Dave Silver sets things straight on the handful of Democrats who questioned the Ohio election process: “Without exception all of those representatives that made an electoral challenge, including John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich, Stephanie Tubbs Jones and yes Senator Boxer were quick to remind folks that they are not contesting the election outcome, that they accept [...]
Torture and voting are two serious issues the Democrats have fallen down on. Dick Meyer lists other serious issues the Democrats have “rolled over” on as well as summarizing why Gonzales is raising such interest (also, listen to the Friday, January 7, 2005 Democracy Now! for more including clips of Gonzales’ Senate confirmation hearing, and [...]
Senator Barack Obama, coronated after largely having no competition who stuck around long enough to give him any problems, had his first major failure in the Senate not even a week into his new job. If you recall, the only senator to challenge the 2004 Ohio presidential election results was Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). This [...]
Katrina vanden Heuvel talks with Michael Moore and we learn that Moore thinks it’s okay to have a smooth spokesperson. Moore never gets around to examining what the would-be Democratic Party front is saying—what policies are being sold here—it’s all about image. So, to try to make his friends look better, Moore holds the bar [...]
A passage I read about how the “Democrats [are] Split Again Over [the] Party’s Agenda” brought to mind a question. First, the passage: “During the 1990s, many liberals felt that Clinton abandoned class-conscious themes by supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement and a balanced federal budget. Conversely, in 2000, centrists charged that Al Gore [...]
The Madison Capital Times has named Barack Obama man of the year for 2004 despite that Obama has said he could favor bombing Iran (and the Chicago Tribune reports similarly). I think it would have been wiser to wait to see what Obama does while in the US Senate, at the least; placing a higher [...]
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