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The difference is – we like Democrats…

25 Wednesday Aug 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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…because they’re usually not delusional.

From our good friends at Fired Up:

Ten Show-Me State Blogs You Should Be Reading (If You Aren’t Already)

My mom tells me that Fired Up! Missouri is the best blog in the world, and she’s probably correct in that assessment.  But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of other great blogs in Missouri that you should be consuming on a regular basis.  None of them approach the quality or brilliance found here, but they’re worth perusing nonetheless….

…The good folks at SMP just celebrated their third anniversary of progressive news and commentary.  A solid group blog with writers unafraid to take on leaders in all parties…

Heh.

By the way, our moms say otherwise.

What I Want to Know

29 Monday Jun 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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birther, fired up, Jim Lembke, orly taitz, wingnut

Why are those nameless thugs at Fired Up deleting Supreme Court dockets and changing pay-pal addresses?

Thank heavens that Orly Taitz at least has the likes of Jim Lembke on her side.  

What Does Sarah Steelman Mean?

10 Wednesday Jun 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Barack Obama, fired up, missouri, Sarah Steelman

Via Fired Up, an interview with Sarah Steelman at SEMOTimes.com definitely worth reading, if only for a chuckle.

I really would like to know what Steelman means here:

Can you give us your thoughts on the current state of the Republican Party?

“I think we need to take stock of where we are and look at how we got here. I think we need to be more principally

conservative, and reflect on just how we lost the House and Senate. The people do not trust us to be conservatives

because we were anything but conservative when we were in the majority. Jack Kemp knew how to do this, and we should learn from his example.”

I don’t think voters queueing up at the polls in November 2006 and again in November 2008 to vote Democrats in and Republicans out were checking their conservative checklist and found the incumbent Republicans wanting. They looked at an economy that was not working for them and a foreign policy that was not making them safer. They had eight years of tax cuts for the wealthy as the principal domestic policy instrument, and macho posturing and an Iraq misadventure abroad. Bonus points too for Steelman citing Jack Kemp as someone who knew how to be conservative in the majority. He was only part of the worst performing Republican ticket since Goldwater in 1964.

I’m curious. What specific policies would Steelman have changed if she were in the GOP majority from 1994-2006?

Also this:

Since you’ve been teaching a political science course at Missouri State University, we are going to

ask you to put on your political analyst cap and answer the question that several local Republicans have asked us, if two years ago a well-known and relatively well- liked Democrat faced off against a poor fund-raising, poor communicating, old white guy in a suit from Washington and get trounced by 20 points, why would this race be any different?


“I am not sure that it will be, but I do think that the economy has changed since the last election. In two years, people may begin to see that President Obama’s left wing policies are not the solutions America needs. A lot of what happens

in 2010 depends upon the economy.

Um, I don’t know if the economy has changed wholesale since Obama took office so much as the economic crisis deepened in the months before Obama took office. He didn’t cause the housing crisis, nor the willingness of banks to lend to anyone willing to take out a loan and sell the debt to investors who swarmed to make the silly bet that housing prices could never go down, nor could he do all that much to stop it as a lone senator.  

Pseudonymous Blogger Outing

10 Wednesday Jun 2009

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In the wake of the outing of Publius at Obsidian Wings by an asshole at National Review, Matthew Yglesias makes an excellent point about the outing of bloggers, which is that nothing is really gained by “outing” a pseudonymous blogger, except some small measure of happiness by the person who got their scalp in publishing the blogger’s real name.

Strangely, pseudonymity is one of the biggest complaints I hear about bloggers from traditional media and political staffers here in Missouri. The argument seems to be that if a blogger is going to step into the public arena, he or she should show their face. Specifically, Fired Up gets all sorts of flak for featuring pseudonymous posts, because they are “mean and nasty.” Well, if someone finds a post mean and nasty, that’s really the issue, not whether someone wrote it with a pseudonym.

What does it matter if I or hotflash or Blue Girl or .Sean or 24th State use our real names or not? None of us are ghosts in an amusement park in an episode of Scooby Doo, caught and unmasked in the end to show how we dressed up to scare off business so that we could buy the land to expand our milling operation. We’re average citizens who want to participate in the public discourse, except we, along with our families and friends, don’t have the protections that employment at a newspaper or TV station or by a political party might afford us. Insofar as we’re all using our own stable, recognizable Internet personas, it should be enough to address us on the strength of our arguments alone.

Strangely, Prime Buzz is one traditional media site that seems to get it, maybe even a little too much. They’ve granted us superpseudonymity, ascribing every post they linked to on our blog to Show Me Progress, even when we are a community blog composed of frontpagers who sometimes don’t agree.  

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