Hendrik Hertzberg has a great piece on President Obama's use bipartisanship as a political weapon: "Fifty years ago, the civil-rights movement understood that nonviolence can be an effective weapon even if -- or especially if -- the other side refuses to follow suit. Obama has a similarly tough-mind...

The Obama Administration is supposed to be all about team. It's supposed to be about broadening the coalition, delivering a consensus, and moving forward with honesty and transparency. So why is it being run by a hack out of the Red-Blue Bush-Clinton wars? Rahm Emanuel has already proven his incompe...

President-elect Obama makes the case today for a massive economic recovery package even as some key Republicans leaders are suggesting they may try to limit the size of the stimulus. Phil Singer has good advice on how to sell the plan: "But instead of allowing the debate about the stimulus to be sha...

I: Kicking the Left with Impunity There was an interesting discussion at the Open Left blog today in the wake of Barack Obama picking conservative evangelical pastor Rick Warren to say the convocation at his Presidential inauguration: [T]here are clear benefits for Democrats who are able to generate...

For years I believed that managerial incompetence in the U.S. automobile industry had no limits. I was right. But that was only part of the story. Now these giants of industry and their million lobbyistreplicant march on Washington is on the cusp of a monster bailout that promises to suck $15 - $25 ...

Olaf has a great post. Although I disagree with the conclusion that Harper should resign - I don't think that these errors are bad, I just don't see think that any other Tory contender who could replace Harper would provide a substantial improvement over these errors. But they ARE pressing. Viz:Basi...

Oh dear, oh dear. A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to the west. That the map was first circulated as a theoretica...

   Obama is up in the polls , he just got Colin Powell’s endorsement   (I think this matters very little but as i say since this is the biggest job interview in the world, it certainly doesn’t hurt to have him as a reference) democratic registration is through the roof, John McCain ...

In lock-step with the Bush Administration's non-strategy, Rudolph Guiliani and the rest of the Republican Presendential candidates have demonstrated that they too are prepared to depend on nothing more than self-righteousness to wage war in Iraq and combat global terrorism. This is an awful thought ...

I wanted to weigh in, at least to a degree, on the flap over Karl Rove’s little country club shot at Obama.  Tas already hit the story up, and was suitably flip regarding it, but there’s an Rove’s less than subtle entrance into this race as a less than objective observer I think i...