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Massachusetts Madness

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Martha Coakley looks set to lose the Senate election in Massachusetts, a staggering achievement, if ever there was one. This is what comes of taking an electorate for granted, not to mention accusing Curt Shiling of being a Yankees fan. There are some lessons here for our own Dick Blumenthal. If he runs true to […]

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Horrible Democrat to take on mediocre Democrat?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Harold Ford, former head of the DLC, is thinking of running against Kirsten Gillibrand for the Democratic Senate nomination in New York Progressive types have been lukewarm about Gillibrand, but if anyone can turn their grudging acceptance into passionate ardor, it’s Harold Ford. Today’s front page NY Times article, whether intentionally or not, outs this […]

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McMahon wrestles with FEC

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

I have often criticized the New London Day, my sort of hometown newspaper. But for all it’s faults, the Day sometimes does yeoman work Ted Mann may be the best political reporter presently operating in Connecticut. He exposed Rell’s pollster shenanigans, and he also took the initiative to burrow into Linda McMahon’s campaign finance reports. […]

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Asymmetries

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

It has been observed that we are living in a time of asymmetrical warfare. In this country we seem to be afflicted with asymmetrical politics. Witness the reaction to the unsuccessful attempt to blow up an aircraft, about which Obama appears to have gotten no warning, to the reaction to 9/11, about which Bush was […]

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On message

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

You really have to admire the message discipline of the Democrats. One of Dodd’s potential opponents is Linda McMahon, former head of the World Wrestling outfit. Connecticut Democrats have been attacking her, making what is a quite accurate charge that it is not the PG family friendly entertainment that she claims it to be. Unless, […]

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The Way it Is

Monday, November 30, 2009

Mike Huckabee personally pardoned a guy with a long and violent criminal history who, if police suspicions turn out to be true, just killed four cops. Mike Dukakis was governor of a state whose parole board released a man, a fact of which Dukakis was probably unaware, who then went on to commit murder. Dukakis […]

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Only in Massachusetts

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Could this happen anywhere else, even in the context of a Democratic primary: US Representative Michael E. Capuano yesterday blasted Attorney General Martha Coakley’s decision to get involved in an Alabama death penalty case, saying the man they are vying to succeed in the Senate, Edward M. Kennedy, “would have never supported this position.’’ “She […]

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Wrenching defeat from the jaws of (possible) victory-and other election day reflections

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

If there was a common theme locally yesterday, it was the victory of the crazies over-not necessarily the rational, but at least the less crazy. In New London the Democratic clowns that have run the town for some 20 odd years were replaced by a mixture of Republican and “green” uber-clowns. I have lived in […]

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Democrats find a sort of a spine

Monday, October 19, 2009

The Republicans and the Media, with Harry Reid giving a large assist, have just about talked everyone into believing that you need 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate. In fact, it only takes 51. You can look it up. That’s why the Constitution lets the Vice President break ties. There are ways to […]

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A Brilliant Young Journalist

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A clip from The Young Turks, interviewing a journalist who shares my last name, and bears the burden of half my DNA. We only find out about these things from our Google alert, since he would never tell us about it. It’s a strange world when a multi-billion dollar corporation sends you emails to let […]

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