It's Now or Never for Obama and Democratic Governance
Roosevelt considered it. Truman tried it--and failed. Kennedy was blocked, Johnson succeeded in part, Nixon nearly did it, Clinton was nearly destroyed in trying to do it. Now President Barack Obama...
View ArticleTwentieth Century Domestic Policy
I was just reflecting, in these days of talk about health care reform, on the differences between Democratic and Republican presidents in terms of domestic policy in the 20th century. The Democrats...
View ArticleAn Analysis of Ohio - Part II
This is the second section of an analysis of voting patterns in the swing state Ohio. Unlike Florida and Pennsylvania, Ohio cannot be easily divided into geographically distinct regions (although they...
View ArticleObama and the Lessons of History
So the last month has seen the news inundated with reports of "birthers," "deathers" and assorted cranks venting outrage over President Obama's proposed health insurance reform. This seems to have...
View ArticlePolitical wisdom from inside the walls of an old NJ house
We had to have our old leaky pipes replaced, opening up a wall in our entry hall, and yesterday the electrician found this gem from an old newspaper with no date on it, possibly 1935. Government's Duty...
View ArticleProgress Through Reflection: A speech I'd like to deliver to Obama and congress
This is a speech I wrote that I feel summarizes the importance of the progressive movement that our president and congress have been jeopardizing through compromises and inaction. I hope Obama, Pelosi...
View ArticleDude, I Want My Party Back!
Dude, I Want My Party Back! By David Glenn Cox It is a self-perpetuating cycle that is not new and it is not unique. It is similar in scope and appearance to the crisis which loomed as FDR took office...
View ArticleHistory Channel's "The People Speak": A Much-Needed Lesson in Hope and Change...
How to pare down a 752-page book into a 2-hour cable television event must have been a challenge for the producers of The People Speak, but those behind The People Speak succeed beautifully in...
View ArticleHow to Save the Democratic Party - Part I: Making Peace with your Political Base
This is the first in a series of essays on saving the Democratic Party’s political fortunes, in terms of policy, tactics, elections and popular support. The 2010 election hangs like a dark cloud over...
View ArticleQuery to Obama: "Have you the will to reach the far horizon where rest the...
From the depths of the Great Depression in March 1933 the poet Robert Sherwood posed a fundamental question to the new President Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf of the American people: "Are we sure...
View ArticleMaddow on Spending Freezes: 1937 Redux? Um, not so fast...
I had to record the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, and so I'm late commenting on her Monday show. And I'm sad to say my comments aren't as glowing as they normally would have been. I love her just tons...
View ArticleRachel Maddow vs. Jared Bernstein and Obama SOTU Spending Proposal:...
I'm not joining in the circular firing squad just yet. I was very, very disappointed at Rachel Maddow's handling of Jared Bernstein on Monday's show, and her Tuesday show was no better. As I said in...
View Articlehistory of corporations pt 5
Part Five of my diary series on the history of the corporation. This series is a draft book I am working on, "World Incorporated: The History of the Supra-National Corporation and its Global...
View ArticleThe Muck Rake and The Man
I think I know why some people call middle aged white men, "The Man." I come from a long line of men that are considered The Man. Which makes me, in some peoples mind, The Man. Or at least, I hold some...
View ArticleThe Heart of Power: Stirrings (Part 1)
The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone. University of California Press (420pp). When Franklin Roosevelt became president in March, 1933, he led...
View ArticleIt Ain’t Me, Babe
It Ain’t Me, Babe By David Glenn Cox I am a Democrat; I was born into a Democratic family. My father worked in the Democratic Party for over 20 years. My mother worked the polls as an election judge...
View ArticleThe Realignment That Isn't
Politics is as much about action and reaction as ideas. Obama has ideas. But on the big stage, I’m afraid, he just doesn’t know how to act. So what we thought was transformational may only be...
View ArticleThe Public Option
The Public Option By David Glenn Cox The sales of new homes fell by 33 percent in May to an all time record low of 300,000 new homes. The previous all time lows were recorded last November, December...
View ArticleWhy The Great Selfishness?
The fifth anniversary of Katrina is a reminder how government failed to save the lives of more than 1500 New Orleanais. Now, with the U.S. teetering on the brink of a second Great Recession, our...
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