Negative Space: Democrats
- Alvin Greene, political scientist?
- Al Greene talks less than most politicians. But slow isn’t always stupid. The wild card is the felony charge. The conventional wisdom is that Al Greene is more beatable than Vic Rawl. I think that’s wrong.
- Defaulting on our debt is an executive choice
- If we default on any debt payments, it is because the White House has made the choice to default. There is no need to default even if the debt ceiling isn’t raised for a long time.
- Markos Moulitsas accuses President of assassinating Arizona rep
- Daily Kos chief claims President Obama’s exhortation to followers to “bring a gun” triggered assassination attempt.
- Nobody Isn’t Partisan
- Partisanship always trumps principle, but this year is worse than any I can recall. If Nobody were on the ballot, he’d have a good chance of winning. With the election as close as any in recent years, Nobody might still garner a majority.
- Take back the name
- I am proud to be a liberal. I hold as my political idols Jefferson, Paine, and other radical liberals from the founding of this country. It is time that real liberals took back the name from the conservatives!
- Wisconsin Democrats run on anti-jobs program
- Working through college as a waitress is laughable to Wisconsin Democrats.
More Information
- Why the Super Committee Failed
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“President Obama summed up our debt crisis best when he told Republican members of the House in January 2010 that ‘The major driver of our long-term liabilities… is Medicare and Medicaid and our health-care spending.’ A few months later, however, Mr. Obama and his party’s leaders in Congress added trillions of dollars in new health-care spending to the government’s balance sheet.
‘Democrats on the committee made it clear that the new spending called for in the president’s health law was off the table. Still, committee Republicans offered to negotiate a plan on the other two health-care entitlements—Medicare and Medicaid—based upon…
