Per aspera

Well… the best way for them to move past this is for Manny to put Youkilis on the ticket as his VP. If he doesn’t, I’m buying a Yankees hat.
Girl Power, commenting on Boston.com’s Extra Bases blog, in reference to a story about Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youklis getting heated with each other in the dugout last night.

The only thing more annoying than Joe Lieberman himself is his conceit, which many people indulge out of habit, that he is some kind of “centrist.”  Perhaps if we think of the political spectrum as a series of rings surrounding a cavernous abyss (or perhaps a pit like the Sarlaac), then Lieberman and McCain can fairly […]

Because, in a nutshell, I GOT YER GENDER CARD RIGHT HERE, ASSHOLES. AND IT SAYS “REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.”
-Kate Harding, at Shakesville
For the record, if any of y’all were hiding your support for Clinton under a bushel, don’t think that just because I favor Obama, you can’t talk her up if you want. It’s not like […]

Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s voting for Obama in New York:
I know perfectly well that Obama, for all his idealism, is well inside the “centrist” consensus on how America ought to conduct itself in the world. He was against the Iraq war from the start, and that means a lot to me, but he’s also not someone […]

Via Graham, this is a rather impressive collection of celebrities singing along to one of the most impressive speeches a politician has made in my lifetime.

I’m voting in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, which is the first election with national implications since 2001, when I moved up to Massachusetts, in which my vote might actually […]

This serves as kind of an expansion/reinforcement of the last post, for me. It’s a theme Matt returns to pretty regularly, and one I completely agree with.
The mechanism by which we decide what to do is called “politics” and it exists so that individuals and organizations with somewhat divergent interests and ideas can make […]

Matt Yglesias has made this point a few times before, and I think it’s worth noting, and remembering when we hear people use “partisan” as a synonym for “bad” (and “bipartisan” for “good”).
More broadly, though, it’s unfair to Bush to blame him for the lack of the sort of “bipartisan cooperation” we saw in the […]

Via Atrios, the most hopeful news I’ve heard a very long time.  Look!  Democrats who aren’t reflexively craven.  It’s like seeing a school of coelacanths.

Why, I think it’s booty.
(Via not-Ezra-Klein at Ezra Klein)

Keith Ellison just got elected to the House of Representatives from the 5th District in Minnesota. This is a bit of a milestone, because he’s the first Muslim ever to be elected to Congress. As he is a Muslim, he’s decided to be sworn into to office on the Q’uran. This is […]

I’m pretty sure they’ll revoke my blogging license if I don’t do an election summary. To begin: so much for the genius of Karl Rove.
Anyway, the situation is encouraging. As of right now, AP’s calling the VA senate race for Webb.
Both houses, by fuck. Both.
Democrats have won 29 seats in the house, […]

What were the Democrats of Connecticut thinking when they voted against this man?
During last nights debate, Sen. Lieberman, noting Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus, declared, “We’re in another time like that.”
Can America afford to have a Senate that lacks Joe Lieberman’s honesty and integrity?

Two years too late, but hey.  Wouldn’t have wanted to influence the election or anything.
Touch yourself with the bowtie of understanding.
(Via Atrios, who is also making you guess.)

Hartford Courant:

Connecticut

August 09, 2006 - 12:55AM ET
(i) = incumbent

= winner

= runoff

U.S. Senate -
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Just in case anyone’s wondering - because I know that you watch CNN and think, “Man, those Democratic presidential primaries will be coming up any year now!  I wonder who Steve thinks I should vote for?” - as of right now, I still like Edwards.