Hold Fast

I can’t believe I missed this, but ten days ago my favorite punching bag Nick Kristof wrote about Tibet and China. It’s the usual mixed bag, where you can see Kristof struggling with some principles of peace, social justice and democracy while maintaining his usually strong pro-Beijing compass. The central discussion of the article is [...]

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Dean Baker is shrill: The first Great Depression was the result of a decade of failed policies, not a single bad mistake at its onset. There was absolutely nothing that we could have done back in September-October of 2008 that would have required that we experience a decade of double-digit unemployment. The specter of a [...]

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Greg Sargent writes: [T]he best way for Dems to nationalize the elections right now is for Congress to hold a vote on whether to extend the middle class tax cuts. If Dems did this, it would reinforce the national strategy that Dems already have in place: Making the case that a vote for the GOP [...]

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Via Atrios and Paul Krugman, this piece by Brad DeLong responding to the complaints of a lawyer making $450,000 a year and considering himself woefully working class is a must-read. It’s actually a story that rings fairly true to me as someone who works in the professional political class and knows a lot of fairly [...]

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I’m not sure why Digby is trying to warn the Tea Party away from the “puerile arrogance” seen in this video. Personally, I think the Republican base is right. Clearly they are going to win in 2010. It’s just a formality now. Everyone can put down their tea bags and go watch reruns of Surviving [...]

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On the American Dream: If the American economy does not function in a way that lets people who try reasonably hard obtain desired education, find fairly stable employment, obtain modest improvements in income/standard of living over the course of their lifetimes, earn enough money so that raising a family is possible, then we’re doing something [...]

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Interesting piece in The Hill about South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, the Senate’s biggest advocate of the Tea Party. Establishment Republicans are not surprisingly angry at DeMint for playing a role in Tea Party challengers knocking off more electable Republicans, notably in Delaware, Colorado, Kentucky and Florida. His actions could end up costing Republicans a [...]

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So yesterday a colleague and I were talking about how honestly envious we are of what the GOP base has been able to do this year – run dozens of candidates for statewide and federal office, rack up a decent win rate, and get real conservative movementarians to win major nominations. Contrast this what we’ve [...]

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Fun video from Blue America PAC. You can donate to Scott McAdams, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Alaska, here.

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I don’t have the time to blog as much as I’d like to and have, as any regular reader is probably aware, tended to focus on highlighting good commentary and analysis that I am reading and think others would enjoy too. It’s not the most exciting form of blogging, but it’s what I have the [...]

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