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January 19, 2009 - 04:15 am
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

By Diary Rescue

Tonight's Diary Rescue stars Ybruti, ItsJessMe, jlms qkw, dadanation, Yat Pundit and srkp23, with claude as Director and Shayera as Producer.

The times are fecund, nay, gravid, with potential and the Kossaks are inspired to write with great and prolix insight. Hundreds of diaries were inspected and anguished over by the Rescue Rangers to bring you these selections:

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January 19, 2009 - 12:04 am
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The Employee Free Choice Act, For Economic Recovery

By brownsox

In his excellent series of posts on the Employee Free Choice Act, Daily Kos' own Trapper John has articulated a multitude of reasons that the Act must be passed and signed into law, and without hesitation.

The Employee Free Choice Act is not simply about protecting and ensuring workers' rights to organize. Rather, it's about the economy writ large - it is an absolutely essential step into creating a high-wage economy - and as a result, a high level of consumer spending.

It will rebuild the middle class and fix broken labor laws. As Trapper John has written, perhaps the surest way of expanding the middle class - of giving working families a substantial income, a sustainable retirement package, affordable health insurance, and the other trappings of a middle-class life - is to protect and ensure their right to collective bargaining:

Union workers earn significantly more money, enjoy more significantly more retirement security, are significantly more likely to have health insurance, and have significantly safer workplaces than similarly situated non-union workers.

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January 17, 2009 - 02:12 am
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Dana Perino’s Halo of Truth

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“All of a sudden, ‘Gosh it’s so complicated to close Guantanamo Bay’”

Ahead of her final briefing on behalf of the Bush Administration, press secretary Dana Perino fired a few shots across the bow of the mainstream press and Barack Obama at a breakfast with reporters this week. From The Weekly Standard:

“The press secretary took a little dig at the incoming president for attacking Bush’s policy on Guantanamo throughout the campaign. “All of a sudden, ‘Gosh it’s so complicated to close Guantanamo Bay,’” she said.

As you are certainly aware, making fun of The One is totally unacceptable, which is why JammieWearingFool wonders what will happen when the leftarted get a hold of this.

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January 14, 2009 - 04:15 am
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

By Diary Rescue

Tonight's rescue team is a dadanation, Elise, mem from somerville, jlms qkw, taylormattd and vcmvo2, with srkp23 editing.

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January 13, 2009 - 08:54 pm
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Congress Matters: A manifesto

By SusanG

Kagro X over at Congress Matters lays out a manifesto for the new site and outlines its purpose as we move into an Obama administration where legislation we help to shape actually may get passed.

   Congress Matters aims to bring the community-based political watch party that we've built at Daily Kos to the United States Congress.

   By watching, learning, analyzing and discussing the daily activities of the Congress, we hope to improve our effectiveness as advocates and activists. We'll pull back the curtains on how Congress conducts its business, both public and "private" (i.e., within the party caucuses and conferences), explain floor procedure and rules, and even throw in a little gut feeling when appropriate to try to get a better picture of what's going on, and more importantly, what we can do about it.

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January 13, 2009 - 08:05 pm
NEWS FEED: Daily Kos

Midday open thread

By kos
  • MN-Sen: WinRev has one of his great updates on the continuing saga that is the 2008 Minnesota Senate race.
  • MN-Sen: If you want it, here are all the legal filings in the case.
  • Jay Rosen is still the smartest journalist in the country today. And btw, another word for the "sphere of consensus" is "conventional wisdom", which plays an important role in my last book, Taking on the System. The person who controls the CW controls the terms of the debate. Modern activism is in large part a battle to capture that CW.
  • Return Gitmo to Cuba? My, what a politically incorrect thing to say! Too bad it's the correct position.

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