Chuck Hagel Is Happy

Senator Hagel just released this statement: "Joe Biden is the right partner for Barack Obama. His many years of distinguished service to America, his seasoned judgment and his vast experience…

Rethinking the Democratic Primary Process

The Boston Globe reports that the Obama campaign and the DNC are looking to establish a Democratic Change Commission to review the current state of the process:

The panel would look at changes to the timing of primaries and caucuses, reducing the number of superdelegates, and tinkering with the caucus system. “The goal of the commission will be to ensure that no primary or caucus is held prior to the first Tuesday in March of 2012, with the exception of the approved pre-window states, whose contests would be held during February 2012,” Obama’s campaign and the DNC said in a joint statement.

Thomas Frank on Colbert

Frank has a new book The Wrecking Crew, How Conservatives Rule, that he was on Colbert promoting. Colbert's very funny observation that government is welfare for people who can't put…

Happy Birthday Social Security

73 years ago today, FDR signed the law that created the Social Security program. This pay-as-you-go (as designed, where younger workers pay for the older ones) program has been not only one of the most popular, but also one of the most effective programs in the history of the US. John McCain thinks that it is a disgrace:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugN8Rn5baqM[/youtube]

Is Tom Gordon an Angry Guy?

Did anyone see the Delaware Tonight debates between Coons and Gordon on Friday? (You can see the fireworks by clicking on the 8/8/08 show link and going to minute 12…

David Gergen Points Out the Obvious

That the McCain Camp is using coded language about Obama in the long tradition of repubs using coded language to demonize black people and fire up their low-information voters: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXvK84MPqQ[/youtube]…