This displays what one might call "disconnection" from the desires of the Inquirer's audience - a not so uncommon criticism of the media.
The Hotline, the uber-insider journal of Beltway conventional thought, claims today to have a scandalous scoop of "opposition" research on Illinois Se...
A simple question: Why is politics the only arena where those who turned out to be right still get flayed as outcasts, while those who are known to be...
Democrats who want to bring the troops home from Iraq do not have a "fringe image" among the public, which strongly wants the same thing.
Do readers really want that? Or is it the news executives who really want that, because covering Hollywood and fashion is so much easier and less expensive than reporting real news?
As I've said for a long, long time now, in the new Congress the battle is going to be fierce and nasty over "free" trade (read: trade deals that are f...
Inside the gated community of D.C., actually listening to or shaping policy on behalf of the vast majority of Americans is considered either laughably outdated or disgustingly unsavory.
In the last two weeks the Progressive States Network Anti-Escalation Campaign resolutions have garnered local media attention in Colorado, New Hampsh...
The troubling thing out of Obey's spat is not his behavior; it is the reaction to it by the progressive movement, and what that reaction really says.
That the media continues to label as "fringe" antiwar Democrats representing the position of most Americans is a testament to how powerful the Beltway status-quo-defending propaganda system really is.
The Washington Post reports that in recent weeks, "stock markets shuddered because of concerns that risky mortgage loans are cracking the foundation o...
Buying off lawmakers in Washington has become so commonplace, so mundane, that few people inside the Beltway see it as anything more than a routine human behavior like, say, breathing air.
Asking the public to forget the central theme of a national election that took place less than 18 weeks ago is, in a word, absurd. And it's clear that's what at least some key House Democrats are trying to do.
In Colorado, a massive crowd turned out for a hearing on the Anti-Iraq Escalation resolution, garnering front page newspaper coverage and top television news coverage throughout the state.
Please join the Progressive States Network, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Montana State Senator Jim Elliott and others Friday 3/16 at 1pm EST for this ...
In watching more of PBS Frontline's fantastic "News War" series - and specifically the section about the Valerie Plame affair - it struck me...
Democratic leaders have attached their binding legislation to a bill providing ongoing funding, and many progressives understandably do not want to vote for a single dollar more for anything that could be construed as fueling the war.
These Members of Congress played hardball from the beginning, and that hardball made sure this bill included strong, binding legislation to end the war.
Lee likely calculated that her Iraq bill would have been defeated in committee and that such rejection would have been a major legislative setback for the antiwar movement.
This was no ordinary interview - this was a televised guilt trip. She stated as fact to John Edwards that he is supposedly "putting your work first, and your family second."
Scores of lobotomized politicians doing exactly what they are told, making information-free decisions, without looking at the hard data -- this is K Street's wet dream.
Democrats pushing for a so-called "clean" supplemental are already out there making it known that they are ready to undermine the antiwar movement at a moment's notice.
The antiwar movement will have to expend significant resources - and perhaps in a very confrontational way - to pressure wavering Blue Dog Democrats to stay in line.
From trade, to medicine prices to democracy itself, corporate lobbyists are now so sure they can buy whatever policies they want that they don't even bother to put up the veneer of logical rationales.
Update - The Olbermann show just cancelled, citing other breaking news. Sorry about that - I committed the sin I shouldn't have committed - telling fo...
