Hold Fast

I’m glad to see that Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter is challenging Blanche Lincoln. The challenge will be coming from the left and is exactly what conservative Democratic Lincoln deserves. She was a big part of the reason labor reform did not pass last year and has been obstinate on health care reform. At a […]

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Hey look, the Senate just passed another extension of the USA Patriot Act!
Considering this reauthorization was something that during the course of the FISA fight civil liberties activists were told would be an opportunity to restore the rule of law, this is really disheartening. Apparently the reason there were no improvements, revisions or increased safe […]

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No nation has ever been home to a middle-class majority absent a sizable labor movement. In their failure to advance labor’s prospects, the Democrats condemn themselves to a future of fewer Democratic voters and their nation to a future of mass downward mobility.
Harold Meyerson is right - it’s about damned time Democrats were responsive to […]

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So, is Ben Nelson going to jump ship to the Republican Party some time before January 2011? After all, his opposition to some of President Obama’s key legislative issues (health care reform and labor reform) is now being compounded by his opposition to President Obama’s nominees. Steve Benen writes of Nelson:
In other words, a senator […]

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It’s remarkable: one year ago, when the Obama administration started, Democrats had fifty-nine votes in the Senate (though two were in the hospital (Kennedy & Byrd) and one, Al Franken, would not be seated because of frivolous Republican lawsuits). At the time, we were at an historic moment where big ideas were not only necessary, […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlPE1lV_5Y

This is really funny, but really sad, too.

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There are all sorts of post-mortems on the Massachusetts Senate race today and what it means for health care reform. But Peter Daou, former Clinton internet operative, has a must-read post on the larger questions of how the Obama administration has failed to achieve its goals after one year. Daou concludes:
Progressive bloggers have been jumping […]

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Life is easier when Wordpress doesn’t eat 1,000 word posts.
Shorter Me: If New York has had a carpetbagger for a senator and a rep who moved far to the left after being appointed senator, why would a carpetbagger who claims to be moving to the left be so bad? Answer: Harold Ford Junior is the […]

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Campbell Robertson of the New York Times, reporting on the intense fear Blue Dogs have about being Democrats these days, writes:
In the deep-red states of the South, it is very hard these days to be a Blue Dog, as members of the group of 52 centrist House Democrats are known. Suspicions about the Obama administration’s […]

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Natasha Chart, one of my favorite progressive bloggers, has posted a real gut-check of an open letter to Democratic elected officials. In it, Chart eviscerates the do-nothingism of Democratic office holders, who spend their time lying to the base about what they will do for them if elected, then painting corporate victories in office as […]

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