Liberal Talk Radio

I don’t know why, I just can’t stop paying attention to Rep. Heather Wilson. Ever since the Janet Jackson affar, when she got on all the nightly newscasts for lambasting CBS executives for having the nerve to peddle that “filth,” I’ve had my eye on her. I found it profoundly hypocritical that a [...]

I read this blog post today (link via TPM), and it really crystallized what’s at the heart of the issue on Privatizing (or “Personalizing”) Social Security:
One last point…I have another misgiving about private accounts. I strongly believe that the last thing we need is for the stock market to become an even greater national priority. [...]

This gives the Dems a decent change for a pickup in the Senate as the blue states get bluer and the red states redder.
On the other hand, with PA Gov. Ed Rendell asking pro-choice Democrat Barbara Hafer to step aside, pro-choice residents in Pennsylvania will no longer have a candidate to vote for. [...]

The Prof and I are on your side. Just like your local newscast, we’re here to protect consumers from corporate behemoths (while at the same time lapping up their advertising dollars and pushing their corporate agenda).
Seriously, folks, check out this cell-phone radiation chart from the folks at C|Net. Turns out that 1.6 is [...]

Boeing suddenly fired their CEO today. Whoa.
This only two years after Phil Condit resigned because of the brouhaha over Air Force contracts.
Doesn’t seem to have shaken the company much, which is good news. The real question is, of course, how does Seattle react? Since Boeing moved Corporate HQ to Chicago a few [...]

Both Josh Marshall and Marshall Whitman try to dissect an exchange between Joe Klein and Paul Krugman on Sunday’s Meet The Press. To the extent that their exchange was at all interesting, it was because it offered the mortals a glimpse of what a Democratic insider’s cocktail party conversation might have sounded like. [...]

Will they even run anyone against her? Look like she’s a shoo-in.
Anyone who thinks that America isn’t ready for a female president forgets just how f-ing smart Sen. Clinton is.
Nobody expects top Republicans like Mr. Reynolds to cross party lines and endorse Mrs. Clinton. But some political strategists say the Republican Party [...]

Here’s what the WA Builers Association is doing to try and contest the election:
OLYMPIA — A “Home Ownership Survey” sent to hundreds of King County residents, along with a $10 check as an incentive for returning it, wasn’t really designed, as it claimed, to help project housing trends in the Puget Sound region.
The [...]

I haven’t done the research on this, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that my Congressman, Jim McDermott, is the only member of the US House with a Diary on Kos.

Hunter S. Thompson quote that’s been making the rounds:
The first time I noticed George W Bush,” Hunter Thompson tells me, “was when he passed out in my bathtub at the Hyatt Regency in Houston. He was with a guy who had come to sell…” Thompson, sitting at his desk in a faded-green dressing-gown, stares down [...]