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Not just for the rich anymore (temporarily)

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Has anyone else noticed that all the measures being contemplated to deal with the economic impact of the corona virus, both here and in England (and probably everywhere else) are, not to put too fine a point on it: socialistic? What else can we call sending free (gasp!) money to people, or paying them for […]

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Democratic strategists look on the bright side!

Monday, March 2, 2020

I always profess to look on the bright side, but the thing is the side you’re looking at has to be bright. Check this out for seeing brightness in dark corners.  A little background first. The Supreme Court has decided to take a case challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare. It is practically a given that the court […]

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Bernie angst

Monday, February 24, 2020

A rambling sort of post, but it’s the best I can do. Sometimes you have to wonder about the memes out there. We are supposed to believe, at the moment, that Bernie is almost a sure thing because he won a caucus in a state in which, if I’m reading the charts right, around 10,000 […]

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There’s only one issue

Thursday, February 20, 2020

I’m not a Michael Bloomberg fan, though I’ll vote for him if need be, but I give him credit for one thing. He seems, more than any of the other candidates, to understand that the central issue in this election is Donald Trump. Sure, better medical coverage, anti-trust enforcement, Green New Deals, are worth talking […]

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Can’t we (Democrats) all just get along?

Sunday, February 16, 2020

The rancor coming from all sides in the Democratic field is depressing, to say the least. We have always been good at creating circular firing squads, but this is really getting out of hand. The common stereotype is that the Bernie Bros are the my way or the highway wing of the party, but I’ve […]

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Good luck with that

Sunday, January 19, 2020

I’ve mentioned before that I get a guilty pleasure out of reading the Palmer Report, inasmuch as it tells me things I want to hear. Still, I apply great heaps of salt so far as the conclusions they reach, though you can usually go to the bank with the facts they recite. In that, they […]

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Time to speak with one voice

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Happy day after impeachment. That being said, let’s take a look at where we go from here. Nancy Pelosi has, I must say, handled things masterfully, but her success depends on the Democrats getting their act together and speaking in unison. They used to do that, but people who were boys and girls in the […]

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I think I already know the answer to this question

Monday, October 14, 2019

The DSCC has put its finger on the scale in Democratic Senate races, though perhaps not so brazenly as the DCCC has in House races. Incumbent protection, particularly when the incumbent in question is a DINO, is the order of the day. I have been wondering where Chuck Schumer’s finger has been in the current Senate primary […]

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Let the Math be With You

Monday, August 19, 2019

Gee, it turns out that appealing to Republicans is not the sure road to successthat establishment Democrats and some Democratic presidential candidates (hint: one rhymes with Ride Em) think it is. Rachel Bitecofer’s prediction on the 2018 “blue wave” was “numerically close to perfect,” writes Paul Rosenberg in an interview for Salon. The assistant director of […]

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No one wants what Democratic “moderates” are selling

Friday, August 16, 2019

Arriving in yesterday’s mail, a fundraising letter from Steve Bullock, the envelope emblazoned with this stirring message: I’m the only candidate who’s won a Trump state.I can beat Trump all across America! If you’ve heard of Bullock at all, you no doubt know of him as the man who should be running for the Senate […]

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