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Robert Cruickshank is Half Right
Read Robert Cruickshank’s post on “Occupy the Progressive Movement.” Unfortunately, it only goes half way, which has been the problem with progressives since the health care bill sell off. What’s needed from movement progressives and Democrats is to Occupy the White House. If the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), see Glenn Greenwald’s analysis or [...]
The Hillary Effect Hits Amazon
Now available on Amazon for your Kindle! I received the hard copy yesterday and it was great to see, hold and read. Our PR team will be sending it out far and wide in the coming weeks, so media outlets can request a copy through that link. If you feel so compelled, I’d appreciate a [...]
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Bill Clinton on Pres. Obama
The Washington Post on former Pres. Bill Clinton’s new book: Bill Clinton has advice, and some criticism, for President Obama in new book “The Democrats did not counter the national Republican message with one of their own,” Clinton writes of the Democratic losses in 2010. “There was no national advertising campaign to explain and defend [...]
OWS: The Connections are Wide and Deep
The video above is of Sgt. Shamar Thomas. It went viral and now has over 2 million hits. After Scott Olsen’s assault, it seems even more relevant. Interestingly, Olsen is reportedly from Wisconsin, the state that Gov. Scott Walker ignited with his anti-democratic view of economic equality. As a reminder, Pres. Obama and the Democrats [...]
Romney’s Top Legal Adviser: Women ‘Aren’t Discriminated Against Anymore’
Mitt Romney Monday continues. Pres. Obama and the Democrats split the women’s vote in the 2010 midterms. Romney and the Republicans seem to be determined to turn that around for them. According to Lloyd Grove of the Daily Beast, Robert Bork is one of Mitt Romney’s newest legal advisers. How about the Equal Protection Clause [...]
Democrats and the Politics of Denial
On a high-level campaign conference call Tuesday afternoon, Democratic donors and strategists commiserated over their disappointment in Obama. A source on the call described the mood as “awful.” “People feel betrayed, disappointed, furious, disgusted, hopeless,” said the source. – Twin defeats spark Democratic fears Steve Benen writes about “context” of the special elections yesterday. Okay, [...]
Al Gore Chides Obama to Use Bully Pulpit on Climate Change
Poor Al. He wants so badly to help Pres. Barack Obama find his inner presidential activist on behalf of important international policy. But while he scolds him, Mr. Gore also neuters his effectiveness by giving Pres. Obama power over him and the message he’s desperate to drill home. The Joplin tornado proved how badly a [...]
David Frum Levels Pawlenty While Trump Watches
I’ve been waiting for someone on the Right to say something close to what’s deserved about Mr. Tim Pawlenty and finally someone has. If the GOP wants to finish Trump, GOP candidates had better learn to speak to those anxieties – to offer a remedy more effectual than the snake-oil now being peddled by Tim [...]
The Next Obamas
Did that mean, I asked, that Mario Cuomo, who strongly opposed Clintonian compromises like the welfare-reform law of 1996, had come at last to appreciate triangulation? “No,” he said quickly, shifting a bit in his swivel chair. Then, more softly, “I’m still a liberal, I guess.” – Mario Cuomo Still Believes, by Matt Bai They [...]
2012: ‘Ultra-paranoid’ Jim Messina and Obama’s Re-elect
Says one Democratic operative of Messina: “I hope he’s better at political campaigns than at managing big, important pieces of legislation.” – Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer, by Ari Berman Absolutely nothing frosted me more than watching the White House bungle the health care messaging. Jim Messina is the guy who got beat by Sarah Palin’s [...]
Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Field for 2012
It’s true that Palin relies on shallow talking points, but where do these come from? They come from the institutions and leaders of the movement that is supposedly so concerned with ideas. Palin is disinterested in ideas, and she has flourished in the conservative media for years. She does rely on shallow talking points, and [...]
Overestimated Midterm Mandate
The New York Times/CBS Poll reveals Americans still support the notion of bargaining, but also understand that pay cuts hurt real families, especially at a time when the super rich and Wall Street aren’t being asked to do their fair share. Americans oppose weakening the bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of [...]
Feingold Speaks: “This is the Gilded Age on Steroids.” Plans to Lead Progressive Coalition.
TM NOTE: Texan4Hillary offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Former Senator Russ Feingold is speaking out after his tragic re-election loss for this past midterm. Known for being highly principled and progressive he courageously opposed the Patriot Act and Iraq War, and voted nay on both. His last famous nay vote was on [...]
Sarah Palin Speaks from Some Undisclosed Facebook Location
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo. Sarah Palin chose to forget today that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords brought up Palin’s “targeting” of her when lamenting the vitriolic political rhetoric in this country before Jared Lee Loughner tried to assassinate her in Arizona. In a weirdly disembodied and out of touch statement from [...]
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