what kind of liberal are you?

February 21, 2008 at 10:23 am · Filed under politics

and if you’re not one, what the hell is wrong with you?!

there’s a fun quiz over at www.fightingconservatives.com. my results are below. and a very interesting excerpt (the “liberal manifesto”) from daniel’s book is here in this post over at dkos.

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.

Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

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george and his radical islamic pals

February 21, 2008 at 10:18 am · Filed under politics

you want to talk about radical islam? try this.

and yet, saudi arabia was a key stop on little george’s recent trip abroad. by all accounts it was a reasonably successful one for him personally, replete with sword dances and expensive gifts. of course, it wasn’t quite like the old days when the saudis needed the americans and not vice versa. so when george started begging for a little break on the oil prices, the house of saud probably laughed and said “just be thankful we still funnel all of that money to the carlyle group, junior. now shut up, hold my hand and look like you’re enjoying yourself.”

because all this talk about bringing democracy to the middle east might be the dream of the neoconservatives, but to silver-spoon scum like dubya, it’s all about the benjamins. or should we say riyals.

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crossing the divide for s***s and giggles

January 10, 2008 at 5:12 pm · Filed under politics

i love this idea.

know anybody in michigan? spread the word.

help make another loser—just one of the pack—winner for a day.

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the light at the end of the nightmare

November 16, 2007 at 4:33 pm · Filed under politics

sometimes i forget just how great mark morford’s columns can be. and then he reminds me with a paragraph like this one:

It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief that — praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once — the long national nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.

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letters, we get letters. and we write them, too.

September 29, 2007 at 11:41 am · Filed under politics

i got an email from rose kapolczynski, barbara boxer’s campaign manager, today. well, probably not really from rose; i’m sure an intern wrote it and somebody else approved it. to be honest, i didn’t even read the whole thing before i dashed off a response. i got to this part and my trigger finger hit the ‘reply’ button:

I just got off the phone with Barbara, and she’s absolutely thrilled by the tremendous response the BarbaraBoxer.com online community provided to her email from Thursday—raising more than $20,000 for her re-election campaign in just the past 2 days!

That’s terrific, but I know we can do even more in these last 24 hours before the September 30th fundraising deadline.

hi rose (or more likely, the convio mailbox set up to receive responses that never get read, much less answered);

let me put it simply and plainly. i love barbara boxer. but i’m not going to give another dime to barbara or ANY democrat until i see one—just one—stand up and do something REAL and MEANINGFUL for once.

if barbara wants my money, here’s what she can do:

• she can write and sponsor a bill that denies any further funding for the war and presents a responsible plan for bringing our troops home beginning immediately. then she can stand up on the senate floor and demand that the republicans actually filibuster that bill and explain why the will of 70% of the american people is being denied. the “threat” of the filibuster is a GOP shield behind which not only republican cowards are hiding, but democrats as well. and while i have great respect for senator boxer in many areas, she is a coward on the issue of the iraq war. even my hero, russ feingold, isn’t doing enough.


• she can immediately denounce all of her fellow democrats who voted to condemn moveon.org for the petraeus ad, loudly and often. perhaps she hasn’t yet seen the cover of the American Conservative magazine naming petraeus as the “sycophant savior.” at least they and moveon have gotten it right. she should embarrass the hell out of her fellow democrats who gave life to the bait-and-switch load of crap “condemnation.” the fact that democrats even showed up to vote on that is pathetic.


• she can demand that we immediately begin impeachment proceedings against bush and cheney. you think i’m a left-wing loony who’s unrealistic and vengeful? if she has any doubts about the basis for impeachment, please have her consult REPUBLICAN bruce fein. he can educate her about something she so clearly either hasn’t researched or doesn’t have the moral courage and political will to pursue.so let me be clear again: i, and everyone within my sphere of influence, will no longer give a penny—you see, i’ve even gotten stingier over the course of writing this email—to barbara or any democrat until i see some signs of moral courage and respect for the will of the american people.

to be honest, i don’t have even a glimmer of hope that barbara will do any of the above. and that, perhaps even more than what’s happened to this country over the past 7 years, is so incredibly disappointing and depressing that further words fail me.

respectfully yours,

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