On the heels of his co-sponsorship of one of Rep. Alan Grayson’s “Save Our Democracy” bills, John Conyers, Jr. has signed on to co-file an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reverse the horrendous Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision commonly known as the Citizens United decision. Way to go, Representative Conyers! Here’s the amendment language: 111TH CONGRESS2D […]

While I don’t agree with him on everything, I appreciate Andrew Sullivan and his outsider’s (British) perspective on American politics. His essay in the Sunday Times this past weekend, titled “Listen up, the president is not for turning” is no exception. And it has some common sense observations that all of us, conservatives and liberals alike, would do well to […]

Anyone who has read my blog in the past year knows I’m one of those who is out front with in support of the president and his administration. This blog entry doesn’t change that. But I am going to acknowledge this: when it comes to messaging, the president has left it to Congressional Democrats and they don’t know what the […]

Okay, not the entire newspaper. But Heritage Newspapers employee Terry Jacoby anyway. Stu Dowty is the chair of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party. Since his election to that position in 2009, he has done a terrific job of leading the Dems. In answering a series of questionnaire questions sent to him by Mr. Jacoby, Stu demonstrates his extensive knowledge of […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos and Blogging For Michigan. This one seems to have slipped a bit under the radar (though I did mention it briefly in blog entry yesterday. In response to the odious decision by the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-08) has put together a package of bills he calls the “Save Our Democracy” Reform […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos, Blogging for Michigan, and Michigan Liberal. Last night, MI-07 Representative Mark Schauer spoke to the 2010 annual membership meeting of the Western Washtenaw Dems. During his conversation, he came out firmly in favor of a budget reconciliation path to passing health insurance reform legislation and was outspoken about the atrocious decision by the Supreme Court of […]

Best YouTube vid of the year (so far): I’m just sayin’…

I took a computer science class in college, a FORTRAN programming class. Each program I wrote was worth 8 points. However, there were at least 40 different things I could do to lose points. Mess up 8 of those those 40 things and get a zero. That’s unfair. And it’s exactly what liberals are doing to our president and his […]

I don’t know how the MA-Sen election will end up but I do know this: it has galvanized Organizing for America volunteers in our area (Ann Arbor, Michigan.) There have been phone banks in my area every day for the past week at multiple locations. Last night we called from the campaign office of gubernatorial candidate Alma Wheeler-Smith. We had […]

I’ve been banging the drum for Organizing for America (OFA) since the election and have gotten a great deal of push back from those who think either that OFA is just another failed DNC exercise or that it’s just a haven for Obamabots who mindlessly agree with everything that the president and his administration feed them. Neither is true and […]

In his Op-Ed in the Detroit News today, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Coathanger) turns on the charm offensive. And it’s nauseating. Oh, he starts out reasonable enough: I adamantly oppose the sweetheart deals provided to certain states in this bill. This reform should be about providing access to affordable health care for all Americans. Where you live should have nothing to […]