Daily Kos

"Daily Kos" is a popular liberal/progressive political weblog founded by Markos Moulitsas (Zúniga) on May 26, 2002. According to Moulitsas (kos), "while the Bush administration was calling descent in the face of the preemptive war in Iraq unpatriotic and treasonous, veteran, Moulitsas was offended that the freedoms he pledged his life for were so carelessly being tossed aside by the reckless and destructive Republican administration".  The weblog contains "political analysis and other daily rants on the state of the Nation".

"Daily Kos" is collaborative in that users can register and post in a diary. As of December 2008, however, it is rare for any old diary writer to get featured. "Daily Kos" 2008 features an editor, publisher, Moulitas, and executive editor, several contributing editors and a couple of featured writers. You will find diaries from many people of prominence, from Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi to former president Jimmy Carter.

As of December, 2008, "Daily Kos" consistently ranked in the top 50 of all weblogs as well as in the technorati top 100. Daily Kos calls itself "the premiere political community on the web".

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• American People: “Mandate” Does Not Equal “Providing” Coverage

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  As the Senate pushes its way through reform this week, and spending whatever holiday break they then have considering the House conference, Congressional leaders and Obama need to keep this poll from Friday, in mind. Greg Sargent: The poll by the nonpartisan Research 2000 for the Progressive Change Campaign ...
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• The Joys Of Motherhood

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Words fail : Major General Anthony Cucolo, who is responsible for operations in northern Iraq, has issued a controversial new policy — which went into effect on Nov. 4 — that allows throwing women servicemembers on active duty in jail if they become pregnant: Under the new policy, troops expecting a ...
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• Late afternoon/early evening open thread

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  What you missed on Sunday Kos .... In An Overview of the New Senate Health Bill mcjoan outlined the good, the bad and the confusing in the current Senate health care bill, complete with managers amendment. A good resource/primer post to come back to as we move ahead this week toward passage. In Phantom ...
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• Good Polling News For Democrats

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  After all of the pushing and pulling and screaming and fighting from all sides of the political spectrum, new CNN polling tells us that: Support for the health care reform bill that Democrats are pushing through the Senate has risen six points since early December, according to a new national poll, and although ...
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• Steve King Is Nuts

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Apparently the daily-dose of teabagging has amped up Rep. Steve Kings (R-IA) cognitive dissonance : "Its thousands of times bigger than Watergate because Watergate was only a little break-in by a couple of guys," said King. "By the time we pull ACORN out by its roots Americas going to understand just how big ...
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• President Obama Signs Anti-Rape Law

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Despite objections from 30 Republican Senators, Al Frankens amendment that prohibits government contracts with companies that enable rape has now been signed into law: The White House Press Office sent out a statement today announcing that President Obama signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, ...
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• What Baucus and Nelson Got for the Folks Back Home

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  What a victory for the American people! But particularly for the people of Libby, Montana (and they needed one) and Nebraska. Heres the Montana angle : WASHINGTON — Buried in the deal-clinching health care package that Senate Democrats unveiled over the weekend is an inconspicuous proposal expanding Medicare ...
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• Midday Open Thread

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  The Republican talking points police are going to kick Tom Coburns (R-OK) ass: On January 1st, 2009, the national debt was $10.6 trillion. It now stands at $12.1 trillion. That’s not President Obama’s fault, so don’t confuse this with a partisan attack. My attack is on the Senate, and on the Congress. ...
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• Congressional Burden Shifting to Obama on HCR

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  While two Senators are lamenting the lack of presidential intervention in shaping the Senate bill, a House member is demanding he take a direct role in the House/Senate conference. In a statement posted to his Web site yesterday, Russ Feingold points the finger at the White House for the loss of a public option ...
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• Axelrod needs some help with history

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  David Axelrod was all over the teevee on the Sunday morning circuit, walking back his "insane" comments about Howard Dean and his criticism of the health care bill, talking up the legislation and trying to tamp down progressive base frustration with the watered-down measure. Little noticed in the flurry of ...
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• Don’t Worry About the Left

  
  Alabama Ass Whuppin' — Authority: 122
  Amen, amen, a-freakin-men.Daily Kos: What bill do you think youre supporting?: "And every time progressives shrug their shoulders and say, all right, well take whatever we can get, you empower those critics. Rather than draw a line in the sand and bolster the efforts of true reformists, you are leaving them high and ...
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• Krugman: Fix the Senate, kill the filibuster

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Paul Krugman: Unless some legislator pulls off a last-minute double-cross, health care reform will pass the Senate this week. Count me among those who consider this an awesome achievement. It’s a seriously flawed bill, we’ll spend years if not decades fixing it, but it’s nonetheless a huge step forward. ...
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• Markos on Meet the Press

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 800
  Markos joined Tavis Smiley, Ed Gillespie, and Joe Scarborough yesterday on NBCs Meet the Press to talk about the state of play on health care and the political landscape heading into the 2010 elections. Markos also sat down with David Gregory for an extended interview on the netroots and the progressive movement. ...
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• Markos on Meet the Press

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Markos joined Tavis Smiley, Ed Gillespie, and Joe Scarborough yesterday on NBCs Meet the Press to talk about the state of play on health care and the political landscape heading into the 2010 elections. Markos also sat down with David Gregory for an extended interview on the netroots and the progressive movement. ...
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• The Message Our Elected Dems Need to Send

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  While the Senate celebrated in the wee hours this morning for getting past another procedural hurdle, hopefully they are checking their triumphalism, and will keep in mind this week and during their holiday recess, as they approach the House conference, the message Tom Harkin sent on Saturday. Senate Health, ...
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• Republicans and what they pray for

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Via Think Progress , we learn about the very Christian values Tom Coburn put on display yesterday when he was discussing the upcoming cloture vote on the health care reform bill: What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray. Nice ...
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• Health-care yes votes explained by Franken at Kos, Klobuchar on Fox

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 671
  Minnesota’s U.S. senators were explaining their votes for health-care reform right and left Sunday: Amy Klobuchar appeared on Fox News Sunday and Al Franken posted his rationale at Daily Kos . That left a progressive group mulling whether to target Franken in a pressure campaign to fight for a public option. ...
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• This Week in Congress - Seriously, though, read this one.

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  The House is not in voting session this week. In the Senate, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Convenes: 12:01am Resume consideration of H.R.3590 , Health Care Reform. Votes: 1:00am cloture vote on Reid-Baucus-Dodd-Harkin amendment #3276 : . Well, thats all thats on the ...
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• Cheers and Jeers: Monday

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Dear Santa, Hey there, Jolly One. Heres my annual wish list. Most of these are basically unchanged from the last five years. Gimme gimme gimme... Our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan A short winter Federal civil rights for GLBT Americans, including marriage Someone ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 158
  Monday after-the-storm punditizing. is there more clean-up to do after the snow or after the vote? Paul Krugman : Unless some legislator pulls off a last-minute double-cross, health care reform will pass the Senate this week. Count me among those who consider this an awesome achievement. It’s a seriously ...
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