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Blogger Reaction to the Dem Debate
The most entertaining liveblog goes to Minnesota Monitor by a mile. D-Day laments: "the country suffers when the questions and the format are seemingly the opposite of what would generate anything informative. I have no idea who won. I don't even know or remember...
Anyone Care About Global Warming?
Surprisingly little questioning in the presidential debate about what needs to be done to combat global warming, though both former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Joe Biden were able to work in their support for caps on carbon emissions.
Your Liberal Media
For the health care portion of the presidential debate, moderator Brian Williams did not ask any candidate what they would do to provide universal health insurance. He only asked either "What taxes would you raise?" or "How would you pay for it?" It's not an...
Biden Attacks "Dishonest Reasoning" of the Supreme Court
Asked about his criteria for picking Supreme Court justices, Sen. Joe Biden criticized the conservative activist wing of the Court, including the new justices John Roberts and Sam Alito. Discussing the recent abortion ruling, Biden said: The truth of the matter is...
Gravel: Make the War a Felony
The presidential debate led with Iraq, with much of the discussion tracking what we already heard at the MoveOn.org Town Hall. Except for former Sen. Mike Gravel, who proposed legislation "making it a felony to stay there," telling the current congresspeople on the...
Presidential Debate LiveBlog
Starting a hour from now (7 PM ET), we'll be liveblogging tonight's Democratic presidential debate, airing on MSNBC. We'll be keeping our eye on the actual substance -- in particular, what they're offering on health care, global warming, Iraq and strengthening our...
The Big Con Face-Off At The National Press Club
Watch conservative leader William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect debate whether "conservatives can be trusted to govern" during a May 3 luncheon at the National Press Club.
Is "Poverty" The Problem?
Following yesterday's poverty-related posts from Isaiah and me, about how we can avoiding the conservative "us vs. them" frame, Shawn Fremstad from Inclusionist left a provocative comment: ...we need to stop framing the debate in a way that automatically plays into...
Pelosi: "We will eventually have a cap-and-trade bill"
Speaker Nancy Pelosi updated reporters yesterday on the status of global warming legislation, after a
Help The Poor, Help The Middle Class
Isaiah just hit upon something important when, in discussing the new anti-poverty program from Center for American Progress, he wrote: Conservatives succeeded in taking the nation’s eye off the ball on the issue of poverty by couching it as an issue of “us vs. them,”...
