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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• Three Federal Reserve Presidents: Tepid Recovery

  
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  Greg Robb reports for MarketWatch: They were 1,800 miles apart as they delivered their speeches, but the remarks of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco chief Janet Yellen and her Atlanta Fed counterpart Dennis Lockhart bore some similarities -- namely, as near as they could tell, the nations economic recovery ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
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  Tonights Rescue is brought to you by ItsJessMe, grog, dadanation, jlms qkw, mem from somerville, HoosierDeb, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. IndieArmyWife provides a tour-de-force of opportunities to Remember ...
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• Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/10/09

  
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  With the next election day sitting 358 days away, there will be nights where the amount of polling news will be far exceeded by the amount of political news. This is one of those nights. So follow along for a couple of polling stories, and the mother of all bullet-noted political digests, as we put the wrapping ...
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• The Duplicity of Jim Cooper…

  
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  ...and the reporters who enable him. Both BTD and David Dayen catch Jim Cooper in gross duplicity yesterday. In an interview with Ezra Klein , Cooper talked about "one of the best votes I ever cast" and the overreach of theStupak Coathanger amendment, without ever mentioning that he himself voted for Stupak, ...
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• The Myth of 60, in reverse

  
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  Opponents of the odious Stupak amendment have taken heart from a number of statements coming from legislators vowing to oppose the amendments inclusion in the Senate version of the health insurance reform bill, and in the final conference report as well. Mcjoan discussed just such statements earlier today , those ...
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• Schakowsy Will Vote Against Bill with Stupak

  
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  Keeping the pressure on the Senate and the eventual conferees on healthcare reform, Jan Schakowsky is the first among the 40+ House Dems who signed a letter to Pelosi to vowing a no vote on a bill with Stupak to reveal herself. Greg Sargent: Some 41 House Dems have signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
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• IA-Sen: Conlin Gets In

  
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  Chuck " Im no nail " Grassley has a serious Democratic challenger. Former US Attorney Roxanne Conlin officially announced her run yesterday. At Bleeding Heartland , desmoinesdem writes that, in the video: She doesnt mention Senator Chuck Grassley directly, but she outlines the case she will make against ...
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• AR-Sen: Time to Take a Stand, Blanche

  
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  Blanche Lincoln is between a rock and a hard place. Shes a Democratic senator up for reelection in a relatively conservative state. Making it worse , In terms of trends, Arkansas was Obamas worst state, by Superman-esque leaps and bounds. The president underperformed John Kerry by six points statewide, and ...
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• Brother Can You Spare $30 Billion

  
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  It seems that there was a perfectly valid reason to allow Wall Street firms to jump to the front of the line for H1N1 vaccines -- they needed to stay healthy so they could spend nearly $30 billion in bonuses: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors ...
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• Dems in Blue Seats Who Voted Against Choice

  
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  The following Democrats sit in blue seats compared to the nation as a whole (as measured by the Cook Partisan Voting Index ), yet voted for the anti-choice Stupak amendment : District Representative PVI PA-14 Doyle, Mike D+19 AL-07 Davis, Artur D+18 CA-43 Baca, Joe D+13 OH-17 Ryan, Timothy ...
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• Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

  
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  From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... C&J Writes A Follow-up Letter Dear Conservative Free-Market Capitalism Muckety Mucks, Ninety-one days ago I gave you thirty days to fix the U.S. economy that you broke: Im just a simple, average citizen who has listened to you jawbone for decades---amplified ...
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• Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

  
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  Your one stop pundit shop. Eugene Robinson on the shooting at Fort Hood: Any soldier who seemed as if he might be falling apart -- and it seems that Hasan gave a lot of people that impression -- should have been given more scrutiny. In Hasans case, a closer look would have revealed his growing religiosity ...
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• White House: No Decision Yet on Afghanistan

  
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  In the past two days, several news reports have indicated that President Obama plans to add tens of thousands of new U.S. troops to the 67,000-member contingent that is already in the country. McClatchy first reported the supposed decision on Saturday and other media outlets, including CBS News, the Associated Press ...
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• Open Thread and Diary Rescue

  
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  Tonights Diary Rescue is brought to you by Louisiana 1976, grog, vcmvo2, dopper0189, BentLiberal, and jennyjem, with vcmvo2 editing . The diaries up for rescue are: mangelwurzel gives a detailed account of his personal experience twenty years ago in Berlin when "the Wall" came down: Partying at the Wall 20 ...
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• Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/9/09

  
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  As expected, the new week brings a smattering of polling data (mostly of the primary election variety), as people start finally boxing up all of their 2009 Election decorations and moving onward to the next trip to the ballot box. CA-Gov/CA-Sen: New LA Times/USC Poll Shows Intriguing 10 Landscape There is no ...
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• Maddow MTP highlights

  
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  Rachel Maddow once again made the Meet the Press panel discussion worth watching yesterday, putting the 2009 elections in context, making the case against the Stupak Amendment, and arguing that Democrats and President Obama shouldnt try to please the GOP on jobs and Afghanistan because no matter what we do, ...
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• Abortion, Lieberman, and Reid

  
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  So Joes at it again , being with us on everything that matters, except the war and comprehensive healthcare reform. BTW, hes still lying about it. Ezras much nicer about it, saying that maybe Lieberman has some special knowledge about how the public really will increase the deficit, while every economic analysis ...
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• Obama: Hyde Is the Limit

  
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  The key passage in the Obama-Tapper interview, in which Obama said that Congress needs to change the Stupak Coathanger amendment, is this: "I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said. "And were not looking to change what is the principle that has ...
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• What’s Really Pissing Me Off

  
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  (Promoted from the diaries - SusanG) "Irrational." "Hypersensitive." "Overreacting." "Hysterical." Women recognize these words all too well. Theyre put-downs many of them have had thrown at them all their lives anytime they raise issues about their treatment in relationships, school, the workplace or society at ...
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• Late afternoon/early evening open thread

  
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  What you missed on Sunday Kos .... In The Case for Karen Armstrong , Devilstower reviewed The Case for God , which is "entertaining and informative" theological analysis--and a post, incidentally, that had (ahem) spirited discussion in the 1,000+ comments. In Interview with Elon Musk , DarkSyde discussed ...
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