Anyone getting this Progressive Talking Points Newsletter?

[RamboLiberal]

Very good email newsletter everyday with links to the stories from news sources at website of Center for American Progress. I've enjoyed the two issues I've gotten so far the past two days.

http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?cid={E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}&bin_id={D4279185-2138-4D60-8557-E26508FD8C13}

Story about it was featured in current Newsweek.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/982191.asp

At a little before 6 each morning, a wiry, 27-year-old political operative fires up his computer in his Washington, D.C., apartment. While other Democratic spinners are still in bed, dreaming about their next power breakfast, stubble-faced, bleary-eyed David Sirota is already at the keyboard, hacking out a daily barrage of anti-Bush media clips, commentary and snappy quotes.

SIROTA’S E-MAILS—SENT to the capital’s journalists and political pros—tend to portray President Bush as a bullying huckster (Sirota branded the illegal leak of a CIA agent’s name “Intimigate”). But they occasionally cause the administration genuine headaches. One Sirota blast last month diverted Colin Powell from an exhaustive round of talks at the United Nations. Working on a tip from an obscure Australian Web site, Sirota unearthed an embarrassing comment the secretary of State made two years ago. In Cairo, Powell had said that Iraq posed no threat to its neighbors, and possessed no “significant capability” in weapons of mass destruction. Reporters pounced. “It was early in the administration,” Powell sheepishly explained.

Sirota is the Internet child of the Clinton “war-room” generation. Intense, driven, even obsessive, he fills the gap left by a timid Democratic establishment, with his guerrilla strikes on the Bush administration. At a time when the party is torn between its presidential contenders and remains largely powerless in Congress, Sirota strikes a loud chord of Democratic frustration. Yet he is more than just an angry young man with an overflowing outbox of e-mail. A new hire at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank that launches this week, Sirota is part of an ambitious attempt to shake Democrats out of their stupor and reshape liberal politics. “The right wing is running a 24-hour-a-day campaign against centrist politics,” he says. “Our side isn’t necessarily used to that kind of intensity.”

Though young, Sirota is well schooled in the art of Washington warfare. After college at Northwestern, Sirota—who grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs—worked for Rep. Bernie Sanders, the vocal independent congressman from Vermont, and then David Obey, the senior Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. There he started e-mailing his attacks on Bush, giving Democrats neatly packaged sound bites and journalists irresistible quotes.

[GOPFighter]

1. Yes

As a matter of fact I signed up for it this morning!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. also just signed up for it this morning...prompted from another thread

thanks for the post...CAP a great site

[HootieMcBoob]

3. Excellent

Thanks for letting us know about this. I just signed up. We should all sign up for this. This is yet another step in the right direction. The steps are all beginning to add up on our long jouney. :)