Democrats need to find a common enemy
In politics, a political party needs a common enemy to win. Republicans currently have Obama to motivate them to vote, but Democrats have nobody. That needs to change. In the 2000's, Democrats had...
View ArticleA hidden story of the 2010 elections: state legislatures
A story that is almost always overlooked when people talk about the 2010 elections is how Democrats got absolutely destroyed in state legislatures. What happened in the House was awful, the Senate and...
View ArticleThe road back to control of the House for Democrats
In 2012, Democrats will need 25 seats to regain control of the House. Since Republicans gained 63 in 2010, Democrats gained 22 in 2008 and 30 in 2006, so a swing of 25 seats shouldnt be too difficult....
View ArticleThe economy and Presidential elections
The general rule of thumb is that if the economy is good, a President wins reelection. I would change that rule a little bit. Its really more like if the economy is PERCEIVED to be good, an incumbent...
View ArticlePelosi should refuse to hold a vote on tax cuts for the rich
Nancy Pelosi has the power to stop Obama from caving on the Bush tax cuts for those making over $250,000 a year. She can simply bring up a vote only to extend the tax cuts for those making under...
View ArticleWill Tim Kaine step down as DNC chair?
Tim Kaine has been one of the worst DNC chairs in the history of the Democratic party. Under his leadership, Democrats have lost 64 House seats, six Senate seats, eight governorships, and over 700...
View ArticleBarack Obama is throwing progressives and Democrats under the bus to get a...
The last two years have been all about Barack Obama and nothing else. He barely lifted a finger for Democrats in the midterms. This can be seen in the way that Obama and his White House barely...
View ArticleTax debate shows how Congress is much more powerful than the Presidency
The way the debate on extending the tax cuts for the wealthy shows that it is ultimately Congress that runs the country, not the President. Congress ultimately writes and passes legislation, while the...
View ArticleSen. Harkin: If Obama caves on taxes, he better pray for Palin in 2012
Democrats in Congress are finally starting to criticize Obama for his constant caving and weak leadership. Here is what Tom Harkin had to say according to the Huffington Post: I just think, if [Obama]...
View ArticleThe biggest crime of the Bush administration
There were many crimes that the Bush administration committed. Torture was one of the big ones but the biggest was of Bush's Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen. Paulsen was a CEO of Goldman Sachs who...
View ArticleUpdated: As if destroying the Democratic House majority wasnt enough for Obama
With this news of a "deal" where Obama caves and gives Republicans there tax cut extension, I am apalled at Barack Obama. We might as well have elected John McCain, because he too promised to extend...
View ArticleTime for Democrats to stand up and say no
I really hope that these Democrats who are standing up against this horrible tax deal are serious about not voting for it. Just because a Democratic President supports it, doesnt mean that Democrats...
View ArticleTax cut cave is making QE2 ineffective
The idea of QE2(Quantitative Easing part 2) was to buy up treasury bonds in order to lower long term interest rates. This in turn would stimulate the economy by lowering mortgage rates and allowing...
View ArticleChanging the tax deal to make it acceptable
I would accept the tax deal if we could compromise and move the threshold for these whose taxes wont go up from $250,000 to $1,000,000, like Charles Schumer offered. I would also propose that the...
View ArticleApparently Obama really did want to be like Reagan
Remember back during the primaries in early 2008 when Obama said that Reagan was a "transformative" President while Bill Clinton was not? I and many others were fooled into thinking that this meant...
View ArticleThe House opposes Obama-GOP tax deal by 76-15 so far
I know its early, but The Hill's whip count currently shows opponents of the Obama-GOP tax deal outnumbering supporters 76-15 so far. I am not optimistic that Democrats will continue to hold their...
View ArticleHouse Democrats ready to cave on Obama-GOP tax deal
It is now reported that Pelosi will bring this tax deal to the floor in the House, a sign that Democrats will be caving a lot over the next two years and likely longer, given how horrible Democrats are...
View ArticleDemocrats decide to stay in the minority for a generation
By overwhelmingly caving on this tax deal, Senate Democrats have simply said that they will cave and give Republicans basically whatever they want. By "working together" with Republicans, Obama and...
View ArticlePollster Mark Mellman: Poor timing of stimulus cost Democrats the House
Democratic pollster Mark Mellman says that Democrats lost control of the House because real disposable income began to fall in the summer of 2010 due to poor stimulus timing. in the third quarter of...
View ArticleObama to unveil Social Security cuts in State of the Union
Well, it begins. Obama is now planning on taking an axe to the sacred Democratic program of Social Security. Now that he got his way on the tax cuts, he's going after Social Security. The second...
View ArticleBring Howard Dean back to the DNC
The 2010 absolutely destroyed the Democratic party at every level of government. 63 House seats were lost, as well as six Senate seats(seven since Obama's election), six governorships(nine since...
View ArticleWill Democrats ever control the US House again?
A few weeks ago, I outlined how Democrats could regain the House in 2012. Many thought I was way too optimistic. It now appears that I was. Republicans control redistricting in most states and...
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