Anatomy of the Coaklastrophe
The interpretations of the Coaklastrophe are prone to confirming a given author’s previous views: moderate Democrats wills say that Obama has been too liberal, while progressive Democrats will say that...
View ArticleWaterloo....
This will be brief. After cursing and screaming for about 30 minutes, my head has cleared. I has become clear to me now. Remeber that "waterloo" statement all those months ago? About how it was gonna...
View ArticleTea partiers and Massachusetts voters, you have been deceived
Unfortunately for those of us who are left leaning libertarians or progressives, Brown won instead of Coakley or Kennedy. The tea partiers are mislead and think the republican party will represent...
View ArticleA New Way Forward on HCR- Let's Have Some Fun and Win
With Coakley's loss, there will not be 60 votes in the Senate for comprehensive HCR as a single package. In addition, whether or not you believe the Senate bill was "better than nothing" in the...
View ArticleFraud?
I just copied and pasted this from MyDD's front page (sue me) Coakley Campaign Charges Fraud by Nathan Empsall, Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 05:32:13 PM EST Kevin Conroy, Martha Coakley's campaign manager, just...
View ArticleAnd the worst part of it is...
...that it's going to get worse. WAY worse, unless both we and the Dems in DC WAKE UP. When Dems lose, they tack right. HARD right, until they bump into a wall, or the wall falls away from them....
View ArticleSo, Someone Tell Me...What's the Point?
Last year more than 50% of the American people voted for change. They voted for Barack Obama who ran for president promising health care reform, among other things. One year later the people of...
View ArticleMy Mom's Dead. Here's My Explanation for the MA Debacle
I am sitting here in California, dulling my pain with one of our wonderful Zinfandels. My mom is dead and never had anything to do with politics. And although I'm not in Massachussetts (sp? ha ha), I...
View ArticleA Pep Talk and Half Time Adjustments w/ Mike Singletary
I was reading Team of Rivals the other day and learned that Lincoln's Gettysburg address lasted only 2 minutes. It is in that spirit and form, that I offer the following advice......
View ArticleF the CW
Look, here's what happened in Massachusetts: a lot of Republicans voted, a lot of Democrats didn't. Why did this happen? There are myriad reasons, and I'll explore them below the fold. Before you...
View ArticleThe Bad News Bears
For those either too young, or too goal oriented to watch old reruns, it’s an old movie about a bunch of misfit kids on a little league team. When they start they couldn’t find a baseball if it was...
View ArticleIt Was the Candidate, Not the Party Platform
I know the circular firing squad is in full effect and Democrats are waking up looking themselves in the mirror wondering what went wrong, it was the candidate, not the party platform.
View ArticleAA Female Independent Voter, voted for Brown?
I'm watching C-SPAN and at 6:42 am, CST listening to a woman who identified herself as an Independent voter, an AA (African American) female married to a Republican and she had voted for Obama. She...
View ArticleMA-Sen: McCain 105, Obama 56 (Pollster data)
At pollster.com, Charles Franklin has a spectacular plot of MA-Sen town-by-town voting data. Town-by-town he compares the McCain absolute vote to the Obama absolute vote. The turnout in Massachusetts...
View Article"...and not to yield."
As the late Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat slips unfortunately, and unnecessarily into the grips of the Republican party, it’s impossible not to recognize the Shakespearean-esque magnitude of some of the...
View ArticleSinking into deep Brown
Back in November, I posted a diary here about why we shouldn't nominate Martha Coakley. Pardon me for gloating in my grief.
View ArticleCoakley Lost Because the Democrats Have Not Gone Far Enough
The election in Massachusetts is obviously a wake up call to Democrats. We can only hope that they get the message and do not misread it. The first reason why Coakley lost is obvious to all. She sucked...
View ArticleScrapping and Starting Over: Reconciliation is not Viable
A few days ago, I had commented that the loss of Coakley - which I viewed as likely - wasn't the worst thing that could happen. And that it might refocus the party on coming up with a cohesive...
View Article2012: Taking Back a MA Senate seat
I've been sifting through the post-mortems from the Massachusetts senate race. There are lots of views as to what went wrong, and what can we learn. Since (whew!) it looks like I will NOT need to do a...
View ArticleObama finally gets it - maybe Coakley losing was good(UPDATED)
I was, and still am, a huge supporter of the President. But its no secret that whats disappointed many of us about Obama's first year is his decision to attain noble achievements like healthcare or...
View ArticleThe benefits of defeat -- Wage War
I haven't posted at Kos for quite some time, but last night's defeat in Massachusetts has brought me back. And the bottom line is this -- the best thing that has happened to the Democratic party since...
View ArticleCoakley and Dem's got cut by Occam's razor
Today there will be much analysis and about how Brown won in Mass. We will hear convoluted arguments about how this election affects Obama, the Democrats, is a mandate, national election etc, etc,...
View ArticleAside from actually campaigning, what Martha Coakley needed to do to win
We all know that Martha Coakley ran a campaign that wasn't really a campaign until the last week or so. This certainly didn't help her. It didn't help either that she let Scott Brown tell voters what...
View ArticleThe "message" our elected representatives should have received
Massachusetts, a historically blue state, has just elected a Republican Senator. Pundits everywhere are rushing to tell us all what it means (despite the fact that there is almost no polling which...
View ArticleBrainstorm! Pay off GOP to not filibuster! (with poll)
Desperate times call for desperate measures. In that vein, I will propose a way to get meaningful HCR to the President's desk soon. This brainstorm came to me last night amid all the noise of Brown's...
View ArticleMy Brithday Hangover
So last year, for my 50th birthday, my best present was watching Barack Obama become President of the United States. Heady times. Now, 51, not so much... I watched this election first-hand with a...
View ArticleWhat Does Scott Brown’s Victory Mean for Immigration Reform?
The election of Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts provides an interesting twist in 2010 electoral politics. While some may argue that this loss is essentially a referendum on the...
View ArticleWhy We Lost In Massachusetts.
Independents don’t vote for PUSSIES! And here's the proof: Obama and the Democrats won Independents in ’08 because of what we ran on: Closing Gitmo takes balls. Confronting Wall Street takes balls....
View ArticleObama just got punched in the face
And his buddy Rahm held his arms behind his back while it happened. The MA voters - and I'm one - just sent a simple message: WE WANT CHANGE! Obama's bipartisanship trip is pure bullshit. FDR, Truman...
View ArticleLet the finger pointing commence!
Who can derail the Democrats better than they, no one!
View ArticleMA? GOP? WTF?
What follows was composed late yesterday evening following some delicate meditation and reflection on what had transpired earlier in Massachusetts. For a thoughtful and provocative analysis of what...
View ArticleI cried all night, and all day too
I know you are all going to tell me that I am crazy for being so upset by this, but I have to spill my heart somewhere. I am horribly upset by the fact that a dirty, tea-bagger type Republican, is...
View ArticleENOUGH!!!
Just saw Tweety step all over Howard Dean. Very sad, but not entirely baseless. The voters in Massachussets have health care already and don't want to pay for more. They are angry but have stepped on...
View ArticleObama, Teddy, & the Perils of Governing Without Conviction
Four years ago, I wrote a pair of meditations on my irascible old blog, VichyDems, warning of the harm that would occur if Democrats regained national power without first abandoning the...
View ArticleWhy so surprised?
Outside of the fact that the seat in question was a Kennedy birthright and no one even close to resembling said "American Royalty" was attempting to win it, why would we be surprised that someone such...
View ArticleShe was a pretty poor candidate
She really was a pretty poor candidate. All her TV ads were attack ads. I've watched 100 Martha Coakley ads. I can't remember one thing she said or what she stood for. I can't remember anything...
View ArticleMassachusetts to Obama: It is Time to Lead
Here on dailykos, some have argued that Martha Coakley’s loss is strictly her own, I beg to differ, there is a growing narrative that has emerged shortly after Obama’s election, the republican party,...
View ArticlePoll shows Democrats lost because they aren't liberal enough
The received wisdom in mainstream US political discourse appears to be that Martha Coakley lost the Massachusetts special Senate election (to replace Ted Kennedy) because Obama's policies were too...
View ArticleCoakley's "Earth Tones"
A little jet-lagged maybe, I woke up suddenly last night, jolted with a terrible thought: suppose Martha Coakley's campaign wasn't really so awful. Suppose it had been, like Al Gore's, sandbagged from...
View ArticleLive in MA & wanna to vent ? Share your stupid stories.
First off, after experiencing first hand what happened in MA, I find myself missing Ted Kennedy more than I ever thought I would. Living here I had thought that Kennedy voted progressively because the...
View ArticleA Fight We Cannot Afford to Lose
I warn you in advance - I've no intention of watching my language during this diary. If any of ye have any objections to strong language and/or expletives, you may wish to hit the back button on your...
View ArticleDKos is STILL doing fine, thank you very much.
On the rec list is another This place has lost its mind diary. Accompanying it are another 2 GBCW type diaries. Three days ago I wrote the diary that is re-posted below. Three days later, DailyKos is...
View ArticleThe Obama Effect: The Results from His Stumps in Virginia and NJ and What it...
Take a look at this from my right-wing blog: The Obama Effect: The Results from His Stumps in Virginia and NJ and What it Means in Massachusetts Something I've found interesting over the last few weeks...
View ArticleLessons on WINNING from Scott Brown
We Massachusetts voters who watched the Brown-Coakley match may have a different impression of the race than what the Villagers along the Potomac think. It was a perfect storm: Brown ran a marvelous...
View ArticleVideo-Stephanie Miller: "What A Suck Ass Week"
Talk show host Stephanie Miller ruminates on the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy's seat, the loss of Air America and a Supreme Court ruling that will unleash corporate money in politics. Miller appeared...
View ArticleDKos is STILL doing fine, really.
On the rec list is another This place has lost its mind diary. Accompanying it are another 2 GBCW type diaries. Three days ago I wrote the diary that is re-posted below. Three days later, DailyKos is...
View ArticleWhy health care reform will pass. Soon.
President Obama is receiving a significant amount of criticism for being too "hands off" in governance. His leadership style with respect to health care in his first year largely involved speaking in...
View ArticleYet another reason why Coakley lost
Timing in politics can be crucial. Just ask Martha Coakley. The current Mass. AG made a crucial mistake in not releasing a report critical of the way that hospitals pay insurers in the Bay State ten...
View ArticleCampaign 2.0 - Walking Edge
In the hysteria surrounding the Martha Coakley loss in Massachusetts - guarantees that HCR was dead, titters at Scott Brown the centerfold, laments for the days of Ted Kennedy - we lost a few more...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Craigslist Had to Go Down (Hint: $$)
A young woman posted her massage services on-line. A young man then contacted her and a few hours later she was dead in a hotel room. Predator meets prey. The woman was Julissa Brisman of Boston. The...
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