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Wednesday March 16, 2011 · 8:44 PM PDT

2011/03/16 · 20:44

One of the things I've really been slow to understand is the idea, first pointed out to me by Stuart Zechman, that people who call themselves "centrists" or "pragmatists" are not actually positioning themselves on the political spectrum. They are not "moderates' who fit somewhere between the marxists on the left and the authoritarians on the right.

Or, they are not somewhere in between an FDR liberal and a William Buckley conservative.

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Monday December 06, 2010 · 6:58 AM PST

2010/12/06 · 06:58

Arthur Brisbane had to say something about the NY Times using Icky Assange's leaks. But he really should have read up on his history.

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Saturday November 06, 2010 · 5:34 AM PDT

2010/11/06 · 05:34

Yesterday, Jed put up a post that made a really good point:

Basically, the strategy here is to decouple the Obama tax cut -- that's the tax cut that everybody, including wealthy people, get on their first $250,000 of income -- and the Bush tax cuts that only go to wealthy people making over $250,000.

It is very seldom made clear that the cut Obama wants to extend applies to everybody not just (!) to the 98% of Americans who make less than $250,000. The NY Times got this wrong this morning in an article by Michael Cooper.

So I wrote ~~Ombud~~ Public Editor Arthur Brisbane a note:

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Friday December 25, 2009 · 11:12 PM PST

2009/12/25 · 23:12

(Cross posted at Political Lagoon)

Jonathan Chait has a justly widely cited TNR post summarizing the defense of the Senate health care bill. While he frequently does a fine job of presenting the arguments, he also says this:

Young people will have to pay for insurance that is, actuarially speaking, a bad deal, so that older and sicker people can get a good deal. That’s how insurance works. Fire insurance is a terrific deal for anybody whose home burns down and a bad deal for anybody whose doesn’t. The healthy and young who must overpay can be consoled by the knowledge that one day they may become the sick and old free-riders.

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Wednesday August 05, 2009 · 1:07 PM PDT

2009/08/05 · 13:07

If I were an elected Democratic official holding a town hall on health care reform, this is the preamble I'd adopt.

So glad to have all you folks here. It shows what an important issue we are talking about today. Now because we are here to share views, I'd appreciate that everyone get a chance to say their piece without interruption.

That includes me. Please give me a chance to answer your questions without interruption.

Before we start, it will help me to know where you folks are coming from.

Who here currently has some form of health insurance? Please raise your hands.

Of those, who is covered under a plan provided by your employer?

And who covers themselves, pays for insurance out of pocket?

Next, who here gets their health care from the government, under Medicare, Medicaid, or the Veterans Administration?

Finally, is there anyone here eligible for Medicare or VA coverage who has opted for private insurance instead? Please raise your hands.

Um, Dana, THIS is satire

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Tuesday August 04, 2009 · 8:58 AM PDT

2009/08/04 · 08:58

dickwhisperer Dana Milbank lashed back at the "few" bloggers who took him to task for calling Hillary Clinton a "mad bitch," as well as calling Chip Pickering's wife a "bitter woman." In Milbank's Village, misogyny is hilarity.

The video was pulled, but Milbank and Cilizza are unbowed. They struck back today with yet another condescending and decidedly not funny reply.

(I am not linking. Believe me, you don't want to watch it.)

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Tuesday July 07, 2009 · 2:51 PM PDT

2009/07/07 · 14:51

I asked Claire McCaskill, on twitter, this morning the following:

Can you give a plausible explanation for preferring a weak bipartisan health care bill to a strong partisan version?

She didn't answer, of course.

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Tuesday February 24, 2009 · 11:59 AM PST

2009/02/24 · 11:59

I'm reading Michael Lux's new book, The Progressive Revolution. He identifies 11 dramatic moments in US history that generated long last change. They are listed below the fold, along with some comments of my own.

I'll be talking to Mike at my weekly Virtually Speaking program which takes place on Thursdays at 6pm pst/9pm est. You can come join us in Second Life, at the Virtually Speaking ning community, using the BlogTalkRadio widget or at the VS page atBlogTalkRadio.

The video below is of Mike, on a panel with Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of Atlantic Philanthropies; Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn.org; Moderated by Laura Flanders of GRITtv, Air America and Radio Nation, which took place at Living Liberally's The Tank. Video by RagingGrrl.

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What's your Number 1?

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What's your Number 1?

The enactment of the US Constitution

6 votes

The Bill of Rights

8 votes

Lincoln and the Radical Republicans

2 votes

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

1 vote

The Progressive Era reforms of the early 1900s

0 votes

The New Deal

5 votes

Civil rights legislation in the 1960s

2 votes

Medicare and Medicaid

0 votes

Environmental legislation of the 70s

1 vote

Dan Froomkin in Second Life On Thursday

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Tuesday February 17, 2009 · 11:16 AM PST

2009/02/17 · 11:16

Dan Froomkin of White House Watch at washingtonpost.com will join us at Virtually Speaking in Second Life simulcast at BlogTalkRadio. BTR widget is on the Virtually Speaking website.

Program starts at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern. Among the things we'll talk about is what I call the Froomkin Flap.

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Monday February 09, 2009 · 3:32 AM PST

2009/02/09 · 03:32

Georgia10 says:

When the core philosophy of a party is that government cannot work and should do as little as possible, that philosophy benefits only those who have the resources necessary to sustain themselves regardless of whether the government is massive or whether it's so small you can drown it in a bathtub.

It's way worse than this.

They do believe in government, in big government. They believe the role of government is to transfer income and wealth from the general population to a wealthy elite.

They can't say this out loud, but they have never believed in smaller government. They believe in a large intrusive government that plays Robin Hood in reverse.

The evidence is overwhelming.

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Thursday December 11, 2008 · 10:11 AM PST

2008/12/11 · 10:11

(Crossposted:Kroydblog)

I'm starting to get an Alice in Wonderland feeling about plans for a US withdrawal from Iraq, under the SOFA, following Obama's "combat troops" out in 16 months in the context of the reality of the Iraqi situation.

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 11:30 AM PDT

2008/09/16 · 11:30

The release of Robert Kuttner's book, Obama's Challenge, couldn't be more timely. The worst financial crisis in a century, according to Alan Greenspan, while frightening, represents an opportunity to make major changes in the way the US economy operates.

We'll be talking to Robert Kuttner in Second Life, this Thursday at 6pm Pacific.

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