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- The virtues of passion and anger
  Posted by Billbar from Glenn Greenwald
  The single most erroneous and destructive premise among the Beltway political class -- which includes the Democratic consulting class along with their intellectual twins in the David-Broder-led punditry circles -- is that anger and passion are the enemies of successful political movements. They preach a mindset of fear and defensiveness -- never articulate a view too strenuously and never be driven by principle or passion because to do so renders one an unmoderate extremist who will alienate normal Americans.
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- A good column on party differentiation in th the age of Iraq
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Democrats, though, argue that Iraq may be singular. No other fight has been so closely associated with one party or its leader. None has been justified with arguments that crumbled as quickly as the suspicions of weapons of mass destruction or an Iraq-Qaeda tie. And the war’s end, for now, remains far out of sight.
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- Democrats Have Intensity, but G.O.P. Has Machine
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  “I do think our base is coming together and will be coming together later, but four weeks is an eternity in this business,” said Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican and longtime party strategist. Republicans will ultimately be motivated to vote, Mr. Cole said, and they will turn out on Election Day even if “this is a race where professionalism has to make up for enthusiasm.”
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- Amazing Kansas Editorial Faults Radical Republicans
  Posted by Jeff from Dailykos
  As we prepare ourselves to make political endorsements in subsequent issues, I can tell you unequivocally that this newspaper has never endorsed so many Democrats. Not even close. In the 56 years we have been publishing in Johnson County, this basically has been a Republican newspaper. In the old days, before the Republican civil war that fractured the party, we were traditional Republicans....
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- Warner Urges Broader Democratic Strategy
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Mark Warner, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, voiced growing concern Tuesday with his party's electoral strategy, arguing that Democrats' willingness to write off sections of the country could make it nearly impossible to win the White House. "I got pretty frustrated after 2004," said the former Virginia governor. "We are making a mistake if we put up candidates that are only competitive in 16 states and then we roll the dice and hope we win Ohio or Florida." "We do our party and the country a disservice if we're not competitive in the South and the balance of the Midwest," Warner said. "I'm disappointed in campaigns that write off the South and leave behind wide swaths of our country."
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- Not God's Party: The Democrats and religious voters
  Posted by Billbar from Slate
  Democratic campaign trainings now smartly include tips for communicating with Catholic voters. Candidates are starting to appear on religious radio outlets. And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has even stopped saying things to intentionally antagonize evangelicals. Which is why it is startling that in the two years since this Democratic revival began, the party's faith-friendly image has dimmed rather than improved. The Pew Research Center's annual poll on religion and politics, released last week, shows that while 85 percent of voters say religion is important to them, only 26 percent of Americans think the Democratic Party is "friendly" to religion.
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- Issues Await if Democrats Retake House
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  Rusty from being out of power for 12 years, Democrats are rethinking how they should parcel out coveted committee chairmanships and the other plums that would come with House control at a time when the party’s potential chairmen are increasingly being portrayed by Republicans as liberal extremists. But faced with the attacks and pent-up ambitions of rank-and-file lawmakers, Democratic leaders are hinting they might abandon party tradition and award sought-after slots not solely on the basis of seniority, but instead follow the Republican lead of also weighing such factors as legislative record, diversity and work for the good of the party.
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Lieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates - Capitol Briefing
I'm glad obama compromised by keeping Lieberman in but I long for the day when there are 65 senate dems so he can be more equitably dealth with...
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Yahoo! Buzz: The Elephant's No Longer in the Room

This is a great service!

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Obama vows to back Bush's war commander

Surprised?

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Obama vows to back Bush's war commander

ACK!!!

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The Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America

Sandy…that’s EXACTLY what his point was. Patrick Martin missed the point completely.

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1:31 am 4/23/08
Damianmann comments on:
The Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America

Bill Clinton wanted to be the left-wing Reagan. Wouldn’t you say? He was after those same voters.

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The Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America

Also:
"Thomas Frank wrote a best-selling book four years ago (What’s the Matter with Kansas?), which examined this process in his home state, and his conclusions about the use of coded appeals to religion to induce voters to ignore their own economic interests have become conventional wisdom in ruling class political and media circles.

"While Frank’s book had certain insights into American culture and politics, he ignored the most fundamental factor enabling the Republican appeals to prejudice and backwardness to produce electoral successes—the drastic shift by the Democratic Party to the right and its abandonment of any policies to alleviate economic inequality or improve living conditions for working people.
—Patrick Martin, "US media, Clinton assail Obama for ‘bitter’ truth, World Socialist Web Site, 14 April 2008.

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