Posts about Daily Kos as of August 18, 2009

08/18/2009
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08/18/2009
Jennifer Brunner has a rather long, generic defense of ObamaCare’s proposed “public option” on Markos “ screw them ” Moulitsas’ crazy-left blog, Daily Kos. While the White House is backing off the public option in exchange for co-ops, I don’t see what the big difference is. Government will charter co-ops and run them just like a government health program, but “promise” to turn them it over to members years down the road. This is still another method which can kill off private insurance through predatory pricing.
08/18/2009
“We were teenagers, and now we’re the man.” That was how DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas described the nearly 2000 activists gathered in Pittsburgh for the 2009 Netroots Nation convention. Billed on its website as “the most concentrated gathering of progressive bloggers to date,”  this year’s Netroots Nation is the fourth conference of its kind. It began in 2006 as the YearlyKos convention, and adopted a new name in 2008 to reflect its expanding membership and influence beyond the pages of DailyKos.