It’s slightly sickening to realize that the big winners in the midterm elections are likely to be the very people who first got us into this mess, then did everything in their power to block action to get us out.
Posted 12 hours ago
With Eye on Redistricting, G.O.P. Primed for Statehouse Gains
This could well be the most important problem facing Democrats this fall.
Posted 2 days ago
The problem, rather, is that Ms Fiorina had to hesitate on the specific question of whether humans are causing global warming. Carly Fiorina’s tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard has been severely criticised, but she is clearly an intelligent woman and in all likelihood recognises that man-made global warming is real. It is troubling that the contemporary state of American political discourse obliges people who know better to stifle themselves on this issue. So long as segments of the American political elite feed voters cynical lines on global warming, and large numbers of voters believe them, America will continue to get the political leadership it deserves, and face the serious consequences of inaction.
The Economist: Proposition 23: Reason, politics, and global warming
Posted 4 days ago
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. Surrounding yourself with smart people you like to work with helps immeasurably. We’ve got a long road ahead and I’m looking forward to another ten years.
Biz Stone, Timing Lessons
Posted 1 week ago
Again, we’re positing based on suppositions. This is never a good way to talk about a device.
Agreed. So don’t do it. Idiots.
Posted 3 weeks ago
She has, for example, called for the elimination of the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, denounced the BP compensation fund for victims of the oil spill as a slush fund, and suggested that her candidacy was a mission for God.
Tea Party Choice, Sharron Angle, Scrambles in Taking on Harry Reid
It’s a strange political environment right now. Republicans are going to win a lot of elections in November, and that should mean that as a party, they get more moderate, right? It’s the same problem the Democrats suffer from now: they have a broad coalition that includes representatives and senators from conservative districts, so liberal ideas like, say, including a public option in the health care bill tend to be dead on arrival.
It seems like the opposite could be true this time. Republicans will make gains, but their caucus could very well be more conservative, not less, because there will be so many of these tea partiers around. Weird.
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