Voting Rights and Wrongs, from White House to Wisconsin
“In a democracy, there is one right that stands atop all the rest: the right to vote.” –Russ Feingold, the...
Category: Politics
Let Republicans Own the “I” Word
As Trump continues to unravel, Impeachment becomes the Republicans’ dilemma, not ours. Donald Trump can be useful to Democrats. When I say Donald Trump...
Trump’s ‘Populism’ – Huge Tax Cuts For the Wealthy
Trickle-Down Trickery: Savaging Medicaid to Transfer Wealth Upward What a pathetic display of political theater perpetrated by the Republican majority...
President Pence: From Chaos to Christian Supremacy
His Boss Vows to Build a Wall, but Pence Wants to Tear Down the Only Wall That Matters: The Separation of...
Showdown in the United States Senate
The Senate is the Last Line of Defense Against a Madman and his Henchmen Here, in two quotes by prominent...
Will Trump & Putin Rattle Their Nuclear Toys?
The Doomsday Clock Ticks as the World Watches Two Small Men Puff Out Their Chests Lying atop a Twitter trash heap, one particular tweet...
The Resistance
No Cooperation. No Compromise. Learn From the Past and Let Trump and His Confederates Bury Themselves. Obviously… The most important...
Silver Linings Payback
What’s Done Is Done. Could This Election Disaster Be a Blessing in Disguise? Prologue On election eve at Independence Hall in my...
Third Party Candidates Might Make Things Interesting Out West
But There’s No Way They’ll Earn Ralph Nader’s Title of ‘Spoiler’ The presidential election of 2000 still manages to occupy a tiny...
Back in the Day: Kennedy vs. Carter
The 1980 Democratic Convention: “The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never...
Are Dems Inciting a ’68 Chicago Outcome?
The Parallel Between Then and Now Is Striking At this point in the 2016 presidential election, it now seems that...
Completing Two Imperfect Candidates
Democrats Have a Deep Enough Bench to Cover Some Blemishes A year ago, Team Blue couldn’t have wished upon a star...
Veteran Candidates on Mission To Turn US Senate Blue
Can Democrats Retake the Senate? If you look closely at the numbers in the map, it would seem that super-pollster Larry Sabato’s...
Planned Parenthood, ACORN Video Frauds Are All About the Ballot Box
Republicans Aim for Low Turn-Out on Election Day, 2016 What a sad state of affairs for the beacon of democracy...
The Billionaire Boys’ Club
How is It That About 158 Wealthy Families Control the Bulk of Election Spending in America? Rubio, Cruz Leading the Billionaire Lottery...
California Leads Nation on Climate Change
New Law Puts State on Path to 50% Renewable Energy by 2030 Sunny California, the 8th largest economy in the...
Higher Wages Key To Robust Economic Recovery
But Republican State Legislatures Heed the Call of ALEC There remains a frustrating disconnect between the stream of cheerful economic data...
Good Riddance: House Republican Leadership Goes ‘Poof’
Memo to Kevin McCarthy: Truth-Telling and GOP Politics Don’t Mix Memo to Eric Cantor: That’s Why They Hold Elections Editor’s Note:...
PA Senate Race: Joe Sestak No Longer Walks Alone
Kathleen McGinty Enters the Race With Key Dem Endorsements Admiral Joe Sestak Still Hopes the Second Time’s the Charm Ever since...
Politicized Churches Should Answer Nation’s Calling
It’s Time to Tax Churches Religion’s Tax Subsidy: $71 Billion Annually When a religion is good, I conceive it will...
For our 1st Lady President, Heart is Where the Home is
Agenda: What’s Good for Women is Good for America NRA Reckoning? Probably Unavoidable The buzz over Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement of...
Trickle Down Buffoonery Pushes Louisiana to Edge of Bankruptcy
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s State Joins Kansas’s Race to the Bottom It’s deja vu all over again in trickle down fantasy...
The Art of Governing Seems Part of a Bygone Era
Even Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill Would Be Unable to Overcome the Ideological Barricades of the Electoral Map. Exhibit A:...
North Carolina Senate Race Sows Voter Confusion
Last Minute Voter Suppression Tactic Probably Cost Democrats Senate Election In the closest US Senate skirmish tallied thus far in the 2014 midterm...
VA Wait-Time ‘Scandal’ Is Rooted in Iraq PTSD Surge
As scandals typically go, this one started with a “whistleblower.” According to Politico, it was in December 2013 when “Sam Foote,...
Kansas Loses Jobs, Revenue as Right Runs Amok
What’s the Matter With Kansas? What’s the matter with Kansas, Dorothy? Last time around, “Bleeding Kansas” referred to the pre-Civil...
In Mr. Paul’s Kitchen, ‘The Big Lie’ Is Passed from Father to Son
Taking a cue from his famous father Ron Paul, US Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), presumed 2016 presidential hopeful, looked past the...
Dems Counting on ‘Field of Dreams’ for Upset Win: If They Build It, Will They Come?
By Andrew Goutman It is an undisputed fact that Democrats have won the popular vote in five out of...
Pot & Gambling: Polar Symbols of our Cultural War
By Andrew Goutman Two compelling tableaus that represent opposite ends of an enduring “cultural war” in this country took center stage...
Why I Am a Liberal
Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr., he one of the many cable news political pundits and a former aide to several prominent Democrats, wrote...
Where’s the Fracking Money for PA?
by Andrew Goutman What sort of imagery runs through your mind as you gaze across the endless expanse of North...
Upcoming Midterm Elections: D’s Can’t Do Any Worse Than 2010
by Andrew Goutman The clock is ticking on the 2014 midterm elections, a non-presidential election year in which the...
Red Caucus Blues
Three Republican suburban Philadelphia congressmen who serve blue state swing districts continually face tough votes that force them to choose...
