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Look, it's been a tough couple of weeks for Mitt "Mittens" Romney, what with people being mean to him and talking about him and asking about his past and shit.
We're not cruel and heartless here ...
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Hi DK Election Nation.
If it's me, you know we're about to travel through another region in my House baseline ratings. But today isn't any ordinary diary, for today I have a super amazing double ...
by StephenCLE
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There is a more substantive entry coming this weekend. In the meantime, here is a new Listening Corner entry: "Strange Fruit," as performed by Josh White.
Josh White was a singer/songwriter and ...
by DaMadFiddler
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On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, signed the Social Security Act into law. Since that time, Social Security has been protected by Democratic presidents and Democratic ...
by JanF
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We know the meanness of the Willard hair cut. How about the Ryan teases Willard story posted over at Democratic Underground a few days ago.
by Olympia
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Wow, I couldn't believe it when I saw none other than Benjamin Smith trotting out the swiftboating of President Obama. Nevermind that Admiral McRaven ended all discussion about this matter, but yet ...
by Patience John
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You are never as awful as your mind wants you to believe. Chances are you're worse.
While you're at work today, selling your soul for pennies every minute, ask yourself this: "Is the evolution of ...
by jbou
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Mitt Romney used a whiteboard earlier today to continue promoting lies about his policy on Medicare. Obama should respond with a chart of his own, getting as much media attention as possible.
For ...
by Frankenheimer
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President Obama's campaign just posted another new video of people speaking from their hearts. This time they are people who live in Wisconsin and they tell us what they think of Paul Ryan. This is ...
by hungrycoyote
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The republicans sure did have a hissy fit back then . Talk about the vapors . This tool nearly made an entire career out of it. Don't get me started on how this pill-...
by vince3542
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"They're STILL pretending to be outraged over the 'chains' thing?"
In a day full of stupid,
by kos
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The slaughter continues.
St. John the Baptist Parish is north of New Orleans, LA.
Details below.
by Superpole
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From Rachel Maddow's blog, here's the template to take back the House and hold on to the Senate. Thank you Paul Ryan. Thank you Mitt Romney.
New Dem ad a template for all races this year. Every ...
by FiredUpInCA
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Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new in your life. Being retired you would think that being able ...
by michelewln
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Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are out with their biggest whopper yet. Reporters are dubbing it “The Big Medicare Lie.”
Paul Ryan is looking for any excuse to distract and divide the electorate ...
by RobZerban
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When something becomes unhinged, you have a hard time controlling it.
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The first steps taken by a right-wing political party eighty years ago in order to gain control of a country are being being repeated, right here, right now.
by Ed Martin
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This guy looked at Mitt Romney's tax returns and,
believe him, they prove everything he says about them.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office still isn't buying Mitt Romney'...
by Meteor Blades
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First – I am NOT a nut. However, WTF is this about?
Briefly here’s what’s going on: DHS, NOAA, National Weather Service, the Social Security Administration and God-only knows how many other ...
by Old Redneck
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Far more ice has melted on Greenland's this year than before in the history of melt measurements. Measuring the amount of melting precisely is challenging, but scientists studying Greenland have ...
by FishOutofWater
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A simple request: please recommend this excellent analysis of voter suppression in swing states by BruceMcF - [Is the Ryan Pick doubling down on Voter Suppression? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/...
by JekyllnHyde
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It used to be that Republicans were a rather docile lot, given to compromise to get a few things through the House of Representatives. Democrats during a previous era between the '50s and 1994 held ...
by cka
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Ever since Mitt Romney tapped Paul Ryan as his running mate, all eyes in Washington have been on Medicare . At the center of the debate has been what ...
by Jon Perr aka Avenging Angel
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As expected, Democrat Tammy Duckworth leads the pathetic Joe Walsh, 50-41, in a poll commissioned for the anti-Tea Party super PAC CREDO . The poll was done by Public Policy Polling , so it's legit. ...
by Scarce
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Hey listen, there's a group of angry former military guys (OPSECTeam) who are getting a lot of press talking junk about the Bin Laden deal and the Commander in Chief. These guys are saying some ...
by emcneill
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Cross-posted at The Progressive Zionist
The other day an acquaintance and I were discussing the election and when he dropped a bomb on me and in effect summed up the Republican position in a ...
by volleyboy1
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In Alabama, where I live, if one doesn't claim to be a religious fundamentalist, one is a social pariah. Religion is what a person has to pretend to have to survive here. So I made up my own.
by MsLiz
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New Chair acts on court ruling NRC NEPA violations
I have noted more than once over the past 16 months that our Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC] has been passing out 20-year license extensions ...
by Joieau
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It isn't my backyard, but it is somebody's. Both in Oregon & Northern California, they have found members of a new *family* of spiders. This is pretty big, Family is 2 levels above Species, so there ...
by enhydra lutris
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How much Mitt paid in taxes is great political theater and certainly illustrates how different Mitt's life is from the average American.
But that is NOT the most important thing about whether or ...
by jgkojak
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This.
Romney is about to find out that the Internetz, the Internetz never forgets.
Watch in awe as Romney flip-flops on every single issue possible.
Watch as even Rick Perry and Fred Thompson ...
by Patience John
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"I really don't have enough time to get into detail." "It's a little too wonky to get into here." "This really isn't the place to get into that now."
These are just a few of the Ryanisms we're ...
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Tuesday I wrote a diary on behalf of former IGTNT diarist and longtime Kossack MsWings . After a serious stroke and a series of transient ischemic attacks (TIA, or mini-strokes), she was facing a ...
by MsSpentyouth
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OK, this is a short diary, with details concealed to protect the identity of the person who relayed this information.
A co-worker visited a famous historic site earlier this week. One of the ...
by chesterdog
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The Foxification of journalism has finally reached the feeder programs for the media.
Many of us have started writing for our school papers on whichever level we are at when such a chance arises. ...
by Horace Boothroyd III
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The energy behind a fundamentalist g-force in Kansas politics is being supplied by the Koch brothers, the Chamber of Commerce and, of course, the ever present influence and drive of the anti-choice ...
by RH Reality Check
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Rick Santorum: Still confused about the Bible and stuff
Oh look. It's another surrogate for Mitt Romney [saying really stupid things http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/15/13303104-santorum-...
by Kaili Joy Gray
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This certainly has been quite a summer for the financial industry.
Almost every single week there has been a new scandal admitted to. Another market was rigged. Another group of citizens were ...
by gjohnsit
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Grey Wolf
"It's essentially turning Wyoming into a free-fire wolf-kill zone outside of national parks and a few national forests," Wetzler said of the state plan. "That's a huge problem for the ...
by Agathena
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The August 14 primary in MN demonstrated once again what an enormous burden the the Tea-Party is to the GOP. By a whopping 40 point spread, Cindy Pugh, founder of the SW Metro Tea Party, ...
by nuketeacher
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Would you like flu germs with that? New Yorkers say no.
Right on the heels of the Daily Kos/SEIU poll ...
by Laura Clawson
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Burning the Midnight Oil for Progressive Populism
crossposted from Voices on the Square
Lots of puzzling around about Romney tapping Ryan for Vice President. Lots of coverage of nervous ...
by BruceMcF
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As somebody who obviously follows LGBT issues very closely, I think I've developed a sort of immunity to a lot of the vile, nasty things anti-gay bigots say. But every once in a while, something ...
by Chrislove
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When I began working in the corporate world in the 1970's, I wore skirts and blouses and modest-height high-heeled shoes, as did the rest of the female staff. If I added a pound or two to my petite ...
by cassandracarolina
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By Andy Naylor, edited by Jim Luce.
New York, N.Y. A group of recent graduates beam with pride as they accept congratulations from assorted friends, teachers and strangers. Wearing flowing green ...
by jimluce
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It's probably because I watched too many cartoons and read too many comic books in my youth, but I tend to view politics with a decidedly four-color tint. I've written before about the Arch-Villain ...
by quarkstomper
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdowef1oKE
It's that simple.
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Who else could be Mitt Romney's running mate?
Earlier this week the Boston Globe ...
by Joan McCarter
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Dear Sir:
You and your organization have made a public accusation against the president of the United States, claiming that he or his subordinates have intentionally leaked to the public classified ...
by Crashing Vor
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Stop it! I never said that shit.
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I'm an ape man, I'm ...
by Mother Mags
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Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We have just moved into an apartment and now have a pootie, named Princess Ashley; however I grew up ...
by triciawyse
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Nobody communes with nature better than a dog.
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Paul Ryan claims to be a Catholic. Yet his ideas on how to disperse and distribute national wealth has been denounced as immoral and contrary to Catholic teaching, both by Catholic bishops and by ...
by Hoshizora No Memoria
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Following a discussion in the Letters to the Editor group about broadening the scope, I tried to contact the administrator. He did not respond, and he has not posted either a diary or a comment in a ...
by Frank Palmer
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On 15 August 2012 the UN Human Rights Council issued a report in which they found that the Houla massacre and the others were perpetrated by the Syrian state and "that Government ...
by Clay Claiborne
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This idea that this is the nastiest campaign ever that pundits and the MSM has been running with for the last couple of days is pure nonsense. This morning, appearing on Jansing & Co , Joan Walsh ...
by hungrycoyote
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In a genre continuously spewing out specimens, most of which are as indistinguishable from each other as they are distinguishable from reality, the romantic comedy feature Hope Springs is an anomaly ...
by Jennifer A Epps
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Team Obama has a simple message for Romney about his taxes: Prove It!
by rem123
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Here is the follow-up to yesterday’s Diary. Lost in the mix with the attention being paid to MN-1 and MN-8, on Tuesday all of the remaining unresolved legislative primaries in Minnesota were ...
by OGGoldy
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Paul Ryan's entire life is predicated on working for the government, government spending, or accepting government benefits. Starting four generations ago with his great grandfather who built his ...
by eXtina
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This radio ad was posted to YouTube late last year, but I just became aware of it and think it is obviously still relevant to the political climate in this country and the discussion of guns. It is ...
by craigkg
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The New York Times is at it again. In an otherwise worthwhile article about how the choice of Paul Ryan as vice president signals a shift of focus from the economy to hardcore Republican ideology ...
by Dave in Northridge
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BFitz , as many of us, particularly in the PWB Peeps, know is definitely one of the first ones to hand over money that she really doesn't have to help out whomever may need it. She has been ...
by triciawyse
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We need a sort, pithy way to frame the Medicare issue, and we haven't yet done it. The "framing war" is being waged big time by Ryan, whom I just saw on some news program talking about how his plan "
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I'd always associated John Philip Sousa with some mighty fine band music -- and our acquaintance ended there. He wasn't really mentioned in history courses or anything else I took, and curiosity ...
by Cyberwizard
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In the face of global criticism and possible revocation of its diplomatic status in Britain, Ecuador has decided to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum.
Why would Ecuador grant ...
by HS News
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President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act, extending the life of Medicare.
Mitt Romney has a problem with his promise to "restore" the $...
by Joan McCarter
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The Chicago Teachers Union is currently on the front lines of a fight to defend public education. On one side the 30,000 members of the CTU have called for a contract that includes fair compensation,
by Tristero 312
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MItt Romney has to be the most inept, gaffe prone, secretive, and truly unlikeable candidate to come down the pike in my lifetime (which goes back to the Kennedy-Nixon campaign). So how can i ...
by tvdude
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"I did go back and look at my taxes, and, over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent," he said, later adding: "Every year, I paid at least 13 percent, and if you add in, in addition, ...
by Malachi Constant
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Last year, 26 corporations paid more to their CEOs than they paid in federal income taxes, neatly illustrating both that CEOs make too much and corporations don't pay nearly ...
by Laura Clawson
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Following up on the near mass shooting in Washington DC yesterday, the chief of police calls Mr. Johnson a ...
by Lysander1776
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This article which appeared on Bloomberg and written by Jonathan Alter contains some interesting perspectives from the Obama campaign about the Ryan pick. Alter quoted David Axelrod but appears to ...
by khyber900
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Paul Krugman today posted clips from the Congressional Budget's Office analysis showing that Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, along with his proposed tax cuts for the wealthy, does not specify how he is ...
by AdamWeiss
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Hey, kids! It's Back to School ™ time!!! Those words have the capability of striking fear in to the hearts of some LGBTQ youth…especially the T ones. For a lot of transkids, school is part of ...
by rserven
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