Share Congrats Glenn: Of course, that makes those who watch Glenn the winners of The 2009 Most Misinformed People of the Year!  Fox viewers weren’t going to win any Phi Beta Kappa keys anyway so they shouldn’t kid themselves and get all huffy about this.

Share Well Said: Kos on Majority Rule, Primaries & Digital Media The point I would add to this is the danger that this bill, combined with the lack of substantive action on labor, social welfare, Wall Street and environmental issues will depress turnout and alienate many of the new voters President Obama has brought into [...]

Share Health Care & The Bigger Picture Here is a comparision chart for the Senate and House health insurance reform bills.  Sorry, I mean the House health insurance reform bill and the Senate’s early Christmas gift to the health insurance industry. The differences between the bills reflect the stark difference between a representative legislative body and [...]

Share Keith Olbermann’s take on the Senate health care bill last night was so well said that all I can say is “yeah, what he said”… All of this talk about the Democrats failing to pass a bill hurting Democrats has a wrinkle I’m not hearing anyone talk about.  The question isn’t whether failing to pass a bill hurts Democrats in general [...]

Share Advice for Senate Democrats I know this may sound hyperbolic, but Joe Lieberman is America’s most duplicitous elected national-level politician and one of the most immoral, despite his tendency to wear his supposed piety on his sleeve.  The guy walks to temple on Saturday, then walks three miles to the Hill, and then proceeds [...]

Share Memo to the Media Stop automatically referring to people who refuse to take dramatic action where it is clearly needed “centrists’ or “moderates.”  It isn’t moderate to favor health insurance company price gouging.  It isn’t “centrist” to oppose a public option, which the vast majority wants. It’s not “moderate” to want to bail out [...]

Share The Disappearing Middle Class Elizabeth Warren is brilliant. The only two people I’ve ever said this about are Paul Krugman and the late Molly Ivins, but let me add Elizabeth Warren: if she writes it, read it.  I won’t try to do it justice, but two points in her discussion about changes in the [...]

Share The answers to three questions will determine whether President Obama’s 30,000 soldier escalation in Afghanistan is successful.  The first is whether American soldiers are fueling the insurgency or defeating it.  The second is whether 30,000 is enough.  The third is whether the mission should be exclusively targeting al Qaeda (which is in Pakistan) and its [...]