Healthcare Segregation
Rahm Emanuel has shown no remorse in using the levers of executive power to push progressives to the side. Progressives are asked to wait, to compromise. I am reminded of Dr. King's response to the...
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How does it feel to have a corporate HCR bill that virtually every progressive group abhors and yet have it labeled as the first major progressive bill in some 40 years?
View ArticleProgressive blame for very un-Progressive policies
You've got to hand it to the DLC. They've got this triangulation thing down. How else can you explain an article like this:Ideologues and Election ResultsMe thinks this is just the appetizer. The...
View ArticleWinning Without Results is not Winning
For those who still believe that President Obama acted in good faith toward progressive elements of HCR, particularly the PO, please read this.It reads like a Surrender document. Or worse, a royal...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren turns the tables on Morning Joe Gotcha Panel, Aces Quiz
It was just too easy. Not a fair fight. Elizabeth Warren is not only smart and engaging, telegenic and nice, but she is one hell of a scrapper. She just punched the silly smiles off of the entire...
View ArticleHillary flails at Income Inequality with a Tired Old Republican Talking Point
The Trial Balloon has been launched. With it, Hillary Clinton officially takes on income inequality and comes to the rescue of...Wall Street. Yes folks, the fig leaf has been removed. Hillary stakes...
View ArticleWind in our Sails: Elizabeth Warren shines once again on Morning Joe. Updated...
My apologies to Congressman Elijah Cummings. You did very well this morning. On any other day you would have been the subject of this diary, but alas you were sitting next to Elizabeth Warren, and...
View ArticleWhy the Centrists are so fashionable
Some of the (rotten) fruits of Centrist High Incrementalism over the past 23+ years:NAFTA GATT WTO Telcom DADT DOMA Graham Leach Bliley (Glass Steagal repeal) Bush/Obama tax cuts AUMF/Iraq Patriots...
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Hillary or Bernie. NAFTA or The New Deal. Third Way or Bedrock Democratic...
Get Yourself Registered to Vote!Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”– Franklin D....
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Hell, Senator McCaskill, We’re all Reds.
Tom stepped clear of the ditch and wiped the sweat out of his eyes. "You hear what that paper said 'bout agitators up north a Bakersfiel'?""Sure," said Wilkie. "They do that all a time.""Well, I was...
View ArticlePaul Wellstone: In his own words
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View ArticleHarry Belafonte Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
Belafonte met with Sanders in New York on Wednesday, the day after he overwhelmingly beat challenger Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.The singer and songwriter who was active in the Civil...
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A Lioness Roars: Elizabeth Warren and the Battle Cry of the Democratic Party
I know. Its Bernie who is currently capturing the hearts of long lost Democrats. Why are we talking about Elizabeth Warren unless to speculate on who she will endorse? I’m not here to speculate. I...
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Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.
Centrism as the governing philosophy within the Democratic Party has failed. It’s devotees have led the Democratic Party incrementally to the total ruin that we gaze upon today. Their failure is...
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