MegaDollar Military Fails Small Where Unity08 Aims Big

Jim Cook 6/13/2007
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The corporate leaders of Unity08 say they aim to run their own first national secure online presidential nominating election on July 1, 2008. They haven’t raised even half a million dollars yet, money they say they will mainly spend on …

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Evaluating the 2006 Democratic Senators

jclifford 5/18/2007
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Isn’t it a funny thing that 2006 was the year when progressive ideals were vindicated, but so many not-very-progressive Democrats were elected to the Senate? Even the best of this bunch, James Webb, Sherrod Brown, and Ben Cardin, are only half-progressive. Jon Tester and Sheldon Whitehouse were promoted as strong progressives, but with a progressive voting record so far of only 17 percent, that seems to have been a campaign distortion.

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Politics and Jewelry Linked After Elections

jclifford 5/17/2007
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The searches for the term politics surges and then drops off, and then, about one month later, the same thing happens with searches for the term jewelry. Are people getting interested in politics before Election Day, then soothing their political burnout by buying jewelry?

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Christine Jennings May Have Won in Florida

jclifford 5/17/2007
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Why is it that the Sarasota Election Supervisor’s office did not disclose the worm attack sooner, given that Christine Jennings is contesting the election results? The Supervisor had information about the worm attack just days after the Election, but failed to report that it took place.

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This is SO Not About Injecting Politics into Justice

Jim Cook 4/25/2007
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Life is just chock full of coincidences. Like, get this. In the two months leading up to the elections of 2006, Representative Rick Renzi of Arizona was becoming an increasingly central target in a corruption investigation. And he was, like, …

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Posted in Election 2006, Ethics, Politics, Republicans, State and Local | 1 Comment

Steve Cohen Cleans Up After Harold Ford Jr.

jclifford 4/10/2007
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Steve Cohen has co-sponsored H.R. 1415, the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007. This legislation would undo the mistake made by Harold Ford Jr. and a shamefully large number of other members of Congress.

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Elections Have Consequences

Jim Cook 3/22/2007
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Yesterday, Al Gore was called before the Senate to testify about global warming, and former committee chair Senator James Inhofe kept asking Gore questions but didn’t give him any time to answer, because he said if he did Gore would …

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Sherrod Brown Supports Tyranny, Ignores Constituent

Jim Cook 3/2/2007
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Sherrod Brown, newly elected U.S. Senator for Ohio, is part of the class of politicians who were elected in 2006 as part of the Democratic Party’s self-described mission to fix what the Republican majority has been getting wrong. One of …

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Congress Dawdles On Habeas Corpus

jclifford 2/21/2007
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If Congress won’t stand up against the Military Commissions Act, then it up to you to stand up. It is up to you to stand up and join with other Americans, forcing Congress to repeal the Military Commissions Act. It up to you to decide if you will be a citizen of a democracy or a subject in a dictatorship.

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Why Did Decider Wait To Implement His Decision?

jclifford 1/16/2007
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For partisan political gain, Bush dithered with the war, proving that right wing ideologues cannot be trusted with the lives of American soldiers.

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One Week From Today, Protest To Shut Down Guantanamo

jclifford 1/4/2007
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There’s a clear test of whether Democrats’ oversight of the White House is more than just a show: Will the Democrats shut down the American gulag at Guantanamo Bay?

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Clintonistas Lose Power

Jim Cook 1/3/2007
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Do you remember the thinly veiled attempt by Rahm Emanuel, James Carville and other DC-based Clinton loyalists to oust Howard Dean as head of the Democratic National Committee after the November 2006 elections? They wanted a party leader who would …

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Don’t Just Blame Virgil Goode

jclifford 12/22/2006
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The problem is that the people of Virginia’s 5th congressional district overwhelmingly re-elected Virgil Goode this year, with a 19 percent margin of victory, 59 percent of the people in Goode’s district voted for him, in spite of his nasty right wing ideas and history of corruption.

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Temporary Amelioration for Workers, Permanent Bonus for Business

Jim Cook 12/21/2006
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George W. Bush may be stupid, but he’s not a complete idiot. He knows that with the Democrats winning control of the House and Senate, there will be a bill raising the minimum wage coming his way. He knows that …

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Russian-Style Poisoning Could Throw America Government Back to GOP

jclifford 12/14/2006
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If someone wanted to stop the Democrats from gaining control over the United States Senate through nefarious means, now is the time that they would strike, and Tim Johnson is exactly the kind of Senator they would chose to target.

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Ticked Off By Both Sides of the Ellen Tauscher BrouHaHa

Jim Cook 12/12/2006
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Over at the California Majority Report, Katie Merrill gets mighty insistent about “good Democrats” and what “good Democrats” should do when Democratic Representative Ellen Tauscher runs for re-election in 2008: Only a month has passed since the Dems took back …

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Of Democratic Fantasy and Indian Nuke Reality

jclifford 12/9/2006
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If we can’t trust the Democrats to exercise oversight on plans to send materials and knowhow for making nuclear weapons overseas, what can we trust them on?

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Creationism Resurgent! Ish! Sort of! OK, Not Really. At All.

Jim Cook 12/4/2006
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Just you wait, they said after their failed attempt to insert religion into the science curricula of Dover, Pennsylvania and the entire state of Kansas. We’ll show you, you, you… science sympathizers! We’ll put creationism in the public schools of …

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