talkleft.com - 3/18/2009
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As opposed to politicians, progressives should care about issues, not elections. Of course one follows the other. But pols are pols and do what they do . Matt Yglesias writes a confusing post, but he gets it right in the end: If we succeed in achieving major progressive reforms in 2009 and ...
salon.com - 3/24/2009
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) One of the
linchpins of the Bush presidency, especially during the first...
term (and well into the second, until he became a major political liability), was the lock-step uncritical reverence – often bordering on cult-like ...
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A major difference between conservatives and ...
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 3/13/2009
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Instahoglets Wednesday
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... - Still, Big Tent Democrat gets the fight right - "There is nothing more important that we can do, as citizens, activists or bloggers than fight to pressure DEMOCRATS to do the right thing on OUR issues...It's more important BY FAR than "fighting" for your favorite pol because your favorite pol will ALWAYS, I mean ALWAYS, disappoint you." ...
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