"President Obama is simply a bad bet"

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Saturday June 23, 2012 · 3:43 PM PDT

2012/06/23 · 15:43

"President Obama is simply a bad bet, no matter what you believe." That was the concluding statement in today's diatribe by Will Cain on the CNN show, "Your Money." Link Here. The subject of the discussion was how the economy is "Heading over a fiscal cliff."

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Thursday September 17, 2009 · 10:51 PM PDT

2009/09/17 · 22:51

The Southern strategy refers to:

... a purported Republican method of winning Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting opposition among the conservative South to the cultural upheaval of New Left, Vietnam protests, and the Hippie culture. Some analysts think widespread demographic shifts and the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008 are signs that the Southern strategy is declining in significance.

The election of Barack Obama as president does indicate something, but the Southern strategy is not in decline. It has just gotten a new face: Southern Strategy 2.0.

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 9:44 AM PDT

2009/09/10 · 09:44

Most people who care anything about politics and facts know that Sean Hannity and Frank Luntz are shameless liars. Last night I saw what has to rank as one of the more blatent examples.

From time to time I watch Faux Noise to see what kind of hate and lies they are broadcasting under the guise of 'news.' I checked in for my monthly esposure to see what they were saying about Obama's address to the joint session of Congress. As luck would have it, Sean Hannity and Frank Luntz were having a 'discussion' about that very thing. In a span of about 3 minutes they both demonstrated that they will say anything, without any regard for truth or facts.

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 8:31 PM PDT

2009/08/31 · 20:31

In mcjoan's post today, More of that Good Ol' "Bipartisanship", she points us to a Wapo article in which Grassley says he has always been opposed to the Obama administration's health care plan.

That is not what he was saying in July of this year.

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 6:49 PM PDT

2009/08/30 · 18:49

The daughter of a friend started her freshman year at a state university two weeks ago. She came home this weekend and told her dad:

"College is hard. They don't give you study guides and you can't get extra credit. You take three tests and that's your grade."

My friend called and asked if I had any advice for her. Long story short, I wrote down a few suggestions and sent them to him in an e-mail. Over the years I have thought about how people tell students to "study hard" and "make good grades," but no one ever tells them how to do that. Thinking these suggestions might be useful to someone, I decided to share them:

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 7:31 PM PDT

2009/07/22 · 19:31

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today. Graham made a statement that demonstrates perfectly why Republicans should not be allowed to govern.

Graham said:

This idea that the government has to be involved in the private sector to make the private sector honest really is troubling, because that's not the way America works.

Graham is either really stupid or a liar.

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Monday July 06, 2009 · 12:57 PM PDT

2009/07/06 · 12:57

The DKos Chess Tournament 2009 open thread is now open! Updated standings and results through Round 3 are posted below.

Round 3 is currently scheduled to end TONIGHT. Please schedule your match as soon as possible and complete it before 8 pm ET at the latest. The match-ups for Round 4 will be posted at or around 11 pm ET.

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Monday June 29, 2009 · 10:16 AM PDT

2009/06/29 · 10:16

DKos Chess Tournament 2009: updated standings and results through Round 2.

SuperBowlXX will be posting match-ups for Round 3 around 8-9 pm ET.

The DKos Chess Tournament 2009 open thread is now open!

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Wednesday June 10, 2009 · 2:42 PM PDT

2009/06/10 · 14:42

Yesterday, Eric Cantor offered one example of why I don't like Republicans. He published this on his "republicanwhip" website:

... today, we’re hearing from the White House that it is the emphasis on PAYGO that Congress must now focus on. Now, that is an interesting claim given that we have just gone through five months of historic spending of taxpayer dollars. We've amassed more debt over the last five months than this country has amassed in the last 200 years. This Congress rammed through a $3.6 trillion budget. So for us to sit here and listen to the White House say that ‘we ought to be responsible, we ought to pay for what we’re doing’ I think lacks just a little bit of credibility.

We Republicans, as the Leader said, are continuing to offer solutions. We will offer and ask the President once again to sit down with us. We’ve tried before and were not listened to and ignored and we said that the stimulus effort could be a lot better...

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Friday June 05, 2009 · 9:51 PM PDT

2009/06/05 · 21:51

A new website has been launched to address the economics of climate change. The Real Climate Economics website:

... offers a reader’s guide to the real economics of climate change, an emerging body of scholarship that is consistent with the urgency of the problem as seen from a climate science perspective.

As the climate policy debate intensifies, economic analysis is playing an increasingly central role. The case for inaction is no longer argued on the grounds of skepticism about the science; instead, some have claimed that it will be too expensive to take more than token initiatives. There is now extensive economic analysis that challenges and refutes this idea. The peer-reviewed literature demonstrates that there is rigorous economic support for immediate, large-scale policy responses to the climate crisis.

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Monday June 01, 2009 · 1:32 PM PDT

2009/06/01 · 13:32

Retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, along with Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and author Ron Suskind appeared in a New York City theater last night for a discussion hosted by Rachel Maddow. General Sanchez is the former V Corps commander of coalition forces in Iraq.

In that discussion Sanchez said, "I support the formation of a truth commission" to get to the bottom of of the abuses and torture that occurred in Iraq. Afterwards, he said such a commission was necessary for " ... the American people to really know what happened (...) this was an institutional failure, a personal failure on the part of many. (...) If we do not find out what happened, then we are doomed to repeat it."

This is not the first time General Sanchez has called for "criminal prosecution actions." In a little noticed appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show he called for investigations into the "abuse and in fact torture" in Iraq.

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Wednesday May 27, 2009 · 12:15 AM PDT

2009/05/27 · 00:15

A new article posted on the McClatchy website says crude-oil inventories are at levels not seen for almost two decades, demand is at a 10-year low, and refiners are operating at less than 85 percent of capacity. Why have crude oil prices increased more than 70 percent since mid-January and gasoline prices increased 28 cents/gallon in the last month?

We hear that supply and demand drives market prices but these numbers don't support that claim. It appears we are back to the argument about speculators dumping huge sums of money into commodities markets and driving up the prices. Because Wall Street banks are not subject to the same regulations that limit positions in commodities investments, we don't know how much they are dumping into commodities markets. So we will continue to argue this until the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 is repealed, or at least modified to limit how much the commodities markets can be controlled and manipulated.

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