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By E. J. Dionne | Friday, August 3, 2007 | The Washington Post

The neocons have Rush Limbaugh, who played a major role in the 1994 Republican landslide that left Bill Clinton with an oppositional Congress, and the 2000 election of George W. Bush. But increasingly, liberals and progressives have found their voice in The Daily Kos, a partisan website run by Markos Moulitsas. Its annual concention, the Yearly Kos, is attracting much interest and also much scorn and alarm from the neocons. Incidentally Kos was the name of the town where, undar a particularly grand plane tree, Hippocrates taught medicine (a shoot of this tree has grown to maturity on the campus of my alma mater Rockefeller University, which is why I learned this). If you want to learn more about the Hippocrates Tree, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Hippocrates
. For the column by E.J. Dionne on the rise of The Daily Kos as a political force, click below:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202023_pf.html