ETG writes in the comments section:
I have thought for some time that this is nowhere near a conservative administration. It is fundamentally fascist to it’s core. That they call themselves conservative is only going to blot whatever honor is left in that movement.
It’s clear that the anti-tax, anti-environment conservative movement of Goldwater and Reagan […]

I read in the paper today that the GOP wants to become the environmentally friendly party. Hilariously, they want to do this by drilling for more oil.
Senate Republicans aim to undercut Democrats’ claim to be the environmentally conscious party by combining their own conservation message [sic] with a longstanding push for more oil drilling. […]
The […]

This is completely unfair, but also hilarious.

One candidate is the a son of a famous father. He divorced his first wife in order to marry a wealthy beer heiress, and then used his second wife’s money to go into politics. He’s running on a platform that offers huge tax cuts for wealthy heiresses, and “adversity builds character” for everyone else.
According to […]

Spencer Ackerman has a great article in The American Prospect taking a look at Barack Obama’s foreign policy team, and at what Obama means when he talks about ending not just the Iraq War, but the mindset that got us stuck there in the first place:
They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of […]

Can the Clinton campaign and the GOP continue to insinuate that Obama is a Muslim, while simultaneously painting the former minister of his church as anti-American for his belief — shared with many pastors on the far right of the conservative movement, but relatively rare in the canons of traditional Protestant thought — that God […]

It’s hard to see how the results last night aren’t a unmitigated disaster for the Democratic Party. Having previously lost eight hundred primaries in a row, there’s no way that Hillary Clinton can win the nomination. Having won Ohio and Texas last night, there’s no way that she can plausibly drop out of the race.
Given […]

Terry McAuliffe is on my television screen, going on about how Ohio and Pennsylvania, but not Missouri or Wisconsin or Virginia or Colorado or Iowa or Minnesota or Washington, are critically important swing states in the fall. Also, caucuses are unfair because every vote should count, but superdelegates are fair because the rules say so. […]

Airing a fearmongering commercial in which a sleeping child wears pajamas that say “Good Night”.

Ron Brownstein has an article in the National Journal on the changing demographics of the Democratic Party, namely that we are “growing younger, more affluent, more liberal, and more heavily tilted toward women, Latinos, and African-Americans”.
Brownstein notes that:
this year’s changes have accelerated a clear movement away from key elements of the historic New Deal […]

I like Hillary Clinton, and once her presidential ambitions are put to rest, I think she’ll go on to make a superb majority leader. If she wants to, she can be the next Ted Kennedy, a lion of the Democratic Party with a national voice and an undisputed mastery of the Senate. There’s nothing but […]

The answer appears to be no.
As a reward for winning every single precinct in Dane County, and for winning big in all the neighboring counties as well, Barack Obama will win five delegates from the 2nd CD, while Clinton will win three.
Unfortunately, unless things change, his actual advantage at the convention will be only a […]

Barack Obama won Wisconsin 58% to 41%, but it’s more fun to look at the local results. He won Dane County 67% to 31%, and he won the city of Madison 71% to 28%.
There are 188 wards reporting in Dane County (*). Barack Obama won all 188 of them.
My own ward 99 is […]

I’ve mentioned many times that, although I prefer Obama, I like both of our candidates. I like Senator Clinton, and I think she has the ability and the potential to be a very good president. But this is where I get off the train:
Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a […]

Brad Vogel is growing (understandably) weary of the mockery that McCain has endured for his quip about staying in Iraq for a hundred years:
McCain’s explication of the statement is anything but off the wall - it demonstrates a better understanding of U.S. military and global history, as well as Middle East politics, than I’ve seen […]