If you want to lay blame for this week’s Democratic losses, you can point to the president’s collusion with now-outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Vetoes Clarify Issues, Strengthen the Party
November 7th, 2014 1 Comment
Tags: Barack Obama · Democratic Party · John Kitzhaber · Veto
President Needs More Vacation, Not Less
September 10th, 2014 No Comments
Focusing on the task at hand is essential, but limiting. Every decision is linked to what came before and what likely will follow. There are no starting or ending points.
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Democracy Needs Better Losers
November 9th, 2012 2 Comments
National Republicans lost badly because they haven’t lost well. Instead of reflecting on their party’s deficiencies after the 2008 drubbing, they treated our president as a fluke, then a fraud, then a patsy. America didn’t like it.
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What Obama Could Learn From Kitzhaber
November 3rd, 2012 No Comments
If President Obama wants his next term to differ from his last, he should heed Kitzhaber’s lesson: deign and reign are four-fifths the same.
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Too Much Information Overwhelms Us All
October 27th, 2011 No Comments
Thirty-one years ago today, our national consciousness took a significant turn that has tangible consequences today. It was on this day that the Too Much Information Age began.
Tags: Barack Obama · Jimmy Carter · Reaganomics · Ronald Reagan · Tea Party
With 2020 Vision, the President Can Claim the Decade
September 9th, 2011 No Comments
Within a decade, let’s reduce the American work week to 32 hours, and bring millions back into the work force. The president’s political opponents want smaller government. Can they campaign against three-day weekends?
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Thuggery Created the D.C. Crisis
August 5th, 2011 No Comments
We knew the Tea Partiers were extremists and ideologues, but we learned something new when drool stains pooled beneath some of them as calamity loomed.
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Campaign Efficiency Curbs Presidential Power
July 14th, 2011 No Comments
Presidential candidates focus now on “swing states.” That term barely existed 25 years ago. Campaigns have consequences. The president has fewer friends and favors he can call on in those uncontested red states.
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What’s All the FFFFUFFF About?
April 29th, 2011 1 Comment
It must be great to be an auspice. You’re never alone and everything is always under you.
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