This Isn’t Your Father’s Democratic Party

(Updated below) There’s nothing new in Paul Krugman’s column today but he does ask the question many of us, particularly Democrats, have been asking for months if not years: Can the Democratic party – and our democracy – survive the influence of money on the campaign process? It is,...

Strawboy

I would take comfort in the fact that the thirty percent who opposed the recent S-CHIP bill are the same folks who oppose bringing the troops home and fundamentally changing our strategies in the Middle East if it weren’t for the fact that they have a tendancy to muck things up for the rest of...