HRC on the TPP
Finally, Hillary Clinton has taken a stand on the Trans Pacific Partnership, and she’s against it. This is a flip-flop, given her past promotion of the TPP, and it sure looks like an act of crass political opportunism. Still, it ...
Read MoreQuote of the Day
I really do have to pass this on. From Rep. Trey Gowdy, Tea Party spear carrier and Benghazi committee lead witch hunter. Asked why he isn’t interested in running for a position in the Republican leadership in the House, he ...
Read MoreAbortion: A Note on The Language We Use
Cecile Richards did a generally good job of defending Planned Parenthood in an interview last night with Chuck Todd, but I was disappointed to watch her decline to push back on one badly loaded question. Todd put it to her ...
Read MoreShouting About Abortion
“Yes! I’ve had an abortion and I’m glad I did. I am a happy person as a result.” That is the message that Amelia Bonow, aged 30, has trumpeted on Twitter at #ShoutYourAbortion the past couple of weeks. Reacting to ...
Read MoreThe Speaker and the Pope
Two huge news stories this week, but I really don’t have much to say about either of them that you won’t easily read elsewhere, so I’ll be brief. Commenting on John Boehner’s abdication, the NY Times succinctly riffed on a ...
Read MoreThe Republicans at War
At war with themselves, with Barak Obama, with Hillary Clinton and with Planned Parenthood. And, if elected, with much of the rest of the world. Yes, as a political blogger I felt obligated to endure watching the 3-hour Republican debate ...
Read MoreJeb the Populist
Jeb Bush has come out with a proposal for re-vamping the tax code. You can get a pretty good idea of the substance of his proposal by reading the article in today’s New York Times. But people typically don’t read ...
Read MoreThanks, Tom Friedman
I have to preface this post with some caveats about Tom Friedman, since I’m about to commend him. Friedman is a blowhard who has been wrong about a lot of things, most notably in his support for G.W. Bush’s ...
Read MoreRepublican Craziness, Redux
In one of my many posts on the craziness of the contemporary Republican Party I recently observed that …various polls of Republican voters since Obama entered the White House have shown that considerably more than 25% believed 1) that Obama ...
Read MoreThe system… (1) is (2) isn’t…rigged.
Some time ago I described two competing tendencies in the Democratic Party: a populist tendency, most vocally represented by Elizabeth Warren (and now, by outsider Bernie Sanders) and a centrist tendency, probably best exemplified by Bill Clinton. Populists are appalled ...
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