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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More Senate Sausagemaking — How the Climate Change Bill Failed
The New Yorker has a great article from Ryan Lizza detailing how the Climate Change Bill came together in the Senate, and how it came apart. Do yourself a favor and read The Whole Thing. The subtitle doesn’t do this article any justice and is really pretty wrong.
Congressional Seating Charts — If They Were Seated By Their Funders
Mother Jones magazine has a fantastic special report that they’ve called Who Owns Congress? There are articles and great graphics showing the biggest 527s operating this cycle, the most generous individual donors, the top 75 corporate donors among other reports and analyses.
Two Political Films You Should See at Theatre N
Directly from the Theatre N Program Manager, two really intriguing-looking films playing this month outside of the theater’s usual weekend rotation that ought to appeal to political junkies:
The News Journal Admits to Deficient Political Coverage
Yesterday, John Sweeney took to the pages of the NJ OpEd page to tell us what we already know — that the media isn’t doing an especially good job at getting political candidates to discuss in detail their approach to issues of concern to voters:
Chris Coons Starts TV Ads
Katie Ellis at DelDems points us to a piece from Hotline On Call, who notes that Chris is capitalizing on the post-Labor Day tea-wrestling that Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell are indulging in to go up with TV ads early.
The Difference Between Leading from the Left Rather That the Right
Tony Blair talked with Christiane Amanpour on Sunday on a variety of topics, but one that is germaine to some of the discussions (or really, lack thereof) going on here re: President Obama:
More Signs O’ the Times
There is a message in this someplace, I’m certain of it. This sign is up at 4th and Adams St (the I-95 RoW) and has been laughing at me all week. Some weisenheimer put this sign up at this intersection late last week — before all of the other signs got up: It was the […]
Must Read of the Day: Reagan’s Chickens Have Come Home To Roost
Will Bunch has posted on his blog today this killer post: Jobless America: Reagan’s Chickens Have Come Home To Roost. If there is only one thing that you read today, make this it. And be sure to read the links too.
Chris Coons Hits Castle on Deficit Hypocrisy
Or maybe we could call this another float in the Mike Castle hypocrisy parade. From a recent Chris Coons press release:
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