David Shuster HAMMERS Repub on MoveOn ad (update 2)
David Shuster subbing for Tucker (permanently I wish) just made MINCEMEAT out of Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn R-TN 07. First he asked her how Rush Limbaugh airing a caller who referred to Sen. Chuck...
View ArticleFox News, Freedom's Watch, and Marketing a War with Iran
This ominous blockquote from Dr. Barnett Rubin’s excellent Aug. 29 diary Post Labor Day Product Rollout: War with Iran (Cross-Posted at Informed Comment Global Affairs)! really got my attention, so I...
View ArticleBaton Rouge: Wingnuts welcome! Gay people...not so much
Baton Rouge... epicenter of the Jimmy Swaggart empire, which still has a large following here despite the scandal—but if you’re tired of Rev. Jimmy, we’ve got plenty of other mega churches to choose...
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LA’s maybe-next Gov hearts wingnuts!
Unless there’s a large African-American turnout at this Saturday’s open primary, it’s likely the next governor of Louisiana will be this guy:Bobby Jindal, Republican U.S. Representative from LA-01...
View ArticleVitter's hooker's Hustler hits the newsstand
Senator David Vitter's "hooker problem" is not going away. Even the usually Republican-friendly daily newspaper of Louisiana’s capital decided that news of the publication of former New Orleans...
View ArticleTell Cafferty how you feel about Congress' fear of impeachment
This hour's viewer question for the Cafferty File is:6 p.m.: Why won't Congress impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney? Write in and tell him what you think!Late update: Jack's gone home...
View ArticlePrayers for peace in Jena and "the great need of the hour"
Sen. Barack Obama's speech Sunday, January 20 at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church has been diaried extensively (here, here, and here) and deservedly so; it is a not-to-be-missed 33 minutes regardless...
View ArticleBu$hCo DHHS: Politicizing kids' health
Unbelievable.On January 14, less than two weeks ago, Louisiana’s Democratic governor Kathleen Blanco left office as Republican Bobby Jindal was sworn in.And guess what! An expansion of Louisiana’s...
View Article(Updated) LA-Sen: Doh! Repub candidate sends supporters to Dem...
Well, this will certainly help convince Louisiana voters to support lifetime-Democrat-recently-turned-Republican John Kennedy in his campaign to unseat our state’s Democratic senior Senator, Mary...
View ArticleLA-06: More good news for Dems! (Update 3, final results)
Okay, it’s not quite the magnitude of tonight’s earth-mover in the IL-14. But given how Republican this district is, these numbers can’t be doing anything to ease the heartburn the GOP must be feeling...
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James Carville fleeing DC -- what's up with that?
Longtime Clinton political operative James Carville appears regularly on CNN to make the case for his candidate, arguing why the race is not over, how she can still win, and of course, famously calling...
View ArticleVitter crashes car fleeing press (with video and poll)
I knew I should have gone to the Vitter town hall when I got that card last week! See what I missed, below the fold:
View ArticleObama's New Politics vs. "Bitter-gate": What Has Been Seen, Cannot Be Unseen
While reflecting on the Clinton campaign since Iowa, and thinking about how the latest bit of manufactured outrage she is peddling fits into the established pattern, I have arrived at some conclusions....
View ArticleIs Hillary Scraping the Bottom of the Small-Donor Barrel?
I should know better by now than to think I have seen every outrage of which Hillary is capable. In her continuing effort to try to delegitimize the nomination of Sen. Obama, Hillary today compared the...
View ArticleEnd this with honor, Senator McCain--update
My open letter to Senator McCain, with a note and action item at the end.Dear Senator McCain:After last night’s town hall debate, I noticed that you and Mrs. McCain spent only a few minutes mingling...
View ArticleObama's shoes, and sandals made from tire treads--Update
Update: Thank you so much, everyone, for your kind comments. My Mom read them too, and was very touched and thankful. She is working on two books about her WWII experience, and seeing that people...
View ArticleExplosion rips downtown Bozeman, MT; 1 missing [Update 4]
Thank you to all for your support and good wishes for the people of Bozeman. For those who asked about local charities, I've posted some links at the bottom of the diary. Thanks again."It’s a...
View ArticleI was called out by name today in crazy anti-HCR LTE
I'm a liberal, born in Europe and raised in the northeastern U.S., now living in the deep South. This often makes me feel as if I'm some kind of space alien, left here when my mothership went back to...
View ArticleRetired Louisiana doc's pro-HCR letter hits it out of park!!
Physician: CheckPracticed medicine both before and after the advent of Medicare: CheckProvided primary care to patients who had lost their health insurance: CheckProfessionally and personally...
View Article2 fatal shooting accidents in Baton Rouge in 3 days. LA Legislators: No new...
Baton Rouge's local paper, the Advocate, reports fatal shootings daily. But today is especially bad. How bad? Screen shot of today's news below the orange squiggly.
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