In Which I Challenge Dubya to Three Rounds
President George W. Bush The White HouseDear Mr. President,I hereby publicly challenge to you to a boxing match, three rounds of two minutes, to be conducted according to the rules of USA Boxing...
View ArticleManaging Weakness
Marcus Buckingham is a great writer when it comes to mangement and leadership. In his book First break all the rules he writes about management and how to become a better manager. One small thing that...
View ArticleThe German Terror Plot Media Scare [Translation of German Article Inside]
Corporate American Media has time and time again use the tactic of stirring up fear against the American people it supposedly serves. This, sadly is not a new story. Today we have another perfect...
View ArticleTime to ask: Maybe the Democrats really ARE weak?
They smear dems with it every election cycle. Weak on defense. Weak on crime. Weak on drugs. Weak on everything. We moan and cry that "it isn't fair, its simply not true, they just have 'nuance' and...
View ArticleA criticism that really hurts Bush
Bush relies on his tough-guy image for core support. Truman he isn't, but how can we counteract that false picture?
View ArticleAction Alert: Great American Hypocrites
I've been a fan of Glenn Greenwald's work for a long time now, and bought his first two books. He's a wonderfully precise and passionate writer, and I always learn something.His recent post about his...
View ArticleThe Strength of Obama's Weakness
Rev. Wright, Bittergate, William Ayers. All these issues had my little fingers typing as fast as possible to Barack pleading, no, more like begging him to hit her back and hit her back hard. He...
View ArticleI Have High Hopes for the Republicans
The Republican Party no longer has a set of ideas that resonate with the American people. They've cast about trying to find one but they just don't have a coherent platform that will win elections....
View ArticleRedefining Strength, Redefining Weakness.
In the two weeks since Obama has been inaugurated, right wing commentariat has been searching for some signs from Obama to confirm their suspicion: that he is too naive, too weak and unqualified to be...
View ArticleWhat Digby Said
[Cross-posted from The Left Coaster.How are you? Is a question that has been lobbed my way with increasing frequency lately, finally spurring me to spit out some text, if only to assuage the guilt of...
View ArticleObama's about to sell us out. He's lost the plot.
Via TPM:"White House official told the New York Times"It's so important to get a deal [that Obama] will do almost anything it takes to get one," which strikes some as an all-too-apt description of the...
View ArticleRe Van Jones: We need to learn to fight back
This article, from the Washington Times of all places, was highlighted on the DKos front page:Emboldened by the ouster of presidential adviser Van Jones, conservative and business groups are launching...
View ArticleJoe F***ing Lieberman
Every day Lieberman has any role in the Senate backed by Democrats demonstrates to the country that Democrats cannot get things done.Average people are not as stupid as the political elites seem to...
View ArticleSenators revise climate bill to court GOP support
Short and to the point.WTFReally, just how weak and helpless does the Democratic leadership have to be to "court" people who state up-front that they will vote against you! No matter what!
View ArticleWhy Republicans Win... and Democrats Lose (w/poll)
Now that President Obama has instructed Senate Majority Leader Reid to give in to the demands of Joe Lieberman and remove the meaningful parts of the health care reform bill -- and the bill becomes...
View ArticleI wish I had voted for Hillary.
A year ago, I could not have imagined I'd be writing these words. While I respected—and still respect—Hillary Clinton for her service as a Senator and as First Lady, I knew she would be terrible on...
View ArticleMy Resolution: Show The GOP Who's WEAK
So here we are. As was the case with the wannabe shoe-bomber Richard Reid in 2001, we have another failed attempt at holiday havoc by a sad lightweight wanting jihad martyrdom. You might recall Reid...
View ArticleChoosing to fail, throwing the fight
President Obama:You are choosing to fail. You are throwing the fight with all our lives at stake. Stop groveling and stop making excuses. Stop sucking up to right-wingers, and please stop sneering...
View ArticleI want to stick with Democrats - But may not be able to
There are two recommended diaries right now that discuss the merits of staying with the Democratic Party.NYC Eve writes that if Democrats fail to pass health care reform, she is unsure of how she will...
View ArticleSpare me the excuses, democrats. Govern or leave.
From Asbury Park Press:In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single,...
View ArticleHow to play poker by David Axelrod
from How To Play Poker by David AxelrodThe Situation: You’re dealt a non-suited 3, 8.My Recommendation: The chance of you winning the hand is very low. You should fold. We have to deal with the world...
View ArticleHas the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul? (w/poll)
A growing chorus on the left is calling for the president and other Democratic politicians to "show some backbone" and "fight," rather than compromising with conservative Republicans as seems to be so...
View ArticleDear Mr. President. Welcome to Your Challenge in the Democratic Primaries.
I love President Obama but it's getting to be too much.In the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln kept waiting for the head of the armed forces to engage the south, but General McLellan wasn't ready to fight....
View ArticleThe Capitulator-in-Chief keeps caving
Neville Chamberlain had nothing on this dudeBudget talks came to life Wednesday but not without tension between the White House and Senate Democrats, worried that the administration was too quick to...
View ArticleAl Gore Comes Out Swinging at Obama
I was wondering when or whether this might happen. I guess one of the benefits of being retired from electoral politics is that it gives you a little independence. I a show of resolve that he never...
View ArticleCareGiving Kos: "Show me what you do and I'll tell you what you believe."
It's been months. You're feeling isolated - alone. Financially, your income has dropped substantially and you're scrambling to pay bills, but it's all a haze. You're primary focus is your loved one....
View ArticleDear Mr. O'Reilly
I try not to take Bill O'Reilly too seriously, but since Keith O. took himself off the air, Bill has had a nearly free ride.
View ArticleRomney is so weak, he's getting PUSHED AROUND by Todd Akin!
It's absolutely appalling to see Mitt Romney, supposedly the next leader of the Free World, get shoved around by Todd Akin. It makes him look very, very weak.Romney told him to drop out, Akin told...
View ArticleThe "Attacks=Weakness" Meme
According to vast sections of the right, including Team Romney, it wasn't the over the top troll effort posted to Youtube that ignited the attacks on American diplomats in the Middle East and North...
View ArticlePower Posing: Make Mitt Look Weak and Foolish
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t...
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Embarrassment: Skeet Shooting Photo
There is nothing more I want than to believe that somehow decent people of good will will triumph over those who embrace vulgarity, dishonesty, opportunism, greed and deception, as integral parts of...
View ArticleHarry Reid: Butterknife rattler...
Jesus H Christ.... is Harry Reid the most IMPOTENT Dem senator we've ever had?You can damn bet every time this guy makes a threat, I AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.He's that scrawny kid who thinks he's going to...
View ArticleThe Inexperienced Chief Executive
We have a president with little management experience. And it'sshowing.The health care reform mess has been spectacular. The troubles with the program's website and enrollment are only the beginning....
View ArticleCRUSH the GOP, don't compromise with 'em-- how to win in 2016 (and what not...
My precinct captains and fellow volunteers held a cold-eyed postmortem into the wee hours after the fiasco last night, and the exit poll data has made the reasons for Shellacking Part 2 in 2014 quite...
View ArticleThe Progress of Fighting Lyme (& Co-infections) 8
Again, some weeks have passed since I wrote an entry. Some of the developments are good, some rather bad. This reminds me of an off-color joke I saw published in an undergraduate humor magazine called...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Greatest Weaknesses: Race And Gender Issues
Kathleen Geier has a great piece on Bernie Sanders weaknesses, when it comes to race and gender. She writes from the perspective that Sanders has an exemplary record on these issues, but lacks...
View ArticleTrue Weakness and Strength in the Age of Trump
In the early to mid-Seventies, my mother, like many women of the period, found much appealing about the Women's Liberation movement. The inequalities between men and women were prominent and reform was...
View ArticleAnn Coulter Triples Down on “Retard” As Perfectly AcceptableLanguage … For...
From: impracticalcogitator.wordpress.com/…This grotesquerie of a campaign has provided more vile rhetoric than we may be able to remember without injury. Words are just words, but they leave a stain,...
View ArticleIt's the weakness that gets me....
I cringed through the GWBush presidency. I spent 4 years embarrassed for my country….watching grown men wet their pants over the most minor threats. The orange alerts, the hair-on-fire proclamations...
View ArticleDonald Trump is Weak -- how we can erode his support among Trump voters
Donald Trump pretends that he is all powerful and will win every time. That fake show of strength is what attracts many of his supporters. But he is actually quite weak and if we can point that out...
View ArticleTrump Is Weak And Democrats Need To Say So
I'd like to call attention to a piece by John Stoehr over at the Washington Monthly that focuses of the importance for Democrats in characterizing Trump as weak. This is kind of the flip side of a...
View ArticleTrump's Weakness Is Diminishing America.
Braggadocio is not courage. Bluster is not strength. Promises are not achievement. But that is all Donald Trump has. He preens, but just for show. He can't fire an employee in person. He can't...
View ArticleDo you have a specific weakness for an unhealthy food?
Because of my many illnesses I try not to eat too unhealthy,. as of late now that I am no longer on steroids my blood sugar has been good also.But there are some foods that I love that I know are not...
View ArticleTaking the Non-Impeachment News Hard
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]I began the process of purging my Twitter account of 95% of its political input yesterday, the political news has been such a daily hammer blow for so long I hit a...
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U.S. troops will be evacuating from Iraq under fire. Will it wake MAGA's up...
The occupation of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by unarmed militia members was a statement by Iran to Trump that they are in control of our destiny in Iraq. But because Trump is an impetuous child and...
View Article“Radical Left Mayor” informs POTUS what weakness really is…
Proving once again that there is no crisis he can’t turn into a wedge issue, no national trauma he won’t use in an attempt to turn American against American, POTUS squeezed out the first turd of his...
View ArticleSen. Dianne Feinstein hints she'll Revive Blue Slips, in Preemptive Surrender...
Because, clearly, archaic Senate traditions that the GOP no longer observes are more important than protecting democracy.“I have never heard a problem. No one has — in 26 years — brought me a problem...
View ArticleWhat is your food weakness?
As I have gotten older I made the decision to try to keep kosher.Which reminds me of an old joke… a variant is hereA rabbi and a priest are eating lunch together. The priest leans over and says, "Is it...
View ArticleEarly Results suggest Covid-19 may be even more insidious than first realized.
The New York Times has an article by Pam Belluck that paints an alarming picture. Covid-19 may have non–trivial neurological consequences.They Had Mild Covid. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.A...
View ArticleSomething has changed. Republicans are behaving VERY atypically (even for them).
This diary is admittedly down to opinion and conjecture, and I have no facts to back this up. But this article interested me a lot. www.dailykos.com/…I’ll let you read Joan McCarter’s article in all...
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