Ladies and gentlemen: your infinitely cunning Democratic Party
So I listen to Chris Van Hollen tonight, and he’s “asked about” health care reform — i.e., the moderator shuffles a bunch of question cards people submitted and then boils some of them down to a key...
View ArticleLiberal establishment ISO “right” movement
“Does the Liberal Establishment Care About Anything But Itself? The Hard Lessons of Wisconsin” is an unintentionally revealing title for a disappointing discussion with Rebuild America guru Van Jones....
View ArticleTodd Akin: the best opponent a corporate Democrat could buy
In the so-called false good Samaritan con, one con artist first creates a problem (e.g., steals a wallet, lets rats loose in the neighborhood), then another rides to the rescue (e.g., retrieves the...
View ArticleEisenhower Democrats
It’s easy to dismiss the froth of election-related ads, articles and Internet campaign memes that’s accumulating as the November election approaches, but if nothing else, it can show how candidates and...
View ArticleOutgrowing Booker T. Obama
In my previous post, I took up Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay “Fear of a Black President,” writing that “Obama has at best settled for accommodation — for telling us what too many of us want to hear, and...
View ArticleLockstep liberals police the field
One weekend recently I was helping coach my daughter’s community league soccer team; to start the 2d half, we put in a new goalie so the first half goalie could get some field playing time. But she’d...
View ArticlePre-debate prep
“Heyyy wealthy ladies!” “Sometimes I think that peace prize winners shouldn’t have a kill list” “US political system is hostile to Americans.” Wait, what? Oh. This one won’t be at the debate, but have...
View ArticleGreens: reject Ellsberg’s advice, or don’t – just don’t run away from it
October 23 video of discussion between Daniel Ellsberg , Matt Stoller (Roosevelt Institute, “naked capitalism”), Emily Hauser, (Daily Beast), and Ben Manski (campaign manager for Green Party...
View ArticleThoughts on Lawyers, Guns and Money at the End of an Election Cycle
Dear sirs, Sincerely, Thomas Nephew —– As I’ve noted before, the level of disrespect and intolerance for alternative left viewpoints at the well-known “Lawyers, Guns and Money” blog and elsewhere...
View ArticleSo what exactly *did* Van Hollen say about Social Security and Medicare?
On Wednesday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a.k.a. PCCC or “boldprogressives.org,” reacted sharply to the Wall Street Journal article “Obama Sets Steep Tax Target” by Janet Hook and Carol...
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