Tag: pragmatism

The progressive left didn’t push Obama to the left, he’s been waiting for America to join him there

The progressive left didn’t push Obama to the left, he’s been waiting for America to join him there

President Obama’s new-found populist voice has reinvigorated liberals across the country and across the blogosphere. This week, for example, you would hardly recognize the Daily Kos vaunted Recommended List. Former Obama-bashers are thrilled that the president is coming on strong, naming names and shaming the shameful in his fight to get his new jobs bill passed. Example after example of […]

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Obama gets the Senate to be bipartisan

Last night the Senate voted for cloture on the tax cut deal the Obama administration negotiated with the Republicans. The vote was 83-15. When was the last time the Senate voted as nearly a single voice on anything?! Somehow this will get spun as a horrendous failure for the president I’m sure. I’m guessing the several million people whose unemployment […]

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Pragmatism has its costs

Pragmatism has its costs

First of all, a big welcome to folks coming in from Blackwaterdog’s most-excellent blog “The only adult in the room”. My blog entry yesterday certainly got some attention. I got over 1,100 hits on my website. It was shared on Facebook almost 1,000 times. The Daily Kos version was the #2 diary of the day, getting over 1,500 comments and […]

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