Hillary Clinton = Tommy Flanagan

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 1:57 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 13:57

Hillary Clinton is apparently a BIG fan of Saturday Night Live. So, she should remember Tommy Flanagan, the President of Pathological Liars Anonymous. You remember Tommy -- he was married to Morgan Fairchild. Served as a three star general in Vietnam. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Hillary is now going around saying that her "vast" foreign policy experience includes bringing peace to Northern Ireland, and solving the refugee crisis in Kosovo: "You know, I was involved for 15 years in, you know, foreign policy and security policy. You know, I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland. I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo." Only its not true.

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Hillary Clinton's Actual Foreign Policy Experience Includes

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Hillary Clinton's Actual Foreign Policy Experience Includes

Winning 9 Straight Nobel Peace Prices

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Overthrowing Apartheid In South Africa

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Bringing Peace To Northern Ireland

1 vote

Helping To Launch The Biggest Foreign Policy Blunder In US History

62 votes

Reform of Outdated Police Procedures : Smart Policy, Smart Politics (With Poll)

Tim from VA

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 8:08 PM PST

2007/02/13 · 20:08

Decades of scientific research shows that a few simple reforms to police procedures -- like recording interrogations and identification procedures, using a "blind" method for conducting a photospread or a lineup (one where the police officer running the procedure doesn't know who the suspect is), being careful about how police instruct witnesses -- can ensure that police catch the real culprit more often, and arrest the wrong guy less often. In other words, police reform is good smart policy.

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Should Police Reform Their Procedures To Catch The Right Guy More And The Wrong Guy Less?

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Should Police Reform Their Procedures To Catch The Right Guy More And The Wrong Guy Less?

No, who wants to smart when you can be tough

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No, staying the course is always the best way

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No, science is overrated

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Yes, its about time we started getting smart about criminal justice

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Party of the Little Guy (With Poll)

Tim from VA

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Sunday June 18, 2006 · 6:45 PM PDT

2006/06/18 · 18:45

The Democrats seem to be struggling to come up with a simple theme for the 2006 election. I don't see why its so hard. We're the party of the little guy: Always have been and always should be.

How does that translate into specific areas? More on the flip. Read More

Beware of Con[servative] Men Preaching Humility

Tim from VA

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 5:26 PM PDT

2005/09/12 · 17:26

I agree with Armando that the baseball analogy Judge Roberts used today in his opening statement can provide a useful tool to demonstrate the limitations or flaws in his strict constructionist philosophy. But what worried me even more was his claim that he would bring "a certain humility" to the "judicial role." I remember what happened the last time one of these con[servative] men seeking office got in front of a national audience and told us how "humbly" they would perform. And its not a good precedent. Read More

Ashcroft Paved The Way For Schiavo

Tim from VA

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Tuesday March 29, 2005 · 7:01 PM PST

2005/03/29 · 19:01

If the Schiavo case has a familiar ring to people from Missouri, that's because John Ashcroft did exactly same thing to another grieving family when he was Governor of Missouri. Here is what the victim's father has to say today: Read More

Reid Calls Greenspan "One of the biggest political hacks . . . in Washington."

Tim from VA

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Thursday March 03, 2005 · 7:10 PM PST

2005/03/03 · 19:10

You've got to hand it to Harry Reid. Earlier this evening, he called Alan Greenspan "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington." And he's right: As I noted last night, Mr. Greenspan has discretely used the power of the Federal Reserve several times over the past 4 years to make personal statements that seem designed only to further George W. Bush's political agenda. Look at Mr. Greenspan's "personal" statements to Congress in the past 4 years:

Pushing for Tax Cuts Immediately after Bush Inauguration

Again pushing for Bush Tax Cuts Early in 2001

Explaining in early 2004 that "the U.S. economy appears to have made the transition from a period of subpar growth to one of more vigorous expansion"

Blaming Poor Economy on "Attacks of September 11"

Again Pushing for Bush Tax Cuts Early in 2001

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Federal Reserve Apparently Disowns Alan Greenspan

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Wednesday March 02, 2005 · 9:02 PM PST

2005/03/02 · 21:02

Update [2005-3-3 0:2:31 by Armando]: From the diaries by Armando. I am especially interested in two things here- (1) Is there a split between Greenspan and the Fed on SS?; (2) When Greenspan has spoken on his own behalf only, what has he endorsed? The 2001 tax cuts come to mind, to keep Congress from spending the surplus he said. Ha! One last point - Greenspan was on the SS Commission in 1982-3 that pushed through the big payroll tax hike - in order to save Social Security then, or so they said. Now Greenspan tells us that that was a complete fraud? There really is no Trust Fund? If that's true what Greeenspan is saying is he supported the most regressive shift in tax burden - on to working and poor Americans and off of the rich - in the history of the nation. That's a hell of a thing.

What on earth is going on here? Alan Greenspan testified before Congress today about the supposed financial crisis on the way, and tried to place the blame on squarely on Social Security obligations. He also talked about a number of fiscal restraints that Congress had imposed in the 1990's but left basically unmentioned the effect of the ridiculous Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, the staggering costs of the Iraqi War, and the rising expenditures under the Bush regime on corporate welfare for his political donors. In other words, Mr. Greenspan basically got up in front of Congress and acted as a shill for George Bush, in a way that should embarrass the supposedly independent Federal Reserve Board. Read More

Maryland Malpractice Reform

Tim from VA

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Monday January 10, 2005 · 7:45 PM PST

2005/01/10 · 19:45

I don't know if the national Democratic party gets it but the Maryland Democrats definitely do. The Republicans and their insurance company cronies have spent the past 50 years trying to convince people that there is a "crisis" in malpractice insurance premiums and, more importantly from their point of view, that injured patients and their greedy lawyers are to blame. Their prescription for this "crisis" is so called "tort reform", which contains a host of limitations on the legal system, many of which have no conceivable relationship to malpractice premiums, and not one direct restriction on what malpractice insurers can and cannot do. The Maryland Democrats have effectively fought back by coming up with some real, populist reforms designed to really fix any medical malpractice crisis that may exist and make the Democrats the real party of reform on this issue. To find out more, look below the fold.
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BushCo's Serial Incompetence (w/poll)

Tim from VA

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Sunday December 12, 2004 · 7:55 AM PST

2004/12/12 · 07:55

In this White House, the issue of Homeland Security is supposedly their signature one. "Bush will keep us safer" was the broken record we heard virtually every day during the recent campaign. All of which would make you think that the Bush folks would spend a little time carefully investigating their nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security rather than just selecting someone with virtually no national or international track record, and apparently not bothering to check references a little bit. I mean, what if Bernard Kerik had been a terrorist or something? Or even serially corrupt, as news reports are now seem to be indicating. Certainly you wouldn't expect him to tell you that during the interview process. Read More

Wake Up DLC: It's Not 1992 Anymore

Tim from VA

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Saturday December 11, 2004 · 9:18 PM PST

2004/12/11 · 21:18

For the past 12 years, the DLC's basic prescription for what Democrats need to do to find the road back to power has been the same: According to the DLC, Democrats need to do what Bill Clinton did in 1992 by standing up to the party's base and running as a "New Democrats." But what worked in 1992 is not what will work in 2006 or 2008. It's not 1992 anymore and the DLC strategy has long been rendered obsolete.

Tim from VA

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Sunday December 05, 2004 · 8:42 AM PST

2004/12/05 · 08:42

Tom Friedman has a column in today's New York Times that is definitely worth reading. He proposes making American energy independence in 10 years -- by ending reliance on oil altogether and developing other fuel sources -- the great project of our generation. Friedman lists a number of possible benefits -- depriving corrupt oil regimes in the Middle East of money and rallying Europe around a new environmental policy -- but leaves out the main one: A 10-year energy independence proposal would dry up support for corrupt regimes at home, like the current one, which has pursued short-sighted, oil-driven foreign and domestic policies. Read More

Sorry Josh: Destroying Civil Liberties Is the Real Suicidal Approach

Tim from VA

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Saturday December 04, 2004 · 12:00 PM PST

2004/12/04 · 12:00

Yesterday, Josh Marshall posted an item about civil liberties, which has apparently caused quite a firestorm on his site. And well it should have. In the controversial portion, Josh was speaking about the Bush Administration's restrictions on civil liberties when he said that he was "a good deal less doctrinaire on civil liberties issues than, I suspect, many of the readers of this site. As Justice Jackson put it, the constitution is not a suicide pact. And a lot of the things that were done in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 were, I think, justifiable in theory, if not always in execution. But what stands out about this administration is not the willingness to sacrifice certain civil liberties safeguards in the face of demonstrable necessity, but the eagerness and almost delight in doing so." This post is wrong-headed on several levels. Read More

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