Tag Archives: Nancy Pelosi
Blog#42’s Notes on .@Axios’ “1 big thing: Epic political malpractice — at scale
Blog#42’s Notes on .@Axios’ “1 big thing: Epic political malpractice — at scale | #GOPFail Continue reading Blog#42’s Notes on .@Axios’ “1 big thing: Epic political malpractice — at scale
What ‘e pluribus unum’ Doesn’t Mean: Nancy Pelosi, #ImpeachTrump and #Ocasio2018 [Updated 7/4]
What ‘e pluribus unum’ Doesn’t Mean: Nancy Pelosi, #ImpeachTrump and #Ocasio2018 [Updated 7/4] | Blog#42
Continue reading What ‘e pluribus unum’ Doesn’t Mean: Nancy Pelosi, #ImpeachTrump and #Ocasio2018 [Updated 7/4]
How Many More Defeats Before Democrats Listen To Voters? [Updated] | Blog#42
Democrats’ Tone-Deafness to Its Voters Continues To Cost Them | Blog#42 Continue reading How Many More Defeats Before Democrats Listen To Voters? [Updated] | Blog#42
Democrats Can Win Bigly and #ResistTrump | #Progressive Politics on Blog#42
What will it take for Democrats, now in the political wilderness, to win bigly against a despotic, insecure, self-aggrandizing bully? Continue reading Democrats Can Win Bigly and #ResistTrump | #Progressive Politics on Blog#42
Progressives: Liberals Aren’t Into You. It’s Time To Move Out Of The Big Tent | Blog#42
Progressives have long felt that there’s no room for them in the Democratic Big Tent. Continue reading Progressives: Liberals Aren’t Into You. It’s Time To Move Out Of The Big Tent | Blog#42
The Maddening Variance Between Economists & MSM Reporting on November #Jobs | Blog#42
The Politicization of Jobs Reports is Getting Worse Continue reading The Maddening Variance Between Economists & MSM Reporting on November #Jobs | Blog#42
#PoliticalCorrectness as I see it
I write this on the heels of reading Jamelle Bouie’s always excellent newsletter.
He writes:
A good chunk of the Internet has been consumed in a conversation over Jonathan Chait’s New York magazine on the “new political correctness.” I have…tried to avoid that conversation as much as possible. Continue reading #PoliticalCorrectness as I see it
Election 2014: Lessons for progressives
It was my hope, a week after the election, that I would hear and read meaningful analyses on the cause, consequences and long-term outlook for Democrats after their losses this midterm election. Very little of what I read this week was “filling,” until I came across William Greider’s “How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul” in The Nation. Greider concludes:
The tattered authenticity of the party matters more now because both the country and the world face dangers and disorders that demand a fundamental reordering of the global economic system. This requires bold action, at a time when neither party is confronting the threatening situation. The Republicans are a wholly owned subsidiary of the business-finance machine; the Democrats are rented.
Dem Politics: Post-mortem is the new rehab
Former Governor Howard Dean was on Meet The Press today. With the exception of the very last sentence in this clip, I am in full agreement with everything he said.
Tuesday’s defeat was bound to be the catalyst for the kinds of events that happen after, well, all defeats. The victor gloats. Usually, the defeated retreat for a bit to reflect on their loss and how to move on. Continue reading Dem Politics: Post-mortem is the new rehab