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How Negotiation Works -- A Primer for Purists

I've read about the last "I'm so disappointed that Obama is negotiating on SS and Medicare" comment that I want to read.  I'm going to write this diary and then I'm going to take the weekend off from...

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The Teabaggers Are Getting ONE Thing Accomplished This Year -- The End of the...

For 66 years, the USA has been one of the most potent nations ever to stride across the world stage.  Ever since we were practically the only economy to emerge from WWII with any semblance of vitality,...

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Please Go Poop on this CNBC Article: "Raising Taxes Does Not Increase Revenue"

Led to CNBC by a front-page diary, I couldn't help notice this article quoting JFK that "raising taxes does not increase revenue."It's a badly written piece of shit.  The author, Jeff Cox, seems to...

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Time to Focus on Grover Norquist

The stories just out now are conflicting that Grover Norquist either did or did not give the GOP cover to raise taxes.The story that we should be pushing loudly and angrily is WHO THE FUCK IS GROVER...

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Dear Mainstream Media Idiots: False Equivalence is Destroying This Country,...

One of the most aggravating memes for Democrats in the last few years has been "both sides do it."  It's the most insulting, idiotic, chickenshit copout you can possibly give for incompetent, venal, or...

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Meta: I Am Tired of Getting Silently Logged Out

This happens every 2-3 days.  I'm pretty sick of it.  I am silently logged out of the site, often in the middle of a session.  I don't realize anything is wrong until I try to reply to a...

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This Hostage Crisis Was Our Own Making

The expectations of 2008 turned into the disappointment of 2010.  It's tiresome re-hashing all of the bullshit that's gone under the bridge, the Clown Halls of 2009, the emergence of the Firebaggers...

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Let's Make McConnell Eat His Words

Mitch McConnell has already promised more hostage-taking.  Now, there is not a damn thing we can do about the response the Dems or President would have to such an act.  But maybe we can make a...

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Know Your Right-Wing Trash Talking Points

If you're encountering a lot of demoralizing comments in these diaries about what Obama did or did not do, familiarize yourself with right-wing talking points.  They are trash, and they're easy to...

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If We Don't Do This, Who Will?

I'm probably on my 3rd or 4th diary of the day, but I just want to make yet another statement to the disappointed and disillusioned.  And I ESPECIALLY want to make this point to people like me, blue in...

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We Must Be Getting Somewhere -- Right-Wing Trolls Are Everywhere

I've made this mention several times before, that whenever a particularly contentious election or political event is coming up, the right-wing trolls POUNCE in force and suddenly seem to be...

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Apology and Clarification: I am Not Calling Front Pagers Trolls, and Yes, I...

I am going to do something I rarely do: apologize.  I have authored something like 270 diaries on this site.  I never know when one of them is going to strike a chord . . . I just write what I feel and...

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The Tea Has Gone Sour: Some Perspective

Going into 2012, we are once again assured of a dizzying roller-coaster election.  The right-wing is hard at work trying to muddy the waters and confuse the public.  The Serious People are busily...

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Why Tea Party Tactics are a Terrible Idea for Us

Much of the agony on the left side here has centered around our frustration with the pace of progressive advances.  We complain that our leaders are too conciliatory, that they triangulate to get...

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Trojan T-Shirts For Right-Wing (German) Extremists

Was lead to this story after visiting /., one of my old haunts.  Very cool idea, though I think it is targeted at a different problem. Fans at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival in Germany...

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I Used To Live in America

I used to work in America, but the jobs all went away, and so did I.I used to live on a tree-lined street, with a corner store, and a hayfield at the end of the road.  But those things all got bought...

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ACTION: Please Vote In This Right-Wing Poll

Very simple question:  Is it time for a balanced budget amendment?From none other than the tools at clownhall.com, er Townhall.com, comes the absurd notion of a constitutional amendment requiring a...

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Five Weird Things about Mitt Romney

#1. His wealth.  In today's America, it's very unusual (e.g., "weird") to have such staggering wealth at your disposal.  His wealth separates him from most Americans, in that Mittens has never had to...

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If your Diary has Attacks on Obama in it, I won't Even Bother Reading It Anymore

I've wasted the last time I have on this.Every.  Single.  Time.  I see someone attacking Obama, it turns out there's a personal pet issue that they've got that is the REAL kicker.  In a way I can...

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Criticize Joe Lieberman: Racist. Criticize Barack Obama: Daily Kos Hero. This...

It's sad.  I've been a regular poster here for 7 years.  Over the last few months Daily Kos has become a swarming cesspool of drama queens, purity police, and right-wing trolls egging the former groups...

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