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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• Weekly Tracking Poll: The Price of Pessimism

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/30/2009-12/3/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (Last weeks results in parentheses): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 52 (53) 41 (40) -2 PELOSI: 41 (41) 50 (51) +1 REID: 30 (31) 59 (59) -1 McCONNELL: 16 (15) 67 (68) +2 BOEHNER: 14 (13) ...
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• Socialist thugs are better at creating private sector jobs

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  In light of the good news in todays jobs report , heres something that the Republican loons who call President Obama a socialist thug should wrap their minds around: since 1959, the average private sector job growth under four-year Democratic administrations is 11.7% . Under Republican administrations, its 5.4% . ...
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• Aetna Dropping 600,000+ Customers to Raise Profits

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Public option, anyone ? Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to meet profit expectations.... "The pricing we put in place for 2009 turned out to not really be what we needed to achieve the results and ...
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• NV-Sen: Subpoenas Issued In Ensign Sex Scandal

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Well, well, well -- this isnt going to help John Ensigns (R-NV) fundraising efforts: The Senate Ethics Committee has begun issuing subpoenas to those caught up in the sex and lobbying scandal surrounding Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and his former aides, Doug and Cindy Hampton. Several people close to the ...
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• Midday Open Thread

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Check out the Daily Kos mobile site from your phone at m.dailykos.com . The Texas Governors race just got a lot more interesting:  Houston Mayor Bill White abandoned his campaign for U.S. Senate on Friday in favor of a run for Texas governor. The Democrat immediately becomes his partys strongest ...
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• Brown: No More Public Option Negotiations

  
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  Sherrod Brown continues to show remarkable faith in his colleagues. One of the most dogged public option advocates in the Senate--and a key liaison between progressives and leadership--says no way, no how to yet another compromise. "Theres no negotiations as far as Im concerned," insisted Sen. Sherrod Brown ...
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• Vitter acts like a diaper baby

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  What? Whatd I say? Via Think Progress heres a story in The Hill on some particularly childish foot-stomping by Sens. David Vitter (R-LA) and Tom Coburn (R-OK): Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and David Vitter (R-La.) are preparing an amendment to force members of Congress into any public option health plan that ...
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• We’re only as strong as our weakest link

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Weve talked a fair bit recently about the importance of motivating Democrats to vote the 2010 Congressional midterms. In light of the troubling signs that Dems just arent motivated to turn out, heres an important set of numbers that helps explain where the problem is:                 (Among ...
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• An Equal Press Shield

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee adopted language proposed by Senators Specter, Schumer and Graham which will treat blogger-journalists as equals when it comes to the protections of a federal press shield, the evidentiary privilege which allows journalists in most states to protect the confidential ...
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• The Rebirth Of Drool

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 477
  The Birthers just got a great endorsement from Sarah Palin. And while the new talking point going around the conservative areas of Twitter is that this is all in the name of "transparency", seeing as how the current administration will never be transparent enough for these people, and has nothing to do with either ...
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• Health Care Friday

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  One of yesterdays big stories is the issue of breast cancer screening and health reform. Before we get to the Senate, lets start in the House : A non-scientist delivered what may have been the sharpest critique of the day. Fran Visco,  a lawyer, 22-year breast cancer survivor, and president of the National Breast ...
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• Job Losses Beat Estimates, ‘U6’ Falls to 17.2

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  With one possible exception , nobody came close to correctly predicting the surprisingly low job losses for November reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. The non-farm payroll fell just 11,000, the best results in 22 months, and the official "U3" rate fell to 10% from last month’s 10.2%. Experts had ...
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• Today in Congress

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  The House is not in session today. In the Senate, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Convenes: 9:30am Resume consideration of HR3590 (Health Care Reform), with the time until 11:30am for debate only and equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. The Majority ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
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  End of week punditry! What can be said that hasnt been said already? To a pundit, thats a challenge! Paul Krugman : Health care reform hangs in the balance. Its fate rests with a handful of "centrist" senators — senators who claim to be mainly worried about whether the proposed legislation is fiscally ...
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• Night Owls, Early Birds and Expats: Student Debt

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  The Project on Student Debt has this month published its fourth annual report, Student Debt and the Class of 2008 . Nationwide, average debt for graduating seniors with loans rose from $18,650 in 2004 to $23,200 in 2008, or about six percent per year. State averages for debt at graduation in 2008 ranged from ...
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• I’m Starting to Freak Out

  
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  Is the title of this Great piece of quality writingon the subject of homelessness. These are the opening paragraphs but please go read the rest, it is chilling and moving;So I’m driving along this afternoon, when I hear on the local talk radio about how global warming has been “debunked,” then some caller ...
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• Palin goes birther

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  You can mark down Dec. 3, 2009 as the day Sarah Palin reached her kookiest extreme, at least until she outdoes herself again (h/t: Ben Smith ): Transcript:    HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  Today, Louisiana1976, HoosierDeb, dopper0189, dadanation, jlms_qkw and ItsJessMe, who also edited, combed through dozens of diaries to find these gems. We love discovering these treasures and hope you do too. Please comment in them to let the diarists know that you read their work. Tonights rescues have a strong ...
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• Polling and Political Wrap, 12/3/09

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  On balance, a very quiet day out on the campaign trail. Two polls (besides our own, of course), and only a smattering of major campaign news. DE-Sen: PPP Has Race Close, But With Castle in the Lead The good news: both of the pollsters who have done multiple polls in the high-profile Delaware Senate race have ...
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• Salvation Army Gets Into The Holiday Spirit

  
  Bloggers For Change — Authority: 160
  How sweet -- it only took a load of critical media reports and a public protest to convince the Salvation Army that screwing over children during the holidays might be bad for business: On Tuesday, the Houston Chronicle reported that a few charities in Houston — including the Salvation Army — were checking ...
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