The Case for Bernie Sanders
His critics say he’s not realistic - but they have it backwards
Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone
Anyone who's survived without felony conviction a few terms as a senator, governor or congressperson, has an expensive enough haircut, and has never once said anything interesting will likely be judged a potentially "serious" ( Read more... )

Jimmy Carter was the first US President I remember. I still like & respect Jimmy Carter, even though in hindsight he didn't really continue the successful economic policies of previous Democrats, and he didn't stop the imperialist activities of the USA in Latin America ( Read more... )

A LiveJournal community was talking about "liberal media bias" on US television news. See, I think that reputation is overblown by a few cultural conservatives and pro-lifers. Here's a comment I left. I'm slanting it a little, sure, maybe a little hyperbole, but point out where you think I'm wrong:

( or don't, and skip the rage )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jd-iaYLO1A
Late in the evening on September 30, 2013, the House Rules Committee Republicans changed the Rules of the House so that the ONLY Member allowed to call up the Senate's clean CR for a vote was Majority Leader Eric Cantor or his ( Read more... )

I think there's one Jewish Republican in Congress, but I guess all the others are Christians now. Or "Christians." I read a piece years ago, I think it was by Lewis Lapham, about how a certain sort of person says, "Yeah, sure, I can pretend to believe in that if it gets me to power."

Oddly, Jesus was a socialist monarchist, not an individualist

...creating political cynicism is not a cost of negative advertising; it is a benefit, because reducing the amount of politically engaged citizens makes elections easier to predict and manipulate. McDonald’s doesn’t do vicious negative advertising because if they taint the process of eating a hamburger they lose money; the Tories do negative ( Read more... )

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Krugman linked to this today.

Major advocate of supply-side economics admits that Keynes and Krugman have been practically completely right on the facts.(Yep, it's another old Conservative Movement Republican complaining that when he tried to talk sense about science, reality, and data, he was shut out by the party. This is a genre now ( Read more... )

Harry Cheadle for VICE:We’ve had two presidential debates so far, one entirely concerned with domestic issues and one-last night’s “town hall”-only nearly entirely concerned with domestic issues. In both cases, the moderators were 100 percent responsible for the topics discussed. Jim Lehrer was the one who decided to devote that entire first debate ( Read more... )

When Romney decided to run in 2012, the best argument for his candidacy was that he had nothing to do with the Bush Administration and could appeal to moderate voters. But rather than trying to make a break with the Bush Administration and portraying himself as a different sort of Republican, one who has learned from the mistakes of the past, ( Read more... )