An open letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President,Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm going to turn 40 in a little over a month. I have 9 year old twins, a loving wife, and a good job. I've been working on campaigns for...
View ArticleCountering the Right’s “American” Con
Countering the Right’s "American" ConBy Susan C. StrongFounder & Executive Director The Metaphor Projecthttp://www.metaphorproject.orgAlthough the Right claims their recent win justifies downsizing...
View ArticleThe guano that fertilized their grass roots
An LA Times investigation into the financial roots of the Tea Party movement reveals this rigor mortus-driven insurrection is about as grassroots as it is thoughtful. According to the article,...
View ArticleGod I Hate the ****ing Cynicism and Pessimism In This Place
The Republicans have won and are winning. We lament the pay freeze for Federal Workers, the Republican's winning of the house, etc, etc. But that folks, doesn't mean they will win or have to win.I...
View ArticleHey "Pragmatists," Who Will Reelect a Centrist Obama? (w/poll)
There is a rampant fiction among Democrats which seems to reappear after every losing election season: the meme that "moving to the center" is somehow "more pragmatic" than fighting for progressive...
View ArticleDon't blame the politicians blame the voters
America didn't exactly get off to a great start in this first decade of the 21st century and a lot of fingers like to point to Washington, but the voters in America are the human resource managers who...
View Article"Do we need a fighter (in the White House)"?
I've been following the going on in the lame duck session and getting depressed over the recent compromise reached with the Republican/blue dog coalition.So, while sitting on the sofa with my wife I...
View ArticleObama is the best we're going to do
I will admit I was a Hillary fan, but once Obama won the Democratic primary, I became an Obama supporter, I sent money to his campaign, and even worked at the polls for him on election day. I figured...
View ArticleWere You Born In A Barn?
A Stable? A Garage? Some other Semi-Sacred Outbuilding where natural holiday fragrances are automatically shared with the world at large? How Come Festivus doesn't have A Specially Designated...
View ArticleGOP Not Allowed to Talk About the "Will of the Public"
John Boehner can't stop talking about the "will of the public" these days. Now that the Republicans have won the House, he keeps saying over and over that the Democrats must go along with Republican...
View ArticleGabby Giffords: A Few Words
A reporter called me a little while ago, and told me that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot at a public event. She is in critical condition.I’m going to let others comment on what this means for...
View ArticleSeek first to understand, or the real winner of the 2010 election cycle.
There has been a lot of discussion and punditry around the shooting in Arizona and trying to place blame. I firmly believe that blame rests solely on the perpetrator. Could things been done to avoid...
View Article(updated) A look back at -28- 29 days of Republicanism in the 111th Congress...
I ran across the following outline of what I wanted to be the Great American Blog entry that swung the 2010 election into the Democratic column. That was an unfinished project, but I thought it, in...
View ArticleNew Group: Jobs Wages and Community Investment
Welcome to DK4. I'd like to invite you to join the Jobs Wages and Community Investment Working Group.This group is dedicated to organizing and advancing the concerns and interests of the poor, the...
View ArticleLike it or Not, It's Ours.
I support the Democratic Party. A simple statement, but it can get complicated when the members of the party don't support you back, can't it? To be honest, I both understand the concern, and I...
View ArticleDems problem isn't Obama, it's Congress. STILL.
So this is the main idea: I'm not hearing that simple statement: The Republican Party controls the finances of this country. It should be the first thing out of every Democrats mouth every single time...
View Articlewhistleblower needs advise
Dear friends, I could use your help, and fortunately (I hope not unfortunately) there's many of you logged in at any given moment. In 2010 I was the Democratic opponent of an 8 term Republican...
View ArticleRepublicans Violate Their "Seniors' Bill of Rights"
That didn't take long. As the battle over health care reform reached a fever pitch in the fall of 2009, the Republican National Committee rolled out a "Seniors' Bill of Rights." But with the midterms...
View ArticleThe Center Holds It Together - A Rant Through Our Party History
Information these days is chaotic, complex and urgent. It comes with the force of a tsunami…and another tsunami …and then another…and it never, ever stops. It’s hard to maintain conceptual footing in...
View ArticleRepublicans Perform "720" on Ryan Plan to Kill Medicare
In figure skating, gymnastics, skateboarding and other sports, performing a 720-degree, double-rotation is not for the faint of heart. When it comes to their plan to end the Medicare system of...
View ArticleSharron Angle suggests Harry Reid stole the election on the Today Show
Sharron Angle claimed that Harry Reid stole the Senate election in Nevada repeatedly during her interview on the Today Show. Angle is making the rounds promoting her new book "Right Angle". Sharron...
View ArticleFL25: Three Dems interested in running -- Joe Garcia, Annette Taddeo, Luis...
Juicy stuff at the Miami-Dade Democratic Party meeting Monday night – two admirable Democrats announcing they’re on the verge of running for the US House seat held by David Rivera, FL-25. Here it is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
House Vulnerability Index, post-2010 edition
If you were with us in the Swing State Project days, you might remember the House Vulnerability Index, which was a quantitative scheme I developed for assessing how likely House members were to be...
View ArticleDid liberals really stay home and cause the 2010 rout?
You know what I'm talking about. The claim that a bunch of liberals were so pissed off at Obama that they stayed home and this caused the 2010 rout. It's pervasive. I won't link to examples because...
View ArticleSometimes, Nothing Works
When I went to the Daily Kos website earlier today, I was surprised to see three – count ‘em, three – diaries about me. One of them drew over 600 comments. Hey, I’m not that important. I’m just a...
View ArticleI Wish Howard Dean Were President
If John Kerry and his henchman Robert Gibbs had not IEDed Dean in Iowa in 2004:....when Howard Dean was the 2004 Democratic front-runner, a new group abruptly popped up -- calling itself "Americans for...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street Highlights Tea Party's Bogus Populism
Back in April 2009, Daily Show host Jon Stewart summed up the Tea Party movement, "I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing." His description, it turns out, was exactly right. Tea Partiers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2010: The Year of the Tea Party. 2012: Not so much
The benefits in the House for Republicans after the 2010 election were fairly straightforward: John Boehner got the Speaker's gavel, and with it, the ability to obstruct Obama's agenda. The drawbacks...
View ArticleIt's the Turnout, Stupid! PART I.
We hear it again and again - 2012 will be a turnout election. Yup, just like all the ones before it.In 2008, 132,618,000 Americans voted (56.8% of the voting-age population). The country elected the...
View ArticleIt's the Turnout, Stupid. PART II.
Previously, in Part I, we ...- celebrated record turnout in 2008 that elected the first black President, produced a 60 vote Democratic majority in the US Senate and expanded our House majority by 21...
View ArticleIt's the Turnout, Stupid. PART III.
Previously, in Part I, we celebrated record turnouts in 2008. But only briefly, until the huge drop in turnout in the midterm election of 2010, along with some disturbing shifts of loyalty among voter...
View ArticleAdding It Up: Annals of the Culture of Politics
I've written often about my conviction that getting big money out of politics is the necessary precursor to anything like a meaningful democracy in the United States. Most recently, it was in "The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why the GOP loves Paul Ryan—and loves him not
There's an old saying that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But when it comes to Paul Ryan and his radical GOP budget, Republicans would prefer to campaign in silence and then govern...
View ArticleWe Are Going to Screw You. So Vote For Us.
Amid all of the verbiage about what a terrible candidate Romney is, whether the economy is going to affect the election, and demographic analysis of "white, working class, I-93 corridor, lacrosse...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Republicans mugged by reality on Election Day
For Democrats, the 2012 presidential campaign has produced some delicious ironies. For starters, Mitt Romney's share of the final vote will come in at a memorable 47 percent, the same figure he used to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Republicans still bungling GOP rebranding
You can't make this stuff up. One day after being instructed to "stop talking about rape," House Republicans attending their caucus' secret conclave will listen to a panel on Friday titled, "Discussion...
View ArticleCentrism Will Not Lead Us Out of the Quagmire
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]Readers of Hullabaloo have been reminded many times that amid all the ridiculous bleating about the deficit in DC the House Progressive Caucus has had a perfectly...
View ArticleSpeaking of Scandals
ABC TV's Scandal Series is presenting Presidential level election theft and assassination in a casual, matter-of-fact way. Even what one would have previously thought of as totally bizarre ideas, like...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren: Election Narrative Reality Check (2008-2014)
Elizabeth Warren has quickly demonstrated that it is still possible for officials of intelligence and integrity to publicly confront and investigate abuses of power and criminality with direct...
View ArticleScott Walker Says Tea Bagger Governors Will Win Again in 2014 Because They...
In an interview with USA today (I tried to embed it, but it autoplays), Emperor of FitzWalkerStan Scott Walker predicted that the 2010 Tea Party Governors would win again in 2014 because they "solved...
View ArticleEconomic History of the Obama Administration
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]History is technically defined as a chronological sequence of significant events, depending on the objective it can explain an outcome or helpfully provide pertinent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intensity vs. propensity in the battle for abortion rights
In recent weeks, pollsters and pundits have been wrestling with a seeming contradiction at the heart of the country's abortion debate. On the one hand, the United States is a pro-choice nation, with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GOP will repeat Ryan budget history by adopting Camp tax plan next year
Last month, Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) introduced his proposal for a major overhaul of the U.S. tax code. But among Republican leaders in Congress, its arrival...
View Article2014 IS 2016
Remember 2008. Yeah, we all came out to vote excited about the future and what good things were to come. Sweeping away all of the bad, the very bad things of the past administration.
View ArticleThe NC Senate Race--a few thoughts
Boy it was tough last night, especially after all of the work our family did along with thousands of other dedicated staff and volunteers. We were so sure that Hagan would win. And then that agonizing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For Democrats, GOP voter intensity trumps Americans' propensity again
Rout. Thumpin'. Shellacking. Call it what you will, but Democrats suffered a defeat even more dispiriting than the larger 2010 drubbing that delivered the House majority to the GOP. More dispiriting,...
View ArticleWhen Carly loved Hillary
Carly Fiorina, the disgraced HP CEO and failed California Senate candidate, says her odds of entering the 2016 Republican presidential contest are "higher than 90 percent." Of course, that's not...
View ArticleBarack Obama's Biggest Failure
President Obama has been criticized from left and right for failures and disappointments. He has failed to get much notable legislation passed since the first two years in his first term, he will...
View ArticleThe difference between 2018 and the 2010 midterms? The truth
As 2017 winds to a close, press, pundits and politicians alike are saying 2018 could be the year of the “blue wave.” Led by a historically unpopular first-year president and still smarting from...
View ArticleRepublicans are coming for your Medicare in 2019
Eight years ago, Republicans steamrolled their way to an overwhelming victory in the 2010 midterms. Powered by demonstrable falsehoods about a “government takeover of health care,” Obamacare “death...
View Article
