Month: May 2009

GOP: Duping The Base

From Politico: As Barack Obama prepares to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, conservative activists have three words for Senate Republicans: Lock and load. While conservatives know that they can’t defeat Obama’s nominee...

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Obama’s Strategy

I like E.J. Dionne. I think he’s on to something in his latest column. He’s basically saying that President Obama is creating a center-left liberal establishment in Washington that is reminiscent of what we saw in...

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Meltdown and Recovery in Detroit

Last night, I attended a symposium, sponsored in part by The Nation magazine, focused on the current economic crisis.  The moderator, John Nichols, stated that the decision to come to Detroit was easy.  FDR came here...

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