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Ghettoization & The Difference Between Politics & Policy
"This is the violin model: Hold power with the left hand, and play the music with your right," David J. Rothkopf, a former Clinton official who wrote a history of the National Security Council, said on Friday, as news of...
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CONVENTION DISPATCH: The Rise of the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party
Yesterday morning during a CNN discussion from the floor of the Democratic convention in Denver, I told anchor John Roberts that despite the personality tiff between the Obama and Clinton people, and despite some blemishes on Joe Biden's record, one...
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Seizing the "Obama Moment": Which Side Are We On?
The question of how progressives can seize the so-called "Obama Moment," as my colleague Bob Borosage calls it, is an important one - and it is critical that the question be asked right now - before the election, rather than...
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The White D.C.-O-Sphere
Random thought of the day: Have you ever noticed how big a chunk of the dominant political blogosphere is a conduit to promote white people (mainly men) living in Washington, D.C. - and further, how seemingly oblivious to this situation...
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Visiting Idaho
Sorry for the light posting today - I am up in Boise meeting with progressive state legislators and giving a speech. I love coming to places like Boise - places that the national Democratic Party and many national progressive groups...
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Solidarity
This is what's known as solidarity: "Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva and Linda Sánchez today announced plans to introduce legislation to make permanent trade benefits for nearly two dozen countries, including Costa Rica. This announcement comes at...
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Check Out OpenLeft
Matt Stoller and Chris Bowers have started a new blog called OpenLeft that aims to fuse movement and politics. I'm going to be contributing there from time to time (more details on that later). Check out the site - it...
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Damn You Michael Moore! How Dare You?
Employing a tone that implies reporting on a fast-breaking scandal, the Los Angeles Times breathlessly tells us today that filmmaker Michael Moore will - gasp! - make a lot of money on his movie Sicko if it is successful....
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Book Recommendation: A Tragic Legacy
Mike Stark, writing at DailyKos, makes the point that it is important for the progressive movement to support movement progressives when they get out there in the traditional media fighting the good fight. This is something the conservative movement does...
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The Confused Outside Observer Award
Today's award for Most Confused Outside Observer of American Politics goes to David Olive of The Toronto Star. In his new column, he notices an exciting development -- the emergence of "new Democrats," a term first used by the DLC...
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The Modern American Left
Worth highlighting is Matt Taibbi's latest piece, "The American Left's Silly Victim Complex." Sirota appears briefly in it, as does Sen. Bernie Sanders. The crux of the argument is this -- that the modern left is almost a bit embarassing....
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Blank Check Democrats & The Danger of Becoming A Blank Check Movement
blank check: n. 1. A signed check with no amount to be paid filled in 2. Total freedom of action; carte blanche. In this simple, two-pronged American Heritage Dictionary definition, we find the two major problems afflicting Iraq War politics...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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The views expressed on this blog are his own, and do not necessarily represent the views of Working Assets (publisher of CREDO Action) or the institutions Sirota works for.
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