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From Media Matters, 09/21/2007: Before MoveOn’s “General Betray Us,” there was Limbaugh’s “Senator Betrayus” Summary: Rush Limbaugh has called the MoveOn.org “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” advertisement “contemptible” and “indecent,” but months earlier, on his radio show, he told his audience that he had a new name for Senator Chuck Hagel: “Senator Betrayus.” [...] When last we checked in on Norm Coleman — Republican, senator, and unstoppable juggernaut of, um, something or other – we were calling and emailing him last Wednesday morning to encourage him to support Amendment S. 2202 (same text as the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (S.185) to the DOD Auth bill (HR 1585). And what [...] Via Spot, recently returned from an entire week spent refreshingly sans-intertubes. Lucky dog… There will be a vote on cloture tomorrow morning, Wednesday at 10:30 AM, on the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act. There are still votes needed to overcome a filibuster on this important legislation. One of the fence sitters is, you guessed it, [...] Take a hint from Theda:
Got back from Yearly Kos late Sunday night, and I expect I will be posting some thoughts and reminiscences about that before the week is over, but as usual, life intervenes in all our plans and comes up with stuff to do that just can’t wait, so it’s slow slogging and light blogging for [...] It was one year ago today that BSP’s feisty and intrepid proprietor Ollie Ox set up blogshop in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District.  From its very first post a year ago to today’s, BSP has been and is now more than ever THE essential site for news from Minnesota’s Fighting First. Please join me [...] In Pamplona it’s time for San Fermin and its famous running of the bulls.. Meanwhile, back home in Key West with Hemingway’s famous six-toed cats… [...] Oh, for — ! My old buddy Travis at Rain Storm has tagged me with that Eight Things meme.   Travis, Travis… how can I ever repay you? Ehh,  I’m sure I’ll eventually think of something appropriate. Needless to say, I’d watch my back if I were you.  Drumroll, please… 1. All right, here are [...] Scooter Libby is a convicted felon. George W. Bush intervened to spare him jail time. In order to do so, Bush circumvented the processes he himself had put in place for pardons and commutations. Bush did this because Scooter Libby was Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, and possibly to continue to guarantee that Libby [...] Humphrey uttered many a pithy, punchy statement in his day. Here’s another good one: “Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” And another: “Liberalism, above all, means emancipation — emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination… from poverty.†Read more here. Those and more [...] |
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