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Monday, February 12, 2007
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Political Wire: "'The scramble among states to move up their presidential primaries next year has renewed calls from a number of the nation's chief election officers to end the helter-skelter and move to a slower nominating process, such as by staging four regional primaries,' Stateline.org reports."
"2008 pres"
6:42:29 PM 
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Andrew Sullivan: "The bipartisan approach outlined today in the NYT on deficit reduction seems to me to be exactly the right paradigm for practical reform. Politically, the only solution to the deficit will be concessions from both sides. If possible, those concessions should be as beneficial as possible to the existing economy, and as fair as possible. Taxing carbon and reining in entitlements for the wealthy seem eminently sensible things to do regardless of their positive impact on fiscal balance."
"2008 pres"
6:41:19 PM
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Oliver Willis: "The Iran snowjob tour, with the help of a complicit press once again, marches on."
Talking Points Memo: "Good catch by Newshog blog. Today in Australia, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Peter Pace, declined to stand behind the assertions of that background Iranian IEDs briefing in Iraq."
"2008 pres"
6:13:13 PM
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Political Wire: "'Barack Obama is off to a stellar start in Iowa,' writes the Des Moines Register's David Yepsen. 'The Illinois senator had what is likely to be the largest kickoff ever seen for any candidate in the history of the caucuses.
"'His crowds in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo were huge - two or three thousand per event. In Ames, about 5,000 people were at the Hilton Coliseum. Even a lowly house party in Iowa Falls attracted 200.'"
The Right's Field: "Mitt Romney launched a fire-storm today by announcing his decision to announce his presidential candidacy at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. Ford was a legendary anti-Semite and Romney's decision has already sparked condemnation by the National Jewish Democratic Council."
The Right's Field: "If there's a case to be made for Rudy Giuliani to be thought of as a conservative, I doubt it can be more comprehensive than this one put forward by Steven Malanga of City Journal. Malanga takes a close look at Giuliani's record on crime, welfare, tax policy, fiscal policy, and education as mayor and documents his hard-lined conservative policy stances in the face of loud opposition from liberal critics."
"2008 pres"
6:03:31 PM
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TalkLeft: "Kudos to Bill Purcell, Nashville's mayor, for his veto of a mean-spirited and unnecessary ordinance that would have made English the 'official language' of Nashville. The ordinance would have required nearly all governmental communications to be in English -- as if the official business of Nashville's government is transacted in any other language."
"2008 pres"
5:59:53 PM
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Captain's Quarters: "The Democrats can forget about the 2008 primary being a love-in. The same weekend that Barack Obama threw his hat into the ring, he also aimed a few brickbats at the front-runner over her vote on the war in Iraq. Obama wants to make a clear delineation between himself and Hillary Clinton as the obvious standardbearer for the Left."
"2008 pres"
6:47:06 AM
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Here's a long article from the Atlantic about Tim Gill and the efforts of gay people around the country to effect local politics. From the article, "A tough loss can be hard to swallow, and plenty of defeated politicians have been known to grumble about sinister conspiracies. When they are rising stars like Danny Carroll, the Republican speaker pro tempore of Iowa's House of Representatives, and the loss is unexpected, the urge to blame unseen forces can be even stronger -- and in Carroll's case, it would have the additional distinction of being justified. Carroll was among the dozens of targets of a group of rich gay philanthropists who quietly joined forces last year, under the leadership of a reclusive Colorado technology mogul, to counter the tide of antigay politics in America that has generated, among other things, a succession of state ballot initiatives banning gay marriage. Carroll had sponsored such a bill in Iowa and guided it to passage in the state House of Representatives, the first step toward getting it on the ballot."
Read the whole article, there is a lot of good detail. Thanks to Colorado Lib for the link.
"2008 pres"
6:43:16 AM
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Here's a report on last weekend's Roots Camp from the Denver Post. From the article, "This past weekend, Fawcett was among a few hundred bloggers, politicians and political insiders who attended Rocky Mountain Roots Camp, a local gathering of Net-savvy progressives, to listen, learn and make connections. 'Netroots' - an amalgam of 'Internet' and 'grass roots' - also has momentum in other pockets throughout the country, notably New York, Ohio and Virginia, where bloggers are reshaping the tempo and tenor of political campaigns. With next year's Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado's netroots community is attracting national attention. 'I think Colorado is becoming a bellwether for emerging trends in the progressive blogosphere, and it's the result of the confluence of lots of developments,' said Nancy Watzman, investigative- projects director for Washington-based Public Campaign and a frequent poster on local blogs Colorado Confidential and Square State, the national blog Daily Kos and her own blog, Muckraking Mom. 'I joke that Colorado is the political center of the universe now, with all the changeover in the elections and eyes on the West,' she said. Western Democrat blogger Kari Chisholm called Colorado 'the linchpin of the entire Western strategy for the Democrats.'"
Coyote Gulch did not attend but we should have.
"denver 2008"
6:05:20 AM
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