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Obama’s First Judicial Nominee Confirmed (5 Months Later)

November 21, 2009

Judge David. F. Hamilton was confirmed Thursday in the Senate to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals 59-39, after breaking a conservative filibuster Tuesday and persevering through a painstakingly delayed process. more »

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The Republican Party Is a Party of ‘NO’

By Rebecca Lehrman

November 5, 2009

The Republicans in Congress are at it again, stonewalling everything. Last time we called it “block and blame.” Stop everything, then blame the Democrats for getting nothing done. more »

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Relax, Democrats

By Ruy Teixeira

From nytimes.com

November 5th, 2009

nytimes.com — To hear Republicans tell it, Tuesday’s elections, in which their candidates captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, were a repudiation of President Obama and indicated a voter shift toward their party. They should calm themselves down. The results don’t show this and, in fact, suggest some rather daunting challenges for the Republicans.

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The Election Message?

By Amy Traub

From dmiblog.com

November 5th, 2009

dmiblog.com — Consider this simple hypothesis: times are tough. Voters need to see that elected leaders are doing something that actually makes things better. If they don't, they're liable to opt for a change.

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About Last Night

By Jon Taplin

From tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

November 4th, 2009

tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — No matter how you slice it, the Democrats lost two big statehouses (New Jersey and Virginia), because they were perceived as the party of the establishment. The irony is that if Obama started kicking ass and taking names with the syncophants of the Fortune 500 that sit in Congress, a lot of Glenn Beck's audience might even take notice. Not to mention the youth vote, which was totally absent last night. This is a teaching moment. Let's hope the President understands this.

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The Most Important Election In The History Of The World

By Digby

November 3, 2009

So all day long I'm hearing the gasbags blather on about how this lame, off year election is a referendum on liberalism and Obama and things are looking grim, grim, grim.

The Democratic blue dogs have it all figured out:

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Democracy Vs. Capitalism, or, Not Always A Conflict, Part 3

By Natasha Chart

October 8, 2009

In theory, communism was supposed to create a utopia. In practice, it produced authoritarian disaster states, and it's by those results that it's judged. Capitalism was also supposed to produce a utopia and hasn't. While it's done better by people than its ideological rival, it has left a string of market and ethical failures by which results it must also be judged, as they were in Michael Moore's, Capitalism: A Love Story.

But are we in the United States really practicing free market capitalism as Adam Smith originally suggested it should go in The Wealth of Nations? Not really. That shouldn't get capitalism a pass, but until someone comes up with a Social Theory of Everything that produces perfect harmony and happiness for all, we need to take good ideas where we can find them. more »

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Democracy Vs. Capitalism, or, Money Isn't Everything, Part 2

By Natasha Chart

October 7, 2009

Yesterday, I looked at what Michael Moore's call for a democratic economy would mean at the national level. Today, I wanted to look at what it means at a smaller scale, at individual workplaces and for the values that each of us carries around. more »

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