BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

We Don't Want More Liberal Representatives, We Want Stronger Ones Sorry I haven't posted today. I have been struggling for a week with pneumonia. Then I had a very bad PTSD trigger last week (totally unexpected and out of the blue) which really messed me up for a few days. I thought I was feeling better after a few rounds of IV antibiotics but now I feel like a truck's parked on my chest. Ugh. I couldn't even make my late Nana's famous latkes today - but I did get the kids to & from school. So with Olmert, Abbas, Bush, Condi and all the other clowns that are destroying what's left of their countries, here's some very interesting reading from Cenk Uygur . Happy Hanukah everyone. There is this misconception in the press and in Washington that the netroots and other progressive activists want their representatives to be more liberal. The myth is that we want to drag the party all the way to the left and take them away from the center. Nothing could be...

A COMMENT ABOUT BETRAYAL by Keith Olbermann This is, in fact, a comment about… betrayal. Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq. Yet after six months of preparation and execution—half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this: * The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president—if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history—who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats “give the troops their money”; * The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans; * The Democratic leadersh...