The Fight Was Lost When Obama Was In Law School?
There is a bit here and I ask you to read it. The title comes from a "senior Democratic official" who told Ben Smith that We didn't lose this fight. Barack Obama was in law school when this fight was...
View ArticleNot GBCW but PTFA
I was raised in a Democratic voting household, my dad was a member of the IBEW and we would be considered lifelong Democrats. My family and the millions of families like us make up a significant...
View ArticleWhat Radicalized You? Reading Greider 20 Years Later
Crossposted from Rogue Nation.When I moved to DC at in January 1993, I was a partisan liberal Democrat who thought the Republican Party was the country's central problem. When I moved away from DC in...
View ArticleDon't Vote
Don’t vote. Forget about handing out pamphlets, or making house calls. Don’t contribute. Do not attend political rallies or attend Party conventions. Ignore political polls. Log off your favorite...
View ArticleLessons Learned From a Stray Cat - A Celebration
Several years ago, a pitiful stray cat searching for food came to our back door. He had been beaten so badly he trembled uncontrollably, walking slowly and deliberately the same way a person in the...
View ArticleA Response to the Third Way Article Posted at Politico
To the leadership of the Third Way:Your policies have failed.Despite your constant efforts to mask the truth, most Americans are intelligent enough to know the realities of their own lives. If they...
View ArticleClimate Change & GOP destruction; what if the Vietnam War was still going on?
Warning: Thought Experiment: What if Vietnam wouldn't agree to a truce and we were fighting there today; even after 50 years. What if Vietnam were winning battle after battle? Could you imagine the...
View ArticleWhy is the ACA still unpopular
We've heard a ton of good news: successful sign-ups, decreasing uninsured, premium rates decreasing or holding steady. Yet The Affordable Care Act remains unpopular! What is going on.
View ArticleWhy The TPP is a Game Changer
In February 2008, with only two candidates left in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama distributed a flier to Ohio voters denouncing Hillary Clinton’s support of NAFTA....
View ArticleWhy Many Populists Are Abandoning The Democratic Party
On March 30, 2011, an international human rights observer witnessed and reported an unusually cruel and violent confrontation between a NY police officer and an Occupy Wall Street protester. While...
View ArticleDebbie Wasserman Schultz: "I *can't* worry about that."
DNC's Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "Thrilled" Republican Debate Drowning Out Talk Of Lack Of Democratic Debatesrealclearpolitics.com[...] MITCHELL: The Republicans are drowning you guys out, though....
View ArticleGov. Terry McAuliffe joins the "Debate" Debate
Well that didn't take long ... for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to tap her reserve bench ...McAuliffe: 6 debates are enough for DemocratsPhiladelphia's mayor also chimes in on the subject.by Gabriel...
View ArticleAn extraction colony for the .01%
This week the U.S. House voted largely in favor of exporting gas and oil. Twenty six Democrats voted in favor of this. Meanwhile there is TPP, and efforts to raise the debt ceiling. The media is...
View ArticleObama, Jobs, Reelection.
If jobs are not created in this country then President Obama will not be reelected. President Obama and the Democratic congress screwed up when they passed the stimulus bill and did not send enough...
View ArticleOnus Now On Hillary Fans to Show A Little Grace
I get it. It’s been a protracted battle within the Democratic Party and BERNIE STILL HASN’T CONCEDED! You’re SO MAD! #NeverHillary in the face of a DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY??? WHO ARE THESE IDIOTS?!?...
View ArticleAbstention
First posting for Daily Kos. Professional writer, writing under a pseudonym because… you know.Obviously, the Democrats need to become the Party of No. Whatever Trump wants, the attitude should be, No....
View ArticleBefore the Parade Passes by Democracy
Though no political starry-eyed novice, viewing stunning Brit cast of Parade’s End, I wondered aloud, who could lie so easily with equal measure of arrogance and hypocrisy, without a scintilla of...
View ArticleTrump: "I’m the only one that matters!"
My father’s siblings were often admonished by my Grandmamma with, Sundays are for good news, Mondays for bad. Yet, Sunday’s news was bloodied by gun violence against Americans asking for hope, seeking...
View ArticleDreaming in the Age of Women v. Trump
Borrowing from his presidential immorality, Trump’s peddling fake muck, racking over Dreamers, to mislabel them felons, exposes his anti-Americanism, while unknowingly disclosing, Liberty Island...
View ArticleForgive them Father, for They Know Not What Trump is Doing
Weary of Joe Scarborough’s insisting Trump is not the warped, but predictable extension of, Taft’s Little Brown Brothers, Hoover’s Hoovervilles, Eisenhower’s Dulles Brothers infestation, Nixon’s...
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