UPDATE:
NY-23: “The first Dem Congressman since before electricity was invented.”
— Jaim
No matter how hard I try. You’re so unpredictable.
Virginia: Creigh Deeds sucked it, hard. Deeds did his damndest to discourage the voters that turned out for Obama last year while McDonnell ran a good campaign. My guess is this election was far more [...]
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American Politics, I Can’t Quit You
November 4th, 2009
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Getting Rid Of Jim Crow Was Just Radical Change
November 2nd, 2009
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President Obama is overwhelmingly popular in every region of the country except for the south. I am surely this is all entirely due to his economic policies and his radical social agenda and not any other thing at all, certainly not the color of his skin no way sir.
Purge, GOP, Purge
November 2nd, 2009
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Dede Scozzafava’s decision to endorse the Democrat and not the far-right Conservative party candidate in NY-23 will probably not help Bill Owens, who was a long shot to win a +30 Republican seat. But it tells you what you need to know about the current Republican party.
They are purging those who do not march in [...]
There’s Assertion, And Then There’s Fact
October 22nd, 2009
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In Commentary, Jennifer Rubin writes a whole lot of blah blah blah about how liberals are afraid of Liz Cheney and how she’s totally awesome and she’s just like Sarah Palin and OMG you knowz what that means and whatnot. Then she writes this:
She threatens their claim to the moral high ground and their assertion [...]
Peaking…
October 8th, 2009
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Nobody really knows what the future holds, but I have a feeling that the GOP/conservatives may have peaked a bit too soon. The 2010 elections are 13 months away, and by this time next year “death panels” and nutty town hall meetings are likely to be in the dustbin of history with the rest of [...]
Blog Like A Conservative: Greece Edition
October 4th, 2009
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OMG the socialists totally pwned the conservatives in Greece, this totally means the entire world is moving left and anyone to the right of Ralph Nader better step off!
Actually, I don’t know anything about Greek politics (I don’t even like gyros). I don’t know if this is a move to the left or right, really. [...]
Another Romney Fail?
September 20th, 2009
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Mitt Romney got clobbered by Mike Huckabee at the straw poll at the “Values Voter Summit”. For the GOP, the next election is likely to come down to a fight between the bible thumpers and the Wall Street crew in order to determine who eventually gets beaten by President Obama. My guess is that Huckabee [...]
The Bitch Slap Theory As Applied To Barack Obama
September 10th, 2009
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A few years ago, during the 2004 campaign, Josh Marshall defined what he called the “bitch slap theory” of American electoral politics:
One way — perhaps the best way — to demonstrate someone’s lack of toughness or strength is to attack them and show they are either unwilling or unable to defend themselves — thus the [...]
“Citizens Against Government Waste” In The Pocket Of Big Business
September 8th, 2009
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All part of the game
The federal government is already spending billions for Pratt & Whitney to develop engines for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Why spend billions more for General Electric to do the same?
‘The alternate engine not only qualifies as procedural pork, it is also a waste of money on the merits,’ Tom Schatz, [...]
Kentucky Politics Goes Right To The Point
September 2nd, 2009
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Politics for sale, all pols must go now!
The host of an upcoming fundraiser for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Daniel Mongiardo has told potential contributors that their donation will buy access to the Lt. Governor and Governor.
In an e-mail to potential donors, businessman Ray Hardebeck of Covington said individuals should give $1,000 if they want ‘access [...]
Dept. Of False Equivalency, Debunked
August 5th, 2009
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Paul Krugman dispatches the canard that the anti-health care mobs are anything remotely like those of us who were opposed to George W. Bush privatizing social security and giving it to the likes of Lehman Brothers.
Indeed, activists made trouble in 2005 by asking Congressmen tough questions about policy. Activists are making trouble now by shouting [...]
Some Jujitsu
August 4th, 2009
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Pat Toomey, the conservative Republican senate candidate in Pennsylvania, has written an op-ed saying he would vote for Sonia Sotomayor. What does this tell us? Probably that since he’s got the GOP nomination locked up Toomey is moving to look more like a moderate, and figures the few people he upsets in wingnuttia is offset [...]
Conservatives In A Nutshell
July 30th, 2009
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Will Smith Can’t Save Us From The Right
Ezra Klein
In my chat today, a reader asked me to respond to Megan McArdle’s lengthy case against national health insurance. The problem is that, well, there’s not a lot to specifically respond to. In 1,600 words, she doesn’t muster a single link to a study or argument, nor [...]
File This Away
July 27th, 2009
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Patrick Ruffini predicts the 2010 election: “Prepare for a Blowout“.
My prediction so far is that the GOP will pick up a few seats in the House next year, but nothing to seriously affect the balance of power. What people – especially on the right – fail to notice, regularly, is that a good portion of [...]
Blogging On Race
July 22nd, 2009
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You know, I hate writing about racial issues. I’d much rather be talking about almost anything else relating to politics, but so often instead of discussing policy differences and differing belief systems, Republican and conservatives jump to race. And while for the nation I think things have gotten significantly better (Cambridge PD notwithstanding), since President [...]
Video: Mark Kirk Is A Decepticon
July 21st, 2009
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This ad from the DSCC is… kinda awesome. (via)
The Same Right: Ralph Reed Edition
July 14th, 2009
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One of the continuing themes we’re seeing with the conservative movement’s attempts to recover from the last two elections is a search for leadership. The problem is that structurally conservatism has a strong tendency to gravitate towards the known – a mindset that’s part and parcel of an ideological movement that thinks America’s best days [...]
No Donna Edwards, I Don’t Care
July 13th, 2009
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Donna Edwards, who happens to be my member of congress here in Maryland, just sent out the following to her email list.
Yay, Politico named you to a perfectly arbitrary list! Look, I don’t have any serious problems with Rep. Edwards and she has so far demonstrated the kind of values I want to see in [...]
Specter Vs. Sestak
July 10th, 2009
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This might be a decent line of attack from Arlen Specter… if he hadn’t just become a Democrat five minutes ago after multiple decades as a Republican.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter called his fellow Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, a ‘flagrant hypocrite’ and accused his rival of registering as a Democrat ‘just in time to run for [...]
