Stop Wearing Purple

post from Eschaton on 16 August 2006 11:50:00 PM. © Eschaton

?Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy,? said one military affairs expert who received an Iraq briefing at the White House last month and agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity.

?Everybody in the administration is being quite circumspect,? the expert said, ?but you can sense their own concern that this is drifting away from democracy.?

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Late Night

post from Eschaton on 16 August 2006 11:35:00 PM. © Eschaton

Enjoy.

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REPUBLICANS FACE UP TO THE REALITY OF BEING
SWAMPED BY A POWERFUL TSUNAMI OF ANGER AND FRUSTRATION FROM VOTERS

post from DownWithTyranny! on 16 August 2006 11:08:00 PM. © DownWithTyranny!

A few weeks ago I pointed out that even Larry Sabato's rear-view analysis of electoral politics was leading him to think the Democrats might win a coupla seats. Well, forget Sabato... now, even The Washington Post is starting to see the handwriting on the wave. Well... not exactly the actual Post, but Chris Cillizza who does "The Fix" for them, asks the question, "Is A Democratic Wave Building?" He sites 5 polls by Newsweek, Fox, A.P., Post/ABC, and CNN that all answer "yes"-- in double digits.

He quotes Charlie Cook explaining that "The last three generics that I have seen have been in the 18 or 19 point range, which is on the high side of extra large. That suggests the probability of large Democratic gains." I've never heard Charlie Cook step out on a ledge before-- ever. And Stu Rothenberg agrees. "The generic surely reflects voters dissatisfaction with the President and his party and their inclination to support Democrats in the fall. The size of the Democrats' generic advantage also can't be ignored. It too suggests the likelihood of a partisan wave, even though it does not guarantee the fate of any individual Republican incumbent."

Cillizza suggests that if the Democrats start looking like winners in GOP-held seats in CT-05 (a toss-up between longtime Republican congresswoman Nancy Johnson and Chris Murphy), IN-02 (a northern Indiana district that looks like they'll be trading in screwy wingnut Chris Chocola for moderate Democrat Joe Donnelly), OH-01 (the "other" Cincinnati district, Sherrod Brown tipped me off is going to dump rubber stamp Steven Chabot in favor of John Cranley), PA-08 (a tight race between clueless Bush rubber stamper Michael Flitzgerald and Fightin' Dem Patrick Murphy) and IL-10 (a district just north of Chicago where it looks highly likely that Mark Kirk has rubber stamped his last Bush proposal as Dan Seals moves to Congress), it is curtains for the villains come November. For Cillizza these are indicator districts and if they start moving towards Democratic victories, it;s indicative of a coming landslide of outsized proportions.

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Late Nite FDL: We Are Gold Dust in Our Hands

post from Firedoglake on 16 August 2006 11:06:40 PM. © Firedoglake

You know how there are certain songs that when you try to sing them all the way through, you can’t? You get all choked up and the tears threaten and the melody drowns in your throat. For me, "Gold Dust" by Tori Amos is one of[...]

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Bush is still the bubble boy

post from AMERICAblog on 16 August 2006 10:49:00 PM. © AMERICAblog

The White House is pretending that Bush is out among the people...learning and stuff. But Froomkin knows better: I've written a fair amount about the Bush Bubble over the past nearly three years. And it seems to me that, with a tiny handful of exceptions, the bubble is still fully operational.When it comes to Iraq in particular, Bush has no interest in engaging in genuine dialogue with people

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C&Ls Late Nite Music Club with David Oistrakh

post from Crooks and Liars on 16 August 2006 10:14:11 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (3rd Mov.)I worked on this movement with the flute. What a nightmare. One of my favorites.Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Op35; Mozart: Concertos for violin No5

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CrooksR'Us

post from Firedoglake on 16 August 2006 10:00:40 PM. © Firedoglake

I hope everyone is done now with slinging around the cockeyed notion that Lieberman somehow is, or ever was a "moderate." This isn’t "moderates" vs. "extremists" as Lanny Davis and Mike McCurry would have it[...]

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NEW NEIL YOUNG VIDEO CONDEMNS BUSH ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICIES

Neil Young has a new video from his current album LIVING WITH WAR. The clip is for one of my favorite songs on the album, "After the Garden." Like all the songs on the album, this is another powerful indictment of Bush's disastrous presidency. This one focuses on what Bush has done to wreck traditionally bipartisan environmental policy. I mean before Bush, just because you liked clean air and water it didn't mean you were pro-terrorist. Remember?

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Keeping track of who's naughty and nice

Bob Geiger is keeping track of Democratic Senators and where they stand on Joe Lieberman's effort to destroy the Democratic party while winning the Republican vote.

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Your Liberal Media and Other Rants

Watching CNN’s American Morning, Deborah Freyerick lobbed a softball for the Charles-Johnson-in-a-suit “terror expert” Steve Emerson to knock out of the park with a right-wing talking point. She framed the question with “some people say if you get rid of Osama bin Laden, you get rid of terrorism.” Emerson used the right-wing talking point that Republicans [...]

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