Green News Report November 11 2010 Audio
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View ArticleThe Young Voter KnowItall at Family Dinner
Family dinners, a tradition that both my wife and I grew up with, are an important part of our growing household. First there were two of us. Now our four-month old son joins us at the dinner table –...
View ArticleThe Jobs Crisis What Obama Should Say
On November 2nd, Democrats were “shellacked” because they didn’t have a coherent message about the jobs crisis. Whereas Republicans said, “Lower taxes and fewer regulations create jobs,” Dems...
View ArticleIts still Leconomie globale stupide
The current inevitable post-election punditry has, perhaps also inevitably, gotten it mostly wrong. The Democratic defeat is attributed to President Barack Obama’s elitist intellectual style, his...
View ArticleWhy Women Need Pelosi
In the aftermath of the election, the circular firing squad within the Democratic Party has dominated this week’s news. As with any disaster, blaming those who are not responsible is a given — and the...
View ArticleDried Up Michael Steeles Last Stand
Conventional wisdom would dictate that all things political look good for Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele. As the GOP’s first African American Chair, Steele now holds the honor of...
View ArticleMy Support for Ralph Nader Ten Years Later Lessons Learned
Like many people who campaigned and voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, the awareness of the tragic results of the choice of by me and others continues to haunt on the tenth anniversary of that disastrous...
View ArticleA Green Victory in Richmond California
While the recent elections were seen as a setback for national environmental advocates, for the small city of Richmond in San Francisco’s East Bay, it marked a tidal shift in a seven-year battle to...
View ArticleWho Decides Who Decides
Watching the recent election results, I’ve certainly noticed that the pendulum of public opinion seems to swing back and forth in much shorter cycles than it used to — just like in so many other areas...
View ArticleKnown Unknowns The Power of Secret Money in the 2010 Elections
In January, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Citizens United v. FEC, allowing corporations for the first time in decades to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, nobody...
View ArticleThe Boy Who Cried Mandate The Perils of Exaggerating Reality
On Mondays we have staff calls. We all have hectic schedules, so it’s important we set aside some time each week to keep each other abreast of everything that’s happening with ongoing and upcoming...
View ArticleLearned From the Midterms Are You Listening President Obama
Now that the dust has begun to settle on the 2010 midterm elections, what did we learned from that traumatic experience? Let’s make sure that the intellectual air around the White House is able to hear...
View ArticleJust How Bad is Boehner for a Womans Right to Choose
Rep. John Boehner is set to become the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. As Boehner prepares to take the gavel, a survey released last week shows that the vast majority of Americans...
View ArticleSingle Payer after the Midterm Elections
While it’s clear from post-election surveys that having voted for “health care reform” was not a major cause of the Democrats’ defeats, the new health law didn’t help. What should have been a feather...
View ArticleThe Election Where Everybody Was Right but Nobody Was Listening
We have read all of the Election 2010 post-mortems. Here are some of the most insightful: Charlie Cook, Democracy Corps, Senator Jim Webb, Ruy Texeira, Ruth Marcus, Larry J. Sabato, E.J. Dionne, Margie...
View ArticleA Way Forward for Nuclear Arms Control
The Obama administration and a broad coalition of national security experts believe that ratification of the New START treaty, signed last April between the United States and Russia, would be an...
View ArticleAs Predicted Republican Dirty Tricks in the California Attorney General Race
Ben Franklin said that nothing is certain except death and taxes — but then Ben lived before there was a Republican Party to make the political dirty trick every bit as predictable. We predicted what...
View ArticleFair Voter Access is Not A Partisan Issue Just Look at 2010 Elections
I wrote the following piece with my colleague Jo McKeegan, a FairVote Democracy Fellow. Upholding fair voter access and protecting voting rights should not be a partisan issue. In our decentralized...
View ArticleWhat Obama 2010 Can Learn From Obama 2008
In the wake of his party’s midterm elections rout, a profusion of political commentators — including many prominent Democrats — are urging President Obama to move to the right and focus on wooing...
View ArticleWhat Did You Say
Our current governmental structure is precariously poised on the horns of a dilemma. Thanks to the verdict rendered November 2, the ideological and philosophical divide is wider than before. If the...
View ArticleHow to Recover from a Shellacking
“President Obama — who admitted to getting a “shellacking” from Republicans in the midterm elections — took an elbow to the mouth while playing basketball yesterday morning with a group of family and...
View ArticleSame words different meaning the bipartisanship gap between the GOP and Obama
On Tuesday President Obama and Republican congressional leaders both emerged from the White House’s long-awaited “Slurpee Summit” sounding, perhaps surprisingly, a similar tune. After one of the more...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration Promises Made Promises Kept
In the weeks following Republican gains in Congress the left has made much ado about something – just what that something is, though, is up for interpretation. Blaming the Obama Administration for...
View ArticleA New Workers Manifesto
Union and non-union blue-collar workers alike walked into voting booths in 1932 and pulled the lever for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Twenty-eight years later, their sons and daughters — union and...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Colorful Candidates of 2010
Though the politics of this year were fairly predictable (the party of the incumbent president loses Congressional seats? Shocking!), the political personalities were anything but. From an admitted...
View ArticleAmericas New Years Resolutions
The bubbly is gone. The confetti has been swept off the streets. Uncle Sam’s only reminder of last night’s celebration is a hangover and a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Resolution 1: America promises...
View ArticleThe Age Gap and What It Portends for 2012 and Beyond
Among the oldest saws in campaigns is that voter turnout will determine the election outcome. Of course this is true, but is has deeper meaning in light of a growing age gap that has emerged in recent...
View ArticleHaiti Stumbles Toward Second Round of Flawed Elections
By Peter Costantini – Seattle Over two months after the first round of balloting November 28 in Haiti’s turbulent presidential elections, the Conseil Électoral Provisoire (Provisional Electoral...
View ArticleWisconsin Is Front Line of GOP War on Democrats So Where Are the National...
I wrote two weeks ago about how Gov. Scott Walker’s so-called budget repair bill was part of a larger Republican war on the working class. And the events of the last two weeks have backed that up....
View ArticleGOP Buyers Remorse Is Nice but It Only Matters If It Leads to Votes
There seems to be a growing tide of GOP buyer’s remorse sweeping the country. Republicans campaigned in 2010 on creating jobs and cutting spending and the deficit. But once in power, both in the U.S....
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