The day when the Democratic Party left me
In the last 5 or 6 years, we've seen many Republicans turn against their party and proclaim I did not leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me! Some said this because they disagreed...
View ArticleThe Clintons' sense of entitlement and the Democratic Party
For the Democratic Party, the tone the race is taking is a recipe for electoral calamity not just in November, but for future electoral prospects.
View ArticleAttend Rules and Bylaws Meeting: Pre-register!
The Rules and Bylaws Committee to decide the fate for the time being on the Florida and Michigan delegations on May 31st will be open to the public. However, there will be a limited number of seats,...
View ArticleA last-day Money Bomb for Obama? (At least a bomblet?)
I've just made my next bi-weekly contribution to the Obama campaign. Now that we're in the last hundred days of this interminable campaign season, I think it's really important for those of us who can...
View ArticleOur Future as "ONE" Country
In which I try to give a little historical perspective to where we are at this time in American history.
View ArticleWhy The Left Should Trust Barack Obama
Evans Politics Opinion, May 8, 2009, by Dr. Jack E. Evans and Paul EvansI am introducing here my father, Dr. Jack E. Evans, who is a retired 84 year old professor of Russian language and literature...
View ArticleCorrected: Joe Lieberman Resigned from the Democratic Caucus this morning:...
So Joe Lieberman decided to pull a classic Lieberman move; vow to filibuster (not vote against, but prevent a vote on) the best chance the Democratic Party has ever had to pass real, meaningful health...
View ArticleThe only lesson Democrats should be taking.
People want change, and they want it yesterday. People are pissed. If you don't give them change, they will take it out on you. No matter what position you claim to take on the issues.THE END.
View ArticleWe must destroy this party to pass this bill
The endless effort to pass a health insurance reform bill will go down as one of the great debacles in U.S. political history. In early 2009, Democrats had wide lead over Republicans in the matchup...
View ArticleDemocratic Senators and Obama Don't Get It - Updated
There are currently 2 million Americans who are out of money, out of work, and out of hope -- the unemployed Americans for whom our Senators did not extend unemployment benefits. And this number is...
View Article2010 Mid-Term Elections, West Virginia, Texas, Alaska, The Republic, and the...
Hello fellow Dkos family. We are now thrust upon the gallant day of November 2 of 2010. This is a wonderous and beautiful event. If you have not voted yet, I urge you to vote.
View ArticleWe Are In This Together. Together!
The tide of history is on our side, the tide of the changing of our national demographics is on our side, and most important of all, as corny as it may sound: truth, justice and the American way are on...
View ArticleChris Hedges, and the Lateness Of The Hour
While I don't agree with him in every particular, I think his diagnosis of the central problem is basically right: the Democratic Party has allowed (even encouraged at times) the dismantling of the New...
View ArticleTrumka: Catfood Comm. To Working Americans: "Drop Dead."
Earlier today I made a couple comments saying Catfood Commission to Middle Class: Drop Dead.Well it seems that Richard Trumka, leader of the AFL-CIO, sees it the same way:With this report the Deficit...
View ArticleWhy this compromise is different from all other compromises
Yesterday evening President Obama announced that he had come to an agreement with Republican leaders to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans by two years. A two-year extension, given...
View ArticleWhen Middle Schoolers Serve in Congress
The 2010 election wave has unfortunately swept in a group of lawmakers that apparently have the maturity of twelve year old children. The most powerful country in the world is being held hostage by a...
View ArticleCan We Please Get Back to the Issues with Poll.
Ok. Let the feeding frenzy be done. I happen to agree with one Kossack who had the courage to write a diary stating that they 'did not care about what the Republicans' have to say.Why should I? All...
View ArticleMatt Taibbi Has Finally Called Andrew Ross Sorkin on his Bullshi$
I knew that this day had to finally come for the great (and very few real journalists out there,) Matt Taibbi, and I for one welcome it. Taibbi has finally had it up to here (hold your hand over your...
View ArticleSadly, Rep. Marcy Kaptur Speaks the Words President Obama Shoud Be Saying
Please feel free to file this in your own 'Memory Warehouses' under 'Profiles in Courage.' I have been following Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur for a very long time, and time and time again she just...
View ArticleDeliberate Cruelty is the Only Unforgivable Sin
July 7, 2011 - What a great day for Democrats and Progressives on Daily Kos. I've never been prouder of my party to see all the fantastic action diaries, that felt like fresh air blowing through the...
View ArticleThe Fight Was Lost When Obama Was In Law School?
There is a bit here and I ask you to read it. The title comes from a "senior Democratic official" who told Ben Smith that We didn't lose this fight. Barack Obama was in law school when this fight was...
View ArticleNot GBCW but PTFA
I was raised in a Democratic voting household, my dad was a member of the IBEW and we would be considered lifelong Democrats. My family and the millions of families like us make up a significant...
View ArticleWhat Radicalized You? Reading Greider 20 Years Later
Crossposted from Rogue Nation.When I moved to DC at in January 1993, I was a partisan liberal Democrat who thought the Republican Party was the country's central problem. When I moved away from DC in...
View ArticleDon't Vote
Don’t vote. Forget about handing out pamphlets, or making house calls. Don’t contribute. Do not attend political rallies or attend Party conventions. Ignore political polls. Log off your favorite...
View ArticleLessons Learned From a Stray Cat - A Celebration
Several years ago, a pitiful stray cat searching for food came to our back door. He had been beaten so badly he trembled uncontrollably, walking slowly and deliberately the same way a person in the...
View ArticleA Response to the Third Way Article Posted at Politico
To the leadership of the Third Way:Your policies have failed.Despite your constant efforts to mask the truth, most Americans are intelligent enough to know the realities of their own lives. If they...
View ArticleClimate Change & GOP destruction; what if the Vietnam War was still going on?
Warning: Thought Experiment: What if Vietnam wouldn't agree to a truce and we were fighting there today; even after 50 years. What if Vietnam were winning battle after battle? Could you imagine the...
View ArticleWhy is the ACA still unpopular
We've heard a ton of good news: successful sign-ups, decreasing uninsured, premium rates decreasing or holding steady. Yet The Affordable Care Act remains unpopular! What is going on.
View ArticleWhy The TPP is a Game Changer
In February 2008, with only two candidates left in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama distributed a flier to Ohio voters denouncing Hillary Clinton’s support of NAFTA....
View ArticleWhy Many Populists Are Abandoning The Democratic Party
On March 30, 2011, an international human rights observer witnessed and reported an unusually cruel and violent confrontation between a NY police officer and an Occupy Wall Street protester. While...
View ArticleDebbie Wasserman Schultz: "I *can't* worry about that."
DNC's Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "Thrilled" Republican Debate Drowning Out Talk Of Lack Of Democratic Debatesrealclearpolitics.com[...] MITCHELL: The Republicans are drowning you guys out, though....
View ArticleGov. Terry McAuliffe joins the "Debate" Debate
Well that didn't take long ... for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to tap her reserve bench ...McAuliffe: 6 debates are enough for DemocratsPhiladelphia's mayor also chimes in on the subject.by Gabriel...
View ArticleAn extraction colony for the .01%
This week the U.S. House voted largely in favor of exporting gas and oil. Twenty six Democrats voted in favor of this. Meanwhile there is TPP, and efforts to raise the debt ceiling. The media is...
View ArticleObama, Jobs, Reelection.
If jobs are not created in this country then President Obama will not be reelected. President Obama and the Democratic congress screwed up when they passed the stimulus bill and did not send enough...
View ArticleOnus Now On Hillary Fans to Show A Little Grace
I get it. It’s been a protracted battle within the Democratic Party and BERNIE STILL HASN’T CONCEDED! You’re SO MAD! #NeverHillary in the face of a DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY??? WHO ARE THESE IDIOTS?!?...
View ArticleAbstention
First posting for Daily Kos. Professional writer, writing under a pseudonym because… you know.Obviously, the Democrats need to become the Party of No. Whatever Trump wants, the attitude should be, No....
View ArticleBefore the Parade Passes by Democracy
Though no political starry-eyed novice, viewing stunning Brit cast of Parade’s End, I wondered aloud, who could lie so easily with equal measure of arrogance and hypocrisy, without a scintilla of...
View ArticleTrump: "I’m the only one that matters!"
My father’s siblings were often admonished by my Grandmamma with, Sundays are for good news, Mondays for bad. Yet, Sunday’s news was bloodied by gun violence against Americans asking for hope, seeking...
View ArticleDreaming in the Age of Women v. Trump
Borrowing from his presidential immorality, Trump’s peddling fake muck, racking over Dreamers, to mislabel them felons, exposes his anti-Americanism, while unknowingly disclosing, Liberty Island...
View ArticleForgive them Father, for They Know Not What Trump is Doing
Weary of Joe Scarborough’s insisting Trump is not the warped, but predictable extension of, Taft’s Little Brown Brothers, Hoover’s Hoovervilles, Eisenhower’s Dulles Brothers infestation, Nixon’s...
View ArticleObama Sets the Record Straight: He's Still the Real Deal.
This is a throwback moment. I’ve been around long enough now to throw a little bone out into the internet here, as quiet a landing as it will make. My first job out of college was working on a book...
View ArticleDaily Kos should use Crowdpac campaigns to create meaningful liberal...
In light of the progress of Brett Kavanaugh's likely confirmation today, I think Daily Kos should create CrowdPac campaigns against incumbent candidates as part of a long-term strategy in primaries so...
View ArticleNever Forget, America’s Mission is Keeping Promises
Haven’t Americans promised to, do unto others as we hope they will do unto us, love thy neighbor as thyself, elevate tired and poor to Land of the Free opportunities, instead of duping devout,...
View ArticleOur Constitution, Big Pharma, Climate Change and Other Lies we Tell Ourselves
Trump sailing along with floating Russian Nuclear Reactor, radiating Sarah Palin’s view from her front porch, portends ICE isn’t the only thing endangering American Homeland Security.If mental health...
View ArticleUSA Denial: Gun Violence, Climate Change & Life-saving Medical Treatment
Until we stop yielding rational thinking to Corporatism’s mental programming, dismantling government to expedite nation collapsing, we will continually allow the few who choose to be blind, to diminish...
View ArticleElijah Cummings, Trump/Pence Impeachment and Other Changes, Changing Us
Trump’s Turkey/Kurdish fiasco, Pence/Pompeo ceasefire façade and bedbug ridden self-serving deflated Doral trial balloon notwithstanding, change we can, seeing is believing, in, is here - Iceland’s...
View ArticleTrans Awareness Week, Day 3. Do you understand the issue in this diary?
Here in the U.S., trans advocates, and legislators who are aware, will see the bills being submitted by the oppressors. Those intended to interfere with known treatments that help people with gender...
View ArticleBiden Won, But the Party Lost. Will the Democrats Learn the Lessons in Time...
New York, November 18, 2020Biden Won DecisivelyBiden finally won the White House with a nationwide popular vote of 79.0 million /50.9%, carrying 25 states and DC with 306 electoral votes. Biden’s...
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