CT Blue

This Hullabaloo post got me thinking. Digby discusses a blog post by a fellow named Dennis Praeger whining about the fact that the left has imposed anti-smoking ordinances on the good Americans on the right. There is a tendency, more pronounced (I think) on the right than the left, but general enough, to place issues […]

Obama’s more extreme supporters often claim (or are alleged to claim) that he is a little like a chessmaster, thinking 20 moves ahead while his opponents can only see the board in its current state. Thus, we are asked to believe that he somehow mapped out his strategy for health care reform, anticipated all major […]

A cartoon from 1934, unearthed by my wife.

This morning Paul Krugman contrasted the approach of the two parties to health care: the Democrats trying to accomplish something for the public good; the Republicans engaged in cynical and destructive partisan politics. In the course of his column he observed: And on the other side, here’s what Newt Gingrich, the Republican former speaker of […]

Bill Halter, the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, has announced that he will primary against Blanche Lincoln. If Nate Silver is to be believed (and he usually is), neither one of them stands much chance in the general election, though Halter’s chances are a wee bit better. Back in 2006 our own Ned Lamont showed the […]