All Life Is Problem Solving

In an article by Ceci Connolly appearing in WaPo yesterday, President Obama, in a “pre-holiday call” with a small group of six high-level Democrats from both Houses of Congress expressed concern over efforts by progressive advocacy groups in online campaigns and advertisements to target “moderate” Democrats whose positions on health-care reform have expressed opposition or […]

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Tonight, my loving and lovely wife of close to 43 years told me she was angry. She said it had become just too much for her that both Houses of Congress had “taken single payer off the table.” She knows, of course, that a majority of Americans favor single payer. And she also knows that […]

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The Democratic Party will be the first to tell you that it’s the Party of the people, especially working people and the middle class. Change we’re supposed to believe in is change from a society moving in the direction of the wealthy, to one that is clearly moving in a direction to restore the American […]

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I’ve written in the past on the counter-productiveness of bipartisanship for the President and the Democratic Party. Today, Nancy Cohen offered a nice analytical Huffington Post piece on bipartisanship that adds to the argument. She says: ”The supposed superiority of “bipartisanship” to “partisanship” is premised on three myths about the relationship between the people and […]

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A few blogs ago I wrote about “breaking the pattern.” Mike Lux writes about it too with special reference to the Clinton Administration and what President Obama needs to do now if he wants to avoid its fate on the big questions. Take a look!

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Scarecrow provides us a great example of “giving the game away thinking” in a new blog entry. He provides an account of “Democratic Strategist” Steve McMahon’s thinking on what the Democrats ought to do to get a health care reform bill. McMahon’s prescription is perfect for shrinking Democratic majorities in 2010, and for paving the […]

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