Posted in: Democratic Party
Monday Dec 29, 2008
(I wrote this before the election.) At this time of year, I especially like to use football analogies. Leon Lett was a very talented defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys during the early- and mid-1990s. In the Super Bowl, Leon...
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emailWednesday Nov 19, 2008
It's Not About Lieberman, It's About 60
Sen. Joe Lieberman is an awful person who lacks principles. He won re-election in 2006 by pretending he was against the Iraq War. After spending a career advocating Democratic domestic policies, he spent the 2008 spouting conservative distortions of core...
Sunday Nov 9, 2008
Getting 60 Democratic Senators would be nice, but it is no guarantee of preventing filibusters. You still need to hold 60 Senators, of any party, to overcome each cloture vote on an issue-by-issue basis. So with Dems only having at...
Thursday Nov 6, 2008
NEWSFLASH: More Than 60% See President-Elect Obama As "Liberal"
Here's a little news that probably won't dominate the post-election punditry. More than 60% of voters considered Sen. Barack Obama a "liberal." And he won. Politico interviewed Sen. John McCain's long-time close aide Mark Salter, who revealed the result from...
Tuesday Oct 14, 2008
Military wives support Barack Obama
This is a nice commercial made by the Blue Star Families - military families. It is simple. It is straightforward and presents the facts. John McCain has not supported military families. He even campaigned against the new GI Bill. He...
Thursday Sep 18, 2008
It's been widely noted that Barack Obama is on the offense again, for the first time since the Republican convention. And early indications are that it's helping return the race to where it's been most of the year: Obama in...
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention
The expectations. Managing the expectations. This was almost an impossible task. Some of the political pundits had set the bar so high Barack Obama needed to build a rocket ship, fly to the moon, land safely, and fly back again...
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
The speech that started it all - Obama 2004
This is the speech started Barack Obama on his remarkable journey. The Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004....
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
Convention Blogging, Streaming, Twittering
(UPDATE 8/28 8 AM MT: I expect to have the stream up today by 10 AM MT.) Dem Convention Live Stream: The feed will be on whenever and wherever possible. IM me at "billscher" if you have any questions for...
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
After Biden, The Economic Debate Takes Shape
The least wealthy member of the Senate took the stage of the Democratic convention hall Wednesday night to accept the vice-presidential nomination, and sharpened the contrast between the progressive and conservative economic visions. The pressure will now be on Sen....
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
MSNBC's Morning Joe did an amusing segment yesterday about debunking blogger stereotypes in which I make an uncredited cameo. Check it out below....
Wednesday Aug 27, 2008
Oh, the talking heads were talking. Oh, my were their lips flapping. Hillary wasn't capable of fully supporting Obama. The Clintons were going to fracture the party. Why were the Clintons invited to speak in the first place? There was...
Tuesday Aug 26, 2008
Michelle Obama had a mission last night. Her mission was to tell her personal story and combat the Right Wing lies that she was an angry, militant Black Woman. Mission Accomplished. If we were playing baseball, she hit the ball...
Sunday Aug 24, 2008
Pundit musings about any convention bounce are completely nonsensical this year. The schedule and calendar of the 2008 presidential campaign has no modern parallel, so in turn, looking at past convention impacts on polling won't provide accurate historical context. Traditionally,...
Saturday Aug 23, 2008
Back in February I had a contest to see who could give me a reasonable argument for a VP candidate. Kyle won the contest and I published his comment. We had many candidates including Senator Joe Biden. I didn't...
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
I would not have thought Sen. Joe Biden would even get on the short list. But now I can only assume he will get the VP nod tomorrow. It would seem that Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Evan Bayh and Biden...
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
How Do We Seize The "Obama Moment?"
Our at the Campaign for America's Future blog, we're having a two-week long conversation, "How Do We Seize the Obama Moment," and substantial advance a progressive agenda in the early days of an Obama administration. Please feel free to head...
Tuesday Jul 1, 2008
Things To Keep In Mind During A Presidential Campaign
Every politician will eventually take a position with which you don't agree. (i.e. Sen. Paul Wellstone supported the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act. Rep. Dennis Kucinich in the past has supported an anti-free speech constitutional amendment banning flag burning.) How...
Tuesday Jul 1, 2008
It is very hard as a freshman Senator to get anything of substance done in Congress but Senator Jim Webb of Virginia has done exactly that. He pushed the GI Bill through both houses of Congress. He attached the bill...
Monday Jun 9, 2008
In 2004, I could plausibly do a "Veepstakes Handicapping" because the list of possibilities was limited. Now, the list of plausible swing-state governors, respected Senators, intriguing fresh faces and elder statesmen in the Democratic party is so long, there's no...
Wednesday Jun 4, 2008
Still Strong With Independents
A big difference between the South Dakota and Montana primaries is independents could not participate in South Dakota, but could in Montana. In Montana, independents were 31% of the turnout, and Obama won with them 63%-34%....
Friday May 30, 2008
Obama at Low Point in Polls, Yet Still Ahead
Josh Orton at MyDD looks at the Pew Poll -- which has Obama up 47-44 over McCain -- and sees Bush being a major albatross for McCain. Matt Stoller at Open Left says Orton is "missing the picture," because Obama's...
Thursday May 22, 2008
I have no idea what's in Sen. Hillary Clinton's head as far as her endgame is concerned. But there is speculation (uninformed, probably) that she wants maximum leverage to pressure Sen. Barack Obama into putting her on the ticket. (UPDATE:...
Saturday May 17, 2008
Senator Kennedy who is 76 years old and very overweight was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). As far as I can tell no one really has a handle on what is going on. The news media is reporting that...
Wednesday May 14, 2008
It's sad to see such racial polarization manifest in West Virginia, but the sadness is lessened by a number of factors: 1) Obama has won with plenty of white voters to date. 2) He leads Sen. McCain in almost every...
Wednesday May 7, 2008
While every expert said the temporary gas tax cut was terrible policy, pretty much every pundit said it was great politics, showing Clinton knew how to connect with voters better than Obama. Wrong. After Clinton grasped for the pander move,...
Thursday May 1, 2008
It's very possible that both of Tuesday's primary contests will turn on Clinton and Obama's opposing positions on a temporary gas tax cut, instead of the recent media attention on Obama's former pastor. Both have ads up on the gas...
Wednesday Apr 23, 2008
I joined NPR's Bryant Park Project to discuss and dissect the PA Primary. You can listen to the segment here....
Wednesday Apr 23, 2008
A minor spin point: Clinton's margin of victory appears to be 9.4%, not 10%....
Wednesday Apr 23, 2008
I don't usually post unsolicited advice to the Obama campaign, because they haven't needed it. They have a game plan, they don't panic and tear it up when they hit bumps in the road. And they are the campaign still...
Thursday Apr 17, 2008
Will The Worst Debate Ever Matter?
Last night's ABC's debate was a spectacular travesty, if not the first of it's kind in this campaign. (MSNBC's Cleveland debate was in many ways an anti-Clinton pile-on.) You would think after the polls barely budged in the wake of...
Wednesday Apr 9, 2008
I love posting on Liberal Oasis. I don't post enough mostly because I don't think that I have enough of the thoughtful posts that are worthy of the first liberal blog that I ever read. Jay Rockefeller (D-Va) is an...
Wednesday Apr 2, 2008
On the last LiberalOasis Radio Show, I argued that if Sen. Clinton wants to stop the superdelegate bleed, she should stop elevating McCain -- which hurts the party's prospects in November -- and resume going after him. Looks like she's...
Wednesday Mar 26, 2008
Historic Speech Beats Divisive Politics
The first national poll (PDF file), taken by NBC and The Wall Street Journal after Sen. Barack Obama's historic speech, confirms that Obama essentially has defused the guilt-by-association attacks regarding his former pastor. Here are the positive/negative ratings for the...
Monday Mar 24, 2008
It's not a terribly insightful observation, but the tone of the Democratic primary race has sunk to the 3rd-grade level. For too long, name-calling from high-profile surrogates has dominated news coverage, making the entire party look pathetic, and helping boost...
Friday Mar 21, 2008
The most disturbing poll numbers to come out this week were the Gallup numbers showing McCain beating both Obama and Clinton by similar margins. The Republican Rasmussen poll has long been more favorable to McCain. Nevertheless, his lead has widened...
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008
As I'm at Take Back America, I couldn't get a comprehensive sense of the media coverage of Sen. Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" address. But I was struck at how effusive Michael Smerconish was on MSNBC's Hardball. Here's a...
Wednesday Mar 12, 2008
Over at Knitting Liberally, my wife (Snow White Of The Left, as "Majority Report" fans may recall, but blogging as knittingliberal) tears into Geraldine Ferraro and her racial comment: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in...
Friday Mar 7, 2008
Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power says something silly and inappropriate about Clinton in what she thought was a private moment. Moment becomes public. Advisor quickly apologizes. Clinton campaign does not accept apology. Clinton campaign gins up manufactured outrage and...
Friday Mar 7, 2008
The usually loathsome Bush-buddy, and Clinton surrogate Lanny Davis, on CNN last night: Let me give you a very interesting statistic. Hillary Clinton has won the big states, and the major states that are at issue in battleground, that go...
Wednesday Mar 5, 2008
After the Potomac primaries on Feb. 12, I wrote: And if Obama wins his 10th straight primary after Wisconsin, it is extremely difficult to see why Ohio and Texas will essentially decide to have a brokered convention. Well, they did....
Sunday Mar 2, 2008
The saddest development during the Democratic primary is seeing Joe Wilson regularly spout disingenuous spin in an attempt to take down Obama....
Friday Feb 22, 2008
Sen. Clinton has a very difficult task. Convince voters it's necessary and worthwhile to risk a divisive, messy convention. Make the race about something different than it is, without crudely attacking Sen. Obama and having it backfire. It's difficult to...
Tuesday Feb 19, 2008
Barack Obama or a Brokered Convention
After Obama's ninth straight win, in another predominantly white state, winning among working-class families, he has an unequivocal lead in delegates that is extremely difficult for Clinton to overcome in the upcoming primaries and caucuses. Voters in Ohio, Texas, Rhode...
Friday Feb 15, 2008
Talking Points Memo flags this WSJ account of internal strife in the Clinton campaign: the campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open. Clinton campaign...
Tuesday Feb 12, 2008
Right before Iowa, I wrote: On the Democratic side, there's a fair amount of satisfaction with all the of leading candidates. There's little appetite for a dragged out, bloody contest. The first person to break out the pack should easily...
Wednesday Feb 6, 2008
So Much For Rigging The Primary Calendar
And the race goes on... Clinton wins more big states. Obama wins more states. Clinton firms up her support from women, who are consistently the majority of Dem primary voters. Obama wins in several white, rural states, erasing the notion...
Tuesday Feb 5, 2008
Clinton campaign surrogates are still pushing the false line that Obama ducked abortion votes as a state senator, and therefore is weak on reproductive freedom. The National Organization for Women, which has endorsed Clinton, is sending around an email spreading...
Monday Feb 4, 2008
I had thought the best line of the campaign season was Joe Biden's definitive smackdown of Rudy Giuliani, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11." But I now think it's this...
Sunday Jan 27, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama lost Nevada after failing to fully respond to a myriad of baseless attacks from the Clinton campaign. In South Carolina, he faced them down loudly and directly. And won the first blowout of the presidential race. He...
Thursday Jan 24, 2008
Will Going Negative Keep Working?
The New York Times reports today, "Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they have concluded that Bill Clinton’s aggressive politicking against Senator Barack Obama is resonating with voters, and they intend to keep him on the campaign trail in...
Tuesday Jan 22, 2008
There will likely be a lot of complaining about last night's debate brawl, but in fact it was both a relatively entertaining and substantive debate (though the media could do more to truth-squad and not be mere passive observers). More...
Saturday Jan 19, 2008
Race- and gender-based attacks had backfired in Iowa and New Hampshire. But bread-and-butter negative attacks appeared to have done the trick for the Clinton campaign in Nevada. Sen. Barack Obama faced a flurry of attacks in the past week --...
Thursday Jan 17, 2008
Obama: "I Want To Make Government Cool Again"
In all of the blogger hub-bub over Barack Obama's analysis of Ronald Reagan in his Reno-Gazette Journal editorial board interview, I don't believe there has been any recognition of this excerpt from the roundtable, which followed a question about how...
Wednesday Jan 9, 2008
I was wrong. Obama's Iowa victory did not spark the unifying, bandwagon effect among Democrats I was expecting. FireDogLake makes the key observation of the night: the big shift in the women's vote from Iowa to New Hampshire. In Iowa,...
Tuesday Jan 1, 2008
A little bit of this and a little of that
Happy New Year to everyone. I hope that everyone has a happy, healthy, prosperous and progressive New Year! We have 3 separate scenarios of how Benazir Bhutto died. 1) She was shot in the neck. 2) An explosion cause shrapnel...
Thursday Dec 20, 2007
As we head into the homestretch of the Iowa caucuses, here's how the leading Dems are trying to define the race: Sen. Hillary Clinton: I'm a Clinton. We're winners. Sen. Barack Obama: I'm likeable, and I always opposed the Iraq...
Thursday Dec 13, 2007
Four years ago, I wrote that it looked like Howard Dean was going to coast in Iowa because his competitors shied away from direct attacks in what was their last scheduled debate. Of course, that was way off. His rivals...
Thursday Dec 6, 2007
This Washington Post dispatch on the Obama campaign befuddles me: Sen. Barack Obama has seemed to float above the fray over the last few days -- barely acknowledging attacks from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on the campaign trail and leaving...
Monday Nov 19, 2007
The Obama campaign caught a big break today, as a new Iowa poll gave him a statistically insignificant but journalistically significant lead -- the first time in a while that Sen. Hillary Clinton wasn't ahead in something. But this isn't...
Monday Oct 15, 2007
The Most Polarizing Prez Candidate Is...Not Hillary
Here's some poll data that I don't believe has received much attention. *** ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL. Sept. 27-30, 2007 "If [see below] wins the Democratic/Republican nomination for president would you definitely vote for him/her in the general election for...
Friday Oct 12, 2007
The New York Times has a Washington-centric piece today with a tired theme: the petulant, short-sighted liberal base is making things difficult for responsible political-savvy congressional Democrats. The articles quotes a top House Republicans as if he is an astute...
Monday Oct 8, 2007
I've been hearing regularly, both from TV pundits and in general conversation, that it would be premature to declare Sen. Hillary Clinton the nominee, because Howard Dean was way out in front this time in 2003, and "anything can happen"...
Thursday Sep 27, 2007
Tim Russert began last night's presidential debate in exactly the right way: asking all the presidential candidates if they would pledge to have all US troops out of Iraq by the end of the next presidential term: January 2013. Unstated...
Sunday Sep 23, 2007
Last month after a Dem presidential debate, I wrote that, "The Dem Primary Won't Be Decided Over Iraq": Given the opportunity in Sunday's ABC debate to distinguish themselves from Sen. Hillary Clinton on Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen....
Wednesday Sep 12, 2007
Pro-escalation Dem Rep. Brian Baird in today's Washington Post: "I opposed this war with everything I had. . . . I wonder how folks who voted for it sleep at night," said Baird, who announced his change of heart after...
Monday Aug 20, 2007
The Dem Primary Won't Be Decided Over Iraq
Given the opportunity in Sunday's ABC debate to distinguish themselves from Sen. Hillary Clinton on Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards passed. Which raises the question: how do they think they are going to dislodge her from...
Tuesday Jul 31, 2007
Why The Dems Are Going To YearlyKos
Today, the Omaha World-Herald launches "Parties '08," an occasional op-ed series assessing the state of the two main parties throughout the '07-'08 political season. The initial package includes my own contribution analyzing the relationship between the Democratic Party and the...
Tuesday Jul 31, 2007
Here's a question for the presidential candidates attending the YearlyKos presidential forum. Will you lead the effort to defeat in Congress Bush's proposed multi-billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other undemocratic Arab states? Why should this deal be...
Wednesday Jul 25, 2007
Maintaining the Conservative Foreign Policy Frame
Sen. Hillary Clinton is seeking to prey on the potentially weak self-esteem of Democratic primary voters, by picking a gratuitous fight with Sen. Barack Obama. During this week's debate, Obama said he would be "willing" to meet with the leaders...
Wednesday Jun 6, 2007
The GOP presidential field, hysterical and crazy they may be, but they are still ahead of the Democratic field in articulating a consistent foreign policy vision. But there was some positive movement during the Democratic debate. And a counter-intuitive opening...
Thursday May 24, 2007
There's Votes, and There's Leadership
Color LiberalOasis unimpressed with Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waiting until the very last minute to announce they were voting against the Iraq bill. When you're a Senator, the bottom line is how you vote. When you're auditioning for...
Sunday May 20, 2007
On Meet The Press today, presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd debated Newt Gingrich about Iraq and foreign policy, the kind of bold move that most "top tier" candidates would be too risk-averse to do. But the bold move only works...
Thursday May 17, 2007
The Feingold-Reid resolution had a poor showing this week, garnering only 29 votes in a cloture vote. And that's inflated, because presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made clear they were only voting for cloture (which they...
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Obstructionism Is Working (But It Didn't Have To)
GOP filibusters, a presidential veto, and Dem defensiveness in the wake of other filibuster and veto threats, have prevented Congressional leaders from enacting their campaign pledges. Republicans whined and wailed about obstructionism when they were in charge, but they know...
Thursday Mar 15, 2007
What does it mean that Sen. Hillary Clinton said that she wants to leave behind an undetermined number of troops "between Baghdad and Kirkuk ... for our antiterrorism mission; for our northern support mission; for our ability to respond to...
Thursday Feb 22, 2007
The front page of today's New York Daily News said it all. In between pictures of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, read the words: "Two Years Of This?" That said it all because it not only summed up the...
Monday Jan 29, 2007
LiberalOasis has previously expressed wariness about Sen. Hillary Clinton's foreign policy objectives, as she has left open the possibility of permanent bases in Iraq. But today on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, when asked about possible military action in Iran, she...
Friday Jan 26, 2007
On Wednesday during NBC's Today, Sen. Barack Obama said: I think all of us are talking about a phased redeployment which would leave American troops in the region to send a strong message not only to the Iraqi government that...
Wednesday Jan 17, 2007
When Sen. Russ Feingold decided not to run for President, LiberalOasis said: ...grassroots liberals can [now] focus more of our time on articulating [core liberal] principles ourselves, before the primary season heats up. If we best use our newfound perches...
Friday Jan 5, 2007
Please scroll down to check out the various podcasts from my time in the House yesterday. Regular blogging resumes next week....
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
Podcast with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
Click the links below to hear Rep. Barney Frank's remarks to the group of bloggers covering the House today. Apologies for the subpar audio quality. Rep. Barney Frank on what Republicans failed to do, and what Dems will do for...
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
Podcast with DNC Chair Howard Dean
Click the links below to listen to the LiberalOasis interview with Howard Dean: Howard Dean on the 50-State Strategy and Democratic vision for America Howard Dean on Iraq...
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
Podcast with Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
Click the links below to hear the LiberalOasis interview with Rep. Louise Slaughter: Rep. Louise Slaughter on The First 100 Hours agenda (Part 1) Rep. Louise Slaughter on The First 100 Hours agenda (Part 2) Rep. Louise Slaughter on the...
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
Podcast with Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA)
Click the links below to listen to the LiberalOasis interview with freshman Rep. Jason Altmire: Rep. Jason Altmire on the Democratic vision for America Rep. Jason Altmire on the First 100 Hours agenda Rep. Jason Altmire on Iraq...
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
Podcast with Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC)
Click the following links to hear the LiberalOasis interview with Rep. Brad Miller: Rep. Brad Miller on the Democratic vision for America Rep. Brad Miller on The First 100 Hours agenda Rep. Brad Miller on Iraq...
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
I'm currently inside the Capitol, as Speaker Pelosi's office has set up a "Bloggers Alley" for bloggers to interview congresspeople before and after the swearing-in. I'll do my best to post updates throughout the day....
Thursday Jan 4, 2007
Cross-posted at The Huffington Post Right before Election Day, I noted here that even if the Democrats won, there would still be much "work to do to better articulate what the Democratic Party stands for" so Dems can "offer their...
Thursday Dec 14, 2006
Yesterday, Dem Sen. Ron Wyden proposed a universal health insurance plan, flanked by the head of the Service Employees International Union and the CEO of Safeway. For first reaction analyses, check out The Agonist, The Carpetbagger Report, D-Day. Ezra Klein...
Monday Nov 13, 2006
Sen. Russ Feingold's announcement, declining an '08 presidential run, is surely a disappointment to those who want a nominee that is not only willing to run on core liberal principles, but potentially able to articulate those principles in a way...
Friday Nov 10, 2006
What The Heck Is Jim Wallis Talking About?
That's my question over at The Huffington Post, after Wallis called the midterm results a defeat for the "secular Left." In Wait! Don't Move To Canada!, I talk about how we can and need to build a coalition of the...
Friday Nov 10, 2006
" target="_blank">We're hearing a lot of "bipartisanship" talk from incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Understandably, they want to send a signal to the public that they are actually interested in governing and delivering for...
Thursday Nov 9, 2006
Republicans spent the Day After in some disarray -- a House leadership fight, a President bringing back his old "uniter not a divider" act, the surprise sacking of Don Rumsfeld. But do not expect the GOP to remain fractured for...
Monday Nov 6, 2006
It's the day after Election Day. Democrats have just earned a resounding victory. But while they're basking in the glow, the highest-ranking Republican in Washington steps up to the mic and fires a warning shot -- there may be a...
Friday Oct 27, 2006
Jonah & Me on Bloggingheads.tv
The National Review's Jonah Goldberg and I met over at Bloggingheads.tv, where we talked about the strategic objectives in Iraq, the merits of permanent bases, the nature of neocons, midterms and mandates. You can watch it here....
Wednesday Oct 25, 2006
PoliticsTV: Liberalism and the Democratic Party
The third installment of my interview by PoliticsTV.com is up, which talks about the need for the Democratic Party to embrace its ideological foundation of liberalism, if it is to consistently win elections with mandates to move our country in...
Tuesday Oct 24, 2006
Interview With Tom Schaller, Author of "Whistling Past Dixie"
The sharp and insightful Tom Schaller, executive editor of The Gadflyer, recently published Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without The South, which was praised by Publishers Weekly as a "much-needed shot of realpolitik in the arm of the...
Monday Oct 2, 2006
The Midterm Dynamic (or, What Mark Halperin Doesn't Understand About America)
Republicans have done everything possible in the last two years to sabotage their chances of keeping Congress. They lost control of Iraq. They lost New Orleans altogether. They believed Social Security privatization was a political winner. They rallied around the...
Tuesday Sep 19, 2006
(Note: the following was posted at The Huffington Post earlier today) I'm afraid of what might happen after the midterms, November 7. If Democrats fail to earn control of one or both houses, I fear grassroots Democrats and liberals may...
Monday Sep 18, 2006
The Guardian on the Clinton Meeting
On Saturday, The Guardian (United Kingdom) reported on last week's blogger meeting with President Clinton. It concludes: "When historians come to write the definitive account of the rise of the liberal blog in the US, it is quite possible they...
Wednesday Sep 13, 2006
President Clinton Meets With Bloggers
Yesterday, several bloggers including myself were invited to meet with President Bill Clinton in his Harlem office. In picture above, I'm in the blue shirt on the left. Jessica Valenti of Feministing and Barbara O'Brien of Mahablog are on my...
Tuesday Aug 22, 2006
The Election Will Not Be Nationalized
With the Republican White House and Republican Congress suffering abysmal poll numbers, Republican candidates will not "nationalize" the election by running on a coordinated message and agenda. Instead, some candidates will be putting distance between themselves and Dubya on issues...
Friday Aug 18, 2006
LiberalOasis is a little loathe to write about the CT Senate race so soon after the primary. The race already risks getting disproportionate attention, as there are several other races that will determine control of Congress. But yesterday's Quinnipiac poll...
Wednesday Aug 9, 2006
Man Without A Party, A Winning Issue, A Majority...
Lieberman sought to blunt Ned Lamont's victory momentum by announcing his "Connecticut For Lieberman" party run in his concession speech. Will it work? That's for Connecticut voters to decide, not pundits or bloggers. But LiberalOasis presumes not. It is far...
Thursday Jul 20, 2006
It's a fine line between an effective squeaky wheel and a counterproductive whiner. Beltway conservatives are an especially whiny lot, but on the whole, pretty effective. By periodically complaining that even right-wing presidencies are not right-wing enough, they can move...
Monday Jul 17, 2006
Last week's neocon Iran Fever continued to spread on Sunday. Newt Gingrich, on " target="_blank">NBC's Meet The Press, and Bill Kristol, on " target="_blank">Fox News Sunday, continued the right-wing effort to pressure the Bushies for accelerated action against Iran, if...
Tuesday Jul 11, 2006
CT Post Story on Fake Lamont Sticker
The Connecticut Post picked up the story about Sen. Joe Lieberman's use of a fake Lamont bumper sticker in a TV ad, and credited LiberalOasis for uncovering it. Here's the lede: "No More Joe." That's the bumper sticker appearing in...
Sunday Jul 9, 2006
EXCLUSIVE: Lieberman Ad Uses Fake Lamont Sticker
A TV ad, with a message approved by Sen. Joe Lieberman, uses a phony Ned Lamont bumper sticker to falsely claim that all Lamont has to say is "No More Joe." The ad ran today on Hartford's Fox affiliate WTIC-61,...
Friday Jul 7, 2006
Lieberman Fails To Take Out Lamont
The political bottom line of last night's primary election debate between incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman and challenger Ned Lamont (video clips available at PoliticsTV) is that Lamont is still standing and taken seriously. For an outsider candidate, you can't ask...
Wednesday Jul 5, 2006
So, Barack Obama got some plaudits and some harsh words for holding forth on religion -- his own, and the role of religion in public life. Like others who have waded into these deep waters, Obama and his critics both...
