After Mitt Romney’s humiliating defeat in 2012, many pundits explicitly or implicitly agreed with bloger Ted Frier who wrote that the GOP had deteriorated
Category: Congress
Extending unemployment payments — a matter of fairness: Progressive Blog Digest
The Senate passes unemployment payments, Obama ramps up the pressure. What will the House Repubs do? See today’s full Progressive Blog Digest here.
A Republican Congresswoman’s district survey, annotated by a “Democrat” constituent
My Congressional representative wants my input for her annual district survey. I just received it in the mail, and I’m glad she asked. But as
UN Treaty on Disability Rights: Obama says yes; so should Congress
Perhaps you haven’t noticed. Our current president is an unwavering optimist. Whether we see Obama’s optimism as a character trait or a belief system
It’s worse than it looks: False equivalencies in media reporting
In their book, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism,” authors Thomas Mann
Finding a voice for single-payer healthcare in an unlikely place–CNN
I must confess; I’m a semi-secret fan of the mainstream press. This is not because I admire its approach to the news. Rather, I
War weary? There’s a bill for that.
With winter coming, I love to go out when it snows and the air is so peaceful. I even like to shovel snow at
Obamacare has a second chance to get it right: Progressive Blog Digest
A roundup of what progressive blogs are saying about today’s issues: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/30/obama-health-care-reform_n_4361679.html More: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/11/30/inside_the_effort_to_rescue_obamacare.html Inside the Effort to Rescue Obamacare http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/11/30/healthcare_website_still_improving.html Healthcare Website Still
Dear Senator Warren, we need you to be president
The title of Noam Scheiber’s November cover story in the New Republic is: “Hillary’s Nightmare: A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies with
What to expect when you’re expecting
By Sarah Casteel, Clayton High School senior, St. Louis MO While our society still faces sex-based workplace discrimination — clearly most often targeted at