The reason that Republicans struggle to say how to pay for the tax cuts is because it is impossible to pay for tax cuts with any adjustment to the budget of consequence. The laws of mathematics still apply. Unfortunately when rhetoric meets reality, reality always wins. Unfortunately the Right Wing Echo Chamber has been successful […]

  During the three decades after World War II, for example, incomes in the United States rose rapidly and at about the same rate — almost 3 percent a year — for people at all income levels. America had an economically vibrant middle class. Roads and bridges were well maintained, and impressive new infrastructure was […]

I have always thought that  before politics got better it had to get worst. Republicans are masters at playing gutter politics. From Willie Horton to the commercials with racial overtones classic in the North Carolina senatorial race a few years ago, Republicans won by whatever means necessary. Democrats tend to be less vicious in their […]

I will wager that most conservatives have the same feelings articulated by Jesse Ventura. They will however not say it because the core of their base are fanatic supporters of Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, and Michele Bachmann, likely the most unqualified, ignorant by choice, and dangerous women to every enter the body politic of a […]

I completely agree that Democrat’s suffer the problem of not knowing how to market a message. While the stimulus and TARP prevented a depression and a world financial meltdown, and healthcare reform is beneficial to all, neither the President, nor Congressional Democrats, nor Progressive pundits forcefully illustrated this in a manner Americans could understand. Instead […]

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What enthusiasm gap? Democrats so far are making me proud in early voting so far. Of course it is still early and we need to keep it up. I have been saying for some time that the likely voter model was not correct. I think the enthusiasm narrative was a direct corporate bait and switch […]

We need to make Paladino and O’Donnell the manifestation of all Tea Party candidates. It is not their personal character flaw that make this the canvas, the base of the Tea Party movement. It is the type of hypocrisy that make them unfit to serve in the public interest. We must however take it one […]

  Suzi Parker Correspondent LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former President Bill Clinton swung through Arkansas this week for a handful of campaign stops in his home state, taking a few hard-hitting swings at Republican opponents who are attacking his old friends running for office. On Thursday morning, Clinton joined 2nd Congressional District candidate Joyce Elliott […]