say he’s the Government Relations Advisor representing a [...]

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Conrad Burns: Still First at Being Last

March 24, 2006

It takes a special candidate to take a look at poll numbers that have them at a net negative 10 approval rating in their state and say, hey, I can do better. The latest Survey USA polling has Burns at a net negative 14, worst in the nation. Given that only three Senators in the [...]

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