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Hack: September 2008
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Schlepping toward a better America. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. There are six days remaining. Now is when things get more gritty. The offices begin to pare down staff, unregistered folks get harder to find, the whole thing feels less fun than desperate. I can do the best I can with my people, but I have zero control over other groups. It's maddening to hear the registrars talk about it. Thursday, September 25, 2008. In other news, I slept in a closet last night, under the stairs. I hate this plan. This ...
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Hack: July 2008
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Schlepping toward a better America. Friday, July 25, 2008. In another airport, swinging the same bag, sporting a beard I’m too lazy to shave off despite the summer heat. My haircut, dating to the fourth of July by a friend with kitchen shears is growing out. I’m the very model of modern campaign efficiency and frugality; personal hygiene has yet to slip as much as in 2004, but the endgame hasn’t begun yet. I’m just involved earlier on this time. Perhaps these are the sort of people who have always made h...
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Hack: January 2010
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Schlepping toward a better America. Thursday, January 21, 2010. Supreme Court and the Arc of Justice. The core, instead is whether or not corporations have the same rights as individuals, indeed whether or not corporations are people. What a gross thought. Unfortunately, the court system has been moving this direction for a number of years, and this decision is essentially the ultimate ratification of that view. 2 Citizens will choose to funnel their contributions in the most direct way possible, meaning...
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Hack: March 2010
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Schlepping toward a better America. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The Party of No. The unity of the Republican Party showed frayed edges when David Frum, former Bush speechwriter, dissented from the party's roadblocking of the healthcare bill. As benefits start to kick in and the bill becomes as much a part of the political backdrop of the country as Social Security or Medicare, will there be a slow peeling off of members of the Republican party? How many of them will defect? Will they run as Democrats?
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Hack: GW and pitching a shit fit about the future
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Schlepping toward a better America. Saturday, June 27, 2009. GW and pitching a shit fit about the future. The bill is troubled. It contains a number of major concessions that may or may not wind up gutting the legislation over time, including but not limited to:. 3 It stops the EPA from regulating Carbon Emissions from currently existing power plants, a power they got about four months ago. All of the above are bad things. There a couple things to note about it, however:. 4 It does actually create a cap ...
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Hack: June 2008
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Schlepping toward a better America. Saturday, June 28, 2008. Must re-up on underwear. I’m sitting in a training on voter registration, listening to an overview on how to stop voter fraud that I wrote. It’s funny. The hotel we’re in is quite nice, perhaps an indication of where the economy has been that I was able to get us a viable deal in a place that has four pillows per double bed and a view of the river. Rather I find myself pinning my hopes and dreams on his organizational structure; they are lean, ...
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Hack: November 2008
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Schlepping toward a better America. Friday, November 21, 2008. An actual opportunity for change. The election by House Dems of Henry Waxman to succeed John Dingell as the chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee is a big deal. Dingell is literally married to GM (his wife was one of their lead lobbyists for years, and still senior executive for them). He has, since 1955 when he first took over the seat, derailed good environmental regulation of all sorts. Wednesday, November 5, 2008. The Senator for ...
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Hack: Supreme Court and the Arc of Justice
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Schlepping toward a better America. Thursday, January 21, 2010. Supreme Court and the Arc of Justice. The core, instead is whether or not corporations have the same rights as individuals, indeed whether or not corporations are people. What a gross thought. Unfortunately, the court system has been moving this direction for a number of years, and this decision is essentially the ultimate ratification of that view. 2 Citizens will choose to funnel their contributions in the most direct way possible, meaning...
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Hack: December 2009
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Schlepping toward a better America. Friday, December 4, 2009. I find myself in the new and unsettling position of apologizer. With his usual soaring rhetoric, our president (nee' the candidate) is now using his political capital to sell a war. Without getting in to the merits of it, here to fore, I've been against war. I'm still against war. For any reason, really. So Camelot it ain't. And it's only likely to get worse before any of this gets better. But. The economy is showing some signs of life. He...
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Hack: Disgruntlement
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Schlepping toward a better America. Friday, December 4, 2009. I find myself in the new and unsettling position of apologizer. With his usual soaring rhetoric, our president (nee' the candidate) is now using his political capital to sell a war. Without getting in to the merits of it, here to fore, I've been against war. I'm still against war. For any reason, really. So Camelot it ain't. And it's only likely to get worse before any of this gets better. But. The economy is showing some signs of life. He...
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