democracy

Continuing what has fast become a GOP trend, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday called on Democrats to scrap their current health reform plans and start anew. The public’s August reaction to the Democrats’ strategy, McConnell said, demands nothing less.
The American people are asking us to start over. They want reforms, but they [...]

Republicans in Congress have been quick to point to the sometimes-riotous town-hall forums of recent weeks as indication that Americans en masse believe the Democrats’ plans for health care reform to be atrocious. Indeed, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, is claiming this morning that President Obama’s decision to address a [...]

Democratic Virginia blogger Ben Tribbett has video of Catherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for delegate — whom we last saw accusing the government of “domestic terrorism” and links to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing — telling conservative supporters that they might have to “resort to the bullet box” if they don’t fight government tyranny at [...]

Mark Goldberg identifies the Republicans who are supporting the coup in Honduras, the second break with President Obama’s foreign policy in less than a month.
Florida Republican Connie Mack is circulating a congressional resolution that effectively supports the coup. So far, the Congressional Coup Caucus includes Dan Burton (Republican from Indiana), Jeff Fortenberry (Republican from Nebraska) [...]

Michael Goldfarb writes:
Is it possible that the Iraqi election experience had something to do with Iranian expectations of an election? If critics of the war can for just a moment move beyond their own deeply held opinions about the invasion of Iraq — that this was a war of choice fought on false premises to [...]

I don’t remotely have enough knowledge about the forthcoming Iranian presidential election — and after so many misforecast assessments over so many years, I’m dubious that anyone here in the United States really does — but I would really like every word of this Andrew Sullivan post to be true.
Ahmadinejad has discredited himself in the [...]

Celebrations sprang up throughout the world last night — captured in a remarkable front-page slideshow on the Huffington Post – after the major networks made the call for Sen. Barack Obama. But nowhere was the jubilation more passionate or immediate than in our nation’s capital.
I headed downtown to enjoy some peaceful reflection on the Mall, [...]