Samantha Power Memories

post from Open Left - Front Page on 08 March 2008 01:30:40 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

I really liked Samantha Power's book on genocide, but remember this?"We're going to hear something[...]

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Lieberman calls for Bush to release library
donors.

post from Think Progress on 08 March 2008 01:30:00 PM. © Think Progress

At a recent press conference, President Bush announced that he may keep the names of donors to his presidential library secret. In a Dallas News op-ed today, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) calls on Bush to make all his documents public:

Presidents begin raising these enormous sums while they are still in the White House. Disclosure of these contributors will help assure that an administration’s decisions are not being tilted toward big-dollar presidential library donors. […]
This public access was weakened when President Bush issued Executive Order 13233 in 2001, which allows heirs of a former president to claim executive privilege even after the president’s death. […]
I support the House-passed legislation that repeals this executive order and restores the public’s right to know.

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TN-Sen: Fmr. State Democratic Party Chair Jumps
in Race

post from MyDD on 08 March 2008 01:22:27 PM. © MyDD

Tennessee was never destined to be the best Senate pick up opportunities for the Democrats in 2008, but it looks like the party now has a credible candidate in the race: Former Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke has officially announced his bid for the[...]

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The TaleMaster....News

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 08 March 2008 01:19:36 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

This little tale started itself about a dozen years ago. It was originally a couple of pages, a background for a D&D character. Then came a dream or three which added so much more. Life & Death interfered for many years. I've begun dreaming of this[...]

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Wyoming Democratic Caucus: Huge Turnout, Results

post from TalkLeft on 08 March 2008 01:16:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Huge turnouts in Wyoming. Registration ended Feb. 22, so those turned away today are not those who decided to vote this weekend, but those who didn't arrive in time. Everyone was told to come an hour early because you had to be in line at 9:00 am.

Update: Niobrara County is in, it's a tie, 10 votes for each, each gets 1/2 delegate. The bigger counties to watch are Laramie (Albany) Natrona (Casper), Cheyenne (Laramie) and Sweetwater. Every county has one caucus.

Update: Gillette (Northern Wyoming) goes for Obama. Hillary wins Goshen. They tie in Crook. Obama takes Uinta, Sublette, Campbell and Hot Springs.

Obama opened 5 offices in the state. Hillary had 2. Again, Obama is expected to win, it's a question of by how much.

Official Wyoming caucus results will be here. They will also appear on CNN's page here.

The caucuses are open only to Democrats and the registration cut-off was Feb. 22. Wyoming has a total of 18 delegates (12 pledged) and 4 alternates. [More...]

"Delegates" are the delegates to the Wyoming Democratic Party 2008 State Convention in Jackson on May 23-24. Statewide, there are a total of 319 delegates to the state convention.

Here's a list of the registered voters in Wyoming as of March 4, 2008 (pdf.) Out of more than 200,000 registered voters, 59,000 are Democrats. Obama campaigned in Laramie, as did Bill Clinton, Hillary did not.

Natrona (Casper) has 8,000. Both campaigned there yesterday. Cheyenne (in Laramie County) is another place where Hillary campaigned yesterday.

I'm wondering which way Sweetwater will go. It has 7,500 registered Dems and Bill Clinton campaigned there.

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More on Wyoming Democratic Caucuses

post from TalkLeft on 08 March 2008 01:16:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Official Wyoming caucus results will be here. They will also appear on CNN's page here.

The caucuses are open only to Democrats and the registration cut-off was Feb. 22. Wyoming has a total of 18 delegates (12 pledged) and 4 alternates.

"Delegates" are the delegates to the Wyoming Democratic Party 2008 State Convention in Jackson on May 23-24. Statewide, there are a total of 319 delegates to the state convention.

Here's a list of the registered voters in Wyoming as of March 4, 2008 (pdf.) Out of more than 200,000 registered voters, 59,000 are Democrats. Laramie has the most, with 11,000. Obama campaigned in Laramie, Hillary did not.

Natrona (Casper) has 8,000. Both campaigned there yesterday. Cheyenne (Albany) has 5,400. Hillary campaigned there yesterday.

I'm wondering which way Sweetwater will go. It has 7,500 registered Dems and Bill Clinton campaigned there.

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Help! Help! They're dancing!

post from Daily Kos on 08 March 2008 01:11:35 PM. © Daily Kos

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is a knuckle-biting coward:

An Iowa Republican congressman said Friday that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency.

Rep. Steve King based his prediction on Obama's pledge to pull troops out of Iraq, his Kenyan heritage and his middle name, Hussein.

"The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida ... would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror," King said in an interview with the Daily Reporter in Spencer.

Remember when Republicans feared truly scary things, like death?

You could hardly understand them sometimes, through their chattering teeth and over the embarrassing odors emanating from their pants, but they used to at least insist that the specter of death be the chit they'd trade things like American Values^TM like civil liberties for.

PERRspectives reminds us of the sad Republican history of pantsbrowning:

As Perrspectives detailed last year, President Bush's amen corner on Capitol Hill offered the "Give Me Death" defense of warrantless wiretapping of Americans. Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) offer case in point.

During brief comments to the press last February, Sessions referring to the rightness of Bush's domestic spying after 9/11 declared melodramatically:

"Over 3,000 Americans have no civil rights because they are no longer with us."

The Republican leadership is singing from the same Karl Rove fear-mongering hymnal to justify the President's lawbreaking. On February 3rd, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, who has stonewalled the Phase II investigation into the misuses of pre-Iraq war intelligence, similarly claimed:

"You really don't have any civil liberties if you're dead."

Roberts, who also authored a vitriolic 19-page letter defending the NSA domestic surveillance program, merely followed in the footsteps of Senator John Cornyn. Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on December 20, 2005:

"None of your civil liberties matter much after you're dead."

But King really raises the wuss factor to the Nth degree here, doesn't he? Now Americans can't elect our own president, for fear someone might... dance.

To be fair, though, this would be Radical Islamodancism. So there's that.

That's the new test, I guess. A Republican presidency is a success if terrorists don't kill Americans on their watch. But a Democratic presidency fails if anyone dances.

Let 'em dance. Let 'em declare anything they want. I thought if you weren't actually dead, that was a victory for us.

Apparently not enough, though. Gotta have a worldwide war on jubilation before King will be ready to commit to a clean pair of Jockeys.

The kicker is, they think Americans will think this stuff makes them sound like leaders.

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Obama wins Wyoming

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 08 March 2008 01:03:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

CNN and MSNBC called it. Add Wyoming to the long list of states that don't count.

No doubt, we'll hear the usual spin from team Clinton about this loss not mattering. But the Clintons did try to win Wyoming (and thought they had a shot) according to this report earlier today from the Caucus at the NYT:

For the time being, it doesn?t matter whether the Clinton campaign?s contention that caucuses are undemocratic is accurate ? they count. And Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton appears determined to break her all-but-Nevada (and New Mexico!) losing streak in them. Over the past several days, she and her family have been stumping around Wyoming, which is holding Democratic caucuses throughout the morning and early afternoon today. The intensity of her late efforts there appear to be helping her catch up to Senator Barack Obama, according to state party officials, even though he was more organized there, meaning we?ve got a real race today in Vice President Dick Cheney?s home state.

A real race? Not really. All that campaigning didn't work out so well after all.

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AK-Sen: Palin Pregnant with Fifth Child

With popular Anchorage mayor Mark Begich edging ever closer to officially entering the Alaska Senate race as a Democrat with the formation of an exploratory committee, one of the Democrats' few real fears about being able to win the race is that[...]

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Wyoming Results Thread

I'm seeing some caucus results come in. Per Fox News: Barack Obama 57% Hillary Clinton 41% with 26% precincts reporting Tags: 2008 presidential election, democratic nomination, wyoming caucuses, results (all tags) [...]

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