In the past few years partisan rancor has corroded O’Neill’s iron law of politics. Nothing has angered me more than the sight of
Mayor Giuliani campaigning for the man who has cut funds for New York
City and redistributed “homeland security” money to fire departments in
rural America. Despite bringing home the bacon, Daschle is
ousted from the Senate.
It’s [...]
As Cheney put it in his own nasty way, if Kerry can’t stand up to
Howard Dean, “how can we expect them to stand up to Al Qaida?” For that
matter, how can we expect him to stand up to Karl Rove?
Why was the Kerry campaign not ready for this contingency in Ohio?
I’m listening
to:
“Seek and Destroy“
Why were [...]
My vote is cast. (Go Alice Wolf!)
Now off to the phone banks.
The problem with democracy in America today is that we equate it
with elections, when elections are really just the beginning of the
democratic process. As Howard Dean writes today, “On
an A – F scale, voting gets a ‘D’. It is the bare minimum required to
keep our democracy alive.” Yet, Americans treat democracy as a sporting
event that, [...]
