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The View From Your Window

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:04:40 -0400

Bodega Bay, California, 11.11 am....

IN RESPONSE TO BAINBRIDGE'S SNEERS,

admin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:04:20 -0400

IN RESPONSE TO BAINBRIDGE'S SNEERS, James Lileks defends Iowa. On the other hand, he's unable to put a happy face on the lack of electricity.......

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy: Do-Something Democrats Tackle College Affordability

admin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:44:32 -0500

In recent years, the Republican House and Senate earned the title of the Do-Nothing Congress. They stayed mute as the war raged in Iraq. They refused to raise the minimum wage. They took more time off in Congress last year than in any year since 1948.
Now the Do-Something Democrats are in charge. Step by step, we're putting this country back on track.
Over the past 20 years the cost of attending college has tripled. Hundreds of thousands of students are being priced out of a college education, while many of those who do attend are hobbled by student loan debt. ...

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Lawrence O'Donnell: How Giuliani Will Help Elect the Democrat

admin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:30:11 -0500

Rudy Giuliani's presidential candidacy is the best thing that will happen for the Democratic candidates this year. He's going to lose. Yes, I know he's the Republican frontrunner in some polls, but Howard Dean was the frontrunner for a while in the last contested presidential primary season.

On his way to losing, Giuliani is going to divert a lot of money away from the inevitable Republican nominee, John McCain. Giuliani's losing campaign is also going to pull a lot of pro-choice, independent voters away from McCain in the general election. McCain has had very strong appeal among those voters for years because, among other things, they don't quite realize how hard-core his anti-abortion position actually is. When Republican primary voters discover how liberal Giuliani has been on social issues--along with how many wives he's had and how many gay men he has lived with while waiting for a divorce to come through--they are going to abandon him faster than Democratic voters fled from Howard Dean. But the only way they are going to "discover" Giuliani's record on social issues is for John McCain to tell them about it. McCain's campaign has the most vicious attackers in politics today, including Bush campaign graduates and the Swift Boat attack team. They are going to make Giuliani look very bad to conservative voters, but, in the process, they are going to make McCain look bad to moderates he will need in the general election. ...

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Cliff Schecter: Get Your Moronic Michelle Malkin Here!

admin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:44:32 -0500

You may have seen the non-controversy over John Edwards' hiring of talented blogger Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon fame. Or maybe not.

The basic story is that uber-moronic Right-tards such as Michelle Malkin, whose IQ has been in an internment camp for the better part of her life, thinks it's really bad that Amanda said words like "fuck" on her blog....

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Bob Geiger: GOP Stalls On Minimum Wage To Avoid Iraq Votes

admin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:44:40 -0500

The majority of Senate Republicans filibustering and delaying the passage of a new minimum wage law may be heartless, but they're not dumb. They know that bumping the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour is enormously popular with the American people and they're also aware that it passed by huge numbers in the House of Representatives, with 80 Republicans voting in favor of helping the working poor....

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi: Progress is Possible Again

admin — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:44:18 -0500

"Bully for the Democrats...They did what we didn't have the guts to do when it matters."

- Republican Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), January 5, 2007

That is what one of my Republican colleagues had to say about the first act of the Democratic majority, clamping down on corruption, lobbying, and earmarks. His sentiment was echoed in editorial pages across the country, along with many Republicans and millions of Americans, who are fully awakening to the optimism and possibility of a new direction in our government. ...

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Steve Young: "Everyone Agrees That Failure in Iraq Would Be Disastrous": The Talking Point That Is A Recipe For Further Disaster

admin — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:44:32 -0500

Once again, the Vice President reiterated the "Everyone agrees that failure in Iraq would be disastrous" talking point on Fox Friendly News Sunday.

It's another one of those "Do you want America to lose?" idioms that pretty much leaves you with one answer otherwise you've pretty much admitted that you're continuing to beat your wife.

What the cice President wants you to believe is that, if you don't want failure you'd have to choose the President's plan....

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Sen. Charles E. Schumer: Back to Work on the Issues that Matter

admin — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:44:21 -0500

This past November, the American people sent us an undeniable message: they want change. For far too long, Congress took its eye off of helping people. In the last Congress, for example, under Republican control, we didn't do anything to make college more affordable, implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations to make us safer, raise the minimum wage, or hold the President's feet to the fire on Iraq and the War on Terror. Now, that's all going to change....

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Saddam execution condemned! Which source will be the first?

admin — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:28:46 -0500