P.M. Carpenter

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• The too-democratic Democratic Party

  
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  Body As this marathon health-care bill enters the uncertainty of semifinals tonight, we are left with one question of much broader philosophical scope: What in Gods name are the likes of Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln doing in the Senate Democratic caucus? Dont get me wrong. ...
  6 days ago

• The dictatorship of the independent proletariat

  
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  Body Doubtless you recall all those plucky reassurances from the Democratic establishment earlier this month about what sure looked like political bloodbaths in Virginia and New Jersey. In the formers gubernatorial contest, the Republican victor annihilated the Democratic loser among independent voters by a ...
  1 week ago

• There is indeed such a thing as "a stupid question"

  
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  Body I was about mid-sip last night when MSNBCs Ed Schultz induced the coffee-spraying moment: "Whats the holdup ?" he abruptly asked a dumbfounded Sherrod Brown about health-care legislation in the Senate. Why arent all Democrats on board with this yet? he continued, apparently back on board himself ...
  1 week ago

• The GOPs baffling suicidal tendencies

  
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  Body The way things are going -- or, to be more precise, the way things are crawling or stalling or dying -- Congressional Democrats have only one major hope for 2010: the Republican Partys hardest-core base. There the GOP was, earlier this month, primed for what seemed like a shockingly substantial ...
  1 week ago

• George W. Bush might have been our best lesson ever

  
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  Body So, it turns out theres at least one major upside to George W. Bushs fiscal recklessness: Reuters reports that his successor -- having just suffered a $1.4 trillion deficit and spent the mammoth sum of $6.7 billion in Afghanistan in merely one summer month (June) -- sees prodigiously unattractive ...
  1 week ago

• Will America ever go rogue -- again?

  
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  Body The good news is that 7 out of 10 Americans dont believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president of the United States; the bad news is that 3 out of 10 do, which only confirms my long-held theory that we can always expect about one-third of the American electorate to believe absolutely anything, ...
  1 week ago

• Of Fox and MSNBC and polarized tribalism

  
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  Body President Obama was only partly correct when, as Senator Obama, he ventured that we live not in a red America or blue America. Because, oh, how we love to dwell tribally in our red or blue cable networks and news. Tribalism -- even if, in the cases of Fox and much of MSNBC, it is structured ...
  1 week ago

• President Obamas war -- at home

  
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  Body A bit more than a week ago I wrote that "its safe to conclude theres not an outside observer left who doesnt believe theres electoral trouble stirring," and now come a couple of new polls -- one showing the symptoms of a national rage turned inward; the other, mostly just the rage. The first -- the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Af-going-going-gone-istan

  
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  Body In the latest AP-GfK poll we see a seven-point uptick, from last month, in disapproval of President Obamas handling of Afghanistan, as well as a four-point increase -- now at 54 percent -- in opposition to sending more troops. Whether theyre just weary of what seems to be an unwinnable war or are ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks 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 weeks 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, ...
  2 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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