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The emails keep coming

Friday, September 30, 2011

If you’re like me, and if you read this blog you probably are, your in-box is full these days. The hours are ticking down until the midnight reporting deadline for political campaign funds, and, judging by the emails, it’s a matter of life and death that I give today. I imagine the few right wing […]

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The choice in 2012, and all you need to know about tonight’s speech

Thursday, September 8, 2011

We will have a choice between a candidate that wants to hand everything over to the banks and one who favors letting the rest of us get some crumbs off the table (knowing full well the other guys won’t let us have the crumbs, and knowing full well he won’t fight terribly hard to get […]

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In Defense of the Founders

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The latest print version (not yet on-line, so far as I could see) of the American Prospect contains an article titled Did the Founders Screw Up?, subtitled Why Presidential Democracy No Longer Works in America. This sent me burrowing through my Ipad to find a draft blog post that never made the cut (if you […]

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A prediction

Monday, August 22, 2011

I’m easing back into things here, so I figured I’d start with some real fluff, and what’s fluffier than Sarah Palin? Talking Points is reporting that there are mixed signs about her intentions, but that there are indications that she will throw her bonnet into the ring come September. Personally, I hope she runs, and […]

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Working geezers = unemployed youth

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Further proof at the link, if any were needed, that Lieberman’s proposal to raise the age of Medicare eligibility makes no sense in financial terms. One thing that is rarely mentioned when these issues are discussed is the effect that raising eligibility ages has on the young. This is an issue, however, about which the […]

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Who needs reality when you control the discourse

Friday, June 24, 2011

According to the CBO, if we simply do nothing to current law, meaning the Bush gift to the rich is terminated and doctor’s fees are limited as the law has supposedly required since 1996 or thereabouts, the deficit will disappear on its own. Even if we give the doctors a pass, the deficit is reduced […]

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The Republicans tempt fate

Friday, April 15, 2011

The Republicans have voted to repeal Medicare. I am seriously thinking of giving up punditry. I have still not come to terms with the fact that the Democrats could not have done a better job at demolishing their substantial majorities than they did. It was almost as if they planned it. Now, my mind is […]

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Scratch Pawlenty off the list

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Seems to me that Tim Pawlenty has effectively put himself out of the running as a viable candidate for the Republican nomination for President: Likely Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty won’t be joining mock candidate Donald Trump in his efforts to put birthers back on the political front burner: “I, for one, do not believe […]

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Rightward drift

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The essential difference between Democrats and Republicans, and the reason why this country drifts ever rightward, no matter who is in nominal control of the government: Steve Benen wonders who is in charge of the Republican caucus, as the (comparative) grownups, the supposed leaders (Boehner, Cantor and their ilk) have been unable to corral the […]

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A Brilliant Idea

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

This is the best idea I’ve heard in a long time. Brad Lander from District 39 on the New York City Council: Here in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has proposed laying off over 4,000 public school teachers, closing 20 fire companies at night, closing dozens of child care centers, eliminating over 2,000 summer youth […]

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