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“Yup, this is insanity,” Kos writes at DailyKos.com. “Not only is it brain dead stupid with regards to Republicans, but also betrays his own vice president and congressional caucus—which had promised several times that Social Security (among other things) was … Continue reading →

Jane Hamsher at firedoglake.com presents the full, irrefutable chronology. Pelosi can forget about ever getting that ghavel back, and frankly she doesn’t deserve it.  She is fundamentally nothing more than a party hack.  But what’s so very strange is that … Continue reading →

She’s on board with Social Security benefit cuts.  Are we surprised? Primary the scoundrels!

The question is whether House and Senate Democratic leaders, or someone like Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Keith Ellison, can succeed in pulling Obama back from the real cliff: his own abject desire to propitiate his enemies. This is a president … Continue reading →

If they really do think he won’t pay an enormous political price for doing what GW Bush couldn’t–cutting Social Security. These guys ran a pretty good campaign, but that is all. He will in fact, have shot himself and the … Continue reading →

He’s apparently going to allow cuts to Social Security, while tacitly condoning future cuts to Medicaid and Medicare by Congess. Ezra Klein reports on the dirty details. I knew it was a bad idea to let him alone with Boehner.

for Nation of Change on the establishment media’s current quagmire.  And with a hopeful note! The Orange County Register is actually seeking to reverse the now perpetual and seemingly irrevocable  attrition of significant content production by so many of its … Continue reading →

A major reason for the declining fortunes of book and periodical publishing is the fact that these industries are still operating in thrall to an MBA-hatched formula that is both retrograde and thoroughly inappropriate to the industries operating—now groaning–under its … Continue reading →

Ballet Review Fall 2012 Gorgeous photos? We’ve got them. Indispensable words?  We’ve got those too. Try not to miss my review of the Paris Opera Ballet’s season here last summer as well as my interview with POB’s Karl Paquette.

About heading off another Obama fold. After all, when Pelosi began her career, Democrats were still Democrats.  (Where is Tallulah Bankhead when we need her?) And so I suppose I was wrong in my earlier read on what she was … Continue reading →