Bush trots out "ethics training" - problem solved
from Washington Post, Sat AM edition:President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory briefings beginning next week on ethical behavior and the handling of classified material after the...
View ArticleMN-02: Rowley's internal polls show race within MOE
OK, now I'm pumped up. John Kline better be feeling the heat because Coleen is sho' nuff packing. My latest e-mail from Coleen Rowley, one-woman truth squad and Democratic candidate for MN-02, says...
View ArticleFL poll worker badmouths paperless voting - gets fired
Well, the memories of the Volusia County election board's valiant 2000 effort to count the ballots are just that - memories. New sheriff in town is Ann McFall - supervisor of elections. She installed a...
View ArticleFL- Sen: Bill Nelson asks supporters to help House candidates
Just got an e-mail from Bill Nelson, who's not exactly working up much of a lather staying ahead of Katherine Harris for our Senate seat down here in FL. I haven't given him much money lately, because...
View Articlefriday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/20/06
picklegfunk posted a diary yesterday with a link to the electronic filings at the FEC that allow you to sort by donor, which allows a nosy person to see where the DCCC is spending its money on a...
View Articletuesday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/24/06
okay, i'm starting to feel bad about all the bad things i said about rahm emmanuel. from now on, i'm going to call him "deep pockets". this adds up to $9.5 million.http://www.fec.gov/... okay,...
View Articlethursday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/26/06
this is just a trickle after tuesday's $9.5 million dump. see my previous diary for tuesday's details here:http://www.dailykos.com/... it's all little five-figure mail buys or production expenditures,...
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friday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/27/06
this is my nightly diary detailing the particulars of the dccc's filings of expenditures on the fec website. slim pickings tonight- mostly mail buys and a few production (for making ads) expenditures,...
View Articlesaturday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/28/06
This is my nightly diary detailing the particulars of the DCCC's Saturday filings of expenditures on the FEC website. Most are the usual slim pickings - some mail buys and a few production (for making...
View Articlesunday/monday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/30/06
This is the continuation of my recent diaries born out of frustration with the wretched format over on the FEC website:http://www.fec.gov/... The following is a list of filings by the DCCC itemizing...
View ArticleTuesday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 10/31/06
This is the latest in a series of daily diaries transcribing FEC site listings of DCCC expenditures. This saves kossacks the frustration of navigating the user-unfriendly FEC...
View ArticleWednesday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 11/1/06
This is a summary of FEC site listings of DCCC expenditures today. There were 103 separate expenditures today, so I can't even post a summary list of districts getting money above the fold, much less...
View ArticleThursday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 11/2/06
Here's a compilation of all of today's DCCC expenditures off the FEC website. Forty-one buys, so there's no room for even a summary above the fold. These buys are mostly mail, with a few modest media...
View ArticleFriday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 11/3/06
This is a compilation of today's DCCC expenditures on congressional races as posted on the FEC website. A couple of media buys in CO-04 and NY-25, and the rest is small change - just phone banks and...
View ArticleSaturday's DCCC money dump - FEC filings for 11/04/06
This is a compilation of today's DCCC expenditures on congressional races as posted on the FEC website. Two media buys in KY-02 and NE-03, and the rest is just phone bank buys in the three and low four...
View ArticleRomney's Deputy Campaign Manager Resigns - is Abramoff singing?
Remember the ill-fated golf trip to St. Andrews that nobody involved knew was being paid for by Jack Abramoff? Well, golf trips have consequences. Jason Roe, Mitt Romney's deputy campaign manager,...
View ArticleMental Health Parity - Who's Got the Best Plan?
All of us have had experience with health insurance, or lack of it, for regular procedures and common acute care situations. But what about mental health insurance? Over 90% of the population never use...
View ArticleHillary on Webb Bill - Give Diplomacy a Chance
Hillary Clinton posted a statement on her Senate website today elaborating on her co-sponsorship of Jim Webb's bill to limit US military action against Iran without Congressional authorization. In it,...
View ArticleWes Clark: I Support Hillary on Iran
Wes Clark just posted on The Huffington Post website. Here's part of what he says: I Support Hillary's Position on IranLike many of you, I am concerned about what I am reading and hearing about...
View ArticleObama's Evolving Position on Iran and Kyl-Lieberman
Barack Obama charged Hillary Clinton with poor judgement on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, but this is in sharp contrast to his earlier actions and inactions.Once Quiet, Obama Now Charges Iran Bill...
View ArticleObama suddenly 'forgets' Iran position - Dissociative Amnesia?
I think I have it figured out- the reason Barack Obama was for it before he went silent on it before he was against it. "It", of course, is the designation of Iran as a threat in the Mideast, and the...
View ArticleWes Clark calls bullshit on Kyl-Lieberman revisionists
Wes Clark is a man of few words. In exactly 611 of them, he spells out the fallacies in recent attempts by various groups within the Democratic party to recharacterize the Kyl-Lieberman amendment as...
View ArticleBarack Obama- Saber Rattling on Iran?
As I have diaried before, Barack Obama has taken pains to portray himself as a sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton on Iran, particularly regarding the Kyl-Lieberman amendment. However, this is a recent...
View ArticleDebate in Iowa: Obama-Then vs. Obama-Now
The Obama campaign has undergone a schism in Iowa, with supporters being divided between the two new candidates emerging from this shake-up: Barack Obama-Then and Barack Obama-Now. Barack Obama-Now...
View Article30 Senators Sign Webb's Letter Warning Bush on Iran, Obama Declines to Sign
Senator Jim Webb's press release today: 30 Senators Say White House Must Seek Congressional Approval for Offensive Military Action against IranAggressive Rhetoric Undermines DiplomacyWashington, DC,...
View ArticleHealthcare Reform: Hillary Gets It Like No One Else
As the Democratic primaries approach, the candidates are still going at it over issues that were raised during the debate last Thursday night (transcript). In watching the debate, I was struck by...
View ArticleBarack's PAC Attack- Business as Usual, or Cause for Concern?
The Washington Post broke the story this morning- Barack Obama's political action committee, Hopefund, has been handing out money to political candidates in the early primary states of New Hampshire,...
View ArticleHillary Won the Debate- Kossacks Say So
The post-debate poll put up this afternoon had predictable results- Barack Obama won with 37%, followed by John Edwards with 27% and Hillary Clinton with 12%. Of course, that tells me a lot more about...
View ArticleEarth to Obama - Unions MADE this Party
Senator Barack Obama’s advisors had a major brainfart and apparently forgot what party they're supposedly members of with their latest stunt. Not only are they highlighting his failure to gain the...
View ArticleIn Defense of John Lewis
I never thought I'd see the day on a progressive blog where I'd have to defend John Lewis, a hero of the Selma Bloody Sunday march, and one of the "Big Six" in the civil rights movement. John Lewis...
View ArticleGallup Poll: Hillary Most Admired Woman
Not a lot of text out yet on this from Gallup, but Hillary won Gallup's most admired woman poll- AGAIN - for 2007. There's a video up on the Gallup website, but no text article yet. CNN has a blurb up...
View ArticleHillary- No Woman is Illegal
Hillary Clinton was going door to door in Las Vegas with state Assemblyman Ruben Kihuen, visiting Hispanic and black neighborhoods. From the Las Vegas Review Journal article, they stopped in on...
View ArticleHillary wins Pennsylvania straw poll
Looks like things have settled back into where they were before Iowa and New Hampshire, and the national CNN poll has suggested. A straw ballot at the Pennsylvania state Democratic committee meeting...
View ArticleFlorida doesn't count? Hillary comes through for Florida Dems.
In a memo released Tuesday, Barack Obama's campaign made it clear that "Florida doesn't count" in the candidate selection process. Our position and the position of the DNC is clear – neither the...
View ArticleGod Must Love Hillary Supporters- He Made So Many of Them
Jay Cost at RealClearPolitics is looking at the Nevada entrance poll data, and has noticed some interesting trends, particularly in comparison to Iowa and New Hampshire results. Jay's looking at...
View ArticleFlorida Heats Up: Game On in the Sunshine State
After aggravating more than a few Floridians with a "Florida plays no role"press release, Obama had a change of heart (after being compared to Katherine Harris) and "accidentally" made a national cable...
View ArticleHillary - "I am willing to go to the mat" for Universal Health Care
Any lingering mystery about where Hillary stands on universal health care was dispelled in last night's debate. She laid it out. Here are her words:If you don't start out trying to get universal...
View ArticleNo More Disenfranchisment- Thank You, Hillary!
Hillary's website posted a news release this afternoon clarifying her position on the seating of delegates from Michigan and Florida at the convention: "I hear all the time from people in Florida and...
View ArticlePrimary in Florida- A State that Looks Like America
After caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, the Democratic nomination contest moves to Florida. I know, I know, we were bad and we don't get any delegates (for...
View ArticleAxelrod: Obama was Doing Hillary a Favor by Snubbing Her
When faced with irrefutable evidence of boorish behavior by his candidate, David Axelrod claims that Barack Obama was sparing Hillary's feelings by turning his back on her. Here are his words on...
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BREAKING! Hillary to Announce Huge Fundraising Day
Some of you might have gotten an email from Hillary’s campaign today announcing a fundraising effort. They want to raise $3,000,000 in just 3 days. Pretty lofty goal right?Well guess what? They’ve...
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Hillary Raises Ten Million Dollars
It's splashed on the front of her website now... no press release yet. But there's not a lot to tell. The numbers speak for themselves.TEN MILLION DOLLARS SINCE SUPER TUESDAY. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND...
View ArticleHillary Un-Debate Watch Party
Welcome to the un-debate between Hillary Clinton and.... nobody. Hillary accepted the invitation to appear with Barack Obama from WJLA-TV ABC7 and News Channel 8 in the Washington, DC metropolitan...
View ArticleFlorida Selects Delegates for the Convention
Florida Democratic State Chair Karen Thurman meant it when she said it:"There will be no other primary. Florida Democrats absolutely must vote on January 29th... The nation will be paying attention,...
View ArticleWhither Obama? World Tour?
There are some strange suggestions from inside the Obama camp being floated in Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray's WaPo piece today... but formidable challenges call for drastic measures. The...
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