Category Archives: The New Democrat

The Federalist: Robert Kraniski: What the Left Doesn’t Get About the Constitution

Source:The New Democrat  “What the Left Gets Wrong About Constitutionalism”. Perhaps not the best title for this post because it implies that the Left meaning the whole Left doesn’t understand the U.S. Constitution, or doesn’t understand perhaps aspects of it. … Continue reading

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Economist’s View: Daniel Little: Economic Institution’s & Democratic Equality

Source:The New Democrat The Opportunity Society that New Democrats started talking about in the late 1980s and early 1990s was also designed to counter the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s. That made government especially big centralized government look like … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: John Dickerson: Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices Plays it Safe

Source:The New Democrat   Hillary Clinton did a book event last Friday with a local Washington book store Politics and Prose and was interviewed there by a women who worked for her at the White House in the 1990s and … Continue reading

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PBS NewsHour: Shields & Brooks: The Flagging Labor Force, Congressional Mid-Terms & Foreign Policy

Source:The New Democrat  I agree with Mark Shields and David Brooks when they say that the jobs report is good news and a positive step.  If we get a few more reports like this it will be good for Democrats … Continue reading

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Crooks & Liars: Dave Johnson: ‘Democrats Who Move Right Lose Elections’

Source:The New Democrat The former great, RIP, Progressive Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tip O’Neal, had a saying, “All politics are local.”  Well, of course, that is not all true but a lot of it is, especially when you … Continue reading

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Thom Hartmann: Dr. Ravi Batra: A Revolution is Coming!

Source:The New Democrat Just an editor’s note: I watched about seventeen-minutes of this video and didn’t hear a damn thing about any revolution.  Actually seventeen minutes before I started writing about this video and continued to watch it while I … Continue reading

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The Week: Shikha Dalmia: Affirmative Action is Doomed: Here’s What Progressives Can do About it

Source:The New Democrat  The rhetoric of affirmative action is running out of steam.  The real Roosevelt (Franklin and Theodore) and LBJ Progressives need to step up to the plate and say “We are losing ground badly on this issue and we … Continue reading

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The New Republic: David Fontana: U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor Schuette Dissent: A National Treasure

Source:The New Democrat  U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor Dissent on the Shuelette Michigan Affirmative Action Case“Consider this language from Sotomayor’s dissent, which is so unusually compelling in its simplicity in describing the daily experiences of millions of Americans: Race matters to … Continue reading

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Brookings Institution: Sr. Semone Campbell: Faith Has Political Consequences

Source:The New Democrat  The American Left, especially the Far-Left, gets stereotyped as being Atheist.  This is reinforced by MSNBC at any point when they are talking about religion.  Ditto,  Salon, The Nation, the AlterNet or  Bill Maher.  But, there’s also … Continue reading

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Andrew Sullivan: Why Rand Paul Matters

Source:The New Democrat  For me, though, these clips make Paul’s candidacy more appealing, not less. What the GOP needs is an honest, stringent account of how it has ended up where it is – a party that has piled on … Continue reading

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