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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • Fixing the Presidential Primary System – Part 1

    After spending my Saturday, transfixed by the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws committee, I have a new respect for the work the DNC and other parties engage in to make the process appear more seamless than it actually is to the normal folk out there. Apparently, things like timing and order are a big damn deal…

  • Thank you Senator Reid

    I’ve had some issues with the leadership in the Congress since they took control last January. Eventually, they figured out a way to work their respective legislative bodies in a way that is mostly in tune with the sentiment of Democrats, but it has, at times been a struggle, as Senator Harry Reid points out…

  • Meltdown

    I know I keep saying that I won’t write about this anymore, and if you don’t want to read it, then just stop now. The more I watch the mess that is playing out in the Democratic Presidential nomination, the more transfixed I am by the terrifying slow motion apocalypse that is happening before our…

  • What Happened? I lied a lot…but not on purpose…kinda

    McClellan is making the rounds today on NBC. Below is his interview with Meredith on the Today Show. Tonight, he appears with KO on Countdown. NBC White House Corespondent David Gregory is surprised. But considering the exchanges that Gregory had with McClellan, that surprises me. McClellan, in every exchange, did everything he could to NEVER…

  • More Sexist Math

    (Source) The fuzzy screen grab tells a story. The story it tells is one of woe, unhappiness and further illustrates the latent sexism that math embodies. As you can see, by mangling the numbers appropriately, thanks to the brilliant decisions of MI and FL, the national popular vote tally, WHICH HAS ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING ON…

  • Buffet's Reality

    Warren Buffett is one of the worlds most respected experts in the realm of “high finance”. He’s made himself, and his investors a whole lot of money over the years, and in a manner that is perhaps more responsible than any other money man in history. So when Buffett says the current recession will be…