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  • johnpi 10:04 am on December 23, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Guantanamo closure delayed again.

    The White House wants to buy a maximum security prison in Illinois to hold the ‘detainees.’

    The federal Bureau of Prisons does not have enough money to pay Illinois for the center, which would cost about $150 million. Several weeks ago, the White House approached the House Appropriations Committee and floated the idea of adding about $200 million for the project to the military spending bill for the 2010 fiscal year, according to administration and Congressional officials.

    But Democratic leaders refused to include the politically charged measure in the legislation. When lawmakers approved the bill on Dec. 19, it contained no financing for Thomson.

    The Democratic party will have nobody to blame but themselves in the mid-term elections when their supporters don’t show up at the polls due to discouragement.

     

  • aziz 10:40 am on November 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    a great series at Open Left by diarist dreaminonempty has been chronicling the future decline and fall of the Republican Party on the basis of demographic trends, ethnic and religious. The post on religious trends had a extensive section on how muslim voting trends, which have been much more volatile in response to policy than comparable groups like African Americans or Jewish Americans. I take these results at City of Brass and re-open an old debate about whether there is/should be a "muslim vote" and whether it would necessarily be aligned with the political Left.

     

  • johnpi 11:15 am on November 5, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Analysis of ‘West Asian’ voting patterns in most recent US elections at Open Left. An example:

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    Money quote: “It is simply astounding that Republicans have been able to take their relationship with several different communities who have ties to this region and alienate so many, so well, so quickly. “

     

  • johnpi 12:35 pm on October 9, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    The Democratic party’s response to Republican outrage at Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize:

    “Either sensing an opening to cast the Republican Party as actively rooting against America, or just fed up with the stream of negative responses,” writes Sam Stein, “the Democratic National Committee put out an unusually blunt statement Friday morning. The gist: that the GOP sides with the terrorists.”

    “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” wrote DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse. “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party.

    The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.”

    Chris Bowers lauds this response: “That is just about the most aggressive, hard-hitting rhetoric I have ever read from a Democratic Party committee. It is like Alan Grayson wrote this response.” Glenn Greenwald pans it: “Apparently, according to the DNC, if you criticize this Prize, then you’re an unpatriotic America-hater — just like the Terrorists, because they’re also criticizing the award. Karl Rove should be proud.”

     

  • johnpi 10:23 am on May 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Cheney’s torture trap for Democrats.

    Just five days after Cheney admitted that George W. Bush personally signed off on the CIA’s plans to extract information out of detainees by no matter how they got it, the debate in Washington isn’t even remotely focused on the ethical and moral repugnance of torturing your enemies. Instead, the city is buzzing about what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about waterboarding. There’s a little side conversation going about whether torture is effective — but not whether it’s wrong. And the Obama administration, which is trying desperately not to get involved in an endless battle over what Bush officials were doing behind closed doors, is getting dragged into it, too, and infuriating liberal supporters in the process.

     

  • aziz 11:56 am on December 9, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Wow – Illinois Governor Blagojevich was arrested by the FBI this morning. I suspected Blago was dirty, but had no idea he was such a scumbag. The Illinois governor was (among other things) trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.

     

  • shahed 5:26 am on September 22, 2008 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    Our interview with Gov. Howard Dean is up at altmuslim. (There’s another five great interviews lined up for the next two weeks.)

     

  • thabet 9:56 pm on September 1, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Nancy Pelosi’s comments on abortion upset the Catholic Church.

    Slate discusses the Democratic Party’s new approach to abortion.

     

  • shahed 12:44 pm on May 24, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    A new book entitled Why I’m A Democrat asks 55 Americans why they support the Democratic Party. My case as to why Muslims should be Democrats can be found on pages 173-8.

     

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