▼ Author Community Vote 93 days ago Peter Daou Don't Bother Waiting for Bloggers to Get Credit for the Public Option - — A year ago, in a very different October, as we hurtled toward a historic election, I wrote a post titled On November Fourth, the Netroots Should Be More Than an Afterthought: … Not surprisingly, despite lots of buzz … 170 days ago Peter Daou "Send Them Home With a Bullet in the Head" - — I've gone on the record disagreeing with the term ‘Teabaggers’ and with the use of the word ‘un-American’ - I've done so because despite the astroturfing and the faux-grassroots opposition to health care reform, I place a premium on citizen activism … 177 days ago Peter Daou Five Reasons the Health Care Battle Is NOT the Presidential Campaign - — Democrats and progressives are clearly rattled by how quickly the right has come out of the gate in the much-anticipated August health care battle. — Zandar, keying off Josh Marshall, explains: 181 days ago Peter Daou Washington Post's Milbank Says Hillary Clinton Should Drink "Mad Bitch" Beer - — This is the kind of garbage that has permeated media coverage of Hillary Clinton for years. Relevant segment at about 2:35. (h/t Brian Beutler). 238 days ago Peter Daou Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech - — I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives. But reading the transcript, I was struck by two things: 331 days ago Peter Daou Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh? - — I don't buy into this ‘brilliant’ strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans. — Focus relentlessly on the disastrous Bush presidency to tarnish Republicans, yes.