Politics
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Hats Off to Chris Dodd
Like a lot of people, I complain about Democrats not having any backbone or fight, so when a mainstream, very mainstream establishment guy like Chris Dodd finally stand up, he deserves to be recognized for it. He did that today in filibustering the Telecom Amnesty bill that his own party leadership was trying to ram
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Moderate Complacency
The biggest obstacle that prevents decent, moderate Americans from seeing how their country is morphing into unAmerica lies in that the most negative developments do not directly affect them or their families and friends. This is certainly true about the war, and that’s the main difference between this fiasco and the one in Vietnam. The
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Quote of the Day: Greenwald
You see, all of this behavior by the Democrats is absolutely necessary. They have no choice. Otherwise, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News will attack them for being weak (as though there is some circumstance under which they wouldn’t) and that would be terrible. Nothing exudes strength, courage, toughness and resolve like having your behavior continuously
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World War IV
I think of the Cold War as World War III, but I’ve addressed this idea of World War III or IV, or whatever number you want to give it before before–for instance here–but I wonder why so little attention is paid to questions that relate to the larger geopolitical issues that are driving our current
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Slow Institutional Degradation
"Process" is now considered a bad word by political consultants. After writing Worse than Watergate in 2004, which was about the secrecy of the Bush administration, I learned that the Kerry campaign did not use the subject of secrecy because they thought it was a "process" issue. It seemed almost standard policy of Democrats to
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Beyond Liberal & Conservative (Updated)
From Frank Rich, "The Coup at Home: Last weekend a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Mr. Bush are both roundly despised throughout the land, and that only 24 percent of Americans believe their country is on the right track. That’s almost as low as the United States’ rock-bottom approval
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Craven, Cavin’ Dems II (Updated)
Greenwald: The so-called "60-vote requirement" applies only when it is time to do something to limit the Bush administration. It is merely the excuse Senate Democrats use to explain away their chronic failure/unwillingness to limit the President, and it is what the media uses to depict the GOP filibuster as something normal and benign. There
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Mukasey: Just Say No (Updates I, II, III, IV)
The Dems are like permissive parents who don’t know how to deal with an ill-tempered, willful child. So unless the Dems behave completely counter to type, they’ll just give in again do what the petulant Bush tells them to do. With palms turned upward pleadingly look around to the rest of us who, eyes glaring
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Hillary’s Inevitability
Here’s the meme that will get her the nomination and probably the White House: What are you people afraid of… A strong woman, a large prosperous middle class? Health Care for Everyone??? A stable economy? A win for Hilary is a win for the majority of Americans. I personally have had enough of the extremes
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Hawks & Doves
From Obsidian Wings: one particularly infuriating example is the ubiquitous use of the words “hawk” and “dove.” Here’s Dan Balz in the Post discussing Clinton’s Iran issues: Whichever view is correct, Clinton’s actions have elevated Iran even more as an issue in the Democratic campaign and demonstrated anew her possible vulnerabilities among dovish Democrats on