Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Senate GOP Crosses Its Arms and Pouts
According to Politico, Senate Republicans won’t be engaging in too much badmouthing of Obama’s Supreme Court pick:
GOP officials say they realize the party needs to improve its standing among Hispanic voters in order to have any hope of winning a national election, and they admit that trashing the first Latina nominee to the court could [...]
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Race to the Bottom: Conservative Republicans vs. Conservative Democrats
I’m sure that I’m not alone among progressives in wringing my hands over the seemingly unshakable power of conservatives in the Senate to block progress. Republicans have been and continue to be pummeled into the ground by public opinion; surely we should be able to get good legislation passed. Yet Democratic gains never seem to [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
White House blog
I’ve been meaning for a while to write a post about how impressive the new White House blog is. Their RSS feed is stylish, their content is neither too long or too short, their tone is very appropriate to the blog medium, and they even post about 6 times every day.
However, their liveblog today of [...]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Coal and Politics
Update: now cross-posted at It’s Getting Hot in Here.
At Grist Magazine, they like to refer to coal as the Enemy of the Human Race. And, while that’s a bit of a rhetorical flourish, it’s true that coal is unavoidably one of the dirtiest ways possible to produce energy. If you’re interested in finding out more [...]
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Conventional Wisdom and Obama
Inspired by this post by Paul Krugman about the economic platitudes in Obama’s inaugural address, I had a thought about conventional wisdom.
Krugman suggests that waiting for conventional wisdom (it’s assumed by wonky types that that refers specifically to the DC political establishment & the media) to arrive at the truth is a recipe for ineffective [...]
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Barack Obama’s inauguration
Barack Obama’s inauguration as our next president is a cause for great celebration. Three decades of conservative dominance, not to mention eight years of corruption and abuse of power, have finally been voted out by the American people. Our first black president will be the most popular president to enter office in the history of [...]
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Missouri Senate 2010
In case you don’t pay as close attention to political prognostication as I do, Kit Bond, the Republican senator from Missouri, has announced that he won’t run for reelection in 2010. I don’t know much about Bond’s reputation, but an open seat in one of the purplest states in the nation will certainly make this [...]
