http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 05:58:13 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:58:13 He never even tried. He sold out to the South when it came to jury trials on the civil rights act of 1957, and courted the support of racist Southern Democrats on that basis. He was a genius for PR, though. He invited black entertainers to the White House when he got elected. Meanwhile, Lyndon J... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/129 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:29:46 Democrats will be as much as saying that they’ve been wrong about the tax issue all these years and have just been punishing the rich, even at the expense of hurting the overall economy. And since the Democratic position on the economy depends on having tax money to spend, ceding the tax issue will ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/128 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:43:53 Loyal viewers of [i]Democracy Now![/i] with Amy Goodman are familiar with, and hopefully share, her love of weird indie music. For those who aren't regular viewers, or who just missed the show one day, here's a fine and very topical example.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/127 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:11:39 Democrats will be as much as saying that they've been wrong about the tax issue all these years and have just been punishing the rich, even at the expense of hurting the overall economy. And since the Democratic position on the economy depends on taxes, ceding the tax issue will mean largely surren... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/126 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:04:00 Angela McGlowan, a Fox News contributor who left to compete in the GOP primary for Mississippi's First Congressional District and ended up getting crushed with just 15% of the vote, returns to the network.

http://is.gd/dWU12... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/125 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:19:10 Pat Buchanan would not have lasted as a White House press corps front-bencher. His odious remarks would have gotten him turfed out of that position. However, he is not a White House press corps front-bencher but a commentator, and a lot more is tolerated in that line of work. By contrast, if Hele... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/124 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:09:24 The following statement is mistaken:

[div class="excerpt"]Moreover both parties do not like candidates who have tried once and lost.[/div class]

While the Democrats like new faces (JFK, McGovern, Carter, Dukakis, Clinton, Obama) the Republicans are royalists and dislike upstarts; they usually ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/123 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:59:54 Several months back Thompson said he'd been raking it in pretty well since leaving public office but still hadn't piled up as much money as he'd like. Returning to public office would curtail that, so I figured he and Pataki would most likely not run for Senate. Love these fake patriots who wibble... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/122 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:54:34 [div class="excerpt"]“The irony is, is that on the left we are perceived as being in the pockets of big business; and then on the business side, we are perceived as being anti-business,” Obama said[/div class]

He should give up the faux-populist rhetoric and be a frank conservative Democrat. Bet... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/121 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:48:34 [div class="excerpt"]The Senators who are up for re-election this year are those who were elected in 2004 -- a good cycle for Republicans.[/div]

Democrats need to make 2010 a successful Senate election year because in 2012 and 2014, our many freshmen from 2006 and 2008 will be facing their first ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/120 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:51:57 Whether of his own volition, or because Congress clips his wings. It may even look better from their POV to have a Democratic president in office while they consolidate their control than be so brazen as to go hell for leather and install a Republican. That would set people's radar off, and they h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/119 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:35:07 I wouldn't be surprised if his personal popularity holds up. He's credible as president, not a maniac, reassuring after Bush, and has a basic humanity as evidenced by his response to Haiti. That's not to say people are impressed with his policy initiatives on controversial issues--few are. But I thi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/118 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:39:33 Those who self-identify as progressive have strong ideological commitments, while there's a larger group of voters in the center, or who at least [i]think[/i] they're in the center, who favor more public power to offset private greed, which has them in a rage. There's a distinct cognitive dissonanc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/117 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:39:03 All congressional Republicans have to do to turn out their base, which hates Democrats in general and Obama in particular, is say No to everything. They've been doing that. Meanwhile, our Senate Democrats have blandly and cravenly accepted that they "need" 60 votes to pass anything, and have been ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/115 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:08:30 For Obama to get his preferences is not as meaningful as, say, FDR or LBJ (whom she references), because Obama's preferences are an easier sell and relentlessly corporate-friendly, from Wall Street bailouts to a cosmetic credit card bill to health care, where Obama's crony capitalist preferences do ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/114 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:03:29 Obama has been very active and energetic in moving the US from loony extreme conservative to saner moderate conservative policies, while maintaining the crony capitalist basis for them, which George W. Bush pioneered on the Republican side. If this is the best we can do, we are a broken people.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/116 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:13:22 Most Americans don't give two shits about ye olde gloriouse traditions of comity, unanimous consente, collegiality, endlesse silly posturing, er, deliberation, and all that other happy horseshit in the Senate. We want some results. If Senate Democrats will not do what it take to deliver better, wh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/113 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:34:14 The health care law will be improved with time, etc. He's said he's going to reintroduce the public option next year--something most of us, and certainly I, would probably call a partial fix. Now, so far as I know he hasn't predicted it will pass, but speaking about it at this time appears aimed a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/112 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:26:11 the only really interesting thing, was when Dorgan predicted drug reimportation would pass in 2010 after all, ascribing its failure this time around not to nefariousness, but a "strange bedfellows" group of No-voters. I very much doubt it will pass, myself.

And it was endearing and moving how Ed... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/111 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:37:45 Phone rings, "Hello?"

--"Hello, this is Rasmussen Reports. We're conducting a political poll. Mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"Sure! Go right ahead!"

--"Are you a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or other?"

"Life-long Democrat!"

--"Are you planning to vote in the Senate speci... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/110 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:18:14 But Hume does refer to an identifiable phenomenon in American culture: professing a religious epiphany so as to regain lost standing. Prisoners in the hoosegow do it, and so do politicians. It adds an extra touch of "authenticity" (tm) if your epiphany includes conversion to a different sect of Ch... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/109 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:14:13 If I refuse to see it, it's not there.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/107 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:17:00 I can at one and the same time realize that (1) being killed by a piece of falling space debris is something that could happen to me, and it would be awful, and that (2) it's extremely unlikely to happen and therefore I shouldn't be driven by fear of the possibility. Sort of similar with terrorism.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/108 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:13:29 But making a public spectacle of what they've done, movies, etc., appears to imply that the way to solve America's problem of grinding poverty in general, and for black Americans in particular, is to have a few rich families (almost always white at the cinema) with a sense of [i]noblesse oblige[/i].... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/106 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:08:54 Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are rockstars; Kucinich and Nader aren't. I have no doubt but that a good number of moderates indifferent to political philosophy both voted for Reagan (or would have, had they been of age), and punched the ticket for Obama in 2008. What we need is a left-wing rocksta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/burning rain/105 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:20:26