Rogues Gallery
Last Monday, in New Hampshire, the Republican Party made it painfully clear they had neither the will nor the ability to offer any serious, constructive vision for where America should go in the...
View ArticleYeah, About John Boehner
Greetings from the "Fightin Eighth". I'm writing from the most conservative part of Speaker Boehner's district in Southwest Ohio. This area is like a tea party petri dish, both in ideology and in...
View ArticleWhy I Support Barack Obama part 1
President Obama recently said it himself that 2012 wouldn't be "as sexy" as 2008. Intuitively we all know what he meant.A lot has changed since 2008. However, one of the worst things that hasn't...
View ArticleNewt's Humanity and the Era of Diego Crow
The way our politics works these days is that our politicians ideas and positions are considered solely for their tactical import and the subsequent polling effect rathewr than for any substance....
View ArticleDefeating Boehner
First, a question, and I apologize if it sounds ignorant, but first an honest question and then some thoughts about my congressman, the top Republican politician in the country. The House is trying to...
View ArticleIt's Perry vs. Romney
In the course of human events presidential campaigns are some of the most interesting things that happen and this time, despite the ridiculousness of the Republican field is no exception. This...
View ArticleWhy I Support Barack Obama part 2
President Obama has a personal story that is uniquely American and an approach to his office that is well suited to the times in which he governs. He took office at a time when the country was in...
View ArticleSchadenfreude, Thy Name Is Republican Politics
The Republican Party is finding itself the victim of its own demagoguery, and frankly, I enjoy this in a way that can best be described as priapismic. They have adopted a grand strategy of marching...
View ArticleAnd It's Called The Democratic Party, Thank You
It's clear to any observer, one party, called the Republican Party, holds the other party, called the Democratic Party, and its top official, President Obama, in complete, utter contempt without...
View ArticleAn Elite Snob Observes A Clown Show
I certainly love politics, but as this is the art of the possible, it is necessary to realize that sometimes the asinine and the dangerous can still be possible. Enter the Republican primary...
View ArticleBarack Obama Is Better Than The Republicans
The Republican primary contest calls to mind a scene from Seinfeld, in which George and Jerry are discussing how to pitch their show, about nothing, to NBC. When Jerry mentions what NBC is paying...
View ArticleLiberal Feedback: Failure and Hope
I wouldn't normally write something like this in a critical election year, but different unrelated events over the last week have upset me and when this post is done there is a constructive point to...
View ArticleLet's Ask Dan Dolan If Toxic Partisanship Runs Both Ways
I recently ran across the amusing and enjoyable story of Dan Dolan an Iowa Republican who wound up speaking at a Democratic state party convention. Thinking he was at the Republican state convention...
View ArticleCampaign Commentary and a Late Response To Sunday
I haven't posted anything in a while and today I want to address two largely unrelated points, a mash up except they will still be unrelated when I'm done. I'm talking , of course, about what has...
View Article"Nothing, nothing at all"
please read I attended a demonstration for the Wall Street sales tax at Nancy Pelosi's office, one of about 20 nationwide, today and this was the response I got when I asked our representatives what...
View ArticleDo Liberals Really Feel Empowered?
From the news I consume I've been picking up lately that as 2013 ends liberals are feeling emboldened and empowered. I was thinking of writing about the questions I had when the Dante Atkins...
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