Archive for 'Do The Right Thing'
Make The Most Of Your Time Here
It has been a delight playing the role of diversity show here in the locker room, but that time of joy must come to an end. I haven’t been around much lately, but I have carried the weight of my presumptive blogging responsibility on my shoulders, as I am wont to do. And […]
Posted: January 1st, 2009 under Best of the Blogs, Do The Right Thing.
Comments: 9
The Middle East Problem Requires Thought
instead of knee-jerk political responses. One of the most lovely changes that we see these days is the return of some intelligence, the banishment of superficial political responses to difficult problems.
Today we have Zbigniew Brzezinski telling Joe Scarborough (who inexplicably still has a three hour show daily on MSNBC) that his understanding of the […]
Posted: December 30th, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, The New Administration.
Comments: 3
Where Does Obama Go From Here?
The meme du jour seems to view Barack Hussein Obama as the rightful heir of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the progenitor of the New New Deal. Franklin Delano Obama is the subject of a Paul Krugman piece that argues for bold economic strokes and audacity. But he is an economist. We […]
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, The Obama Administration.
Comments: 5
McCreery’s Election Predictions
I’ll go with this guy, who says that Obama has a 95% chance of winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes and a 99.8% chance of winning the election. Sure, a coal black swan from Hell is not totally impossible–just look at what the markets have done. I take comfort, however, from the fivethirtyeight.com and […]
Posted: October 31st, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, Obama.
Comments: 2
Charlie Crist Gets it Right
I’m on a crusade about voter suppression. I think that one of the most important things a new president and congress can do is to fix the voting system so that everyone can vote. And I made that clear to the House leadership last week. More on that later.
Now kudos to a […]
Posted: October 28th, 2008 under Do The Right Thing.
Comments: 4
While some polls say the race is tightening
As of this morning, nicely assembled by Jerome Armstrong at MyDD
Quinnipiac:
Florida: Obama 49, McCain 44
Ohio: Obama 52, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 53, McCain 40
Big Ten:
Illinois: Obama 61, McCain 32
Indiana: Obama 51, McCain 41
Iowa: Obama 52, McCain 39
Ohio: Obama 53, McCain 41
Michigan: Obama 58, McCain 36
Minnesota: Obama 57, McCain 38
Pennsylvania: Obama 52, McCain 41
Wisconsin: Obama 53, McCain […]
Posted: October 23rd, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, Obama.
Comments: 3
Les Misbarack
h/t tristero at Hullabaloo
Posted: October 8th, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, VOTE!.
Comments: 1
Religion and Politics: Some Data
Marc Ambinder, the Atlantic Monthly author who was among the first to calculate that Obama would win the Democratic primary, has posted some interesting data on how people of different religious preferences split between McCain and Obama. I note that the survey cited was conducted in June-August. I wonder what the numbers would look like now.
Posted: October 1st, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, McCain, Obama.
Comments: 1
I, an American taxpayer, want the same deal as Warren Buffet
Natasha Chart, writing on MyDD, quotes Ben White at the New York Times,
The billionaire Warren E. Buffett will invest $5 billion in the investment bank Goldman Sachs, as part of the bank’s efforts to raise $7.5 billion in fresh capital, a Goldman spokesman, Lucas Van Praag, said Tuesday.
In return, Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under Do The Right Thing.
Comments: 5
President Paulson… for now
Stepping to the forefront in the name of public service is the right thing to do. Perfectly tailored physical specimen maybe even drinks the same liquid diet stuff some of the Skins and the Bears do to stay on top of their game. Everybody knew that Shrubby couldn’t run a business. And Lord Cheney knows […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Do The Right Thing, Dumbocrats, Economics, We Are the Enemy, Webb.
Comments: 5