Archive for September, 2010
The Pledge to America: 21 Pages of Meh
The Congressional Republicans have released their gameplan for 2011 and beyond in a document called the “Pledge to America”. It’s 21 pages of solidly written and occasionally inspirational calls to remember the Constitution and the principles on which the nation was founded as well as a bushel basket full of promises they say they’ll keep [...]
Jimmy Carter, Aged and Decrepit Old Dolt
I wonder, these days, if Jimmy Carter isn’t suffering from the ravages of old age. Each year reveals him to be more and more a bitter, spiteful old man possessed of some truly bizarre beliefs. He uncorked one of those beliefs earlier this week on NBC Nightly News earlier this week when he rambled his [...]
We’re Winning, But We Haven’t Won
Matthew Kiessling has an excellent post at Smart Girl Politics that ought to be required reading not only for Tea Party folks eager to lay a whipping on the would-be totalitarians in November, but for Democratic strategists who are wondering why their weasel-clever plans are going down harder than Lindsey Lohan on a line of [...]
Next Up for Gillibrand, Chair of the Senate Committee on Pole-Dancing?
I bet when Kirsten Gillibrand learned she had been appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, she has all sorts of visions about how it would be. She’d get to sit at the table with powerful veteran Democratic politicians as an equal, one of a powerful majority whose ideas for making America stronger [...]
The Delivery Presents – Better Late than Never!
You may have noticed that Episode 55 was a day late this week. There’s a good reason for that and I get into it at the very beginning of the show. It involves practical democracy and what it takes to make elections work. After that, I should give a bit of explanation. I really hadn’t [...]
Do You Not See This Bag of Money I’m Waving At You?
This is the transcript of an actual voice mail left by a sitting member of Congress to a lobbyist from whom the member of Congress had not received the appropriate level of tribute. This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the [...]
That’s What You Said