Posts Tagged ‘Lawrence O’Donnell’
Notebook, 23 January 2011: My Response to Howard Dean and bobswern . . .
Well.
I was flattered to be asked by Howard Dean for my thoughts on the way forward for progressives. Thank you, Governor Dean, that was gracious of you, and my thoughts follow.
I deleted my extended answer, then bobswern’s diary prompts me to revisit my concerns. This post is actually a comment which had gotten out of hand, as well as my response to Gov. Dean.
If you will, follow me beneath the fold . . .
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Notebook, 11 December 2010: It’s Official. We’ve Gone Kafka . . .
As I noted yesterday, it’s a strange world where democrats try to sell the central republican goal of tax cuts as a good thing.
From last night’s Hardball:
Chris Matthews: Who filled Santa’s sack with all that great stuff for the democrats? The reduced cost of labor, the two percent off the payroll tax [he means the Social Security tax cut] the accelerated depreciation for business people . . . put all those goodies in that pack, so that it’s bigger than the president’s stimulus from last year?
If this is Santa’s gift, then President Obama is really Gregor Samsa.
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