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Selling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table
March 22, 2013 9:09 am-
Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and the Democratic Future of Texasby Brent Budowsky Demographics are destiny. As I have recently written, Texas is headed blue; the only question...by Brent Budowsky on February 7, 2013 9:00 pm -
Left and Right: Not Opposite Equalsby Tina Dupuy Are the left and the right in this country pretty much the same except for ideology? Are liberals...by Tina Dupuy on January 12, 2013 7:00 am -
The Three Biggest Democratic Takeaways from Election 2012by Robert Reich It’s not too early to draw some lessons. Regardless of what happens Tuesday, Democrats should...by Robert Reich on November 4, 2012 3:00 pm
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The Monday Line: Losers Pout-Winners Fight (And Get Dirty if They Have To)!
“You’ve got to want this game as bad as your next breath, let’s go!” said by Lebron James of the Miami Heat before a dominating Game Seven Win Saturday night over the Boston Celtics. Our sport desk is a few times per year dusted off relic, but last night James rallied his teammates with a [...]
Why, Rick Santorum, We Will Choose to Return to The Netherlands to Die
CARDIFF “Rick Santorum’s ridiculous statements are thought of in The Netherlands in the same vein as those by the North Korean dictator (Kim Jong Il)” said my Dutch wife. We were watching Erik Mouthaan of Dutch rtl TV asked by Rachel Maddow about reaction in The Netherlands to Santorum’s attack on the health system and [...]
The Monday Line: Standing FOR Something
That little stuff in life? It matters. You have to stand for something in work and life, otherwise you stand for nothing. Every time I’ve fought AGAINST something without offering an alternative, it’s created agitation vs. the desired result. It has always been far more powerful to be FOR something. I referee basketball games in [...]
A Disengaged Presidency
by Brent Budowsky Let’s begin a thoughtful discussion about the about the dangers of a disengaged presidency while the nation is challenged by multiple wars, punishing unemployment and a festering fiscal crisis that will someday explode, unless it is addressed credibly. The governing style and political strategy of President Obama simultaneously hurts the reelection prospects [...]
Why the Democrats Should Never Have Started Paying Ransom to Avoid a Shutdown
It’s called ransom. That’s what Republicans are demanding from the White House and congressional Democrats for not pulling the plug on the government. Problem is, when you pay ransom once, you’re almost begging to pay it again. And that’s exactly the pickle the Obama administration is finding itself in. In order to avoid a shutdown [...]
How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And Rescue the Nation While They’re At It)
Republicans offered Democrats two more weeks before the doomsday shut-down. Democrats countered with four. Republicans held their ground. Democrats agreed to two. This is what passes for compromise in our nation’s capital. Democrats have become irrelevant. If they want to be relevant again they have to connect the dots: The explosion of income and wealth [...]
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