In large swaths of the liberal/progressive community, any mention of coal when it comes to energy policy is immediately met with a reflexive disdain...
In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn't a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm.
It seems the only people who are unwilling to say that the "weak-on-national-security" line is a lie are Democrats themselves -- the very people being smeared with the lie in the first place.
Every now and again, someone steps up to the plate to risk their own political career to better the progressive movement, and it is these few heroes who our side should look to for inspiration.
Levin's statements could be (hopefully) the beginning of the Democratic Party as a whole finally getting up the guts to support an exit strategy/withdrawal...
Washington, D.C. is one big brothel with a gilded revolving door for an entry - politicians are the prostitutes, lobbyists are the customers, and the door spins faster and faster as the two seamlessly switch places.
Rich Tarrant, the Republican corporate executive who has said he is willing to try to buy Vermont's 2006 U.S. Senate race, got caught in a hilarious photo today.
American politics is largely portrayed as "polarized" - but there is far less "polarization" among the governing elitists when it comes to the fundamental issues of economics and power.
There are the ideological voices on the right, and capitulating politicians - but no similarly loud ideological voices - on the left. What that leaves us with is an unbalanced debate - and no progressive pressure system.
The government has a job to play in protecting Americans from being ripped off, and that doesn't mean just handing the economic bullies a bribe. It means pushing back - hard.
If Democratic politicians don't get a real handle on what toughness actually means, it could be yet again another depressing election day in 2006.
Not to perpetuate a fight that most might not be following, but sometimes you just have to call bullshit. My friend Jamal on this site asked the ques...
Are we going to reward with support our ideological heroes -- the people who have fought the lonely, unglamorous, unsexy fights over the years for our cause -- or flavor-of-the-week candidates who we know little about beyond their profile?
