I think he could do some real good with his legislative experience presiding over the Tx Senate-and god knows Dewey has set the bar so low it threatens the ankles.

is we need to change the game as it's played in Texas.

Ronnie Earle would be a game changer, and a credible, exciting candidate.

Run, Ronnie, Run!!!

Changing the focus from why gays should be allowed to serve to why bigots should be allowed to prevent them from doing so seems a fruitful angle to me.

I'd appreciate any help to that end y'all can supply.

as much as past Dem leaders (and current Congressional ones).

I think it's that cautious community organizer psychology of not wanting to upset stakeholders-which include sr military leadership.

I'm just saying that this is not an organizing issue-it's a military discipline and national security issue.

Time for a bold move from the Commander-in-Chief, I think.

Though moving to where  a majority of the public is isn't all THAT bold, when you think about it.

as well, but this is not about Congress, but the senior military leadership cited as roadblock to removing DADT.

BTW, it appears that the Obama Admin excuse is not strictly true, either.

Congress, in its infinite wisdom/stupidity, expressly and explicitly has given the President of the United States the authority to suspend any and all separations/discharges from the military while reserve units are on active duty if those separations are not in the national interest.

The Dkos commenter I linked to has the text of the law.

So, there really isn't a reason the DADT can't be suspended as a stop loss measure.

it's military discipline.

we should stop treating it as a legitimate motivator for policy.

Not even a little bit.

If 13,000 personnel can be replaced, surely the ossified bigots in the senior rank can be.

Not those in the Senate.

Confusing your friends with your opponents is one of the worst mistakes you can make in politics.

And yet Democratic leaders continue to make it.  

Is there a Darwin Award for Politics?

Joe Lieberman has told them, over and over, what he is about.

He gets more ink when he breaks from the caucus -so he will continue to do so.

And they've made him stronger when he does.

Beltway idiots think we don't understand. We really do. They care more about what their clubbies think than what grass or net roots Dems think.

And that's what needs to change.

is that women politicians can lie as enthusiastically as any man can.

is one in which online and offline activists have really melded together in a smart campaign.

Reward good behavior, and flip the House right out from under the Republicans.

and the first step toward that is flipping the House out from under Tom Craddick.

You can help us demoralize the radical Republicans, and we'd sure appreciate any help you can lend.

Leave no safe ground for them to regroup on-not even Texas.

In Senator Cornyn, so often been a sock puppet for the Bush/Cheney regime that every anal polyp has been mapped and charted, getting well deserved heat for employing (both on his campaign and our tax dollars) a sock puppet of his own.

Who then brags on his alter ego, and suggests a raise for himself...

pearl clutching media and WATB Republicans.

Bravo, General.