It's bad enough that El K dropped his book on libertarian Democrats; now he has the temerity to do another one instead, and with

     HIS BIG OL NAME

going in krossword-puzzle style down the title. Talk about ego! Woooooh! Don't let your head get too big Mr. K!!

    Now if someone really KOOL were to do this, say, Harvey Korman (RIP) were to publish (have published) a book titled

      "King
       Of
       Really
       Manic
       Asinine
       Nonsense"

, I could see that. But who's this Kos guy??

    Oh well he deserves some fun. Kongratulations!

    Hey! Where's Kos' long-announced book on libertarian Democrats? Huh??
    "Crashing the Gate" was fine (no Jerome Armstrong jokes please), but where's the next book? Where is it? Did it get kidnapped like some new Harry Potter manuscript held for ransom or something?
    So BRING IT ON!!!!

    I briefly mentioned the idea of the book at the George Lakoff/clammyc/thereisnohekebolos seminar "Where Do We Go from Here?: Progressive Strategies and the Overton Window" at YKos last week, but will spare you the verbiage for now.

    (I was gonna write a snark diary about Kos and YearlyKos, but seeing Kos' big victory over Gerald Ford, uh, Harold Stassen, uh, Harold Ford earlier today, I'll spare him for another week.)

Some people say "O, what would you know about Democrats? You aren't even one yourself!!!!" Know what? I voted for plenty of you over the years, more often than not, and I've had my share of complaints about yas, but if I wasn't a radical Libertarian, I'd be a Dem. My parents were Dems (my siblings were, but I don't know what happened to them, either). The Love of My Life is a diehard Dem. And I still vote for ya, and I will again, too.

Anyway, after reading about some of this day's events, and after reading this diary, I no longer believe that the heinous crimes of BushCo continue, unabated, "Because The Opposition Guys Are Spineless Wussies".

Now, you're gonna have to work with me here, OK? I've been putting in 12-14 hour days, at least 5 days a week (if not six), for a good couple of years. So I'll cop to "maybe it's just me, and my brain's just a little overtaxed right now..."

But I'm not going to let a criminal act scare me into surrendering my rights. Not for 9/11, not for V-Tech. I will not be led so easily by people that want me to be afraid so they can dictate the rules for me.

I never thought I would agree so thoroughly with former California Governor and current California Attorney General Jerry Brown as I did today.  Appearing with the bearded one named Wolf on The Situation Room on CNN this late afternoon, Jerry Brown spoke of the difference between being Governor, where your primary responsibility is to propose new laws, and being Attorney General, where your responsibility is to enforce the laws already on the books.

Mr. Brown then said there were thousands of laws to enforce, many of which are not necessary or are outdated.

Julian Sanchez, a libertarian writer and a contributing editor for the libertarian-leaning Reason magazine, has some suggestions for liberals and progressives in how best to work with libertarian activists.  While it's focused on student campus organizations, the advice can easily be applied to other political situations.  As a libertarian Democrat, I think we all could benefit from Sanchez's advice.

In a nutshell, here is a composite of every debate ever on the Libertarian Democrat subject.
Libertarian extolls belief in civil liberties, personal freedom, ending the drug war, non intrusive government, ect.
Liberal lumps all libertarians in with Ayn Rand.

More down there.

In this post, Matt Stoller of MyDD lists some broad tactics to guide the netroots in building a people-powered movement for the coming years.  #2 on the list was: "Expand our netroots base: Let's get more people involved.  Let's build bridges to different communities, and bring their influentials onto the internet to engage in dialogue."  

Our trek from Colorado to Montana also took us through Casper, Wyoming--where Gary Trauner's WY_AL congressional campaign is located.  So  we took the opportunity to visit with a local Wyoming blogger, as well as visit with Gary Trauner's campaign manager.

So follow below the fold for the story--along with a "special comment" about the idea of Libertarian Democracy in the Mountain West.

In the wee hours of the last night of the last session of Congress, Majority Leader Bill Frist attached a ban on Internet gambling to a port security bill.

It was a dubious maneuver, which not only prevented any real floor debate over the ban, but also attached an intrusive, unnecessary, big government measure to a bill that addressed important national security concerns. This meant that any senator who held the position that what Americans do with their own money in their own homes on their own time is none of the government's business couldn't vote against the gambling ban, lest they risk being smacked about the head with the "soft on national security" cudgel.

The responses are strongly anti-Republican. "Many of those in opposition describe themselves as either apolitical, conservative, or advocates of limited government"

It's the Perot voters, Stupid!

Perot Vote by county, higher Perot %'s marked with deeper Green.

Now I can't speak for every libertarian, or libertarian democrat but I can speak for myself and what I believe and why I believe that it's high time to evict the squatters on capitol hill, if not the ones squatting over on Penn Ave completely.

Two observations on the libertarian reaction, and my cross-posted response to Gillespie are below the fold ...

[This a cross post from my blog Divided We Stand United We Fall, written in response to Kos' essay at Cato Unbound. I was debating whether to post this here, but since it was the first Kos post on the subject of "Libertarian Dems" that brought me here, I thought it belonged. So, WTF - it's below the fold.]  

Here is some insight on what issues Kos considers important to Libetarian Democrats:

So in practical terms, what does a Libertarian Dem look like? A Libertarian Dem rejects government efforts to intrude in our bedrooms and churches. A Libertarian Dem rejects government "Big Brother" efforts, such as the NSA spying of tens of millions of Americans.

Intruding, spying and "Big Brother".

One item that brings all three front and center will begin on Oct 26th.

Flipness...