A proud centrist readying to leave the House, Representative Jim Cooper reflects on Nancy Pelosi, the joy of chainsaws, and why both parties need to “persuade the independents.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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The RNC Won’t Even Pretend to Support a Fair Primary Process
Let’s remember what the Russian hacks of the DNC accomplished for Donald Trump and the Republican Party back in the summer of 2016. Here is how the New York Times reported on the immediate fallout once the pilfered emails were released to the world by Julian Assange: Democrats arrived at their nominating convention on Sunday […]
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PBS Plans to Give Us a Progressive Talk Show, Too, Right?
We all know the sad saga of public television bending over backwards to appease right-wing interests and dull the Republican desire to put Big Bird in a skillet, but this is beyond ridiculous: As the Donald Trump administration mulls whacking its funding for PBS, the pubcaster said today that it is launching a conservative talk […]
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What Donna Brazile Got Right—and What She Got Wrong
Many of her charges seem to be based on personal grievances rather than anything that could be helpful in reforming the DNC.
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The Threat from Within
Are you OK? It has been two weeks since he took over, imposing his dark vision upon this country. It has been two weeks since he declared war on religious minorities, our environment, our democracy. It has been two weeks since this nightmare officially began. I want to know how you are doing. How are […]
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Resigns as DNC Chair
To quote Donald Fagen, it looks like Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz “just got the goodbye look.” The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said she will resign this week in the aftermath of the release of thousands of embarrassing internal email exchanges among Democratic officials. The episode had pitched the party into […]
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Like Sand(er)s Through the Hour Glass, So Are the Days of Our Lives
Give them credit…but only so much, for now. Bernie Sanders and his most passionate supporters are right and wrong at the same time. The Democratic nomination contest will not technically be over until superdelegates vote at the Democratic National Convention next month in Philadelphia, and without question, he has a right to ask superdelegates who […]
