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Three lessons linger from BP oil spill 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 04-20-2012 | Posted in: News

As we prepare to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, let us not forget that Friday marks the second anniversary of the start of the BP oil spill. It deserves more than a shrug, an “oh, yeah,” and “how’s the fishing?” It deserves more than a solemn voiced announcer relegating it to a “this day in […]

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Romney bought the nomination with flood of nasty ads 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 04-12-2012 | Posted in: News

Maybe money can’t buy you love, but it buys a nomination. Ask Mitt Romney. He outspent Rick Santorum 7-1 to win Illinois, outspent Newt Gingrich 4-1 to take Florida, and more than doubled the competition’s spending in Wisconsin. In Pennsylvania, the next big state, Romney had bought nearly $2 million in TV ads even though […]

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Why elections do matter 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 04-4-2012 | Posted in: News

As the U.S. Supreme Court completed oral arguments to determine the fate of the Affordable Care Act and health reform, Rep. Paul Ryan, GOP chair of the House Budget Committee, released the party’s blueprint for fiscal constraint and prosperity. Like his budget plan from last year, The Cut, Cap, and Balance bill that passed the […]

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Etch A Sketch Draws a Bad Picture for Romney 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 03-25-2012 | Posted in: News

As Michael Kinsley famously said, a gaffe is when someone inadvertently tells the truth. Mitt Romney is an Etch A Sketch no one knows who he will be, where he will stand, or what he will say next week. As the GOP’s presidential race drags on some commentators say it won’t be until May or June […]

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It’s a time for peace Comments Off on It’s a time for peace

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 03-22-2012 | Posted in: News

I write this in anger and in frustration. And I must begin with words better than my own: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies … a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower When I […]

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Undercutting our president 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 03-12-2012 | Posted in: News

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. George Orwell But warmongering is good politics. It appeals to patriotism, fear, nativism, fear, wannabe warriorism, fear, panic and, yes, fear. War (whether threat or execution) elects […]

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Super Tuesday won’t end the GOP race 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 03-5-2012 | Posted in: News

It’s probably better to be the default candidate than the noncandidate, but it’s a position that usually has too many gaps to fill. That seems to be the position of Mitt Romney, and it says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party. When the Seattle Times came out for Romney ahead of […]

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Politics Today: We have the power 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 02-15-2012 | Posted in: News

It looks like the battle for the soul of the Republican Party will continue this month. Three states handed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum decisive victories over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Once again, this demonstrates a deep split in the party between Romney and the party’s conservative core. Another factor in the vote: former […]

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Right-wing attacks on Planned Parenthood hark back to the days of McCarthy 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 02-15-2012 | Posted in: News

As the dust begins to clear from the controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to cut and then restore funds to Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings, it seems like a good time to step back and look at the larger problem the modern-day McCarthyism that has put all of our […]

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An America built to last 0

Posted by: Donna Brazile | Posted on: 01-31-2012 | Posted in: News

There’s nothing like recalling history to put current matters into perspective. So I re-read a couple of past State of the Union speeches President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 speech and President George W. Bush’s 2004 address. I think it’s instructive to place the key opening paragraphs of their speeches side-by-side with that of President Barack Obama’s […]

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