A moderately liberal Democraticly-themed blog
I’m going to start posting my Politifact Truthfulness Scale scores on Mad Wombat from now on. For those unfamiliar with it on twitter, I gather the politifact scores for active, and some potential candidates for President. I then assign each rating a score. “True” gets 2 points, “Mostly True” gets 1 point, “Half True” gets [...]
So Fox News published this article about a recent college graduate trying to make a point about wealth distribution by comparing it to “GPA Distribution.” The jist of if is this: He goes around asking college students if they’d be willing to give their higher grade points to students with lower grade points, and then [...]
If one read this article without any knowledge of actual facts, it might actually make sense: Yet a number of political analysts and social scientists say the intransigence has as much to do with Americans outside the capital as lawmakers within it. If Americans want to know why their elected officials can’t compromise, these scholars [...]
I hope this will be my last post on this blog about so-called “EmoProgs,” though I’m sure they’ll do something overly ridiculous in the future to cause me to react to them. However, I think the time for infighting is over. We have to start focusing on defeating Republicans, and we can’t do that as [...]
Some people may not have had a chance to watch or read Rick Perry’s announcement speech this afternoon. If you haven’t, I thought I would save you some time and present to you, the Rick Perry Announcement Speech: Abridged Version: Hello, I’m folksy. I’m glad to be in conservative states who love the military, unlike [...]
Peter Daou, not shockingly, had decided to write a piece blaming all of the world’s problems at the feet of Obama and the Democratic Party at large. And while the Democratic Party isn’t blameless for the current situation – their general messaging often does suck, though the media filter doesn’t help with that – Daou [...]
I posted this as a comment to his latest blog post about what he would have done in the debt limit fight (short of it: just declare the debt ceiling raised or abolished and not even bothered talking to Congress to begin with), but I thought I would post it here so it would be [...]
Before I get into the body of this post, I want to say this: I wouldn’t characterize this as a “win,” either for Democrats or the nation. Any time a political party is willing to bring us within 48 hours of default – and perhaps closer pending the actual votes in Congress – is a [...]
