Dear Greg Sargent: “Re your Morning Plum reference to Krugman’s column today”
Update appended below. —- After a two-and-a-half-month hiatus from regular blogging here—most of my few posts this summer related to my passion about animal rescue and animal welfare—I’m once again...
View ArticleIt’s the Dems, not the Repubs, that should ‘nationalize’ this election....
Best as I can tell, the concept of “nationalizing” this election has been used exclusively to mean that the Republicans want to make this election all about Obama, Obamacare, and such. Therefore, if...
View ArticleAbout that “State and local governments are closer to the people” thing …
Indeed, they are; state and local governments are closer to the people. It’s just that the people they’re closer to probably aren’t, well … you. So, here’s a question: Why isn’t, say, Kay Hagan, who’s...
View ArticleGreg Sargent confuses Obama with Elizabeth Warren. Or with Harry Reid. While...
Presuming Republicans win the Upper Chamber, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will claim a new era of constructive governance has arrived, while simultaneously claiming a mandate to chip away at...
View ArticleWhy are so many Dem-leaning pundits so profoundly clueless? [Updated.]
Today, Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who has been talking about challenging Clinton from the left, was repeatedly asked by reporters to comment on Clinton’s emails, and he repeatedly...
View Article“Run Elizabeth Run” : for Majority Leader
Well quite the interesting news twist this morning as Senate Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid announces he will not be running for re-election. Which of course launched the standard narrative of...
View ArticleWhy does Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan think liberals support...
“People often talk about the electorate moving left,” said Clinton senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan. “I think it’s more that the electorate is just getting more practical. For Hillary Clinton, that...
View ArticleClinton has a God-given right to refer to others’ God-given potential. And I...
This post of mine yesterday deals mostly with Clinton’s annoying “When women are [fill in the blank], families are [same word; slightly different meaning] slogans. But toward the end, it also...
View ArticleJeb Bush discovers a hypothetical he’s willing to address—and assures us that...
Questioned by a voter inside a sports bar about whether there is “space” between himself and his older brother on any issues, Bush offered a clear critique. “Are there differences? Yeah, I mean, sure,”...
View ArticleI’m so, so tired of political journalists (including some who I think are...
If ever there were a cycle that seemed poised for a serious argument over what to do — if anything — about the torrents of money sloshing through our politics, you’d think it would be this one. We’re...
View ArticleWhy Does Hillary Clinton Think We Want Elizabeth Warren to Be Vulnerable?
Hillary Clinton says women are “held to a totally different standard” in politics — and that it’s been that way since she first ran for office. “You’re expected to be both strong and vulnerable at the...
View ArticleMaking a Difference in American Families’ Lives by Crying ‘Wolf’ about Sexism
“Her campaign has been about how to make a difference in American families’ lives – a cause she’s fought for her entire life,” said [Clinton campaign] spokeswoman, Christina Reynolds. “It’s a shame...
View ArticleDo Voters Who Want ‘Change’ Really Care More About the Age of the Candidate...
The Marco Rubio debate moment that worries Democrats: When Marco Rubio cast the election as a ‘generational choice,’ he took a page out of the Obama playbook to portray himself as the candidate of...
View ArticleForget ‘Women and Children’. Women ARE Children. Right?
Okay, y’all know about the controversy: At Sunday night’s debate in Flint, Clinton interrupted Sanders, repeatedly, and tried to talk over him. And at one point Sanders said to her, “Excuse me. I’m...
View ArticleA Clinton Blank Check? Or a Sanders Blank Check?
Long-time Republican strategists and campaign consultants privately acknowledge they are so certain of Hillary Clinton’s victory – and so worried about its impact on Senate races and GOP control of the...
View ArticleANTITRUSSSTTT! (Bernie Sanders did SO talk about antitrust during his...
A detailed update follows the original post. ____ Is the window closing on Bernie Sanders’s moment? A number of folks, your humble blogger included, have suggested as much. We’ve argued that with...
View ArticlePhil Ebersole: Monopoly power and what to do about it
Blogger Phil Ebersole writes today in a post titled “Monopoly power and what to do about it” (all boldface in original): The trouble with the U.S. economy is monopoly power. Concentrated business power...
View ArticleReigniting Competition in the American Economy
Via Alternet: “Reigniting Competition in the American Economy”: Keynote Remarks at New America’s Open Markets Program Event By Elizabeth Warren June 29, 2016 Thank you, thank you. As Barry mentioned,...
View ArticleVideo of Senator Warren’s speech at New America’s
Here is the video of Senator Warren at the New America’s open market’s program event. There are other videos from the event at this link. Streaming Video Services
View ArticleImagine a Dem VP nominee who can speak with clarity about antitrust...
I don’t want to compare myself to other people [in contention for the job], but I will tell you I’ve spoken with so many groups and I’ve represented those folks as a small-town lawyer, as a small-town...
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