Baton Rouge There is a desperate and cynical political strategy at work in the efforts of Florida Governor Rick Scott and Texas Governor Rick Perry in their attempts to bar people from the clinic doors trying to enroll under the new Affordable Care Act on October 1st. This Rick-o-say strategy will in fact ricochet on …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Syria and Summers Prove the Power of No
New Orleans The progressive forces can suddenly count coup on the Obama Administration over two issues in the matter of recent weeks for both economic progressives and anti-war advocates. The irony of having a Nobel Peace Prize winning President caught in a web of his own weaving and left with only military options in …
De Blasio Wins with the “Left Walk” in New York City Mayor’s Race
Baton Rouge The “Gotham” columnist for the New York Times, Michael Powell gave proper credit not just to Bill de Blasio for his seemingly out-of-nowhere broad based support and victory in the Democratic primary race for Mayor of New York City with this “tale of two cities” appeal, but also appropriately to the Working Families …