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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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Why Democrats are so pathetic

Monday, August 20, 2007

A couple of articles today, one from the Seminal (mostly quoting Jonathan Alter) and one from Firedoglake, set me to thinking about a critical difference between Democrats and Republicans. Oddly enough, the contrast illustrates how each party is deficient, in contrasting ways. Alter discusses the cave in by the Democrats on the FISA bill, and […]

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Our media at work

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

In this morning’s Day we learn that John Edwards failed to score points with a union crowd in Chicago at a candidates debate. The debate took place before a large and raucous union crowd. How do we know that Edwards failed to score? Well, we don’t have to take the reporter’s (a labor reporter no […]

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Use it or lose it

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

More short sightedness from the Democrats, at least according to the LA Times: Democrats are not winning the battle to force Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales from office, stymied by a legal system that gives the Bush administration wide discretion to block investigations of itself. And they are not getting the White House witnesses or […]

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Democrats cower yet again

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Every time Bush fails at something, he asks for increased authority. Every time he asks, Congress gives it to him. He then fails again, and asks again. Why this vicious cycle? In a word, Democrats continue to be frightened every time he accuses them of being soft on terror. The latest chapter is the expansion […]

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Breaking the filibuster

Thursday, August 2, 2007

I love it when I see things on the net that echo something I’ve already written. I realize that such a reaction is rather childish, but there it is. I direct my readers to this article (Challenging the GOP’s Filibluster) from the American Prospect. In it, Andy Balkan makes the same points about the Democratic […]

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No more petitions-impeach.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

I just got an email from Joe Courtney asking me to sign a petition calling for Alberto Gonzales to resign. If you’re interested in doing so, you can sign at this link. You can read the email here. Personally, I’m tired of empty gestures which, with all due respect to Joe, I consider this to […]

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Debating impeachment

Sunday, July 22, 2007

There is a fascinating exchange in the comments at Ezra Klein’s blog. Klein advocates impeachment, and quotes from the Paul Craig Russell column to which I linked recently ctblueblog.com/?p=307, and the possibility of a coup or coup-like denouement to the Bush Administration, possibly in the form of a “temporary” seizure of power after a conveniently […]

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Outrage fatigue closing in on the tax front-what else is new

Friday, July 13, 2007

Life is tough for pundits like Paul Krugman. Yesterday’s outrage seems mild by comparison with today’s. If you write your column a day or two ahead of deadline you risk writing about yesterday’s scandal. Case in point, today Krugman takes the Democrats to task for slowly walking away from mandating fair taxation of hedge fund […]

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Jimmy backs down

Monday, May 21, 2007

Why do Democrats do stuff like this? Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday his remarks were “careless or misinterpreted” when he said the Bush administration has been the “worst in history” for its impact around the world. Speaking on NBC’s “Today,” Carter appeared to retreat from a statement he made to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for […]

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