By Martin Bosworth MyDD’s Todd Beeton explored this question in the wake of Obama’s response to the Libby commutation as an example of the “old politics” he wants to dispense with, and […]
Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
By Martin Bosworth I had the pleasure of subbing in for Sam for a conference call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today. Although there were a good number of progressive bloggers in […]
The very long night of Rudy Giuliani
By Martin Bosworth So let’s say you’re Rudy Giuliani–darling of the media for turning New York City into Disney World, fawned over as the Saint of 9/11 and a “national security authority” […]
Liberalism is dead, long live Progressivism
By Martin Bosworth We’re genetically and sociologically oriented to think of things in duality. Two arms, two legs, a base-10 mathematical system that comes from multiplying 5×2. So there has to be […]
Pelosi a slave to moderate Dems: Novak
GOP Chatty Cathy Bob Novak says that Nancy Pelosi isn’t a left-wing loon at all… she’s in fact beholden to a handful of Blue Dog (i.e., moderate) Democrats. Count Novakula writes in […]
America To Immigration Bill: DROP DEAD!
By Martin Bosworth And wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what happened. As this AP article points out, the failure of the immigration bill was due to massive divisions among all the […]
Thoughts on Schaller’s two-humped moderate political beast
Tom Schaller has a fascinating take today on the evolution of the political center. To use his analogy, it’s evolved from a one-humped camel to a two-humped dromedary, statistically speaking. The one […]
