My Advice to Roger Clemens, et al.
Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 07:52:21 PM PDT
Every now and then, your average celebrity - or, in the case of today's news, your average drug-enhanced baseball legend - just needs to disappear for a while. The "so-and-so entered rehab this morning" method has been particularly popular of late, counting among its proponents such figures as Mark Foley and Ted Haggard. Time will tell if today's headline-makers will choose the same option.
Occasionally, though, a scandal is simply so big, so utterly interwoven into the primal fabric of a nation, so completely relevant to the daily lives of 300 million citizens, that none of the usual remedies will do. Surely, baseball players being caught on steroids in December of 2007 is such a case. And, in this instance, the only way to salvage a celebrity's career - and bring comfort into the hearts of all the nation's citizens - is to effect a complete and total media blackout.
Can You Say "Smoking Gun?"
Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 12:14:01 PM PDT
(If this has been diaried before, please show me where and I'll take down.)
Somehow, Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker has gotten hold of an email exchange between Abu Gonzo Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, and then W.H. Counsel, Harriet Miers, which describes a list of "USAs to be pushed out."
This would seem to refute Gonzo's assertion to Congress that he:
"...would never, ever make a change in a United States attorney for political reasons or if it would in any way jeopardize an ongoing serious investigation. I just would not do it." link
Will I Be Hillary's First "Guest Blogger?"
Sat Jan 27, 2007 at 09:51:00 AM PDT
This is the blog post I submitted today, per Hillary's advertisement below.
DESPITE LITTLE SUPPORT AMONG NETROOTS, CLINTON ADVERTISES "GUEST BLOGGER" SPOT ON DKOS.
In 2002, at the height of George Bush's popularity, Hillary Clinton pandered to conservatives with her YES vote on the AUMF resolution that helped send us to war in Iraq. Months later, she pandered to the so-called "middle" by offering her support to an anti-flag-burning initiative. Today, she's pandering to the netroots, offering DailyKos readers the chance to make the first "guest blogger" post on her campaign website.
How shocking.
The California Ballot Initiatives
Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 10:09:11 AM PDT
For Kossacks who are unable - for whatever reason - to do their own due diligence regarding this year's CA propositions, I'm going to address each measure and indicate the "party line" vote. This way, CA Kossacks who can't do the research will at least know how to vote a "straight progressive ticket" with respect to the measures. Where I happen to personally disagree with the party line, I will indicate the way I intend to vote, accompanied by an explanation of why I've strayed from the party line. And yes, there basically is a "party line" with respect to this year's ballot. (My union tells me so.)
First, however, I'm going to call attention to the most important race in the entire state...
AP: Bush personally blocked DOJ wiretapping probe (UPDATED w/VIDEO)
Tue Jul 18, 2006 at 08:56:01 AM PDT
Obstruction of justice, anyone?
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that Bush "personally blocked Justice Department lawyers from pursuing an internal probe of the warrantless eavesdropping program that monitors Americans' international calls and e-mails..."
On Behalf of Howard Dean...
Mon Jul 17, 2006 at 05:38:44 PM PDT
I got a phone call yesterday from the DCCC asking for money. It went something like this:
CA Primary: My $.02
Sun Jun 04, 2006 at 05:59:03 PM PDT
The California Primary takes place Tuesday, June 6th. Polls are open from 7am to 8pm. To verify your polling place, call
1-800-815-2666 and select
Option 1.
The information below concerns only those races which will be voted on by all Californians. For guidance on races peculiar to your district, I suggest a visit to Kim Alexander's wonderful site calvoter.org. My only intention here is to shed some light on the most critical statewide races for those voters who haven't had the time to do their own due diligence.
I was one of those voters until this weekend.
Dear Frank Abramoff...
Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 11:32:28 PM PDT
As you may know, Jack Abramoff's dad, Frank, went after George Clooney for his Golden Globes crack. The text of his angry letter is
here.
The essence of it is that Clooney is indicative of just how crass Hollywood has become since the days of Bogart and Gable. He gives Clooney a guilt trip over making Jack's daughter cry. Ol' Frank even throws in a "one day the truth about my son will come out..." for good measure. Read it if you want a good laugh.
But, every once in a while, I like someone to show a little humility. I like to remind a person that, when your kid's fucked up as bad as Jackie has, it might be wise to show some fucking contrition and take your medicine.
So I wrote Frank a letter of my own.
O'Reilly can't spin THIS!
Wed Jan 04, 2006 at 10:39:50 AM PDT
As you may know, David Letterman pulled no punches last night with Bill O'Reilly. A video clip is available at
HuffPo.
Should you feel the need to send Letterman a message of support, go here.
Now here's the fun part...
BREAKING: God DOES Talk To Bush
Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 01:49:11 PM PDT
It is a well known fact that Bush talks to God. What has not been proven is whether or not God talks to him.
Well, the proof has arrived. My pastor here in Los Angeles is pretty well respected up in Heaven. He gets to see a lot of their internal memos. When he saw this one, he called me immediately.
"You gotta see this!" said my pastor. "But I'm giving it to you on double-super-secret-background." (Apparently God is a maniac about leaks)
So, without naming my source, I am posting the leaked memo in its entirety.
This Is Your Smackdown Open Thread
Tue Sep 20, 2005 at 01:09:48 PM PDT
(Cross-posted at
My Left Wing)
We all have one. Some of us have more than others, but unless we live cloistered in some glorious liberal bubble, we all have at least one wingnut who is unavoidably in our lives.
Yahoo Op-Ed: ROVE WORSE THAN BIN LADEN
Mon Jul 04, 2005 at 06:16:43 PM PDT
Drip, drip, drip... This time it's
Ted Rall.
As far as we know, no one on what passes for the "left" (which would be the center-right anywhere else) has betrayed the United States in the GWOT. No anti-Bush progressive has made common cause with Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or any other officially designated "terrorist" group. No American liberal has handed over classified information or worked to undermine the CIA.
But it now appears that Karl Rove, GOP golden boy, has done exactly that.
The DSM Ain't Going Away, Part 1
Mon Jun 20, 2005 at 08:42:16 AM PDT
The years of the Bush presidency will be remembered as a time when American media, for the most part, practiced stenography to power --and when once-great newspapers became little more than what the reformers of another time referred to as "the kept press."
John Nichols, The Nation, June 18th, 2005. LINK. Also at Yahoo.
EXCLUSIVE dKOS INTERVIEW WITH Lt. Col. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI
Thu Jun 16, 2005 at 10:41:33 AM PDT
"The Downing Street Memo confirms what I witnessed and have been writing about... It all fits, and should lead to a deluge of related documents and witnesses." - Lt. Col Karen Kwiatkowski
This is why we lose elections (w/VIDEO)
Mon Jun 06, 2005 at 02:48:19 PM PDT
This past Sunday afternoon, a contingent of Southern California Kossacks decided to attend Rep. Brad Sherman's town hall meeting to ask him why his signature did not appear on either of John Conyers' recent letters to Bush (May 5th, regarding the DSM; May 12, requesting a Special Counsel regarding torture).
Bolton Video: You gotta be kidding me!
Sun May 15, 2005 at 01:23:28 PM PDT
We've all heard the quotes, we've all seen pundits burying funny little Boltonisms within larger frames about how "a President deserves to get the people he wants" - we've heard it all before.
But how many of us have seen it?? I hadn't seen it. Those who have, please enjoy the memory. Those who haven't, continue reading for a good, visceral taste of the sort of whacko our Dear Leader hopes to put in the UN building...
God, we're so naive!
Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 10:32:44 AM PDT
(This is LONG, I know. But, trust me, it's important.)
SMOKESCREEN: Judges, Schiavo, The Nuke Option
Sat Apr 09, 2005 at 12:00:28 PM PDT
I think I've finally figured it out. I think I've finally gotten a peek inside their playbook - their thick, leather-bound playbook - and what I saw was quite scary:
We are in the middle of a multi-pronged parallel assault that would have made Von Clausewitz proud - something I'll explain below the fold.
