Last week I wrote about Patrick Ruffini’s discussion of Republicans’ policy failure on health care. If anyone read Ruffini’s whole post, you’d have seen that, never mind his generally sensible takedown of Republican strategy, he wrote some delusional prose about No Child Left Behind.
At the outset of his Administration, George W. Bush set out to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics and media'
Drum: Kill NCLB, Unite a Nation
April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Education, Politics and media
CBS Calls Republican Efforts “Obstructionist”
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Health care reform, Politics and media
Nice to hear the media call it what it is:
Republicans on Tuesday rolled out all of the obstructionist tactics they promised as the Senate kicked off its final health care showdown, beginning 20 hours of debate on the reconciliation bill meant to amend the comprehensive legislation signed into law on Tuesday. GOP tactics to stall the measure [...]
Tags: CBS News·Health care reform·Obstruction·Republicans·Senate Reconciliation
Deep Thought: Protestors, Like Caucus Goers, Not Representative of Mainstream America
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Health care reform, Politics and media
Yesterday I was listening to Ryan Warner of Colorado Matters interview Bob Loevy, a political scientist at Colorado College, and something Loevy said struck me.
The caucus electorate is a very exotic one. These are people who tend to be dedicated members of their political party, uh, party regulars, party loyalists. In the Democratic party they [...]
Tags: Anger·Bob Loevy·Caucus Electorate·Colorado Matters·Health care reform·Protestors
Ed Quillen is Right to be Frustrated. Ed Quillen Should also Take Heart.
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics, Politics and media, Uncategorized
Ed Quillen laments the sad state of the caucus in Colorado, then he goes on to describe how little life has changed for him since he switched affiliation from Republican to Democrat.
Even beyond the aggravation of the campaign phone calls, though, I start to wonder why I bother to participate in Democratic politics.
After all, if [...]
Tags: Ed Quillen·Incrementalism·Similarities between Democrats and Republicans
Yglesias on Chuck Todd, Media, and Governance
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Politics and media
Matt Yglesias points out in a post today that all political reporting can’t always reflect the fervor of Election Day. To make his point, he grabs a quote from NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd, as featured in a commercial seen during the Olympics: “I love politics; I wish every day was Election Day.”
Yglesias shows [...]
