Is Bush Afraid of Rumsfeld?
It is well documented (most recently in The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind) that Donald Rumsfeld served in the Nixon administration as head of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and his assistant...
View ArticleFirst impeach Cheney
I think we should consider impeaching Dick Cheney as a first step. The recent revelations in the Libby trial show that a lot of the prosecution’s case pointed to Cheney as the leaker-in-chief, and...
View ArticleAOL: Pick Best, Worst Vice Presidents
So I get home and log onto my AOHell and what do I see on my Welcome Screen but the headline "Pick Best, Worst Vice Presidents." And underneath a sub-head "Cheney's had a rough year" and "compare him...
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Why the Republican Presidential "Turn" is a Myth
[Cross-posted at ProgressiveHistorians, MyDD, My Left Wing, and TalkLeft.]For some time, there has been a meme in political discourse indicating that Republicans choose their Presidential candidates...
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Albany's Mayor For Life: An Interview With Erastus Corning Biographer Paul...
The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as the Independent Bloggers Alliance, The Peace Tree, The Wild Wild Left and Worldwide SawdustErastus Corning 2nd...
View ArticleWhat Are You Afraid Of, Steny?
So the Rockefeller/Hoyer wing of the Democratic Party is all set and ready to "compromise" with the Bush/Cheney/Rove Executive that treats its Legislative co-equals as second-class citizens on telecom...
View ArticleCentennials
You know you're getting old when newsmakers of your youth start having centennials. The question is whether such things are newsworthy, they used to be. Nelson Rockefeller and Lyndon Johnson's are...
View ArticleLikely Gillibrand Appointment Reminiscent of Goodell
The likely appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand, now beginning her second term as a Congresswoman from upstate New York, by Governor David Paterson is reminiscent of the last Senate appointment by a...
View ArticleNew York, New York or The State I am in
We laugh about it sometimes. Those of us who live in the State of New York, particularly, perhaps, those of us who have worked for it, or work on legislative issues, have watched as what passes for a...
View ArticleJackie Robinson: Desecrated By The GOP
I know that this subject has been diaried before, and I know that it's been referred to in Kos' midday "Open Thread". But nevertheless, I think that the GOP's attempt to "claim" Jackie Robinson is...
View ArticleWhen the "Tea Party" took over the GOP the first time
In the year the Republican Party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate, there was never any chance he could win. The country was still reeling from the murder of its young,...
View ArticleThe Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election
It's Wednesday, so here's the next part!
View ArticleThe Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election, part 6
[insert lame and dated 'Friday' joke here] Anyway, this section will be a lot bigger eventually, but here's part 6, on scandals!
View ArticleNew York City, New York State bet on the Future
If you peruse the BBC web site as I do on a regular basis, you'll often find stories about the U.S. that the media here don't seem to find headline worthy. Sometimes you have to wonder why; you'd...
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The Battle For the Republican Party: An Interview with Geoffrey Kabaservice
Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (Oxford University Press, 2012). He...
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MLK in NYC
Coretta Scott King called MLK Day “a people’s holiday” but it’s hard to resist honoring Dr. King, who had some of his most important moments, and one of his worst, here in New York City. This is MLK...
View ArticleWho could be Mike Pence’s VP-for-a-Day?
In 1974, the Democratic Senate confirmed Gerald Ford’s nominee for Vice-President, Nelson Rockefeller, by a vote of 90-7, and the Democratic House concurred a week later, 287-128.By all current...
View ArticleSenate Democrats can pass almost anything with a simple majority—and without...
Astute politics observers well know that the Senate filibuster—the Jim Crow relic that requires supermajority support to pass most legislation—is a major obstacle for any hopes that Democrats have of...
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