It is nice to see my fine Democratic Party friends engaged in trying to purge the party of those who favor war and spying on the public. It would be nice to see some-damn-body get punished for some of the horrors that this administration has produced.

No one will go after Bush, Chaney, Rove, or any of the other destroyers of the constitution so beating a Democrat may be all that is left. Oddly, I had hoped for more when I voted in 2006.

Even more oddly, I agree with those that believe that a message must be sent and this congressman needs to go down so as to send a message to the others; both Democratic and Republican.

It has to start someplace, even if this one guy is not the worst of the bunch.

Can someone give a quick and easy definition of "progressive politics" that we can use to rate these guys? (paragons or not)

"This campaign against Carney is intended to be but the first of its kind, a template, for conveying to Beltway Democrats that there will be a price to pay, real consequences, when they support the most radical, destructive and corrupt right-wing policies." --GG

I hope to see the Democratic Party become again the party of the "little guy" or the "common man" and rid itself of the neo-cons and other cons in its midst.

A great first step. Alas, only a first step.

Art, I have never "feared" using your name or anyone else's name. I am glad you stopped using more than one handle here, but you never tried to hide who you are. Good on you for that.

Now you also wrote, "Please get in a lecturing last slur? Pace in pretty thongs." I have no idea what that means, especially the "pace in pretty thongs" part. If you want me to understand you, how about writing understandable prose?

One or two people who rarely post have asked that you hold the voluminous number of hard-to-understand posts down to a minimum. I think that is good advice, but you do as you will. I would ask that you never mention my name or refer to me again, just as lwm promised to do. That would help Glenn out more than anything. I of course, as is my habit, will try to only respond when mentioned.

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Note: slur: to cast aspersions on; calumniate; disparage; depreciate: The candidate was viciously slurred by his opponent.

"...In the early 1950s the South Korean dictatorial regime, under tutelage of the U.S., killed over 100,000 of its own people because they were suspected of being somewhat on the political left or otherwise not assumed loyal to the U.S. instantiated regime.

Just like German SS Einsatzgruppen killed 'undesirable people' of their own blood in the 1940s - hundred-thousands of them - the South Korean a few years later did just the same. Unlike the Germans, the South Koreans were under U.S. control and the 'incidents' happened in attendence of U.S. officers.

Several U.S. government institutions exchanged memos about this. Officers of the U.S. military and clandestine services attended mass shootings and photographed the outcome - see above. All this was kept secret for over 50 years. ..."

much more at:

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/05/us-supported-ma.html#more

It is by the famous "b", of course.

... I agree with Glenn on deleting certain comments for the reasons he brought up. It would be even more fair, though, to be able to see that a certain comment has been deleted. -- Tigerr

I agree. What benefit, really, is all the work of removing it if the offending poster does not know it happened? At least a note to all saying that so-and-so had a post deleted today.

I also agree with a poster up-thread who wanted the posters who post volumes of unrelated material each day stopped. Then there are the ones who cut and pasted vast bandwidth wasting articles when a link would do.

I think that it is high time to delete every post that is off-topic; even if "off-topic" is very loosely defined. Otherwise it will always be a chat-room as one poster pointed out.

Have a nice day. -- L.W.M.

I would like to have a nice day also; would you please add me to your list of folks you promise not to talk to, or about?

Thank you in advance.

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lwm claimed: "... But you knew that, just like you knew that most of the deleted comments belonged to bucky,..."

You wrote that you had been deleting comments for two weeks. I did not notice until you deleted the one that I quoted lwm today; and so I am surprised if you were working hard to delete comments of mine and I failed to notice.

Is it true "that most of the deleted comments" belonged to me? If so, why did you not just ask that I leave here and not come back? It is your blog, after all.

I would be a happy camper to make comments and not be harassed here on a daily basis by certain others, but I would also leave if you felt that best for your work.