What the Left can Learn from the Reagan Centennial

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Monday February 07, 2011 · 11:01 AM PST

2011/02/07 · 11:01

I read a lot of teeth gnashing about how the Right is having an orgy of patriotic fervor around President Reagan's 100th Birthday celebration. I think there's a lesson for the Left to learn from this.

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 5:24 AM PST

2010/12/08 · 05:24

Congressional Republicans and Democrats now have a common enemy: Barrack Obama.

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Saturday November 06, 2010 · 7:20 AM PDT

2010/11/06 · 07:20

A short diary, but liberalism in modern America is doomed to failure for one very simple reason: Americans do not trust their government.

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Monday August 16, 2010 · 6:05 PM PDT

2010/08/16 · 18:05

I think the best thing we can do in Washington at this time is really just to calm down and quit changing sweeping -- making sweeping changes.

I sat down with a business this week -- I'll give you an example -- and they're looking at the health care bill, and they're trying to decide, should they keep people under 30 hours? Smaller businesses are saying, should we stay under 25?

So I think that much of what we've done over this last year has actually been counterproductive. And, again, the best thing we can do is just calm down, to really let people's balance sheets sort of get back where they need to be. That will stimulate demand over time.

This quote from this front page diary, was the basis of a discussion attacking this Republican's position.

I think the gist of what Sen. Corker said, that President Obama and the Democratic Congress have made sweeping changes, is spot on. I think some time for the country to digest what's been done could help a lot right now.

More below the fold.

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Thursday July 08, 2010 · 5:57 AM PDT

2010/07/08 · 05:57

Or with friends like this, who needs enemies.

Reading over diaries on Dailykos, I'm frustrated and surprised with all the negativism leveled on Democrats, in general, and President Obama about everything that's not done.

If you really want to push for change, we - the people who voted these guys in - need to focus on the positives, because we're doing some of the dirty work for Republicans by jumping on Democrats in Congress and this Administration.

If you want to know why Republicans dominate the media and national debates, it's because they and their supporters are focused.

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Monday June 21, 2010 · 6:28 AM PDT

2010/06/21 · 06:28

Why do liberals seem hell bent on aiding Republicans in making the Obama Administration impotent? I seriously don't get the criticism from the left about how President Obama isn't doing everything the left-wing wants and somehow hasn't done enough to destroy Republican opposition. There really seems to be a self-defeating instinct liberals possess to rip their best hopes at advancing their agenda apart.

Even an otherwise concise attempt to explain the inertia of the status quo in Cenk Uygur's diary Why our Nobles Betray Us still slips in some Obama bashing.

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 6:23 PM PDT

2010/06/07 · 18:23

I don't know why it comes as a shock to anyone that the Washington, D.C. press corp pals around with the politicians they are supposed to cover. I think the press has usually kissed up to those in power.

Liberals, for whatever reason, have come to think of journalism as always being the sort of investigative work Woodward and Bernstein did in breaking open the Watergate scandal (the scandal's a bit ironic to me), which I think is more the exception rather than the rule.

The American media has been about reinforcing, rather than challenging the status quo, with a few rare exceptions.

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 4:15 AM PDT

2010/03/24 · 04:15

Many folks, who now call themselves tea baggers, feel they have to keep America from being dragged towards "socialism". A catchall phrase used to cover anything, which seeks to undermine free markets, the profit motive, and rugged individualism.

Unfortunately for these guys, socialism is most likely well entrenched in their town because most towns in this country have an institution based on collective ownership, sharing goods - which you normally have to pay money to obtain - for free, and is free for anyone in the town to use: the local Public Library.

Poll

45 votes Show Results

Will you encourage tea baggers to protest libraries?

45 votes Vote Now!

Will you encourage tea baggers to protest libraries?

Yes, I believe in the purity of their movement

8 votes

Yes, I think it'd be funny to watch crazy people try to shut down the library

14 votes

Yes, I didn't realize tea baggers could be made to appear even crazier

12 votes

Yes, I have huge fines for over due books I need to get out of paying

2 votes

Yes, I'll do anything to boost Fox News ratings. I own their stocks.

0 votes

No! This is crazy!

3 votes

Mmmm....apple pie, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

4 votes

Mmmm...blue berry pie

1 vote

Mmmm...peach cobbler

1 vote

Mmmm....other pie (please explain)

0 votes

What needs fixing?

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Monday February 01, 2010 · 7:52 AM PST

2010/02/01 · 07:52

Reading the recced diary of NYCEVE and there's a bit of debate about the reality of getting a Public Option.

For all intensive purposes it is dead.

The real issue is what needs fixing in the Senate bill and what can realistically get passed via reconciliation to get the House to vote for it.

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 7:24 AM PST

2010/01/27 · 07:24

My dare to Kossacks is pretty simple, can we construct a left-wing narrative that resonates with the American people? Or at least gets us to stop sniping at President Obama and the Democrats every move?

From Balloon Juice, earlier today: "Maybe this was inevitable, given the (inexplicable) power of conservative narratives."

What we need to understand is for conservatives it is all about the narrative. There arguments, there policy, and there politics are all built around a narrative, which often times gets people to side with them, when all the facts in the world say those people are nuts.

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Tuesday January 26, 2010 · 2:35 AM PST

2010/01/26 · 02:35

Fuck Barack. He's Herbert fucking Hoover incarnate. We don't need another Hoover. Barack can't even build a big old damn, like Hoover did.

Get Obama the fuck out of the White House before he vacuums us out of everything we have.

Short rants are best :-)

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..I need more characters to get this diary published

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 6:48 PM PST

2010/01/25 · 18:48

This line from a front page Dailykos diary made me want to throw my two cents in: "Point is, our media machine is tiny."

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What the Left can Learn from the Reagan Centennial

Time for Democrats and Republicans to Unite

Why Liberalism is Doomed to Failure

I think Corker's Right (Sort Of)

Media Control and Getting the Message Out

Finishing the Republican flanking maneuver

The Press has Always Kissed Up

Why Socialism has Won

What needs fixing?

A dare to Kossacks

Impeach Obama

The Elephant in my T.V. (or how positive thinking will help liberals)