Author: MassCommons

If the recent Senate campaign in Massachusetts revealed anything, it was that Scott Brown is not—previous carefully crafted public reputation to the contrary—a “nice guy”.  In fact, aside from the...

And we have a winner! Congratulation to Ezra Klein, Bloomberg View columnist, host of the Washington Post’s “Wonkblog” and winner of 2013’s first Dionne Award—presented at the whim of this blog to a...

As Michael Grunwald points out, Republicans spent the entire presidential campaign complaining President Obama had “no plan” for dealing with the country’s economy and the nation’s budget in general, and...

Michael Tomasky’s a terrific writer, an interesting thinker and I agree with lots of what he writes.  But he’s either thinking too much or too little in response to President Obama’s opening proposal for...

No, it doesn’t come from Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.  It doesn’t come from Joe Biden or Paul Ryan.  It doesn’t come from any of the multitude of political pundits and surrogate speakers for the...