Are Democrats Pro-Middle Class or Anti-Rich?

I ask the question in the title in all seriousness, because it will help determine how, how much, or even whether to compromise with the GOP at all over the next two years (depending on what the GOP offering and is willing to compromise on themselves, of course).  And while, in a perfect world, many [...]

Obama in his own words

As someone called him, the “Passionate Pragmatist” in his own words: With respect to the bottom line, in terms of what my core principles are, yeah look, I’ve got a bunch of lines in the sand. Not making tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, that was a line in the sand. Making sure that the [...]

Obama’s Tax Cut Compromise and Progressives

“Join me in a drink to celebrate our mutual dissatisfaction.” – Commander Shran Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Cease Fire” So a Obama-GOP Tax Cut Compromise has been reached.  I think all and all, it’s a rather reasonable agreement, considering the circumstances.  It includes some shit we don’t like (extension of tax cuts for the rich [...]

Netroots: Finally Getting It? Or Maybe Not

So my favorite (sort of) ex-bloggnig site once again had an interesting post yesterday.  It actually seems they get some stuff right this time.  However, it’s generally for the wrong reasons.  Also, they still get a lot of stuff wrong. First, the author makes some good arguments about why Obama isn’t stupid: One need not [...]

Put Up or Shut Up

So Krugman has another post up where he basically complains that, from his view, Obama basically holds to “right wing” economic ideals through, what Krugman views, is an embracing of Reaganism and a bashing of FDR.  He goes on to say this: More and more, it’s becoming clear that progressives who had their hearts set [...]

Progressives and Jobs

I’m not going to spend too much time in this article comparing Progressives to the GOP on jobs, because we already know how bad the GOP is on jobs.  However, it’s really an open question how good progressives are for jobs. I don’t mean this as an argument that the stimulus failed or some other [...]

How are they Different?

I’ve been having a hard time distinguishing between the behavior of Tea Baggers and Progressives (notably, netroots progressives) lately.  Let’s look at how many ways these people appear to be similar: Belief that Obama’s policies are destroying America Instinct that, when something happens to their disliking, to blame Democrats, and specifically Obama, first, regardless of [...]