http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/ The Democratic Strategist Articles en Copyright 2010 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:26:53 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss If you need a good chuckle today, or just a defense mechanism against the high-pitched chattering whine of conservative spin against health care reform, check out Joe Conason's reality check about the accuracy in recent years of Dick Morris' political... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/deadeye_dick.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/deadeye_dick.php Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:26:53 -0500 Given the importance of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and his allies in the struggle for health care reform in the House, it's worth thinking a bit about what actually makes him tick. A very revealing moment came yesterday, when Stupak... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/stupak_the_man_and_the_movemen.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/stupak_the_man_and_the_movemen.php Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:52:40 -0500 So finally, the Congressional Budget Office is issuing its cost estimate of the final health care package (the Senate-passed bill plus the reconciliation "fix") today, clearing the way for a crucial House vote. The numbers are very encouraging, showing the... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/on_to_the_votes.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/on_to_the_votes.php Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:18:12 -0500 There's been a lot of buzz, mostly in the progressive blogosphere, over the news that the proprietor of the notable right-wing RedState blogging site, Erick Erickson, of Macon, Georgia, has been given a perch on a new CNN show hosted... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/erick_the_red.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/erick_the_red.php Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:33:17 -0500 One of the Republicans' favorite bashing points regarding the Democratic health care reform package is that it does too little too late. Well, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-1), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, has the antidote for that particular... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/how_the_hcr_package_delivers_r.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/how_the_hcr_package_delivers_r.php Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:21:53 -0500 Since the impression persists that Democratic "moderates" are the big problem in the House with passage of health reform legislation, it's worth noting that a prominent "moderate" (or as he would call himself, a "pragmatic progressive") has issued a strong... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/all_together_now.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/all_together_now.php Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:56:26 -0500 Another day, another angry right-wing challenge to "establishment" Republicans once thought to be very conservative. In Colorado, the two parties held precinct caucuses accompanied, as always, by a straw poll among candidates for statewide office. On the Republican side, prohibitive... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/underdogs_have_their_day_in_co.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/underdogs_have_their_day_in_co.php Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:12:08 -0500 One of the best ways to lose your mind is to track the whip counts measuring the line-up of House member votes on health care reform. Right after you read a convincingly optimistic projection that the Democratic package is a... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/hcr_challenge_targeting_undeci.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/hcr_challenge_targeting_undeci.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:36:19 -0500 One of the important sideshows in the 2010 campaign cycle is the intervention of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates in current GOP primaries. Sarah Palin has received considerable attention for endorsing Tea Party favorite and libertarian scion Rand Paul for... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/the_20102012_endorsement_game.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/the_20102012_endorsement_game.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:15:16 -0500 This item by TDS Co-Editor William Galston is cross-posted from The New Republic. Two analyses released late last week underscore the rising importance of debt, both private and public, to average Americans. On Thursday, the Fed reported that after nearly... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/tds_coeditor_william_galston_t_5.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/tds_coeditor_william_galston_t_5.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:45:00 -0500 I know, I know, paying attention to anything Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) says is a bit lazy, since she offers up irrational outrages on a near daily basis. But her remarks suggesting that Americans don't have to comply with health... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/civil_disobedience_for_republi.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/civil_disobedience_for_republi.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:09:57 -0500 We'll soon know the fate of health care reform legislation in Congress. But win or lose, the retrospective analysis of the health reform fight, and particularly the Obama administration's overall strategy, will go on for years. That's why I think... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/misanalyzing_democratic_divisi.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/misanalyzing_democratic_divisi.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:23:51 -0500 Given the G.O.P.'s oft-stated intention to "destroy" or otherwise end President Obama's re-election chances by killing health care reform, you have to wonder if some undecided Democratic House members with a substantial African American population in their districts could be... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/a_key_to_passing_hcr_blacks_in.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/a_key_to_passing_hcr_blacks_in.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:47:14 -0500 As the political world prepares for what appears to be Last Stop Week on health reform, conservatives seem astonished that the president and congressional Democrats are pushing ahead for final enactment of legislation passed by both Houses last year, intead... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/empty_threats.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/empty_threats.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:47:13 -0500 As you may have heard, Glenn Beck has gotten himself into some serious hot water by suggesting that people (or more specificially, Christians) leave their churches or even their denominations behind if they harbor any talk about "social justice" or... http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/jesus_at_the_tea_party.php http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/jesus_at_the_tea_party.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:59:20 -0500