The Democratic Brand

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Thursday April 28, 2005 · 2:09 PM PDT

2005/04/28 · 14:09

Kos posted yesterday proposing that the Democratic Party brand be

The Democrats are the Party of people who work for a living.

Several people pointed out that this is not a brand, but rather a constituancy. We cannot hope to convince people to identify with our values by telling them that they're part of our target consituancy, our brand must seek to get that constituancy to vote for us, not order them to based on their class standing. I believe that I have found the Democratic brand, keep reading.

I figured I haven't diaried for a while and I'd ramble a little in a diary that could be extremely short, bear with me, there's more below the fold. Read More

Republicans Tell Labor Unions to Shut Up

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Friday April 01, 2005 · 1:28 PM PST

2005/04/01 · 13:28

The AFL-CIO organized a large protest against the proposals to privatize Social Security yesterday, and the Republicans response? Make it illegal for them to protest. So much for the First Amendment I guess.

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What's the Matter with Hawaii?

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Wednesday March 16, 2005 · 8:45 PM PST

2005/03/16 · 20:45

As you all know, the Amendment to the budget proposal removing the section authorizing drilling in ANWR passed today on a 51-49 vote. The Democratic Defectors were Inouye (HI), Akaka (HI) and Landrieu (LA). There was no excuse for this vote. Seven Republicans joined nearly all the Democrats to take drilling in ANWR out of the budget. DLCers such as Lieberman, Bayh, Baucus, Pryor, and Lincoln all voted in favor of the Cantwell Amendment. There was simply no excuse for this vote. What I wonder is why two of the three defectors were from Hawaii? Additionally Akaka and Inouye are generally perceived as being relatively liberal. Read More

Wow

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Saturday February 19, 2005 · 11:20 PM PST

2005/02/19 · 23:20

I've never used my daily quota before and posted 2 diaries in the same day. But first I felt a need to post about an article I saw in the Oregonian today, and now I'm amazed at something I saw over at Atrios a few minutes ago. Comments on the CPAC conference these past few days. I shouldn't be surprised and yet, I am. A member of the United States House of Representativis actually said that we had found WMDs in Iraq Read More

Is the truth about media bias finally getting out?

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Saturday February 19, 2005 · 8:44 PM PST

2005/02/19 · 20:44

The Oregonian out of Portland seems to understand the truth about media bias. In an Editorial this morning, the Oregonian stated.

Those inclined to accept right-wing mythology about the "left-wing mainstream media" should consider for a moment the sensational story of fake White House reporter "Jeff Gannon."

Never heard of him? That's not surprising. Mainstream news outlets have scarcely touched it. Yet it's been raging for weeks on left-leaning Web sites, which so far have been unable to elevate the story beyond the blogosphere.

Bloggers on the right, by comparison, have enjoyed spectacular success getting the supposedly leftist media to heed and advance their journalistic agenda. This creates a fertile new issue for industry researchers: Why is it that Internet bloggers on the left, compared with those on the right, have so much less demonstrable influence on mainstream journalism?

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Tuesday February 15, 2005 · 11:18 PM PST

2005/02/15 · 23:18

I almost never watch FOX NEWS, very few TVs have survived when I do. But tonight I was channell surfing arround, and noticed NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer doing an Interview on Niel Cavuto's show. Spitzer answered slanted questions and one "some people say" question with skill, but I couldn't take my eyes off the little box at the bottom of the screen. I noticed that when I looked at the box I didn't really know exactly what Spitzer said, while I did when I wasn't looking at the box. Read More

Lakoff framing and the Democratic base

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Wednesday February 09, 2005 · 7:30 PM PST

2005/02/09 · 19:30

While DailyKos and other blogs have acknowledged the need to frame the debate differently, and a major victory was won with the imminent election of Howard Dean to the DNC Chairmanship. A huge portion of rank and file Democrats don't get it. They buy the spin from the media that we need to move to the right on issues like abortion and gay marriage.

Social Security and College Students

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Monday February 07, 2005 · 3:00 PM PST

2005/02/07 · 15:00

Though Bush's proposed destruction of Social Security stand to benefit no one, the group that is most likely to support the proposal is younger people. I was just interested in generating suggestions for ways to convince college students on my campus to oppose those changes. I only post this diary to generate suggestions for getting the news out about the negatives of this proposal, please fire away. I'm also interested in what people think is the best argument to use with this demographic.

Edwards in '08

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Friday January 28, 2005 · 4:18 PM PST

2005/01/28 · 16:18

Rumors of possible Democratic candidates in 2008 have ranged from Feingold, to Hillary, John Edwards, and Gore or Kerry making another run. Edwards is the guy. The person who can appeal to populist economic instincts in middle America the way the Republicans have appealed to those same people's social conservative instincts.

"I don't think this is about moderate, conservative, liberal," he says. "Americans are looking for strength, an idealistic strength. They want to know what we'd do on Day One if we ran the country."

Moral issues matter, Edwards says, but Democrats won't look moral by getting into a bidding war over how often they can invoke the name of God. Instead, Democrats should speak with conviction about an issue that has always animated them: the alleviation of poverty. "I think it is a moral issue; it's something we should be willing to fight about and stand up for," he says.

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Monday January 24, 2005 · 11:46 PM PST

2005/01/24 · 23:46

A very dissapointing Supreme Court ruling today.

From the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that in making a routine traffic stop, the police can permit a trained dog to sniff the car for drugs without the need for any particular reason to suspect the driver of a narcotics violation.

The 6-to-2 decision set aside a ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court, which held in 2003 that a state trooper who had stopped a man for speeding had broadened the scope of the encounter beyond constitutional limits by having the dog sniff the car. The dog alerted the police to the trunk, which contained $250,000 worth of marijuana. The addition of the dog impermissibly turned a traffic stop into a drug investigation, the Illinois court said.

This is a huge mistake, that will allow police to turn nearly any routine activity into a drug investigation. Read More

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What's the Matter with Hawaii?

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Is the truth about media bias finally getting out?

Elliott Spitzer on FOX NEWS

Lakoff framing and the Democratic base

Social Security and College Students

Edwards in '08

Supreme Court Ruling on drug sniffing dogs at traffic stops