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Posted at 8:20am on Jul. 7, 2008 How many signatures will they submit, and what then?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today is the day.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Monday, the first day back after (what I hope was) an awesome three-day weekend, a return to the grindstone and the day power finally returned for many Grand Rapids residents after a nasty weekend storm.  But that's not what I'm talking about.  Today is the filing deadline.  

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Posted at 9:57pm on Jun. 30, 2008 MoveOn.org: Thrown Under The Bus

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This is quite interesting:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday, in a major speech on patriotism, criticized MoveOn.org for referring to Gen. David Petraeus as General Betray Us last year.

The Illinois senator said politics too often seems "trapped in old, threadbare arguments" that he called "caricatures of left and right."

This, Obama added, was "most evident during our recent debates about the war in Iraq, when those who opposed administration policy were tagged by some as unpatriotic, and a general providing his best counsel on how to move forward in Iraq was accused of betrayal."

Of course, as the story mentions, Obama did not vote on a Senate resolution condemning MoveOn.org for its attacks on Petraeus. But I am curious to see whether this attack, the distancing away from Clark and Obama's decision to surrender on FISA reform rather than to cater to the wishes of the base and the netroots will cause the emergence of a lack of enthusiasm amongst the Democratic faithful. The partisans can't be pleased with any of this, after all.

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Posted at 8:44pm on Jun. 22, 2008 MoveOn.org not ready to: Calls for Obama to Filibuster FISA

As Terry Pratchett once said, it's like watching a wasp land on a nettle. *Something's* getting stung, and you don't care which.

By Moe Lane

For the This Primary Is Made Out Of Awesome files: via the Huffington Post we see that MoveOn.org is absolutely adamant that Senator Obama filibuster the FISA bill this week. How awesome is it?

It's awesome enough that I'm reprinting the whole post after the fold. That's how awesome it is. You see, I want progressives to email the Senator and demand that he filibuster: he'll either not do so, and thus betray them further; or he'll cave to them, which will embarrass the Democratic Party at the very moment that they need to show Unity.

And either way, the FISA bill still passes. That's because the progressives don't have the votes to stop it, even if Harry Reid wasn't owned by Mitch McConnell (who looks increasingly likely to be keeping his seat, after all). As he is... well. This should be entertaining.

Well. At least for people who, you know, matter.

Moe Lane

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Posted at 8:29am on Jun. 5, 2008 Don't tell the lefty groups but private equity funds Dems

By Soren Dayton

Yesterday, the New York Times' Michael J. de la Merced and the Politico's Lisa Lerer covered SEIU and MoveOn going after private equity firm KKR. We have written about this before. This time the reporters try to add in John McCain to the mix by arguing that Henry Kravis (the 2nd K in KKR) is raising money for McCain. So far a total of $29k.

Candidate Amount

Dodd $20,700

Obama $9,540

Clinton $4,750

But somehow the reporters swallowed the story and didn't notice what kind of money is flowing to Obama, Democratic candidates, and Democratic Party from KKR. The Presidential numbers are in the table to my right. This is reminiscent of Newsweek's recent intellectual blunder when they failed to report that the CEO of a bank was bundling for Obama. Just lazy I guess.

If only it stopped there. Read on.

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Posted at 2:55pm on Jun. 4, 2008 The SEIU Takes On… the Private Equity Industry?

What... the... *#%^&#@^! ???

By blackhedd

A friend sends along this tidbit. The august New York Times is once again presenting a labor-union press release as a news story.

The Times piece is bylined Michael J. de la Merced, whom I don’t know but from his archive seems like a fairly conventional MSM business reporter.

It appears that the Service Employees International Union is going on the warpath against the global private equity industry.

But I have to admit I’m flummoxed by what this story is trying to say. As I said, the core of it is a press-release-disguised-as-news, about a set of coordinated global protests to take place in 100 cities in 25 countries next month. No, I’m not kidding, they really mean this!

Of course, the SEIU can’t organize [sic] such an undertaking on its own, so they’re partnering with two outfits with a lot of experience in the coordinated-protest business: Amnesty International and MoveOn.org.

Keep reading…

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Posted at 9:11am on Feb. 26, 2008 Dem Hokey Pokey: You take one candidate out, put one henchman in (jail)

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

And then there was one.  You think she wishes she'd never given up that fancy-pants $80,000 a year taxpayer funded gig prepping Daniel Granholm Mulhern for his all-but-dead radio career?  I know HE wishes she'd never left.  Maybe he wouldn't have flopped that badly if she'd stuck around a little while longer.

Former lefty radio starlet, chief of staff of the money pit that is the Office of the First Gentleman and all-around liberal dream gal Nancy Skinner announced yesterday that she is pulling the plug on her second bid for Congress, clearing the way for yoooooooouuuuuuuur (former) Lottery Commissioner, Gary Peters.  Although, in fairness, that particular gig is well in Peters' past.  He's been moonlighting as a full-time professor up at Central Michigan University hundreds of miles away from his district these past many months.  

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