Even Bayh’s departure, and some historical context for just how “broken” things really are

Senator Evan Bayh’s surprise announcement that he won’t seek re-election has generated another bout of Washington’s current ailment – whining about a broken Senate, a paralyzed political system and huge unaddressed problems. “We’ve got a lot of good people in Congress, but they’re trapped in a dysfunctional system,” Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, said in explaining …

Harold Meyerson’s Misguided Lament

Although Washington is poised to enact what he calls “a genuinely epochal expansion of health care,” Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson laments the absence of a vibrant progressive movement that could fuel the enactment of a broad-scale public agenda to rival FDR‟s New Deal or LBJ‟s Great Society. “[W]ithout left pressure from below,” Meyerson writes …

Letter From Washington / Obama and Human Rights: Hitting the “Reset Button”

“Now, it’s not productive, given the history of the U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling – the U.S. President meddling in Iranian elections.” President Obama, June 16, 2009 Responding to Iran’s fraudulent Presidential election and subsequent protests “America will always be a voice for those aspirations that are universal. We will bear witness to …