Many white-collar information sector workers are becoming increasingly galvanized against our government's elitist economic policies.
We are expected to believe that the American people want candidates who stand for nothing but have good "personalities." We are expected to believe that you can "sell leadership" without actually SHOWING any.
Openly selling access is no longer considered taboo -- it's become just as much part of Democratic Party culture as it has Republican Party culture.
That's right, folks - all that Texas oil money flooding into the RNC and the Bush campaign has absolutely nothing to do with, say, the Energy Bill that gives massive tax breaks to - shocker! - Texas oil companies.
If you are a voter looking for a candidate who is willing to confront the biggest issues facing America right now, then there really is no contest in the Democratic presidential primary right now.
States' bold moves are frightening the entrenched special interests in Washington that enjoy owning America's political process.
Many of you have taken some of these steps before, but as we all know in politics - the fight never ends. We live in interesting times; the more we challenge power, the more interesting things will get.
Somewhat coincidentally to Chris Bowers' excellent post, I felt the unrelated urge to write about how much I really love America. Last night, I saw th...
Kate O'Beirne's airtight declaration that polls supposedly show the American people "don't favor denying funds for this surge" is, at best, wildly uninformed, and more likely a deliberate lie.
There's no labor shortage -- there's a cheap labor shortage, because, as the free market fundamentalists all love to say, supply and demand rules everything.
How many jobs need to be eliminated and how long to wages have to stagnate before Democrats stop promoting the orthodoxy that says Bob Rubin is the greatest economic guru in American history?
I know it's a rather small example, but check out this line in Time Magazine today: "Political scientists speak of the communications skills of Reaga...
Cause and effect - it's always hard to precisely pin down this relationship in politics, but a stunning announcement late last week shows how the two ...
Big news out of Montana today - Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D), who will be in the San Francisco area for a fundraiser Wednesday, signed legislation reject...
I can't even follow this absurd K Street-inspired dance anymore... LAST FRIDAY: In a significant change of position, Senate Finance Committee Chairm...
I just received this Edwards press release: On Saturday, April 21st, 2007, Senator John Edwards will deliver the keynote address at the Michigan Demo...
I'm finally back home in Montana from a week-long trip on the East Coast where, among other things, I attended the Progressive States Network's first ...
I am back from the Progressive States Network's first annual gala in conjunction with the National Conference of State Legislatures meeting in Washin...
A few weeks ago, I took a look at U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and how one man can use one committee chairmanship (in this case, the Senate Finance Com...
From the Department of Telling You What You Already Know, I wanted to flag this particular excerpt from PBS Frontline's terrific piece on global warmi...
To call the media's complicity in the Iraq War a conspiracy is an insult to conspiracies, because it wasn't hidden. The problem was, Beltway reporters didn't want to see it.
For the last four months, I have been quietly reporting on the Montana legislature for my upcoming book in 2008. My book is not about the Montana legi...
Reporters are quick to blame Democrats for the downfall of the world, anytime Democrats actually behave in a way that contradicts the media's false archetypes of the two parties.
In an age where grassroots politics is reemerging, is Clinton so wildly out of touch/insulated that, sitting there with $25 million herself, she's happy to tell the media that the key thing she's fretting about is Big Money?
