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Regulations, Contractors, and the Gulf Oil Spill

BP blame game

New Orleans The wave of news comments was provoked by the release of an almost 400 page report by the National Oil Spill Commission in Washington head by former Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly during Republican administrations.  In the inimitable words of Aaron [...]

Town Hall Ruckus

Washington The buzz before, after, and during every meeting I had in DC and the metro area at the end of the week focused on the ruckus and eruptions that had broken out in Tampa and around St. Louis at various town hall meetings for Democratic congressional representatives.  The numbers were large.  Crowds [...]

Progressive Tension

Washington The newly named Campaign for America’s Future, which bills itself as an annual meeting for progressives, opened in DC yesterday.  I’ve attended several of these meetings in the past, and an undercurrent of the session seemed to me to indicate that progressives are disoriented and confused.

Robert Borsage in [...]