The Business Ethic in Politics
Follows a brief against the shortest book in the world – business ethics. Their are businesses that make a central place for ethics in decision making. They thrive well. But they seem a tiny...
View ArticleWhy Obama and Not Hillary Would Beat McCain soundly
John McCain is the most experienced policy MAKER running in this election. Most candidates, certainly the two remaining Democrats, have far fewer years in politics. How are the dynamic duo doing...
View ArticleSherrod Brown and Obama on Restoring America's Economy
Sherrod Brown in The Nation: I've talked to Barack a lot about his Patriot Corporation Act, which is not trade per se, but it's certainly part of the economic package around globalization. The Patriot...
View ArticleBush-McCain's Nixonian Appeasment Slur
The tag team of Bush and McSame seem to be singing an old song about tomatoes and potatoes. You say Obama I say Carter - in public. But in private the Bush tricksters made clear the slur from the...
View ArticleHills Kentucky Folly
There are a lot of reasons Kentucky voted for Hillary and Oregon voted for Obama yesterday. Mainly Oregon is one of the more liberal states in the country - it will voe Democratic in 2008 as certainly...
View ArticleTwo Paths Hill Might Go By
There is still time to change the road she is on but Hill seems far too comfortable with forcing the sort of divided Convention that surely brought Richard Nixon his bare win in 1968. That is the race...
View ArticleMr Obama's Team of Rivals
The best way off Hills cliff? A public announcement of inclusion in a Lincoln like Cabinet comprising many of this years Democratic contenders for President might fit that prescription to a tee. And...
View ArticleSuprise Veep Stakes
Thinking outside the box is a cliche about avoiding cliches. But Try it for a moment. we are all vested in some established mover and shakers next move up but we might best counter the GOP's next...
View ArticleWednesdays Child
May be full of grace. Keith Olberman reported tonight that Clinton staffers are getting one way tickets home or one way tickets to Wednesday's New York City victory gala which may become a wake for...
View ArticleSmashing McCain Talking Points
Kossacks - Now that the past is gone - To the water cooler debates! Now is the time to strike the decisive blow for a new and lasting realignment in our politics. Disposing of McCain talking points...
View ArticleAmong Tom Freidman's Victims
The neo-con arm chair wariors prime victim is the illusion all of us with family serving in the military need to hold near sometimes. When they destroy those illusions they can make us all feel as...
View ArticleDon't Give Up on Bushville
The same old advice just shouldn't be taken this year. We need to compete everywhere now. It's very different this year. First we have a candidate who can raise more money than the GOP. Second we...
View ArticleWhy McCain Lost
(post on the first Wed in November)The main difference between tickets was the ability to inspire hope in a very dark day. Obama won by mobilizing a significant army of volunteers in bringing new...
View ArticleYour 50 State Strategy
Your Part of the 50 State Campaign has begun with the same sort of effort that was the start of Barrack Obama's public life. Obama's first months in Chicago were spent registering voters in an effort...
View ArticleDestroying McSame's "Bush Who?" Dodge
Among the causes of the incredibly poor quality of the McCain campaign is a real ambivalence over whom messages should be tailored toward.Especialy the last GOP campaign directed most themes to the...
View ArticleDead Skunks clogging Middle of the Road
McCain's recent postures in the Senate were sufficient to nail down the nomination. But only under extreme duress. The GOP infighting was beginning to look an awful lot like an old and often accurate...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Armies
All the words spoken by and about candidates and their lives and causes profoundly change the country. Many of the well honed arguments in public forums like this can enter and shape the outcome of...
View ArticleObama Responds to Mccains Oily Flip Flop and Fly
I want to spend a few words in defense of poor Johnny McCain. Charitably McCain doesn't know enough about much to have any firm opinions on tough questions. Can a man with easy convictions borne of a...
View ArticleJohnny McCains Free Pass on Public Finance Cheating
Never has the press man crush on McCain been more evident than on reporting about public finance. The press has ignored the cheating of the public system McCain just accomplished in the primaries....
View ArticleSummer soldiers in the FISA battle
The FISA battle hasn't even reaches the Senate. And many on this forum are deserting the last chance to strip it of it's odious provision - Telecom immunity. With friends like some here no movement...
View ArticleFISA Hangover - 1,000 Miles Behind
I realize purists want clearly drawn lines of battle and a decisive quick rejection of this FISA bill. You won't get it. The votes arn't there.Sometimes you wake up a thousand miles behind on...
View ArticleFiddling for McCain
There seems little hope on FISA. Mr Obama had to publicly state support for FISA just so his amendment to kill it would have better support. The amendment would result in an eventual veto according...
View ArticleProtest an Outrageous assault on Santa Barbara's Beaches
January 29, 1969This is the date the environment became part of our national consciousness. This is the place the environmental movement started in response to a horrendous disaster - a catastrophic...
View ArticleMcCain's likely artful Tax Dodging
Huffington's front page is proclaiming an eminent article in a news weekly on the delinquicy of McCain's property tax on a luxury beach condo. This is a gift of some dubious value.There are no magic...
View ArticleThe reason you are wrong about Obama
Maybe Obama is a sell out. Hey, it's possible. Maybe he has a fat ticket to some super corporate payoff for selling everyone in the country down the Haliburton river. Why else would he sell out...
View ArticleMassive ad Buy From GOP Vets Group
Politico reports there is more life left in this race. This is a comparatively bright opening salvo. These Iraq surge success and stay the course ads need a response for the MSM that will report...
View ArticleBurnt Orange to Blue: 50 State Strategy Praxis
The Lone Blue Star is coming! Even in the deepest most dismal and downtrodden corner of Bush Texas hope has taken root again. The latest poll puts Texas just a pale shade and not the deep red you...
View ArticleCirclular Firing Squad Ready, Aim....
Gallup poll has the Presidential election a dead heat today. Do many remember the stakes of this election? Have we lost sight of the forest for staring at the bark of one tree? Are we really in...
View ArticleUses for Polecats And Obama
Do Kossacks have any use for Obama?Many have decided that having seemingly stunk up the joint with sins including his FISA sellout/flinch/blunder real progressives have no more use for Obama. (My own...
View ArticleWhy You Must Get Off Your Tuchas Now
Because of thisBefore you click any more links let me warn you that this is not a joke. McCain is not sane. No one who knows the ghastly buisness of war and as a policy maker makes light of an...
View ArticleMcCain Should Be Hammered on Kissinger remarks
McCain was just totaly lost on Kissingers remarks. Sad part is he was lost with style. It was his high mark in the debate stylisticly but he was totaly out of touch with the reality of Kissinger's...
View ArticleHelping McCain Continue His Collapse
As long as there is no horrifying news out of the ME or worse yet a terror attack here McCain will likely remain strongest in issues on the Iraq War and terrorism handling questions. It is not usually...
View ArticleMr McCain and Pinochet - Meeting with a terror sponsor of the unconditional sort
Augusto Pinochet is a darling of the right. The friends of fascism on our right spectrum will defend Pinochet's crimes in Chile endlessly.But there is one crime they will not defend. In 1976 a former...
View ArticleJustice and Joe Lieberman
Lieberman is a liar. He promised not to attack fellow Democrats and he did. He was wrong about Iraq. His blindness about Iraq is what caused him to lie and more importantly it contributed to the...
View ArticleWarren, KKK Preachers and Reactionaries
I live in a red state. I am old enough to remember Jim Crow statutes. I was part of changing those statutes and had personal encounters with Mr Crow that were beyond tolerably pleasant description....
View ArticleThe opportunity of a lifetime
A bit over 100 years ago this country made the mistake of allowing the birth of a monster no signer of our Constitution imagined would ever be allowed here and one few would have allowed to breathe for...
View ArticleA flawed failure to Prosecute
"By his proclamation of the 8th of December, 1863, President LINCOLN granted a full pardon —with certain exceptions which we will presently state—to all who had been in rebellion, with a full...
View ArticleIf Congress fails To Pass additional Stimulus Now
Unemployment is going to 12% without further action. Does anyone really think Democrats won't lose huge after a failure to address that level of unemployment? The only question worth asking now is...
View ArticleChicken Entrails and Unemployment
We will likely find that unemployment is within an eyelash of 10% this morning. This is intolerable. It doesn't matter that things are not deteriorating as rapidly as they might to the unemployed or...
View ArticleWhy Democrats Expect to Lose Double Digits In the House
It's the economy stupid!Only Moose jawed Palin phreaks think the mindless paranoia about health reform has sunk it or Democrats. The public has favored this limited a health reform for decades and...
View ArticleHedging Bets at the Crossroads
We are at the Crossroads. Last chance out will be sometime next spring. Democrats may well be run over if they don't effectively move soon. Let me offer a compromise with the forces of inertia - with...
View ArticleElection returns: It's the economy, stupid
A vast 89 percent in New Jersey and 85 percent in Virginia said they're worried about the direction of the nation's economy in the next year; 56 percent and 52 percent, respectively, said they're...
View ArticleFearful Democrats Ending Realignment
One of five people in this country is bleeding over this sour economy according to the last U6 broaod unemployment figures. That level of depression doesn't ordinarily end by itself. In the 1980's a...
View ArticleMr Obama's Poverty
Suddenly Mr Obama's government is out of funds. Let us review where it went:First we bailed out the banks.Then we bailed out the car companies.Then we bailed out the state governments and the real...
View ArticleThe Grinchiest Christmas of your life
I will offer a way forward to blunt this dismal news. But the uncomforting fact remains that this will be the most dismal December in memory in a fundamental way. Congress inability to free itself of...
View ArticlePanic Time in Indiana
It seems impossible that a state the size of Indiana could be lost to conservative misrule much longer. Just a couple of decads ago a great public servant lost to Dan Quayle there. Unfortunatley the...
View ArticleSenate Rejects New Social Security stimulus
This will be short because I am franky stunned and can't make sense of this well yet but I didn't see the news elsewhere here. The Senate has rejected a payment to Social Security recipients like that...
View ArticleThe cure for despair
With one of four houses underwater and bankruptcy skyrocketing we may not get the chance to turn the economy around again while it's possible to get back to recent levls of prosperity in... our...
View ArticleBlue Dogs Bit the Dust on Health reform
In explainig the collapse of the Democratic House the right wing press has been quick to jump on anacdotal evidence that health care votes did in individual Democrats. That's true. Voting against...
View ArticleThe other and more compelling scandal
Admittedly the news about Romney's taxes is going to make a lot of the apolitical and the barely convinced Romney supporters either stay home or pull a lever for Obama. It's not inconsequential. But...
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