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Category Archives: Dysfunction

A Mystery

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Tom Coburn, the poster child for the merits of repeal of the seventeenth amendment, is currently holding up funding for a suicide prevention program for vets: Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn continues to single-handedly block the Clay Hunt SAV Act, otherwise known as the Suicide Prevention for America’s Veterans Act. His reason: it will cost […]

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Let me unskew this for you

Friday, July 25, 2014

Over at the Daily Kos, they are trumpeting a poll that shows that Americans would prefer to have American jobs protected rather than passing more job killing trade agreements. I'm with the Kosites on this issue, but this poll cannot be relied upon as a true measure of the feelings of the American people. Let […]

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Yet another false equivalency

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

In wandering around the internet today I came upon an article that directed me to this quite able takedown, by David Shorr of TPM, of yet another pundit who blames our current political dysfunction on both parties equally. I couldn't resist some low hanging fruit left un-plucked by Shorr. He quotes John Schindler, the plague […]

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Sunday Morning venting

Sunday, December 8, 2013

I grow tired of this sort of thing. The Boston Globe reports that a number of political scientists got together to discuss ways of overcoming what they reportedly call a “democratic deficit” in this country. That deficit undoubtedly exists, and some of its causes, such as huge amounts of money from sources representing only one […]

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Enough Already

Thursday, October 31, 2013

This past Sunday we had a chance to talk to Senator Blumenthal at a fundraiser in West Mystic. We asked him about the filibuster, an issue on which his position when elected was good, and on which he’s stood firm. Today we’ve seen yet another example of Republican misuse of the filibuster, or, as it’s […]

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