The American people deserve to understand why Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, and Congressional Republicans are hell-bent on pursuing an irrational and reprehensible public policy agenda. McConnell’s current, frenzied mission to drum up fifty votes to abolish Obamacare by September 30 and to cut $1billion from Hurricane Harvey relief to fund the Trump border wall folly […]
MoreOn April 10 @WashingtonMonthly published a blog post by @JoelBerg titled, “It’s Policy, Stupid.” This motivated me to search my past blog posts to find, edit and repost this one that I originally posted in 2014 as “It’s Domestic Social Policy, Stupid!”. Sadly, everything and nothing has changed. Where is the domestic social policy that once […]
MoreI attended an event yesterday. The opening speaker began his remarks with this statement; “Michael Brown’s shadow is in this room.” It was a conference on fair housing and community development. After all of the panels and speakers–all excellent and informative–I left the event believing that we must do more than talk. This morning, I […]
MoreWhat would happen if we actually stopped believing the generation gap hype? Forget generation, X, Y, Z, Baby Boomers. There is no generation gap that is meaningful in any positive way. We can all learn new things from each other no matter what our generation. Just imagine the power–personal, relational and political–we could wield if […]
MoreArthur Laffer, Glenn Hubbard, Mark Zandy and Robert Reich. This is just the debate I’ve been hoping for but never thought I’d see on broadcast or cable television. On the “intelligence debates-Think Twice,” this quartet has offered the most cogent, informed, nuanced, and realistic debate on the issue of fiscal policy–deficit reduction and the available […]
MoreWinning the presidency is not enough. We know the damage an obstructionist House of Representatives can do. We’ve got to win that, too. That’s why it’s important that we all “driveto25.” We need a net gain of 25 seats in the House to help stop the madness. It’s a stretch but a goal we must […]
MoreI don’t know why I keep raging against the machine and charging at windmills. All I know is that I feel an emptiness in America despite Barak and the chance we have in November. However, I cannot help but wonder, what about us? I wonder what about those of us outside the middle-class that is […]
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