Bernie does attack Hillary’s association with Wall Street. Hillary believes this is a smear on her character—as if Bernie is claiming that she has been influenced in some way. Bernie only implies that it “appears suspicious” when people take lots of money from special interests, but he is careful never to actually…

Thanks for the clarification. I do think HRC is better on the offensive. I believe she is a hobbled in the primary because she can’t go all out against her opponent—she can’t alienate her opponent’s supporters because she needs that support in the general election. I think she will be stronger in the general election,…

Okay, I see what you are saying. However, it’s difficult to fight non-cooperation. Direct ‘aggressive’ tactics are not very effective. Pressure has to be placed on the voters who elect them, but the counter message from conservative media is strong...

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My view is that Obama initially wanted to bring both sides together, but was rebuked by a large faction of the GOP (who developed the non-cooperation tactic on the day he was inaugurated). This naturally provoked some resentment, and Rahm Emanuel (something of a pit bull himself) convinced Obama to take a hard line on…

“I’m voting for Hillary (with some reluctance) because I think she’s a battle-tested beltway beeyotch who can clobber Republican radicals.”

One possible explanation for the GOP’s relentless attacks on HRC is their fear that Republican women will not be able to resist ‘voting with their vagina’ when they get into the voting booth—despite what they say in public...

There’s a reason for that:

I suspect that Ted’s basic problem is that he never was an idealist. Even though we tend to grow out of our childhood idealism phase and become more cynical as we age, it’s important to fight to keep some of that idealism alive in our hearts. Cruz strikes me as young person who felt he too sophisticated for idealism,…

Bernie should have done this: We’re going to put a time-progressive FTT on the stock market and see how much money we can make (and also reduce speculation in the stock market). The priorities for allocating the funds are: (1) making sure Obamacare is solvent (and expands to cover everyone), and (2) assisting with…

I suspect part of this equation is that for every cheerleader on the squad, there are 10 women waiting in the wings for their big chance. I’m not quite sure why they are so interested, but I suppose it’s an exciting job and you have 50,000 people looking at you every Sunday—everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame, and…

Over the last 10 years my interest in football dwindled to watching it at social occasions like a Superbowl party. Once the CTE stories came out I quit watching altogether. I’m not going to support a sport that does this kind of damage to young people. Not that my stance means anything to the business of football, but…

Apparently, it would have cost ~$150 per day (according to a congressman from that district on MSNBC). Our local city water has a pH of ~8.9, so they must be doing something similar. Such a travesty that it didn’t happen in Flint...

And Snyder talks about “fixing it.” How are you going to give someone their life back when they have brain damage?