Suddenly, the Dems Don't Feel So Well
"Transient Majority Syndrome. There are enough of you who get together here to start thinking you can really shake things up. You think that from now on, everything will be different ..."
"Transient Majority Syndrome. There are enough of you who get together here to start thinking you can really shake things up. You think that from now on, everything will be different ..."
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 01.07.2010 | Media
By Stephen Viscusi Although I work on TV now myself, preparing for my own TV show "The Job's Whisperer" I started my career as a headhunter, then ra...
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 01.07.2010 | Politics
No, not that Peter King, that Peter King (who seems to call himelf "Pete," perhaps to distinguish himself from the more famous other Peter King). Obvi...
Bob Cesca | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
We all understand that Americans have a short attention span, and an even shorter memory, but the Republicans are really counting on it as they exploit the post-underpants bomber freakout.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
As you can tell, after a year of Obama, I'm for him, but not with any real enthusiasm. Nice fella. Good talker. But I'm afraid he's deserving of a descriptive word once applied to the first George Bush. Obama is a wimp.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.07.2010 | Los Angeles
Schwarzenegger and his merry band of right-wing Republicans, who control a third of the state legislature, are intent on squeezing the last drops of blood from California's public institutions.
The Center for Public Integrity | Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
Wharton Professor Yoram "Jerry" Wind calls himself a liberal Republican. Unhappy with what he considers far-right positions taken by his party, he sea...
Michael Conniff | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
When I rail against Republicans like Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn, I am also railing against the "moderates," because there is no such thing as a "moderate" Republican Party.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 01.06.2010 | New York
Contrary to popular belief, New Jersey's same sex marriage equality legislation isn't dead yet. There are five Democratic Senators voting no. That means at least three Republicans are needed to pass.
The State | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday dismissed his censure by the Lexington County Republican Party as the "misplaced priorities" of narrow interests ...
The Note | David Chalian | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics
It is not shaping up to be a pretty week for the Democrats. The all-but-assured Democratic nominee for governor in Michigan, Lt. Gov. John Cherry, ...
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON — North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan said Tuesday he will not seek re-election to the Senate in November, a surprise announcement tha...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
Where are the tough-guy Republicans now? When did fear and whining replace the gunslinger persona? The Republican reaction has been to give the terrorists exactly what they want.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics
Where were the critics of Obama's Flight 253 handling when it took President Bush six whole days to comment about Richard Reid's failed attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb?
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics
This pretty much speaks for itself: Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota's First Congressional Dist...
Matt Bennett | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics
Right now, the President may appear to have a meager stack of chips in front of him, but it's because his entire bankroll is in the pot. And as it turns out, he's holding a couple of aces.
Minnesota Independent | Andy Birkey | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics
Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota's First Congressional District, told attendees of the Wabasha C...
TPMDC | Eric Kleefeld | January 4, 2010, 1:10PM | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
Allen Quist, a Republican candidate seeking the nomination to go up against Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN), has made a serious pronouncement: That the political...
Think Progress | Matt Corley | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
At the inception of the tea party phenomena, organizers insisted that "the movement is not tied to the Republican Party." But in recent weeks, the Rep...
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo -- taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston -...
David Gray | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
The real reason the RNC should reject the "Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" is that it's not even conservative.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.04.2010 | Comedy
Republican note that the problem at Disney World goes far beyond pornography and bestiality, and comparisons to ACORN. They claim that it is a haven for the occult.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.04.2010 | Living
The Republicans who oppose health care reform aren't so much a dissenting minority as a faction that wants to destroy the Democrats. This is bad faith in action.
Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
National security is serious business. It involves how our country protects and projects itself abroad. It's not meant to be about partisan game-playing.
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON — An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. To minimize expected los...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.07.2010 | Comedy