I'm getting ready to hit the road on Ned Lamont's Stand Up for Change bus tour across Connecticut. It's an exciting time here - we're going up against...
Now, in the final days of the race, people are starting to tune in, starting to figure out that Lieberman is talking out of both sides of his mouth.
For a guy who has screwed up so many huge things (say, for instance the Iraq War), I must say: Joe Lieberman is damn good at minute pettiness.
There are things - say, wars based on lies - that are worth being "partisan" about - partisan not in pursuit of a party for party's sake, but for a cause.
The deck was stacked against us in a way not stacked against any other candidate in the entire 2006 election cycle.
Even Rove admits there is a mandate by voters for Congress to really change things and stop the hostile takeover of our government by big money interests.
There is no denying that if Democrats want to hold a governing majority for the foreseeable future, they cannot continue to deny the populist outrage seething all over the country.
Democrats deserve to have this leadership election happen in a way that takes into account the real record - not historical revisionism.
In the last few days, both the DLC and Hoyer's own allies on Capitol Hill have mimicked Lieberman's tactics in an effort to reposition Hoyer as one of the longtime leaders of the global anti-war movement.
Who the hell does Jim Webb think he is? Didn't he realize he got elected to the Senate where nobody is supposed to talk about corporate power or economic inequality?
I have an op-ed in today's Baltimore Sun about the Majority Leader race between Jack Murtha and Steny Hoyer. Having worked around both men while servi...
As we prepare to welcome in the new Congress, we must look at where the major pressure points are going to be so that we can all prepare for battle, b...
While the blogosphere is ideologically diverse, it does emanate a unifying desire to challenge and diffuse Beltway power. There is no better way to do this than a public financing system for elections.
Here's a newsflash - being a writer (and especially one on the progressive side) is no cakewalk.
Wouldn't we all like to go back to that era that actually never occurred to frolick happily through the fields of bipartisanship that never existed.
Don't let the pundits' calls for nebulous "bipartisanship" fool you. Don't let the pledges of "civility" from politicians divert your attention.
At this moment, there are only a very few national political leaders who are willing to spend their political capital even trying to build something larger than themselves.
Are we actually to believe that it is simply impossible for the major national media to find more opinion from the other 290 million Americans in the rest of the country?
It's not every day that political groups actually rely on ordinary citizens to help push their agenda. But Progressive States is not just any group.
"Centrism" as defined in the political dialogue today means "being in the middle of elite opinion in Washington, D.C."
All the Democratic Hill staffers now running to the media to brag about how they are cashing out and selling their souls for the truckloads of K Street cash know that the biggest trophy of all is Rangel.
Is it me, or in the last year have we seen a shocking rise in the number of major pundits who have acknowledged (perhaps inadvertently) their own sociopathic tendencies?
