Democrats make progress on climate change when they set business lobbies against each other.
Joe Lieberman
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Will an Endorsement From Joe Lieberman Help Susan Collins?
It is balanced by condemnations from the staff of former Senator Olympia Snowe.
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With Impeachment, Success Can Turn on Small Things
Convincing the GOP to send their president packing won’t be easy. Democrats shouldn’t make it harder.
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The Problems Solvers Caucus’s Demands Are Harmless and Silly
The No Labels group has it out for Nancy Pelosi, but their demands are more silly than threatening.
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Anthony Kennedy’s Betrayal of the Planet
History will show that when our climate needed a champion, Kennedy largely failed to answer the call.
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A Pollution Problem for Patrick’s Presidential Push?
Is it over before it even begins? Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts who has largely shunned politics since leaving office and joining Bain Capital in 2015, is using some of his most direct language to date to acknowledge his interest in a presidential run in 2020. “It’s on my radar screen,” Patrick told […]
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President Trump’s Staffing Choices Say a Lot
Trump is more focused on defending himself than governing.
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The Ghost of Primaries Future
I started last week being ticked off at Bill Maher for his suggestion that members of the Democratic Party’s base are too obsessed with so-called “identity politics.” As part of his tirade, Maher mentioned Democrats lamenting perceived racism in sports–something that was remarkably tone-deaf in light of, well, racism in sports. Something tells me Adam […]
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Democratic Resolve in Georgia, Montana and Beyond
Ten years ago, then-Representative Martin Meehan (D-MA) resigned from the House to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Meehan’s Congressional seat had not been held by a non-Democrat since the early-1970s, and the prospects of the Republican Party capturing the seat in a special election seemed rather remote. However, Republicans did not shrug […]
