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Harold Ford Jr: Rotten Apple
The “news” broke yesterday that former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr’s three year effort to revive his flagging political career in the cesspool of New York politics has borne rotten fruit....
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Harold Ford’s gay marriage reversal is a bad omen
Writing of Harold Ford in the past, I have made snarky references to the fundamentalist end times theology in the book of Revelations about the Antichrist and the Omen trilogy of horror films. I make...
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A few thoughts on the Tavis Smiley controversy
I’ve seen some interesting commentary on Tavis Smiley deciding to bring back a black discussion forum on Obama’s. CPL over at Jack and Jill Politics and also Shanti over at WEE SEE YOU. Here is my...
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The Health Care Reform Summit
The Republicans didn’t bring anything but the standard right-wing talking points composed of lies, misinformation and fear. They didn’t bring any policy ideas because they believe tactically that they...
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Devil’s Advocate bows out
The unspeakable evil that is Harold Ford, Jr. has formally ended his “exploratory campaign” challenging Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Let the Church say, Amen. There has never been a...
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I want the public option, dammit
I want the public option, dammit. I’m tired of sharecropping on Blue Cross Blue Shield’s corporate plantation. I’m tired of weak politicians that don’t have the courage of their convictions. I’m tired...
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“Victory”
On the cusp of a landmark “victory” on health care reform, President Obama dramatically addressed a boisterous throng of well-wishers convinced that his industry written reforms constituted positive...
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Kagan confirmed 63-37
Hat Tip: By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan Thursday as the Supreme Court’s 112th justice and the fourth woman in its history, granting a lifetime...
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Labor Day Open Thread
The President opened the fall campaign in his customary way today with a barn burning speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Continuing the piecemeal approach of incremental change that our political...
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I’m Running
For the last twenty years I have struggled with a lifelong desire to be a political figure and the realization that American politics is infected with what bell hooks terms “White supremacist...
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Incremental Change I Can Believe In
As the nation sits on the precipice of default and worldwide Depression, my frustration with progressives has turned from annoyance to blind rage. The delusional fantasy that Barack Obama can wave a...
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Addressing Jobs
The President’s address introducing his jobs bill was a masterstroke of simplicity and cunning I’ve come to expect from this White House. If Hill Republicans are serious about job creation, they will...
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Chris Christie pays homage to Iowa’s Birther King
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has abandoned all pretense of giving a shit about assisting Mitt Romney in toppling Barack Obama this year and has started running in earnest for 2016. This week,...
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Chris Christie: an imminent threat in 2016
Cory Booker, Chris Christie I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve got a bug up my ass about Chris Christie. He scares me in a way that no Republican does. It occurs to me that as Mitt Romney sinks into...
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Y’all need to chill! Seriously!
Mitt Romney is the living embodiment of a President from Hollywood central casting. His all-American good looks and patrician bearing are reassuring to some folk and harkens back to the halcyon days...
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