Happy 2018! If the Democratic Party can take control of either the House or the Senate in this year’s midterm elections, it will have been a good year. There are a lot of interesting opportunities for Democratic candidates to beat Republican incumbents or pick up open seats. One is the district in which I grewContinue reading “2018 Midterm Elections – New Jersey 11th Congressional District”
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How to Build on Alabama
Last night, Democrat Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore and picked up an unlikely U.S. Senate seat for Democrats in Alabama. It was a close one – Jones won with 49.9% of the vote against 48.4% for Moore and 1.7% for write-ins. Before getting to the good news, though, it’s worth noting that the RepublicanContinue reading “How to Build on Alabama”
The IRS Targeting Scandal Was Hugely Important, and Not a Scandal
Today we learned definitively that the “scandal” involving the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups was never really a partisan scandal at all. The IRS used similar methodology in establishing criteria that resulted in the flagging of both liberal-leaning and conservative-leaning groups for extra scrutiny. It was poorly designed oversight policy applied equally to all groups.Continue reading “The IRS Targeting Scandal Was Hugely Important, and Not a Scandal”
Republicans May Pass a “Health-Care” Bill As Soon As Next Week
Republicans in Congress are using reliable tactics to achieve quick results on their various “health-care”* bills. That is, Republicans have avoided public scrutiny, misled, obfuscated, tossed around word salads, pointed fingers, and even lied – all in service of passing unpopular “health-care” legislation that is mostly a vehicle for tax cuts. Since they ran against ObamacareContinue reading “Republicans May Pass a “Health-Care” Bill As Soon As Next Week”
Incompetent Through and Through
The Republican Party apparatus is having a really difficult day today. First, someone in charge of the Twitter account for the Republican National Committee tweeted out a spurious quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Not long after that, someone else (probably?) at the US Department of Education misspelled the name of W.E.B. Du Bois in a tweet quotingContinue reading “Incompetent Through and Through”
Nonsense Consensus 