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Bum Knee; or, Why the Time is Now to Rid the Senate of Saxby Chambliss

According to HuffPo’s James Boyce, Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, as despicable as ever, “has requested that he actually be excused from the December 2nd runoff against Jim Martin and just be declared the winner.”
It’s the bum knee, you see, the one that got him out of Vietnam.
Chambliss slimed Vietnam vet Max Cleland in ‘02, and [...]

Powell Is Reportedly Ready To Endorse

Via Lawrence O’Donnell on the HuffPo:
When Colin Powell turns off his TV after the final presidential debate, he will have learned everything he is going to learn about the candidates vying to succeed his former boss, George W. Bush. Powell has made it clear that he has been thinking about an endorsement for a long [...]

Obama Takes On The Equal Pay Issue

Forget Sarah Palin… The opponent is John McCain and his stance on the issues represents more of the same, not change. That’s the message in Obama’s latest ad that focuses on equal pay for women:
On Monday, in a conference call with female supporters, Barack Obama and his aides outlined a new strategy to target women [...]

McCain Goes It Alone

The view from above at John McCain’s rally at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena today was pretty damn bleak.

In a stadium that seats 16,000, John McCain addressed a paltry “crowd of roughly 3,000 people.” Sam Stein notes on the the HuffPO that “Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, the campaign has been exaggerating its crowd numbers.”
Well, [...]

Kerry Tears Into McCain is Convention Speech

John Kerry, our 2004 nominee, tore into John McCain tonight in his convention speech. He left no stone un-turned, he left as he pilloried John McCain with the “strongest language yet uttered from the convention podium.”
Seth Colter Walls notes on the HuffPo:
Kerry describes McCain as “insulting” and “desperate’ for questioning Obama’s patriotism, and “pathetic” for [...]

Despite Claims to the Contrary Clinton Donors Gave Obama $1.8 Million in June

Despite claims to the contrary, Clinton donors gave Barack Obama $1.8 million in June:
Sen. Barack Obama has posted his first campaign report since the end of the contentious Democratic primary battle, and political reporters and bloggers are already trying to ferret out whether donors to Sen. Hillary Clinton have been helping her formal rival, now [...]

Hillary Hits Bush Attempt to Undermine Women’s Rights

Hillary Clinton took on the Bush Administration’s plan to define birth control as abortion and undermine women’s rights, today in a press conference and the blogosphere. Here’s a clip from the press conference:
In a blog post cross posted on the HuffPo and RhRealityCheck, Clinton said:
The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly [...]

A Swift Boating Firestorm A Brewin’

There’s a Swift Boating firestorm a brewin’ in the media and blogopshere over remarks made by General Wes Clark yesterday, which were apparently cropped by Fox, that set the wingnuts in an uproar and caused Barack Obama to jump in an disavow Wes Clark and also diss MoveOn today in a Patriotism speech.
This is as pegged last night turning [...]

John Kerry’s Vietnam Pals Tell T Boone Pickens Show Us The Money

Last November Swift Boat Veterans For Truth financier/Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens’ offered to “pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” against John Kerry.
Kerry promptly responded to Picken’s challenge in a letter saying he was “willing to present his case directly to Pickens” [...]

Late Night: Kucinich Presents Bush Impeachment Articles

Raw Story reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich presented thirty-five articles articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to the House of Representatives late Monday night, airing live on C-SPAN. Here’s a clip:  

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What’s Next Here

I’ve been working on some quotes for my business today and mulling over what is next here for The Dem Daily, with the presidential primaries out of the way. It’s been a long drawn out primary season and emotions are high given the outcome not being as desirable for some as they had hoped. We [...]

The Unmaking of the Democratic Party

There have been comments here (and elsewhere) in recent days/weeks, that the Democratic Party as we know it is slipping away, unraveling and disappearing before our very eyes. Among the issues that are being cited, is as Sean Wilentz articulates in the HuffPo, that “the Barack Obama campaign and its sympathizers have begun to articulate [...]