cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Drive A Stake Through It
Instead of rethinking a strategy for governing, the failed conservative project seems to be busily working at rewriting the last 8 years of failed government. While we certainly have evidence of the failures all around us — especially in the detrius of the economy broken by their ideology — we need to always be prepared […]
Torture Has Not Kept Us Safer
So says Robert Mueller in Vanity Fair: I ask Mueller: So far as he is aware, have any attacks on America been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through what the administration still calls “enhanced techniques”? “I’m really reluctant to answer that,” Mueller says. He pauses, looks at an aide, and then says quietly, declining to […]
How Pitiful Is This
Open Left reports that John Boehner is advertising for “credentialed” economists who oppose the upcoming stimulus package. Evidently the “credentialed” economist community sees the economic problems we face sufficiently serious enough that they aren’t available to the wingnut echo chamber to try to advance their ill-informed opinions on how the government should deal with the […]
Biden Defends the Warren Choice
Joe Biden will evidently be in Larry King Live tonite and has said this about what the Warren selection means: …Barack Obama said you’ve got to reach out. You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country. We can’t continue to be a red and blue country. […]
This May Be Your Only Chance
To throw something at the President-Reject: The comments are good too — listing the stuff others would like to throw at Bush.
Ford Says UAW Not to Blame
(via John Cole). Ford Chairman Bill Ford was on Larry King last night and had this to say: KING: What about the UAW in all of this? FORD: Well, the UAW obviously has been our partner through all of this. Have they made mistakes and have we made mistakes? Of course. The UAW has come […]
Dear Gov.-Elect Markell — People’s Settlement Needs Tough Love
Dear Governor-Elect Markell: While we are delighted that you will be taking the reigns of the government here in Delaware, we certainly understand that you begin governing with some of the greatest challenges of many generations. Certainly, you don’t need any more problems to fix, but the People’s Settlement needs attention, and quickly. The Office […]
Really Bad Pundits: 2008
Foreign Policy Magazine made their selections of the 10 worst predictions of 2008 and this turns out to be fun: 1. William “The Bloody” Kristol, who told the world two years ago that “Barack Obama would not beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary”. 2. Jim Cramer, who, in March 2008, was yelling at […]
Dennis Rochford Out?
WDEL is reporting that Governor-Elect Markell’s choice for Chief of Staff is out. Haven’t heard why or who will replace him yet. Tell us what you’ve heard in the Comments.
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