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More bad news for Republicans

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Just when the Republicans thought things couldn’t get any worse, science goes and invents a drug that might just doom them to political extinction. It’s called Provigil. Now it’s fairly obvious that any drug that makes you happy should be banned, as should any drug that expands your mind. But drugs like that aren’t half […]

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The cross we must bear: the Blue Dog “Democrats”

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, then we have some extremely big minds in the Democratic party, all residing in the heads of the “Blue Dog Democrats”, who make a habit of stabbing their party in the back. Senator Jim Webb has been trying to pass a bill guaranteeing reasonable benefits, including updated […]

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Trouble brewing for the Republicans, or how will the Dems blow this?

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

According to Daily Kos, the AP has called the special election in Mississippi for the Democrats. This is a seat that was considered to be an ultra safe seat. According to the DCCC: After losing the last two competitive special elections for Republican seats (IL-14 and LA-06), the NRCC and its conservative allies have gone […]

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Political science, Batman style

Monday, May 12, 2008

I saw this on This Modern World, and I just couldn’t resist passing it on. Who do you suppose wins this election: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJ5AcsXp4M[/youtube] That’s it for me today. I just returned from a Charter Revision Commission meeting and I’m bushed.

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Please let this be true

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Via Atrios and the New York Post: Defying disgusted constituents and angry Republican leaders, disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella has told pals he plans to seek re-election. And, shockingly, the Staten Island pol is feeling “pretty good,” he confided to friends. … Fossella confessed last week to having a 3-year-old daughter with gal pal Laura Fay, […]

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Vote suppressors vindicate vote suppressors

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Eight years ago the Supreme Court ruled that one man’s right to equal protection was more important than the votes of the mass of voters in Florida, or at least the ones that weren’t counted. They would claim, I’m sure, that the fact that the man in question was George Bush was purely coincidental. Since […]

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Sullivan trashes Simmons (implicitly in any event)

Friday, April 11, 2008

wtfdnucsailor (who I assume is from Waterford) reports at Connecticut Local Politics that my friend Sean Sullivan has attacked Joe Courtney, who has been in Congress a little over a year, because we are not currently building two subs a year in Groton. As the sailor from Waterford points out: I am not sure what […]

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Garry Wills on Lincoln and Obama

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Garry Wills is one of my favorite writers. In the most recent New York Review of Books he makes the case that the best comparison to Obama’s recent speech on race is to Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech, not to JFK’s speech on religion or FDR’s First Inaugural. Wills points out that both men faced similar […]

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Taming the President

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

I just finished reading the decision in Medellin v. Texas, which is being billed as a defeat in the Supreme Court for George Bush, because the court, the conservative justices in the majority, rejected a Bush bid for expanded presidential powers. Since this is the most political court in our history, I smelled a rat. […]

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It’s time for her to go

Friday, March 21, 2008

Josh Marshall links to this article at the Politico that argues that the press has been complicit in pushing a narrative that Hillary Clinton still has a chances to win the nomination. In this morning’s Times, even that narrative appears to be crumbling. Bill Richardson’s endorsement is likely the first in a cascade of endorsements […]

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