Working Life

I don’t need to say much more. Check out this website: http://www.bushisover.org/gallery.htm

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Congressional Quarterly has a story on the Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee’s “Frontline” program: the Democrats who are deemed most vulnerable in 2008 and, thus, get special early attention. I noticed, in particular, that Melissa Bean is on the list. Readers of this blog will note that I am not a fan of Bean since she […]

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One thing that is now clear is that Barack Obama’s charmed life is coming to an end. The press basically gave him a free ride until now…but check out this story in the L.A.Times–and expect to see more in the future: The drama began with a tiny ad in a local newspaper — a notice […]

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I think this has been commented on here and there but it’s worth amplifying. The mainstream media is already beginning to play its role: deciding who is a “credible” candidate in the 2008 races and who is not. The coverage for some candidates is far more prominent than others–almost regardless of their positions. I’ll actually […]

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It’s too easy to pound on the president’s State of The Union address. I’ll leave that to the red-meat crowd. What annoyed the crap out of me was watching the Democrats. I’m not referring to the perpetual suck-ups like Reps. Eliot Engel and Loretta Sanchez, two of the many Democrats I spotted jostling for position […]

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One of the most common themes we are now asked to accept, as part of the hagiography surrounding the death of Gerald Ford, is that Ford ended our “long national nightmare” by pardoning Richard Nixon over his crimes in “Watergate” and that such an act remains a positive part of his legacy. In the debate […]

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I am no fan of Donald Trump. I think he is a blowhard, real estate leech. But, as the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day. You may have already seen his comments in Maureen Dowd’s column today. On the Bush twins, he says: “When you’re a president who has destroyed […]

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I have a new piece today at TomPaine called “Ask For Little, Get Nothing” (not my idea for a great title) which looks at the Democrats’ woeful economic agenda and proposes some alternatives that are more bold. This column revives my “Working in America” series, which I will continue as time allows. The upshot of […]

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Really worth reading…Rich on our president. Has He Started Talking to the Walls? IT turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the […]

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More discussion of the divisions between the Clintonite “free-trade” Democrats and the incoming populists in today’s NY Times. I just hope they come up with a better name for their group than “Shared Prosperity.” That sounds like a team on Survivor.

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