Month: September 2007

This diary is in support of Steven D’s excellent “Some Questions for Our Democratic Leaders” — I posted it earlier this week at Happening Here before the discouraging MoveOn vote. It seems only more true...

Community organizing groups often pride themselves by their refusal of any government money. The general agreement among organizers on this issue rests on very good reasons, grounded on a long history of co-optation of...

The 110th Congress has been a huge disappointment to me.  I never expected much, to be entirely fair.  I did expect that the Democrats would put up bills, which Bush would then veto.   I had forgotten about the...

I don’t mean to be rude, but what the hell is going on? No impeachment proceedings, despite the Kucinich Impeachment Articles languishing in the House? A refusal to make the Republican Senators filibuster the Webb...

Not my words; rather, they are the words of a friend of mine who really isn’t all that interested in politics. And those 9 words got me thinking. Thinking of things that bode very well, some very broad observations, and things...