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The too-democratic Democratic Party

As this marathon health-care bill enters the uncertainty of semifinals tonight, we are left with one question of much broader philosophical scope: What in God's name are the likes of Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln doing in ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Senate,  Congressional Budget Office,  Joe Lieberman

The dictatorship of the independent proletariat

Doubtless you recall all those plucky reassurances from the Democratic establishment earlier this month about what sure looked like political bloodbaths in Virginia and New Jersey. In the former's gubernatorial contest, the Republican victor ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  Gallup,  White House

There is indeed such a thing as "a stupid question"

I was about mid-sip when MSNBC's Ed Schultz induced the coffee-spraying moment: "What's the holdup?" he abruptly asked a dumbfounded Sherrod Brown about health-care legislation in the Senate. Why aren't all Democrats on board with this yet? he ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  Ed Schultz,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Sherrod Brown

The GOP's baffling suicidal tendencies

The way things are going -- or, to be more precise, the way things are crawling or stalling or dying -- Congressional Democrats have only one major hope for 2010: the Republican Party's hardest-core base. There the GOP was, earlier this month, primed ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Ronald Reagan,  Michael Steele,  Charlie Crist

George W. Bush might have been our best lesson ever

So, it turns out there's at least one major upside to George W. Bush's fiscal recklessness: Reuters reports that his successor -- having just suffered a $1.4 trillion deficit and spent the mammoth sum of $6.7 billion in Afghanistan in merely one summer ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  The Pentagon

Will America ever 'go rogue' -- again?

The good news is that 7 out of 10 Americans don't believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president of the United States; the bad news is that 3 out of 10 do, which only confirms my long-held theory that we can always expect about one-third of the ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party,  William Shatner,  White House,  John McCain

Of Fox and MSNBC and polarized tribalism

President Obama was only partly correct when, as Senator Obama, he ventured that we live not in a red America or blue America. Because, oh, how we love to dwell tribally in our red or blue cable networks and news. Tribalism -- even if, in the cases of ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MSNBC,  Barack Obama,  Keith Olbermann,  Joe Scarborough,  ESPN

President Obama's war -- at home

A bit more than a week ago I wrote that "it's safe to conclude there's not an outside observer left who doesn't believe there's electoral trouble stirring," and now come a couple of new polls -- one showing the symptoms of a national rage turned inward; ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress

Af-going-going-gone-istan

In the latest AP-GfK poll we see a seven-point uptick, from last month, in disapproval of President Obama's handling of Afghanistan, as well as a four-point increase -- now at 54 percent -- in opposition to sending more troops. Whether they're just ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  NATO,  The Pentagon,  White House

Democratic dysfunctionality on parade

"We are winning," declared former president Bill Clinton to a gathering of Democratic senators yesterday on the issue of health care, in the clearest sign yet that they're losing. When your team must be told that it's winning, when the easy grace of ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  White House,  Barack Obama,  Ron Wyden,  Gallup

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