Independence Day

By: Susannah (Diary)  |  August 12th at 05:20 AM  | 

Last Saturday, New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote quite an incendiary op-ed about people who oppose Barack Obama’s health care proposals and about Republicans in general. I have pasted an excerpt of the last half of his column below–oh, and I must warn you that it really blows (pun intended). “Not only are anti-reformists showing up, they’re terrorizing legislators with their tomfoolery when they | Read More »

OK, America—Who are You Really Mad at?

By: Susannah (Diary)  |  October 14th at 10:23 PM  | 

Jay Cost wrote in an excellent column that John McCain is a victim of the mortgage crisis. I believe that Cost is right, because the night before the mortgage crisis hit, Senator McCain was beating Senator Obama by an average of 3-5 points in the polls. What I can deduce from those previous polls is that when people originally compared McCain to Obama—pre-mortgage crisis—the majority | Read More »