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Biden: The Latest Insult
Joe Biden? Joe (D-MBNA) Biden? The architect of the bankruptcy "reform?"More than anyone, I'd expect John Marshall to be outraged by this. During the bankruptcy reform debate, TPM tried to rally the opposition, the same way it rallied opposition to...more »
Posted on August 23, 2008 11:02 AM
The Edwards Schadenfreude
"I never much liked Edwards as a politician," writes Time Magazine's Joe Klein.Here at TPM, Josh Marshall argues that Edwards was reckless to run for the nomination because his affair definitely would have come out and it would have hurt...more »
Posted on August 10, 2008 3:29 PM
Where's Eli?
According to TPM, Eli Pariser was meant to post here to discuss MoveOn.org's 10th year and its past and future impacts on the progressive movement. Since the debate this week was largely about whether MoveOn is a genuine movement that...more »
Posted on August 1, 2008 6:12 PM
John McCain Limerick Thread!
Jason Everett Miller proved that where FISA divides us, poetry can unite us in the first ever TPMCafe haiku thread. Now, at the risk of starting a trend that will make Time's Swampland label all Democrats a bunch of latte-drinking...more »
Posted on July 17, 2008 3:05 PM
The New Yorker and The Height of Elitism
The discussion about The New Yorker’s Obama cover has revealed a lot of prejudices about people that seem to be shared by a good portion of the TPM commentariat community.There are some criticisms of the cover that I disagree with...more »
Posted on July 14, 2008 1:33 PM
Donate Money To John McCain!
Everyone at TPM should donate money to John McCain if he does what Joe Klein is speculating about here and makes Jeb Bush his running mate.It would be a delightful disaster. John, are you listening? If you agree to take...more »
Posted on June 23, 2008 11:25 AM
FISA Round Two: Senate Time!
I just got off the phone with a nice representative in Senator Clinton's office. She confirms that Senator Clinton opposes the current FISA bill and any retoractive immunity for telecoms. I asked if she would appear in the Senate to...more »
Posted on June 20, 2008 3:29 PM
Barack and Hillary Should Get To Work
The Democratic leadership in the Senate has caved under pressure from a lame duck president and the telecom lobby. Our party is considering a quick vote on a bill that will immunize the telecoms from the consequences of breaking the...more »
Posted on June 19, 2008 1:22 PM
Getting Paid For Cap and Trade
This is totally going to get lost since today is Obama's day but Robert B. Reich has a great column in the Wall Street Journal about how to make a cap and trade carbon system both fair to consumers and...more »
Posted on June 4, 2008 11:33 AM
Being There (Obama and Iraq)
So John McCain has for once in the campaign done something clever. If Obama goes to Iraq at McCain's behest, he looks like the follower rather than the leader. If he doesn't, McCain and the Republicans can pound Obama for...more »
Posted on May 28, 2008 8:06 PM
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I know it's impolitic to say but... while McCain heroically endured his time in confinement, he got shot down while bombing a bunch of innocent civilians. That's just what happened. Sure McCain was the arm of that strategy and not the architect but he was bombing innocents and he knew it. That's not heroism we can believe in.
Posted at September 5, 2008 10:34 AM in response to On Bragging War Heroes
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Well, even though you generally can't say anything about a one day market move, Taplin has a point here. Down 3% in one day is huge.
But... this is also the 4th down day in a row and it probably isn't election related. The big issue this week has been the falling oil prices. For a long while people have said that "When the dollar strengthens, oil prices will fall, inflation will drop and stocks will begin their recovery." That was an argument based on us really finding a bottom globally and about future growth.
Oil prices have tanked. But it's all about demand destruction. And, oil is still expensive when compared to historical averages. The market panicked because oil went down for the wrong reasons. Bullish investors were waiting for oil to drop as a sign of decreasing inflation and a stronger dollar. They got oil prices dropping as a result of a drop in global demand and that has them fearing deflation -- the ultimate market correction.
And, in the end, Taplin should know better than to attribute a day's or even a week's market performance to a political convention.
Posted at September 5, 2008 1:35 AM in response to Wall Street & The War Party
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They're working on it. They have to move to new, bigger, servers first. Then, we get a preview function.
Though we DID used to have one on the old TPM site. Bring back TPM Classic!
And our avatars!
Posted at September 4, 2008 9:41 AM in response to Recommend if you want TPM to allow us to preview our posts before submitting
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What? Palin represents "some of the country's deepest, most powerful currents of pent-up indignation and yearning"?
Are you insane?
All of the pent-up indignation and yearning is about the war we fought for no reason, the money we borrowed to fight that war, the incompetent domestic governance we've had because of the money we diverted to that war and, more than anything, the inflation that's been a result of our devaluing the dollar in order to pay for that war!
How on Earth does a lightweight nitwit like Palin get to win the indignation argument?
Posted at September 4, 2008 1:35 AM in response to What Palin Offers -- and What It Would Cost
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I think China is pretty much proof that the old economic development = reform, democracy and freedom argument is hollow.
But this Bahour guy... kind of seems like a rich guy looking for some corporate welfare.
Posted at September 3, 2008 12:41 PM in response to Palestine: It's Not Just The Economy, Stupid
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Oh come on, nobody would ever make an issue out of something like this. I mean, just ask Al Gore.
Posted at September 3, 2008 10:50 AM in response to Did Bush break the law in his speech to the RNC?
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If one of Obama's daughters were in this situation the response from the Republicans would be both sexist and racist. What bothers me is I'm not sure that would hurt them.
Posted at September 2, 2008 2:43 PM in response to Of Palen, Teenagers, Decisions, Decency, and Politics
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You're a man of principle Bruce. And compassion.
Posted at September 2, 2008 12:24 PM in response to Of Palen, Teenagers, Decisions, Decency, and Politics
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I think the community here is more than capable of handling a few errant posts like you're describing. There's no reason to ban people from saying outlandish things, especially if they can be persuaded by the community to give up fantastic claims and character assassinations in favor of better, more enduring arguments against McCain and Palin.
Posted at September 2, 2008 6:52 AM in response to Offended and Demand Action
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Dorn, I think that it what he;s saying.
It's the same argument made by Agent Smith in the first Matrix movie, when he compared humanity to a virus. Now, I'm not sure about the validity of that argument, but it does have some resonance.
Posted at September 2, 2008 12:13 AM in response to The Non-Inevitability of Evil
