Who needs another czar?
This morning on the Morning Joe, I heard speculation that a car czar is needed to oversee the Big 3 bail-out. For further news, you can check here or the diary entry by willysnout suggesting Mitt...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Empathy in Supreme Court Justices
Barack Obama has stated that one of the key values he is looking for in a Supreme Court justice is empathy. This has left outlets like the New York Times scrambling: after all, we know they deliberate...
View ArticleDo Not Prosecute New Jersey officials
By now, we all know that a huge ring of corruption and bribery circled the state of New Jersey. Its tentacles reached mayors, rabbis, the governor's office, and to every politician who leapt at the...
View ArticleAP "Fact Check" FAILURE on Bill Clinton Speech
Well, many of us predicted this would happen. After the RNC was a non-stop lie fest, filled with every form of mendacity possible, many on the left knew exactly how the media would react: by promoting...
View ArticleThe Filibuster is Not a Check or Balance
Defenders of the Senate filibuster like to wax poetic about our structure of government. The filibuster, the story goes, is one of the essential parts of our system of checks and balances. Without...
View ArticleHarry Reid: You Swore an Oath
Every Senator takes an oath upon election and prior to serving in the Senate. That oath states:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States...
View Article2 Dimensional Chess and the Fiscal Deal
Who doesn't love a good metaphor? A metaphor can take a drab or difficult subject, and turn it into something compelling and relatable. So it is with strategic political decision making - something...
View ArticleRunning to the Left
This diary is a short illustration of why more Democrats should embrace the Left, and cast asunder the notion that they need to appear as sensible serious moderates. I also want to briefly show what...
View ArticlePresident Obama Should Pardon American Hero Edward Snowden
The President of the United States has an amazing power - the power of clemency. While President Obama has not exercised this power as much as his predecessors, he has made several key pardons.While...
View ArticleUSA Today: Benghazi!!!! Fever
Oren Dorell has a story that's on the USA Times website today. The story is purportedly about Retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell testimony in the House (which, yes, is apparently still...
View ArticlePlaying the Long Game - The Road Forward From 2014
November 4 was a disaster for the Democratic party, which was once again trounced in a mid-term election. Despite a much touted get-out-the-vote operation, early numbers look like the Democratic party...
View ArticleWhacking the Poor for Georgia's Crumbling Roads
The Georgia legislature started its 2015 session last week, a frenzied 40 days to accomplish a year's worth of work. Naturally, with so little time, certain priorities take focus. The top of the...
View ArticleGeorgia: House Republicans Plot Attack on Georgia
In a previous diary, I previewed the effort by state Republicans to untie the Gordian knot they've tied for themselves. On the one hand, beholden to corporate masters, they have to raise money to...
View ArticleGeorgia, the CCRPI, and the Governor's Plan to Privatize Public Schools
In the recent gubernatorial campaign, Governor Deal promised to overhaul school funding - he wanted to be an education governor! Coming from a governor who presided over years of gigantic austerity...
View ArticleNY Times Fawning over Republicans: Jeb! Edition
In the coverage of Jeb! announcing that he's running for President, naturally a lot of attention has been paid to Jeb! himself. One thing I haven't seen much commented on has been the coverage of...
View ArticleDonald Trump: Hillary Clinton's Achilles' Heel?
As recently reported, Secretary Clinton has posted yet another great fundraising haul for the final quarter of 2015. And she’s in great shape for 2016, reporting almost $38 million cash in hand for...
View ArticleJonathan Capehart: Dishonest Hack Attack on Sanders
Bernie gave an interview to the New York Daily News recently that you may have heard about. I’ve read the full transcript; Bernie gave a fine performance, as is also attested by others who were...
View ArticleBroken Record Trump on "Terrible" Records and Roy Moore Hypocrisy
Donald Trump, who knows all the best words, was widely quoted in his defense of child molester Roy Moore saying this of Doug Jones, Democratic candidate for the Senate in Alabama:I’ve looked at his...
View ArticleCory Booker is on the Wrong Side of the Filibuster
The Senate Filibuster goes against the spirit of the Constitution and allows a minority of Senators representing a minority of the population to stop the Senate from implementing policies favored by a...
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