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March 14, 2007
Barack on the Homophobic Joint Cheif's Comment...
Newsday caught Obama as he was leaving the firefighters convention and asked him three times if he thought homsexuality is immoral.
Answer 1: "I think traditionally the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has restricted his public comments to military matters. That's probably a good tradition to follow."
Answer 2: "I think the question here is whether somebody is willing to sacrifice for their country, should they be able to if they're doing all the things that should be done."
Answer 3: Signed autograph, posed for snapshot, jumped athletically into town car.
Why the dance? Maybe it has something to do with not wanting to alienate moderates -- or social conservatives, the churchfolk who view homosexuality as a sin.
Barack, you've got some 'splainin to do! At least if you want LGBT support.
Posted by numbersix at March 14, 2007 02:26 PM
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February 10, 2007
Closeted Comptroller?
As reported a few weeks ago on the New York Post's Page Six:
ALBANY pols are concerned because one of the possible candidates to succeed state Comptroller Alan Hevesi is said to be a closeted homosexual. The Democratic majority in the Assembly will pick Hevesi's replacement, probably from their own ranks. "Though they would appoint an openly gay candidate, they worry about someone in the closet," one Dem told Page Six. "After the Hevesi fiasco, they want honesty, and worry about the pressures involved for a statewide official to remain in the closet." They point to what happened to New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who was forced to resign when his secret came out.
Now that former Assemblyman Tom DiNaploli is the Comptroller, I'd like to know if he is the subject of the Post's piece.
Posted by numbersix at February 10, 2007 03:05 PM
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December 05, 2006
Gotta Love our Brothers and Sisters in Jersey!!
Blue Jersey, the local netroots (or nutroots as some who don't "get it" like to refer to them as) has taken on a fantastic issue... OURS!
While I've come around to see that myopic single-issue politics is obsolete and "movement politics" is the way to go, please note that does not mean that some get left behind. It's a matter of fighting for what's right when the moment arises and putting our differences aside and fighting for what we all agree upon when they do not. Like those infamous Grover Norquist meetings.
Anyway, check out what Blue Jersey is doing for marriage equality in my home state of New Jersey! Where only the strong survive!
Click here. That's people power in action non-believers.
Posted by Morningstar at December 5, 2006 07:05 PM
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November 26, 2006
Enough already with the “Q”
I just read an article about “gay marriage” written by a lesbian (which should always, always, always be phrased “same-sex civil marriage,” but I digress). In it she referred to “LGBTQ couples.”
I’m sorry, but where did the “Q” come from? All the other letters make sense (“lesbian” is arguably repetitive, but there is a distinction). Is there an outcry from the “Questioning Community” to be included? Who are these people? Closet cases? I have never met someone who identified themself as questioning. Can one have a community if one is questioning what one is?
Continue reading "Enough already with the “Q”"
Posted by numbersix at November 26, 2006 10:02 AM
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November 21, 2006
Shame on you Senator Clinton
Quoting an article in the NYTimes:
She had only token opposition, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton still spent more on her re-election — upward of $30 million — than any other candidate for Senate this year.
A lot of money spent for what I think is no good reason. Where did she spend it?
Mrs. Clinton also bought more than $13,000 worth of flowers, mostly for fund-raising events and as thank-yous for donors. She laid out $27,000 for valet parking, paid as much as $800 in a single month in credit card interest and — above all — paid tens of thousands of dollars a month to an assortment of consultants and aides.
Throw in $17 million in advertising and fund-raising mailings, and what had been one of the most formidable war chests in politics was depleted
We flipped one, count 'em ONE, NY state senate seat this cycle. The Republicans furiously hunkered down and raised between two and three times as much as us for their Senate candidates. Part of being a Democratic leader is to help build your party locally. She could have spread some of her wealth around so that our candidates would be on par with the Republicans. I believe the total the Republicans raised was 7.6 million.
Between her and Eliot Spitzer I think they could have more than made up for that. Flipping the NY State Senate should have been a priority for Spitzer and Clinton considering they had no real opposition, were shoe-ins for election, and had huge warchests.
Moreover, no time was better than this past cycle with the Republicans self-destructing as they did.
Woulda... Coulda... Shoulda, I suppose.
Posted by Morningstar at November 21, 2006 12:25 PM
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November 11, 2006
For the Trolls
A lot of people who've been posting have been decrying the Netroots, Liberals and Progressives in general. Terms like "ultra-lefty bloggers" are obviously without merit. Although, you'd only know that if you actually read the blogs.
Well, here is to show what us "ultra-lefty" netroots did:
(Cross posted from MyDD)
Looking only at Democrats who took over Republican-held seats, here is a list of incoming Democratic freshmen in the House who are probably going to join the Progressive caucus:
AZ-08: Gabrielle Giffords
CA-11: Jerry McNerney
IA-01: Bruce Braley
NH-19: John Hall
In addition to the already listed McNerney, here are the incoming netroots candidates (we only endorsed challengers in 2006):
MN-01: Tim Walz
NH-02: Paul Hodes
NC-08: Larry Kissell (maybe)
PA-07: Joe Sestak
PA-08: Patrick Murphy
WA-08: Darcy Burner (probably)
In addition to the already listed Braley, Hodes, Sestak, Murphy and McNerney, here are the incoming Democrats from blue districts who took over Republican-held seats:
CT-02: Joe Courtney
IA-02: Dave Loebsack
CT-05: Chris Murphy
FL-22: Ron Klein
CO-07: Ed Perlmutter
KY-03: John Yarmuth
NH-01: Carol Shea-Porter
NY-24: Michael Arcuri
So, it looks like about 60%-70% of the incoming Democratic freshmen who took over Republican-held seats meet one of the three following criteria:
Joining the progressive caucus
From a blue district
Netroots candidate
Wow. What a conservative wave. A great victory for conservatives indeed. Throw in uber-conservative freshmen Phil Hare (IL-17), Keith Ellison (MN-05), and Mazie Hirono (HI-02), who all filled Democratic open-seats, and who will all probably join the progressive caucus, and this is the most conservative House of Representatives of all time. The most conservative part was probably when progressive Mazie Hirono took over for Blue Dog Ed Case in HI-02, after Case lost his Senate primary to ultra-conservative Daniel Akaka. A big right-wing shift, that. A close second was when progressive Bruce Braley took conservative Jim Nussle's seat, and then Nussle lost the Iowa Governor's race anyway. Truly, hard-right swings across the board.
Posted by admin at November 11, 2006 05:09 PM
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November 08, 2006
WOOHOO!!!!
Today is a good day. We have won the House and it looks like we are going to win the Senate!
I congratulate and thank everyone for their hardwork. Those that went out into the battlefield and knocked on the doors, made the calls, got out the vote! This is the delicious fruit of Dean and the Netroots' 50 state strategy.
Fight them everywhere!
Congratulations too, to Joe Lieberman. He ran an excellent campaign and, as a result, deserved to win. To the winner go the spoils. I still think he's a douchebag, but he's Senator Douchebag.
To those that thought that Dems needed to run away from themselves and deride the base in order to win... well... those guys (Rahm's hand-picked folks like Tammy Duckworth) lost.
Regardless of what Rush Limbaugh, Tony Snow and the Punditocracy are saying, our victory isn't because of "Conservative Democrats." Our victory is our because we stood up and unapologetically declared ourselves proud to be Democrats and Progressives.
I'll save the vitriol, the HRC bashing, and controversy for another day.
Now we celebrate!
"You think you can intimidate me? Screw you. Choose your weapon." - Eliot Spitzer, Governor Elect of NEW YORK
On day one everything changes!
Thank frakking God!!!!!
Posted by Morningstar at November 8, 2006 02:57 PM
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