The cowardice of Senate Democrats is rising to the level of Senate Republicans.

I'll never write that book because it is unpublishable according to my agent.

There are many populat issues that all Democrats support, like taxing teh rich and rausing the minimum wage. They just need to talk about those issues and other 60/40 issues and stop talking about those that are divisive among Democrats and poll badly among the general electorate.

I posted the original of that article. web.archive.org/web/20100509...

Part 2. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/why-the-po...

For some reason it has always amazed me that Brett played Freddy in "My Fair Lady."

I'm not sure it was cynicism so much as clever political strategy. The Tea Party was a spontaneous force that just needed direction. Koch supplied the leadership. By contrast, Democrats did everything in their power to ignore and destroy OWS, which was a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

diplomacy

No but I think there are more serious problems to worry about, such as people starving because they don't have SNAP benefits.

There haven't been any votes, so she hasn't missed anything except a paycheck.