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Chicago Teachers Union Vs. Mayor Rahm Emanuel (The Democrats’ Scott Walker?)

September 11, 2012
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The 29,000 striking Chicago teachers are sending the message to Mayor Rahm Emanuel (and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) that their teacher bashing and privatization schemes for public education have become so onerous and destructive to the teachers’ mission and profession that they have no choice but to fight back. In this epic struggle...

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Citizens United – Game Changer

October 14, 2010
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Last January, during his State of the Union Address, when President Obama broached the topic of Citizens United saying it was going to unleash a torrent of corrupting corporate money into our political system, Associate Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the defiant words: “No, that’s simply not true.” The 2010 midterm campaigns have shown us...

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Recession Is Over! (If You Want It)

September 22, 2010
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The National Bureau of Economic Research tells us the Great Recession is “over.” In fact, it ended in June 2009! Hip, hip, hooray! The only thing this announcement reveals is just how out of touch, cruel, and compassionless those who view human society through the lens of quantitative measurements can be. Numbers don’t begin...

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Robert Gibbs Blew It

July 23, 2010
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs showed poor press management skills in handling the whole Shirley Sherrod saga. He allowed the media frame to shift quickly to the missteps of the administration rather than emphasizing the underhanded, contrived, and racist actions of Andrew Breitbart and his fellow travelers at Fox News. Instead of explaining...

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The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner: Nothing to Celebrate

May 3, 2010
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Each year we’re subjected to the spectacle of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner where the elite Washington press corps rubs our noses in the fact that we live in a plutocracy. The blow-dried crème de la crème of our vapid infotainment universe gather in an exclusive hotel banquet room, put aside their roles...

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The Rahmifications of the Obama Presidency

March 15, 2010
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Peter Baker’s profile of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the New York Times Magazine raises some interesting questions about President Barack Obama’s top aide. For Emanuel, it seems that all politics are electoral politics. He wouldn’t know a social movement if he saw one. Widely considered a wizard inside the Beltway,...

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From “Fired Up and Ready to Go” to “Tired Out and Staying Home”

March 7, 2010
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There’s been a lot of commentary about President Barack Obama’s failure to construct a winning “narrative” for the elections of 2010. In 2008, there were millions of people “fired up and ready to go.” But after a year plus of the Beltway-Rahm Emanuel strategy of never exposing oneself to political risk the grassroots energy...

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President Kennedy’s “How To” Manual

February 10, 2010
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President Barack Obama appears to want all of his decisions to be 100 percent politically safe. The trouble is there are few meaningful decisions a president can make, especially on matters vital to the country, that are 100 percent politically safe. Take, for instance, how President John F. Kennedy got the U.S. Senate to...

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Masschusetts Shows That the Timidity of Hope Won’t Cut It

January 19, 2010
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So the Senate seat that John Fitzgerald Kennedy won by defeating the incumbent Republican Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952, and then passed on to his brother, Edward Moore Kennedy, in 1962 has fallen to a Republican far more rightwing than Cabot Lodge. It’s partly Ted Kennedy’s fault for not cultivating an obvious heir. It’s...

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