The View From the Sinister Side of Life
January 27th, 2006
Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forrest has a new blog dedicated to coffee and the way it and the detrius we have built around it affect our lives. It is called Smelling the Coffee. Go check it out. It is surprsingly interesting.
The Uncurious Motherf*ckers of Lost. Via Slacktivist.
MyDD has a new look.
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January 27th, 2006
Jeanne at Body and Soul has a round up of commentary on the Hamas victory. As she says, the short version is keep calm. It is not unheard of, after all, for the democratic process to soften groups. More importantly, this points to a challenge to the democratization of the Middle East. In may place — often thanks to US support –local governments have destroyed non-radical opposition. Elections will tend to be won by what opposition remains. It is important, I think, for the US to not give in to the understandable desire to ignore or undermine results of such elections. Doing so would probably play into the hands of terrorists who would be able to argue that the US sees democracy as just a prettier version of controlling Arab governments. Being patient, as distasteful as it may be, is the only way to prove that we are finally serious about following up on our pro-democracy rhetoric in the region.
And hey, we might even see some former militants be reformed by the responsibilities of governing.
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January 27th, 2006
I have to agree with Digby on this: Kerry and Kennedy deserve our backing on this. The grassroots have been calling for a filibuster of Alito for obvious reasons and Kerry stepped up when other Dems were being timid and in the face of very long odds. Kos lays out how difficult this filibuster will be and I will be surprised to see it succeed. But I am still glad Kerry is doing it. It is possible to lose well, and a filibuster, especially if the bulk of the Democratic caucus supports it, is losing better than just a straight “no” vote. It can be used to send a message about just how radical and un-American the Bush Administration’s legal philosophy is and makes clear the Democrats opposition to such a philosophy. It gives the Dems a chance to put pressure on “moderate” Republicans, especially ones up for re-election in blue states. After all, if the Dems were willing to go t the mat to protect the values that Maine holds dear, then why wasn’t Olympia Snow?
But win or lose, this was the right thing to do, and Kerry, Kennedy, and Reid deserve credit for trying to make it happen. These kinds of confrontations, these types of attempts to clearly stand for what is right are the first steps to beginning to win again. So call your Senators, even if it feels like tilting at windmills. If you hit a windmill long enough, sooner or later it falls down.
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