Chris Bowers, at Open Left, offered a supposed “Serious Question” today: Does anyone here think that working to stop GOP from destroying the filibuster in 2005 was still a good idea? Wasn’t that a mistake? Shouldn’t we have helped them instead? Discuss. It was also sent out on Twitter, and I responded thusly: Yes. If [...]
The White House at least has the decency to try to make amends to Shirley Sherrod. The problem is that they never should have put themselves in a position to do so. The “story” was “broken” (i.e., fabricated) by an activist who was upset that the Tea Party has been called to task for failure [...]
I haven’t been writing much here lately. Not to offer a lame excuse, but I’ve been doing other things. Obviously. American political scientists sometimes like to talk about something they call “realignment.” It’s a concept that seeks to explain, and perhaps predict, when an entire generation will suddenly and irrevocably change their political identity. It [...]
