Hold Fast

I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich’s campaign to represent Alaska in the United States Senate. I’ll be working as the campaign’s Online Communications Director and I look forward to continuing to bring Democratic politics to Americans in exciting and dynamic ways over the internet. This also means that, for now, […]

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Joe Lieberman is about to go fully Zell Miller on the Democratic Party. Though in fairness to Zell, he just retired and Joe is embracing the GOP while serving in the US Senate as a self-proclaimed independent-Democrat.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a […]

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Jim Himes had a phenomenal fund raising quarter in the CT-04, my home district. He’s campaigning to defeat Chris Shays, the last Republican in Congress from New England. According to My Left Nutmeg, Himes has over $1 million cash on hand and is poised to be the best funded challenger Shays has faced yet. Himes […]

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Glenn Greenwald points out that the Republicans may be dropping FISA as an imperative issue for the remainder of the legislative session. He makes the case that the reason this happened was the strong principles shown by Democrats:
This is the first time in a long time that right-wing fear-mongering on Terrorism hasn’t succeeded. Given that […]

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The FBI has closed its investigation into the election day blackout of Joe Lieberman’s campaign website. Their finding? That its shutdown was the Lieberman campaign’s fault and no one elses. Not bloggers. Not the Lamont campaign. Not a stray cigarette but cast down from the lips of Tim Tagaris.
The FBI office in New Haven […]

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Last week we saw Senate Majority “Leader” Harry Reid wrap both arms tightly around Joe Lieberman.
“I can tell you Sen. Reid had talked to me a few times and said he knows there will be talk if we get more than 51 Democrats next year,” Lieberman said. “As far as he is concerned, I […]

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Today’s Hartford Courant:
“I can tell you Sen. Reid had talked to me a few times and said he knows there will be talk if we get more than 51 Democrats next year,” Lieberman said. “As far as he is concerned, I will retain my seniority, etc., no matter how many Democrats there are next […]

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CQ has a great piece on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s long-time leadership on human rights in China and Tibet. It covers her decades-long efforts to shine a spotlight on China’s human rights record, as well as her efforts to honor those who have fallen in the pursuit of democracy and freedom in China.  I’m not sure […]

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John Dolan of Alternet has an important article on how Democrats need to get tough when it comes to language and standing up to Republicans. I think Dolan over-emphasizes the need for Democrats to get touch, linguistically and otherwise, as a means of winning over “South Park Republicans” and young, white, male voters. Perhaps tougher […]

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I don’t know who Barack Obama would pick for his vice president. I would hope that it’s not Michael Bloomberg, but my guess is today’s press slathering from the Beltway Blogs is groundless.
I hope that Obama makes his decision by what we can call The Spitzer Principle, which is, knowing that the Republicans will seek […]

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