Tim Kaine News

VIDEO: Tim Kaine Running For Senate In Virginia

1:56 pm EST April 5th, 2011 | Politics | 2 Comments

I know Kaine has detractors out there, but the choice is likely to boil down to him or Macaca.

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A Fleeting Moment

12:37 am EST January 22nd, 2009 | Democrats, Media, Politics | 38 Comments

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Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr

Right now, at this moment, those of us on the left should enjoy the complete and utter impotence of the conservative right in America. The White House, House, and Senate are all Democratic. The Republican party doesn’t even have a leader as a victorious Howard Dean passed the torch to Tim Kaine (remember when they told us Dean would be a disaster?). The conservative media – Rush, Hannity, Fox, Wall Street Journal, and of course Drudge – are utterly unable to do anything more damaging than useless flailing.

It’s not going to last long. Unlike the premature triumphalism of the right after 2004, you don’t hear much talk of historical realignment in favor of the Democrats. Now, demographically it’s possible – the Republican party seems intent on keeping itself the party of white southern males, which is their perogative but as our current president shows that group is now a part of the American coalition and no longer its leader by default. In all likelihood the Republicans will find their voice again and win elections once more. I hope it isn’t any time soon, but I’m not going to pretend it ain’t happening.

In the near term it’s probably Democrats that will get in each other’s way – the election is in the past and people won’t feel quite the urgency to present a united front. But right now, we can enjoy this moment.

We’ll always have this memory.

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Chairman Kaine

6:52 pm EST January 4th, 2009 | Democrats | 1 Comment

Virginia’s homegrown eyebrow, Tim Kaine, will be the new DNC chairman.

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will become chairman of the Democratic National Committee later this month, serving as the top political messenger for Barack Obama’s administration even while he finishes his final year in the governor’s mansion, several sources said.

Since the chairman is usually an insider with the sitting president, this isn’t too surprising as Kaine was a very early Obama booster and because of Virginia’s weird system he can’t run for a second consecutive term as Governor this year.

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