First Responders Bill and START both pass. How anyone in their right mind could not look back at this as the most productive congress and two years of a Presidency in generations is beyond me. Not to go all Reifenstahl on you, but this is how I feel after the last couple of weeks (and …
Black Jimmy Carter
One and Done
I hope there is nothing to this and Kuttner is just wrong: The tax deal negotiated by President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is just the first part of a multistage drama that is likely to further divide and weaken Democrats. The second part, now being teed up by the …
No Deliberation
The most deliberative body in the world listened to Bernie Sanders for close to two days, and then decided to completely and totally ignore him: The Senate on Monday advanced the tax-cut package agreed to between President Obama and congressional Republicans, virtually assuring that the Senate will approve the bill on Tuesday and send it …
Like I’ve Been Telling You
I’ve kind of been telling you this for a while, but it is nice to see it in the NY Times: What the progressives forget is that black intellectuals have been called “paranoid,” “bitter,” “rowdy,” “angry,” “bullies,” and accused of tirades and diatribes for more than 100 years. Very few of them would have been …
The Answer is Simple
This is going to get Sullivan flamed: I’ve had many criticisms of the Obama administration’s tardy and milque-toast efforts on civil rights for gays and lesbians. But at this point, the peril facing repeal of the military’s gay ban is not the administration’s fault. In fact, it seems to me the events of the last …
Is TV Connected to Twitter?
I didn’t get a chance to watch Obama’s press conference live, but judging from the Twitter, I assumed that he had really screwed the pooch (this is a pretty representative sample). When I was finally able to watch the damn thing, I failed to see the FAIL. His message and reality lined up pretty closely: …
The Infallibility of the Professional Left
Infallibility–its not just for Popes anymore. Judging from the rage from the usual mavens of the Professional Left I guess it is high time that we all admit that they–like the Popes–are infallible. Their ideas, strategies, policies and tactics are always exactly right and to question these pearls of wisdom runs the risk of excommunication …
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