Guiliani balks at Challenging Clinton in 06, but what of 08?
There truly is more than one way to skin a cat and perhaps frustrate destiny as well. In a universe far far away where a Rudy knocks off a Hillary in 06, the inevitability of a second Clinton nominated...
View ArticleThe Anti-Hillary that voted Anti-Rice: a Profile in Political Courage
Thank you Evan Bayh. As I commended the political courage of Boxer and Kerry in opposing that instrument of tyranny, Condoleezza, I now applaud yours Senator for joining with twelve of your colleagues...
View ArticleThe Latte Crowd Busts the Social Security Crisis Myth Wide Open
They're so slim, rich and well informed. I hate em! Seriously though, people who frequent coffeehouses pay attention. They have no choice. When you're jittering at ultraviolet frequency from that 3rd...
View ArticleWill the Real Howard Dean Please Stand Up ?
It's all over but the count. With Frost out of the race and Labor non-committal, the vote crunchers have all but crowned Dean DNC chair. Congratulations are apparently in order. But with those comes...
View ArticleDean Dominance Delights Some Dems, Disquiets Others
Apparently the ringmaster's mot alone among Dems in his apprehension regarding a Dean DNC Chair. This from the AP's Will Lester:
View ArticleIt's Also the Environment, "Stupid"
Let me say up front that despite my playing cute with the infamous Clinton (Carville?) campaign slogan, there is nothing remotely stupid about Simon Rosenberg or the NDN, though like all of us they can...
View ArticleConservative Blog Sprawl or Crawl?: A Call for Substantiation
The ever industrious and productive Chris Bowers over at MyDD has posted the second installment in a survey of the political leaning of political blogs. In the installment one he enlightened readers as...
View ArticleIt's "Survival of the Slickest" in the battle for voter and student hearts...
As Goes the countering of conservative propaganda so, apparently, goes the debunking of "intelligent design". In the latest issue of New Scientist The physicist and author Lawrence Krauss, who has also...
View ArticleNote to the DNC: It is Indeed Also the Environment, "Stupid"!
I apparently owe the New Democrat Network an apology of sorts. The Ringmaster recently lambasted the NDN for low-balling the environment by not featuring it prominently on their site along with other...
View ArticleDean speaks for you but does he speak for the environment?
Some may not be aware that thhe DNC does not currently include the environment among the Party's official agenda issues listed on their web site, http://democrats.org/agenda.html. As a Democrat and an...
View ArticleVictory! Environment just added to DNC Issue Agenda
As I busily internetworked this fine sunny AM towards the goal of getting the DNC to put the Earth, if not "First", at least on the Party agenda, A co-conspirator emailed the news....
View ArticleWhither the Young?: Stalking The Elusive Plum Demographic
There we were. A packed labor hall filled to bursting with determined activists. Sweating but un-stifled in the midsummer swelter, we'd come to topple a tyrant. Here was a raucous mix of aged beat...
View ArticleIs Liberal TV DOA?
Here's one take on the potential pitfalls of Al Gore's incursion into "non"partisan, youth targeted TV. This from a 2003 story by FAIR's Jim Naureckas that they just recycled via their news feed in a...
View ArticleThe Unsinkable Hillary Clinton?
It is inexorable. The sheer consuming power of it leaves one breathless and in awe, like a giant black hole at the center of the progressive political galaxy. Yes, the juggernaut that is Hillary may...
View ArticlePass the Ritalin, Al Gore's Current TV has Arrived!
It's not boring.. not very. It's slick.. kind of. It's cerebral.. not really. It's Al Gore's Current cable TV Network. Dude, I think think I just had a seizure!
View ArticleOf Hacket, the Promise of "The New Politics", and Some Politics as Usual
In the Immortal words of Maxwell Smart, Hackett "missed it by that much". Now that the Ringmaster's carbon-dated himself, we'll get on with the point.
View ArticleTime for a Reality Check, on A Bigger Tent and Beyond
It began during the Iraq Invasion. Whenever I tuned into CNN, up until then my first choice in news, I found myself evermore weary and frustrated with the sanitized, "we're more butch than FOX News"...
View ArticleReflections of a Blogger?: The Medium is the Message
Just caught the streamed video from NPI's Reflections of a Blogger which, BTW, the Ringmaster highly recommends. Lot's of lessons to take away there but the overall message I gleaned was that, to...
View ArticleMonty Python and the Peace Movement
Arguably the best satire ever produced on political activist infighting was the classic scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian where the People's front of Judea terrorists stumble upon the Campaign...
View ArticleThe Party of Sustainability?
As we gear up fot the big push towards 2006, I want to invite those Dems and progressives that believe the Party should be one of authentic commitment to the environment and sustainabilty to join...
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