America Needs the Democratic Party to Be Extraordinary
This piece is appearing today as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06). *****************Because of the quite extraordinary thing that the Republican Party has become -- what...
View ArticleIf Dems Lose in Virginia, It Will Be the Doing of Manchin and Sinema
Not much needs to be said to establish that:The Dems might still pull it out, but the futures market and the polls show that an election that seemed to be quite favorable for yet another Democratic...
View ArticleIt Would Be Irrational to Regard the National Implications Differently for a...
It matters a lot to me who wins in Virginia on Tuesday. I live in Virginia. (So my personal stake in my immediate environment is added my usual caring about government serving people well anywhere in...
View ArticleMore on Virginia (and New Jersey) and the Destruction Wrought by the...
I live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia’s 6th District, where I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.Every month I am on the radio, talking politics on WSVA, a...
View ArticleSo Long as the Rs Treat Politics as War, the Ds Must Treat Biden as Their...
It seems plain that the America we’ve celebrated for more than two centuries is in serious jeopardy. Perhaps even hanging by the proverbial (or at least idiomatic) thread. The Republican Party is no...
View ArticleMore About the Need for the Dems to Treat President Biden as their...
I previously wrote a piece titled, So Long as the Rs Treat Politics as War, the Ds Must Treat Biden as Their Commander-in-Chief. A commenter wrote in to protest that the idea of applying that military...
View ArticleRadio Shows that Would Be Impossible Now
This piece ran as an op/ed in a couple of newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).************************From 1992-2002, I did a whole lot of talk radio on WSVA in Harrisonburg, VA:...
View ArticleThe Republicans' Culture of False Accusation
This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district.****************************My wife, April Moore, started serving this year as member of the Shenandoah County...
View ArticleBiden Should Work with a Drama Coach
Biden’s job will soon be selling what he’s accomplished. He’s accomplished a lot. It should be an easy sell, but Biden has shown himself weak in the selling department. He does OK. But between his...
View ArticleWhat Biden Should Say to Attorney General Garland
A President, in Joe Biden’s position, would seem to be in a bit of a bind regarding his Attorney General. The “bind” comes from two factors:1) on the one hand, Attorney General Garland seems to be...
View ArticleSymptoms of the Disease (Pervading Today's Republican World)
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06)***********************A banner appeared in my neighborhood lately. It read: “Biden is Satan.”One’s mind goes back to...
View ArticleThe Preservation of American Democracy Requires Biden to be Our “Wartime Leader”
What This Historical Moment Requires of a PresidentThe one thing that Americans most want in their President is an image of strength.That priority has always made some sense: the Leader is the people’s...
View ArticleMitt Romney: Why Is Liz Cheney a "Better Man" than You?
Senator Romney, you’re positioned to do a lot of good, if you wanted. Why don’t you want to?We heard your moving statement when you voted to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. You...
View ArticleVoting Rights? Filibuster Reform? Biden Should Seek Out a Liz Cheney in the...
Just as any single Democratic senator can veto whatever the Democrats try to legislate — assuming that every single Republican senator will oppose everything the Democrats attempt — so also every...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Use the Upcoming SOTU to Get Past Manchin, Pressure the R's,...
Come late January, when President Biden can deliver his State of the Union address, he will have access to the largest audience of the American electorate he’s like to have all year. He will at that...
View ArticleDemocrats Haven't Known How to Fight This Fight
(I’m hoping that President Biden’s speech this morning marks a turning point with respect to this problem. Nonetheless, this problem has been so long-standing, and so deep-seated, that such hopes must...
View ArticleHow Did America Come to This?
A generation ago – when the first Bush was President – no one would have believed that the American political system would have deteriorated into its present condition. We’d all have assumed that we’d...
View ArticleThe Raiders Were Right to Go for the Win
Yesterday’s Sunday Night NFL game was really quite extraordinary. Heroics being acted out right before our eyes. The Las Vegas Raiders playing the Los Angeles Chargers with the fate of both teams...
View ArticleThe 1/6 Committee Should Consult Masters of Impactful Presentation
There is little doubt that the Committee investigating the Insurrection will be presenting findings of huge importance.I feel confident that the people on that Committee have the ability to make the...
View ArticleLet's Hear No More "My friends across the aisle" from Democrats
This Republican Party — with only the rare dissenting voice — is launching a serious attack on our democracy. It’s a disservice to the nation to call them “friends.” The whole nation needs to be...
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