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The Nation: William Greider: What Does the Democratic Party Actually Believe?

Source:The New Democrat The Nation: Opinion: William Greider: What Does the Democratic Party Actually Believe? The Democratic Party today and throughout it’s history perhaps even through the 19th Century has always been a party of parties or political and ideological … Continue reading

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Campaign For America’s Future: Opinion: Robert Borosage: The Economic Debate in the Democratic Party

Democratic Value Campaign For America’s Future: Opinion: Robert Borosage: The Emerging Democratic Debate I agree with Bob Borosage that there is an emerging economic debate in the Democratic Party about the future of America’s economy and what direction we should … Continue reading

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The Week: Ryan Cooper: Conservatives Vastly Exaggerate The Unity of The Left

Source:The New Democrat  I agree that there isn’t a liberal version of the Tea Party as much as I wish there was as a Liberal myself. Occupy Wall Street obviously is not it for a few reasons. They are so … Continue reading

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Washington Examiner: Opinion: Cal Thomas: The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats

Laptop Party Washington Examiner: Opinion: Cal Thomas: The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats The Republican Party and Democratic Party are so politically diverse inside their party and even to a certain extent are both culturally diverse. Both parties represent states … Continue reading

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Politico: Kenneth Vogel & Tarini Parti: The Existential Crisis of the Liberal Millionaire

Politico Just so we are clear that Liberals and Democrats (and I mean real Liberal Democrats) aren’t against millionaires and wealth. How I know that because the Democratic Party if anything may have more wealthy millionaire individual donors than the … 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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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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Commentary Magazine: Jonathan S. Tobin- Dems Realizing Hillary’s Record Matters

Source:The New Democrat As far back as early 2006, it was not only clear that Democrats would win back Congress that year, at least the House of Representatives with, perhaps, a 50-50 split in the Senate, but that then Senator Hillary … Continue reading

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The Federalist: David Corbin & Matt Parks: Publius and the Progressives

Source:The New Democrat  I see two dominant political factions in the Democratic Party today.  The first is the FDR/LBJ progressives, who are not Socialists but real Democratic progressives in the best sense of the word. They believe that we should have … Continue reading

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The Hill: Judd Gregg: Dems Now Look Ahead to Hillary

Source:The New Democrat  At risk of sounding like a sexist, even though I’m not, I’m not on the so-called HRC Bandwagon just yet, because the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton president in the third month of 2014 is more than … Continue reading

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