Does anyone else besides me find it...um...interesting...that a Republican seeking to unseat Harry Reid, Danny Tarkanian, is advertising here at the cafe? His tag line is "Help Finish Reagan's Last Campaign". I'm not sure what to conclude from that. Does this...
Paul Begala has said hard things to Presidents that needed to be said. I have a lot of respect for him and think he's very sharp. That said, I want to quibble with what Josh reported him to have said...
Me1: So, I see that where you are on the HC legislation is to look for reasons to urge a yes vote by your senators. Care to elaborate? Me2: I understand completely, and pretty much agree right down the line,...
I just love how the Republicans--Cheney, of course, but plenty of others as well--are right now just full of all kinds of helpful advice to the Democrats on how to keep the country safe following the recent thwarted terrorist attack....
One of my senators, Senator Jim Webb, wrote an op-ed piece on Afghanistan published Friday, December 4 in the Washington Post: A plan in need of clarity By Senator Jim WebbDecember 4, 2009 I have great regard for the careful process...
(edited, from a comment bslev requested that I post as a blog) Ok, that sounds good. How about a large public jobs bill, focusing on (green, of course) infrastructure upgrades, to reposition our country to better compete globally going forward,...
I have more or less reached the dismaying political conclusions that, first, a health care bill which provides tangible benefits must pass (by no means is it a given that something will pass), and second, any bill that passes is...
By most of the recent polls, the Democratic nominee for Virginia's next Governor, state senator Creigh Deeds, is trailing in the polls by around 7 points to his Republican challenger, Bob McDonnell. When I watch the TV ads for...
There have been times, as when he recently raised questions about the wisdom of continuing the fighting in Afghanistan/Pakistan, when George Will seems to rise above his past, arch, too-clever-by-half partisan efforts to take Democrats and liberals down a peg. ...
Where to start with this piece below in the WSJ? What the public option is about is people not wanting to pay private insurance companies' advertising and market segmentation strategy implementation costs, and for a degree of administrative complexity Kafka...
I do think David Brooks the other day stumbled onto some truth when he said Obama is not at this point feared by Congress. I think that's accurate. I think over the next couple of months re health care...
One observation I am led to on health care based on discussions at the cafe is that many members of Congress seem either to have gotten the message that there is considerable support for including a public option in the...
This is the only post I hope I make on this odious subject.Bush was deeply hated by many. But I don't believe I have ever seen a single comment by a tpmcafe denizen even suggesting or intimating violence against Bush...
Much of the economic policy discussion over the next few months will be about how to stop the bleeding in the financial sector, and then, how to prevent it from happening again. Understandably so. Paul Krugman is not alone, however,...
Lots of distinguished names on this list of signatories endorsing the Employee Free Choice Act (scroll down below the article for the full list). Notable for their absence are Krugman and Stiglitz--perhaps a fellow denizen knows the stories there. ...
I'd like to see this book get as widespread attention as possible. It is an engagingly reported look at working conditions in the south China industrial factories, which appears to be balanced and should help to ground discussion about our and other countries' policies...
Some good comments in the book club discussion this week on Andrew Bacevich's book, both by invited contributors and cafe denizens. It could be so much better if Michael Klare, Bacevich, and others would engage with us riffraff. Evidently they can't...
