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Funny, but the facts just don't bear you out. Clinton boldly moved to eliminate discrimination against gays in the military. Was that a popular stance at the time? No. Of course, it was the right stance (as opposed to the right-wing stance), but it sure wasn't popular.

Your argument about the war on drugs is based on the fluff in your head. Clinton didn't reduce the country's commitment to the war on drugs, even as voters in various states called for such a reduction.

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Discussion: Penske is an insane paranoid right-wing conspiracy theorist.

Now, let's discuss how the CIA, the Mafia, and Standard Oil shot JFK.

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Depends who you ask it of. When asked of W in the initial context in which some (not all) asked it, it was a legitimate question -- not because his past drug use should be a disqualifier, but because as governor of Texas he pushed legislation to increase penalties massively for the same conduct that he had committed.

(Anyone remember the cartoon - "How do you plead?" "Youthful indiscretion, your honor.")

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Wasn't popular? Most people could care less what happens in the military, its not their kids who join these days. Asking them about don't ask - don't tell is like asking them their opinion on who the next alderman should be for Quebec City's 4th ward.

And I don't recall seeing any strong sentiment one way or another, except for that from gay people and the military itself. But from your quote, I'd guess you'd back the Democrat in Quebec City's 4th ward.


Just more California arrogance. The voters in various (read: a few... Alaska, Ohio, Hawii, California?) states generally voted to decriminalize pot for medical use or, in some cases recreational use. You know, the kind of stuff that only states enforce anyway. The Republican party would have a collective heart attack if Bush admitted Coke use and called for decriminalization. So would an extremely significant part of the Democratic party.

You are not showing yourself as credible if you think the majority of people in America are in favor of allowing people to put needles in their arms or to import coke by the ton... or to snort coke. Not a single significant leader in even the Democratic party has come close.

Which is to say, if you think California's support for medical marijuana use indicates any kind of consensus support for something even close to what I'm talking about, you should probably see a brain surgeon to have the two parts of your brain reconnected.

Slave, it appears you were too optimistic when you proposed that Congress's in camera review of evidence of the Iraqi prison abuse would be enough to prompt appropriate investigation:

Matt Yglesias

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From England we learn that

From the Observer, via Kevin Drum

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Someone's found a new favorite blogger, now that Josh is in disfavor.

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(1) Josh is not in disfavor. You can tell he's doing something right from the number of tendentious and pointless posts by right-wing bloggers aimed at his stuff.

(2) I've posted from Drum's blog for a long time. He formerly used the name Calpundit. Drum has broader interests than Marshall, and is more likely to post a range of news stories and to offer a few comments on them. Marshall posts on a narrower range on topics, and does more to pursue stuff that's not in the major papers.

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He is being attacked because he has been the loudest rumor purveyor in the business.

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Like this one?

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He is being attacked because the unwritten rule of blogdom (actually, either Yglesias or DeLong had a nice post about this recently) is that you should only acknowledge other bloggers with at least as many page hits as you have, so as to increase your profile but not to help your rivals. Marshall scores right up there, so every is gunning for him instead of more-obscure blogs.

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You must have been asleep throughout 1993, if you don't remember the intesity with which Clinton was attacked for proposing that gays should be entitled to serve in the military. "Don't ask don't tell" was a compromise -- a shitty one -- with the Repubs.

But I'm not surprised that you conveniently forget anything that doesn't fit in with your postulate -- that Dems govern by looking at the polls every five minutes, while Repubs govern from some place of pure goodness and principal.

After all, that postulate explains why Bush is against steel tariffs. I mean for them. I mean against them.

And why he's against nation-building. I mean for it. I mean...

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Please explain how "a few .... Alaska, Ohio, Hawaii, California" [plus the states you left out] does not mean "various"? My California arrogance fails me when I try to speak English to the right wing.

And are you joking about the comment that "only the states enforce" marijuana laws? If not, you are .... well, as ignorant as I would expect someone who is once again advancing the "this party good, that party bad" view of the world. A number of Californians could have used that information to defend against, you know, the federal crimes they were charged with.

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God, the more I look at your post the dumber it gets. I didn't say anything remotely like the above. I said voters in various states called for a reduction of the war on drugs.

This is like talking to a translation computer in the years before they got the software right. I say, the money and resources devoted to the war on drugs are absurdly disproportionate. Hello says, Sidd wants to hook preschoolers on heroin.

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Don't blame the libertarian wing. We are on the same side on this issue.