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Norman Pollack in an article entitled “Democrats’ Complicity in Political Murder” morally “calls out” Obama and Democrats. Pollack writes: Read below the fold...

James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya in “The Rise of the Police State and the Absence of Mass Opposition” take on the tragic phenomenon of our ever-expanding police state first under Bush and now Obama, along with why so many Americans have remained, especially under Obama, so very passive about the ominous threat to all of us and/or our progeny. Read below the fold...

Mike Whitney declares:

This is Barack Obama’s economy now....

Obama's failure will likely result in political change that will deliver the White House to the GOP in 2012. Then the deficit hawks will control both houses of congress and the White House, and they will slash spending and push the economy into another Great Depression. This is not speculation. This WILL happen. Obama has made sure it will happen by shrugging off the warnings of every competent economist in the country, all of whom have said repeatedly that we needed more stimulus to lower employment, to reduce the output gap, to increase GDP, and to put the economy back on track.

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What happened to the Democratic Party?

The older I get, the more I see the need for a choice other than Republican or Republican-lite. Perhaps it is because I don’t come from wealth and will never be wealthy in a society which values it. Perhaps it is because I’m dealing with my 90-year-old mother being placed in a nursing home 110 miles from me, because we lack the wealth to cover the expense. Perhaps it is because I’m a triple minority in a society which values none of those, which makes nearly every day a challenge.

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It's been nearly 35 years since we've had a “tax and spend” political party. During the 1970s, the Democrats gave up fighting the Republicans about the “tax and spend” label, and the Carter Administration tried to escape from that charge by making very serious attempts to balance the budget. During the 1980s, more and more Democrats emphasized their concern for reducing deficits and balancing budgets as a way of distinguishing themselves from the Reagan Administration's unprecedented peacetime deficits. Read below the fold...

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Nancy Bordier

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Nancy Bordier

The electorate's dissatisfaction with the nation's lawmakers has reached a critical stage. A majority of U.S. voters want to see most elected representatives in Congress defeated because they favor special interests over voters' interests. Unfortunately, legal obstacles erected by the two major parties prevent voters from replacing most of these representatives unless they use the revolutionary self-organizing tools described in this series to work around them.

These obstacles range from federal and state election laws to campaign finance laws and Supreme Court decisions that favor private over public funding of elections. Voters can't change these laws within the foreseeable future. But they can circumvent them at the Congressional election district level. The web savvy 125 million voters who use the Internet to influence the outcome of the 2008 elections can use new web technologies to leverage the collective action power of the Internet and elect a majority of Congressional representatives untainted by special interests in 2012. Read below the fold...

The last couple of weeks, I've been seriously tweeting, building a following and my tweeting activity. In the process, I've come across a number of people who are simply tweeting D-party talking points. The chief among these is a variety of versions of the fear card. The formula is "if you don't like X, then just vote R or, at least not for the Ds, and you'll get a lot more of it." Read below the fold...

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Marshall Auerback

Hint: it’s not Republicans.

Social Security remains one of the greatest achievements of the Democratic Party since its creation 75 years ago. Although Republicans have historically fulminated against the program (Ronald Reagan once

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Hugh is done, Bruce is done, Rochelle is done. In fact there is at least anecdotal evidence that a significant part of the female volunteer base has already walked.

Mike Lux has an inkling that something is amiss, but clearly fails to comprehend the extent of it. Read below the fold...

Being from Ohio, elections here are especially important to me as they have a more direct impact on the Buckeye State than do federal elections. So it was heartening to read at USelections.com that there is an independent candidate from the left who is running for governor and who isn't culled from the pools of Big Business. His name is Dennis Spisak, and he is running for governor this year. You can check out his web site by clicking this LINK. Read below the fold...

BarbMD declares "This is what is sounds like when someone representing the Democratic wing of the Party speaks" in reference to AFL-CIO president Trumka laying down markers for what health reform must have, including the so-called public option (It is unclear if Trumka is referring to Hacker's 2007 Medicare Plus, or the sliver public option being debated in Congress). Trumka's line in the sand is the public option, but where do member unions stand? Read below the fold...

For once, I don't actually mean this title to be all that snarky. The man is dead, nothing can change that now. Hearings can be a first step to prevent future, similar deaths. The point I'd make is that there's something deeply wrong with allowing power companies to shut off people's homes in the dead of winter. Read below the fold...

Frankly, I don't find all that much to get upset about in the Chris Bowers Open Left post to which Lambert refers here. Okay, the post has a slightly condescending tinge to its tone, but why shouldn't Democrats be proud that now more than ever the Democratic base looks like America? Bill Clinton himself once noted the same, and pledged that his administration would too, one pledge among many, many that Clinton kept. Read below the fold...

What ever happened to my Democratic Party? Why doesn’t the donkey love me anymore?

BDBlue asked a question that touches on many of the themes being discussed during this primary, here at Corrente and elsewhere, in what are increasingly emotional tones. Nothing wrong with emotion, passion is a wonderful thing, but sometimes the heat of the moment can cause us to reach conclusions that might emerge differently if we take a deep breath and look at the situation from other angles. Read below the fold...