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Shameful

Friday, February 5, 2010

One wonders how much of this the supine Democratic Senate leaders expect those of us who pony up the campaign money to take: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, according to multiple reports this evening. The hold means no […]

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Acorn redux

Friday, January 29, 2010

The recent arrest of James O’Keefe, for “masterminding” a sixth rate break in at Mary Landrieu’s office, reminds us once again of his original claim to fame, the famous “sting” he allegedly pulled off to expose Acorn’s nefarious doings. You may recall that he and a female right winger posed as a pimp and his […]

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Democrats opt to tax their base

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Firedoglake has engaged in a sometimes hostile opposition from the left to the Obama Administration. At times it has been a bit over the top, but sometimes they get things exactly right. We are all, perhaps, getting a bit weary about even thinking about health care, which is just what the lobbyists want, so they […]

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Krugman speaks

Saturday, January 9, 2010

I am always smugly satisfied when Paul Krugman agrees with me. Of course “agrees” is somewhat of a stretch, implying as it does that he has read anything I’ve ever written; rather let us say that our minds have run along parallel tracks, and sometimes mine pulls into the station ahead of his (at least […]

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Fool me once…

Monday, December 21, 2009

It’s almost enough to fill one with despair. What’s one definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. What clichés or common phrases are running through my mind? Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it It’s the same old song Here we go again. […]

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A health care rant

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

I’m sure I’m not alone in this. I receive emails from a guy named Mitch Stewart, of Obama’s “Organizing for America” organization pretty much every day. Today I’m being urged to contact my Senators (rich irony on that one) to support health care reform because insurance lobbyists are desperate to pull apart the bill and […]

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They can dish it out, but they can’t take it

Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Republicans are still whining about the fact that mean old Al Franken made them vote in favor of rapists a few months back. This from the party that has made a habit out of proposing resolutions designed solely to force Democrats to cast votes that can be easily misrepresented (or, to be fair, that […]

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The Price of Timidity

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Or maybe it’s the price of deception. According to a new Daily Kos poll, the Democrats are still ahead in generic polling. The problem is that very few of them intend to show up at the polls in November, as compared to Republicans and Independents, both of whom intend to show up in droves. This […]

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Taxes are for the little people

Friday, November 27, 2009

There are few things more glaringly unfair in this country than the fact that hedge fund managers get taxed at a rate less than half of what most of the rest of us pay. According to this morning’s Globe, (Tax break on profits again in jeopardy) there’s a move afoot in Congress to change the […]

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A Bold Movement: Demand that Democrats be Democrats

Thursday, October 8, 2009

It’s sad when grassroots Democrats have to petition the Democratic Majority Leader to put pressure on Democrats not to join filibusters against Democrats. It’s sadder still when one of the leading “Democrats” likely to join such a filibuster is the junior senator from our state, but that’s the way it is. Rachel Maddow explains: The […]

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