http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 05:00:17 Sat, 25 May 2013 05:00:17 The automatic triggers were the starting line. Unless Congress advanced the President's own agenda (the triggers are his plan), it didn't matter if there was bipartisan approval. The President would simply reject it.

The Republicans never even met the starting line, as it was widely assumed the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/107 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:05:12 http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4970538&mesg_id=4971131

[i]That committee is designed to fail. We've got their voodoo doll, and now all we have to do is poke them with tax hikes for the rich to get 'em to dance for us.

We'll dangle ta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/106 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:53:30 [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1692666#1693352|Did anyone else notice the sell-off preceded S&P's announcement by 2 days]?

jeff47 offers a cogent response to my observation, but now it appears as if I am not the only one who detected movement befor... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/105 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:14:45 It pleases me to see that the Republican Party is finally beginning to resemble the suckers they once merely manipulated. Now they're like a chocolate and peanut butter cup, with a thin, melting shell of evil trying desperately to contain an oozing mass of stupid inside.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/103 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:07:09 For [i]someone[/i] has already managed to get the DSM-V task force to [link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5|sign nondisclosure agreements].

In particular, it appears that the DSM-V task force, working in secret, plans to redefine the personality disorders in Cluster B. Why is that important? Becaus... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/102 Thu, 26 May 2011 07:54:55 (Edit) But expensive as hell, and a damned good way to predict [i]how[/i] the GOP is going to try to steal it next year. Keep your eyes open, WI. Observe. Document. Report. And thank you!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/101 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:00:24 The Republicans are cleverly trying to maneuver the timing of the shutdown so that it happens during the August recess. That way they and their staff members can go on vacation as planned.

What they have failed to notice, however, is that in between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, [i]someone[/i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/100 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:29:15 All this Republican attack on the middle class is doing, and is going to do, is further push the vast majority of the American people into our ranks for the 2012 election. Why? Because the way Congress is set up, none of this crap Republican legislation is going to go anywhere.

I've been watchi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/99 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:39:46 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/97 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:39:36 Karl Rove was always careful to steer his gangsters away from the abortion issue, because the demographics have long since drifted [i]far[/i] away from the split issue that abortion once was.

Now, depending on how you look at it, abortion is a 75-25 issue, with only the knuckledraggers left to wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/98 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:51:11 Just watch the circus as it unfolds. Watch the ignorant teabaggers haul weapons into Congress and introduce insane and stupid bills which will become the bread and butter of the media. Watch this annoyingly moderate President start skewering the Republicans on [i]every single[/i] 70-30 issue there... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/96 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:23:37 To use a shooting-forward analogy, the President and Senate Democrats can hold the tax ball completely out of reach of the Republican guard until the clock runs out. And every time they foul for the next two years, we get to take a shot at them.

Every Republican is tagged with the onus of having... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/95 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:19:14 In fact, I'm going to bet that we'll see our first "celebrity scans" loose on the Internet by New Years Eve. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/94 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:54:25 http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a106/sofa666king/absordtion.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/93 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:32:29 I really like Senator Harkin because he's dependably on the side of the people who need his help. He has behaved as a model Senator for most of his career, unlike any Republican and a lot of other Democrats.

Some of you will be astounded to know that the Senate actually has a strong tradition ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/92 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:31:25 When the authorities supplying the evidence can be suspected of tampering with the record, one cannot use the normal legal standards of evidence. Probative evidence is rare, because if the party is not doing something the record isn't there, and if it is doing something the record may still not be ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/91 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:15:38 Every year on this day, I try to learn something new and interesting about Dr. King to share with my niece. Recently, the bebop has taken hold of my heart again, and so I decided to see what Dr. King thought about jazz and the blues.

Well, it turns out he liked 'em, probably not as much as his b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/90 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:23:51 Last year, the Israelis responded to Hezbollah provocation by [link:www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/04/mideast.main/index.html|destroying road communications] between Lebanon and Syria, hardly the best way to confront terrorists on their border.

The obvious strategic reason for doing such a thing... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/89 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:00:45 Over a year ago I predicted here on DU that the invasion of Iran would begin as soon as the Brits got out of the way in Basra. It's an easy prediction to make. Just like Admiral Fischer predicted that the First World War would begin when Germany completed the widening of the Kiel Canal (and it did... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/88 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:06:14 The Bush Administration's next-least-worst option now that AGAG is leaving is to do what they have done better than any corrupt American Presidency in the history of our country: leave the position unfilled and run it through a Bush-selected loyalist from within the ranks.

In the case of the Just... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/87 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:25:38 Regrettably, the changes the Democrats have already wrought aren't totally obvious to many of us, though they are quite visible:

* The political climate, if measured purely in terms of monetary donations to political parties and candidates, is now [i]heavily[/i] in favor of the Democrats.

* Ev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/86 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:23:25 By virtue of my status as the luckiest brother in the world, yesterday I had the privilege of doing something I didn't think I'd ever have the chance to do.

I got to do a little volunteer work for Virginia Tech.

Specifically, I got to spend a couple hours helping to process the enormous volu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/85 Thu, 10 May 2007 14:25:56 Thank you very much; I'll be here all week. And if you liked that, try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/84 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:19:38 If they had obeyed the law by following the Presidential Records Act, [i]then[/i] they might have had a shot at throwing the blanket of executive privilege over the emails. But probably not, since Republican lawyers shot that defense full of holes while rooting through Vice President Al Gore's emai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/83 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:04:33 The first thing that springs to mind is the billions of dollars being filtered through the Iraqi government and then into the pockets of our corrupt contractors, which for all these years has been blithely watched by former Bush staffer [link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Bowen|Stuart Bowen]. Bowen ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa king/82 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:22:33