Motley Moose – Archive

Alaska Democratic Representative Mike Doogan didn’t like the attention of blogger AKMuckraker – proprietor of The Mudflats Blog and a person who had become internationally famous as a source of local commentary and information regarding Governor Sarah Palin – so he chose to stalk this blogger and publicly expose her real name.

This, in my opinion, is a of breach of trust – not to mention an example of immature and vindictive behavior – which is so fundamental that it raises serious question as to whether Rep. Doogan should hold public office.

The President is holding the first ever live online Townhall at the moment, streaming from whitehouse.gov.

One more filter falls, transparency edges further into the fore.

I am sitting here with my father giving him the skinny on the current state of this whole bloggy thing and I just want to say this about that:

Thank you, Mooses.

Meghan McCain is on the Rachel Maddow show right now, and while at this moment I don’t know the specifics of her political views I like her already.  I think I have just seen in her the next face of the GOP, and it gives me Hope for a rational two-sided discourse in future American politics.  In fact, Meghan McCain just showed me more about the current GOP than I have gleaned from (far too many) hours of watching their antics in past weeks.

Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are not only not the future of the Republican Party, they  aren’t even the present.

Meet the Next GOP:

With all the sagacity of a man leaning against a post deriding “that new teller-fone down at Mable’s place”, Kansas Representative Scott Schwab (R-Olathe) has submitted a bill which would force only those who raise their campaign funding through netroots efforts to disclose all donor information.

The key to the bill is that it only effects those who raise more than $5,000 in under $50 donations (a huge number in Kansas state terms, broken only by Sean Tevis in his historic campaign).

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) was chosen to deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s address to congress tonight.  He’s young, he’s arguably more cool than Fred Thompson and he’s measurably less white – which is obviously all that the surviving Republican leadership has learned from recent political events – so he was the obvious choice as the GOP’s answer to Obama.

His challenge was to follow an inspirational speech delivered by a popular president during a time of great national stress and not sound like a total Buzz Killington.

Nice try, Gov. Jindal.  Thanks for coming out – but you can go home, now.

In a new article by Newt Gringrich – The Plan – the founder of the NeoCon movement turns his teeth on the recently departed Republican President.  Lambasting the Stimulus package just signed into law, Newt has this to say”

This isn’t the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Spending Frenzy , this is the Bush-Obama Spending Frenzy, Part IV.

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This is why you can’t put them in the same cage with each other…

Hi folks,

The purpose here is to see if we all agree on the primary goal of Universal Healthcare in the US.  

To keep this very simple there are only two options:  

Breaking News this morning out of Iran: they want to talk to the US.

President Obama has plans for Iran.  During his press conference last night the President said:

In the coming months, we will be looking for openings that can be created where we can start sitting across the table face to face.

Well, now the Iranian government is willing.  We will see if they have anything to offer to the world and to their own people.

Forbes Magazine recently described being Liberal as, in part, having “a certain queasiness about the war on terror”.  This coalesced a train of thought that has been circling around in my head for about seven and a half years.

I hate the “War on Terror”.

As the Forbes article demonstrates, it is obvious that many of my fellow citizens – particularly those on the right – equate hating the War on Terror with “sympathizing with terrorists”.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In fact, supporting the War on Terror is in many ways aligning yourself with the goals of the particular terrorists that the War on Terror is supposed to be opposing.