Buzzfeed has the story: Howard Dean has had it with President Obama’s budget proposal, saying the plan put forward by the White House might just drive him from the Democratic Party he once led as DNC chair. On Sunday night, Dean tweeted that the restoration of some defense sequestration cuts contained in Obama’s budget proposal [...]
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Is Netroots Nation Enabling Pres. Obama?
**UPDATED** “The administration should be worried about the level of despair here.” – Markos Moulitsas “We look at Wisconsin as a win.” – Howard Dean NETROOTS NATION was last week. Having gone to the first event but not since, because I’m not a movement progressive, the varying articles on the activist gathering have neglected to [...]
No Amount of Millions Could Save Americans Elect
SPENDING MILLIONS and getting nowhere. What could more perfectly represent the American political landscape today? Turns out, instead of offering a new path, the insider, back room millionaires blew through tens of millions only to go the way of Pres. Obama’s much ballyhooed Simpson-Bowles millionaire auction of the U.S. safety net, backed by William Jefferson [...]
Netroots Nation 2011 Shows Progressives’ Anger **UPDATED**
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. freespeechtv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Thousands of progressive activists are in Minneapolis for the annual Netroots Nation conference. And boy talk about headlines that should alarm the DNC and POTUS. Russ Feingold at Netroots Nation was the keynote speaker and his words are making headlines. [...]
Obama Blinks on Health Care Mandate
Predicted and now delivered. From the New York Times: President Obama, who has stood by his landmark health care law through court attacks and legislative efforts to repeal it, told the nation’s governors on Monday that he was willing to amend the measure to give states the ability to opt out of its most controversial [...]
Giving Howard Dean His Due
“They were Apollo 11, and we were the Wright Brothers,” said Joe Trippi, the manager of Mr. Dean’s campaign. – The New York Times I wasn’t a Deaniac. I know, you’re shocked. I have had the pleasure of meeting him and interviewing him briefly back in Washington, D.C. when Speaker Pelosi took the reigns of [...]
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