P.M. Carpenter

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• Democratic dysfunctionality on parade

  
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  Body "We are winning," declared former president Bill Clinton to a gathering of Democratic senators yesterday on the issue of health care, in the clearest sign yet that theyre losing. When your team must be told that its winning, when the easy grace of impending victory gives way to the stilted panic of ...
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• The train wreck of our United States Congress

  
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  Body One could almost literally see the thought bubbles above Obamas head on Sunday, in the Rose Garden: "Now it falls on the United States Senate" -- God help us, I know these charlatans firsthand -- "to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line" -- Yeah, if the baton were lathered with ...
  1 day ago

• Its time to bite the public-option bullet

  
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  Body The evidence keeps piling up; virtually all that voters care about these days -- which is to say, worry about -- is the economy. And that means jobs. Those without them reached the official mark of 10.2 percent last week -- the highest level of unemployment in more than a quarter-century -- while the ...
  2 days ago

• An authentic GOP: bamboozling swing voters, as always

  
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  Body "President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Washington have rebranded themselves as the party of economic irresponsibility." Thus wrote, in a ruthless affront to recent history, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. It came in the third paragraph of a rather compressed, possibly hurried, ...
  4 days ago

• A short trip through the cyberland of right-wing dementia

  
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  Body How much do we really know about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who went on a killing spree yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas? Not much. He was born and raised in Virginia, was medically trained by the Army, became disillusioned with his career and employer when ridiculed by ...
  5 days ago

• The Obama Question: A failure of civic leadership?

  
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  Body On Monday, 24 hours before the Democratic Partys, shall we say, misfortunes in New Jersey and Virginia, there appeared in the Times a fateful piece, in which Jeff Zeleny wrote, "Interviews with voters across Iowa offer a window into how the president’s standing has leveled off, especially among the ...
  6 days ago

• Two-thirds of a vacuum filled?

  
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  Body White House senior adviser David Axelrod perhaps framed it best, and if not best, at least with admirable economy: "The real story here is, I think this thing is ambiguous." That of course is true, yet the pregnant downsides to last nights elections -- in addition to the medias growing narrative of ...
  1 week ago

• Mr. President, its time to cut the crap

  
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  Body It just keeps getting worse. A climbing death toll. Firefights and terrorist bombings. Indigenous distrust. Limitless corruption. Hundreds of billions of dollars -- gone, nothing to show. Eight neglectful years, staggering to an ever-receding finish line. Even a high-ranking Foreign Service officer ...
  1 week ago

• NY-23, less 1, part 2

  
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  Body Dede Scozzafavas Saturday understatement of withdrawal -- "Polls have indicated that my chances of winning this election are not as strong as we would like them to be" -- was the most clarity weve heard from New Yorks 23rd Congressional District in days. A Scozzafava-campaign associate had earlier ...
  1 week ago

• What a Hoffman victory could mean for liberals

  
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  Body In New Yorks Owens-Scozzafava-Hoffman race there had loomed two major narratives of keen-enough interest in the rights internal spats, but both are suddenly receding in the early shadows of, perhaps, a much broader electoral -- and unspeakable -- shift. First, a short look into the conventional ...
  1 week ago

• Modern America, in a polarized funk

  
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  Body According to at least two recent polls, the American public is in a funk -- or perhaps I should say, is still in a funk, or is back in a funk, or worse, is maybe showing signs of fixed and permanent funkdom. Although, says USA Today/Gallup , 6 in 10 Americans assume "the country will be better off in ...
  1 week ago

• Opting out of bait-and-switch ballyhoo

  
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  Body Ive got to give Harry Reid credit. As political theatre he played this beautifully; as political comedy he delivered his double-take joke with a bamboozling flawlessness that inspires. And as political skulduggery? Lets just say that Shakespearean Democratic treachery is not dead. As the Times David ...
  1 week ago

• Obama cannot answer a political question with a military response

  
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  Body If you want to know what "success" looks like in an American-tailored Middle East nation, look to Iraq. There, after years of grinding determination, a peppy escalation, 4,500 dead Americans and roughly one trillion dollars, theyre blowing themselves up again with distressing pre-escalation, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harry Reids Great Escape

  
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  Body Ill try, Ill really try, to be as serious about this as I can, but such flagrant snookering by our progressive finest on Capitol Hill does provoke the irrepressible chortle. In a NY Times story filed last Friday but written, obviously, on Thursday, we were told that Democratic leaders in the House ...
  2 weeks ago

• A real public option: from political hurricane to topical storm to ... misty memory

  
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  Body I dont know which was more insulting: "60 Minutes" Steve Krofts blithering, decontextualized indictment last night of the federal governments ability to competently manage a "medical bureaucracy," or the anonymous Democratic aide who mentioned last week to the NY Times that "There is a growing sense ...
  2 weeks ago

• Those dithering Republicans

  
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  Body I was going to write this morning about the latest events in our epic Beltway saga of health-care reform, but, at the rate events are moving, it seems that every columnists column on the issue is hopelessly outdated by the time he finishes it. No one has yet determined if Harry Reid can even count -- ...
  2 weeks ago

• The sociopathy of neoconservative politics

  
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  Body Message breakdown. Just as President Obama was telling NBC News this week that he "think[s] it is entirely possible that we have a strategy formulated before a runoff [in Afghanistan] is determined," his peripatetic secretary of state, John Kerry, was back in Washington, standing just outside the ...
  2 weeks ago

• What the polls giveth, they taketh away

  
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  Body The new news -- that public support for a public option has "rebounded" -- as reported by the Washington Post , was instantly tempered by the same old news: that latest, particular poll finding is one thing, said the Post, but lets do keep in mind, in fact why not "underscore," those "challenges ahead ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obamas toughness on trial

  
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  Body Today marks the end of only the ninth month of the Obama administration, yet its already sounding much like FDRs administration as it headed, after four grueling years of vicious attacks by the right and determined shoves by the left, toward the 1936 election. It was in June of that year, and not ...
  3 weeks ago

• The progressive struggle writ large

  
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  Body "It is still something that I am struggling with," said progressive Congressman Earl Blumenauer to the New York Times Carl Hulse. "It has been a hard landing for a lot of the people that I represent," he added, meaning whom the Times called his "largely liberal constituency" in Portland, Ore. In the ...
  3 weeks ago

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