Politics
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Manning, Crowley, and Obama
When Obama was asked on Friday about Manning's treatment, he said in part: "I've actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures . . . are appropriate. They assured me they are." When George W. Bush, in his book, attempted to justify his torture regime, he wrote, as summarized byNewsweek's Jacob Weisberg: "When [Bush] asked 'the most senior legal
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Wisconsin II
He [Feingold] wouldn't be the first defeated senator to stage a quick comeback as a gubernatorial candidate. Lincoln Chafee, ousted by Rhode Islanders in 2006, just won that state's governorship as an independent last fall. Lowell Weicker, vanquished by Joe Lieberman in 1988, pulled off the same feat in Connecticut two years later. Feingold shares a
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Quote of the Day: Mark Erlich
A generation ago, non-union workers often welcomed news of improved wages and benefits for unionized employees, recognizing that a rising tide lifts all boats. But … at a time of sacrifice and insecurity, many would prefer to sink their neighbor's slightly bigger boat while wistfully hoping for a glance at a yacht in a gated
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Wisconsin
I don't have much except the obvious to say about it from my perspective. But for the record, I'll say it anyway: We're seeing the classic pattern in American politics play out there that we've seen grow in intensity since 1980. Republicans take power and aggressively seek to roll back what the rest of us
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Quote of the Day: John Cole
One thing that even the dim bulbs in the media should understand by now is that there is in fact a class war going on, and it is the rich and powerful who are waging it. Anyone who does anything that empowers the little people or that threatens the wealth and power of the plutocracy
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Quote of the Day: Greenwald
Can you believe that "in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt," private wealth translates into great political power and vice-versa? What is it like, wonders the curious and concerned Times reader, to live in a country like that? No wonder there's an uprising. How many American politicians with a national platform over the last thirty years have failed to convert their political
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Lieberman: Faithful Servant of Empire
Lest we forget . . . . . . the number one rule of Washington is that high-level political officials should not be held accountable, even reputationally, for anything they do (Look Forward, Good Citizens, Not Backwards). But the blood on Joe Lieberman's hands is accounted for by far more than support for the Iraq
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The Corporate Empire State 2
Michael Lind has an interesting piece he posted yesteday in Salon that supplements the piece I posted the other day about the corporate state. Lind does a typology that comprises five American political worldviews: Neoliberal Globalism, Social Democratic Liberalism, Populist Nationalism, Libertarian Isolationism, and Green Malthusianism. It's similar to what I made an attempt to
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Lieberman & DADT (Updated)
I'm glad DADT was repealed. It was moronic. But after listening to Dennis Kucinich on the O'Donnell show last night praise Lieberman for his role in pushing it, I wanted to vomit. This is a classic case in which a member in good standing of the the corporate power elite, someone who is owned by