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Some good news

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

I literally spent the entire day writing. I have a brief due by the 30th on a subject about which I’m not that well versed, so I spent the entire day reading cases, writing and re-writing. This has left me somewhat drained, so I’m semi-taking the night off. I just can’t spend another couple of […]

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A Challenge for the Democrats

Monday, September 24, 2007

We may soon find out just how scared the Democrats are of looking insufficiently tough. Paradoxically, of course, they show their toughness by weakly caving to every Republican attack, See, e.g., the anti-Moveon Resolution. Now we will find out if there are any limits to just how crazy the Republicans, and how craven the Democrats, […]

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Pity any Democratic fundraiser that calls me today

Thursday, September 20, 2007

I am at an utter loss to describe the outrage I feel today. Actually, I suppose that I should be happy that I can still feel outrage. For a while there I had become comfortably numb. Today I got emails from my pals Chris Dodd and Pat Leahy, both of whom are telling me they […]

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Losers

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

One must wonder if the Democrats will ever start acting as if they are the majority party in Congress. They may not be able to roll back the totalitarian laws passed during the height of the Bush imperium, but at least they can choose to do no further harm. Apparently even that is beyond them. […]

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Getting out

Thursday, September 13, 2007

A few thoughts jotted down while I don’t watch Bush’s speech. There’s been some talk, as I mentioned recently, to the effect that whoever gets elected in 2008 will soon own the war that Bush will bequeaths to him or her. At this point, as anyone case see, his entire strategy is to repeat his […]

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Cold comfort, but comfort nonetheless

Thursday, September 13, 2007

According to a poll commissioned by Daily Kos, Ned Lamont would handily beat Joe Lieberman today, if the voters of Connecticut had another chance to vote. Most of the shift, as you would expect, comes from the Democrats and Independents who were taken in by Lieberman. By the way, it’s hard to believe that the […]

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Democrats Brilliant Strategy: First surrender, then negotiate

Thursday, September 6, 2007

I don’t pretend to be the world’s greatest lawyer, but I have learned a thing or two about negotiating in the years since I was sworn to the bar. One thing I learned, in fact, one thing I always sort of knew, is that you don’t do this: With a mixed picture emerging about progress […]

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Bill Richardson-comic genius (not)

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Sometimes, methinks, folks in the leftmost portion of the blogosphere take things just a little too seriously. Yesterday, in the grand tradition of John Kerry, Bill Richardson tried to make a joke. In the grand tradition of present day politicans of all stripes, he failed miserably. Richardson was in Iowa, and, seeking to curry favor […]

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Let’s sell hope

Friday, August 31, 2007

The incomparable Krugman points out what many of us in the internet wilderness have said at one time or another : There’s a powerful political faction in this country that’s determined to draw exactly the wrong lesson from the Katrina debacle — namely, that the government always fails when it attempts to help people in […]

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An out of touch Congress

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

This post ( Why is the Democratic Congress so unpopular?) by Glenn Greenwald hits the nail on the head: For the past several months, Congress’ approval ratings have been as low as, and often lower than, George Bush’s unprecedentedly low ratings. Various media pundits and right-wing advocates use this fact constantly to insinuate that Bush […]

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