Featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
I had an editorial published today in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. You can read it here.
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The Way Forward?
I think the Democrats forgot the golden rule of politics which they themselves devised twenty years ago: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Until unemployment is under control voters will not care about any other issue. After health care, there should not be a single issue that Congress debates until November. It should be job package after job package. If they want to move on financial reform, they do it quietly. If they want to pass cap-and-trade, they do it in a Green Jobs bill. There should not be a single piece of major legislation sent to Obama’s desk that does not have the word “Jobs” in the title…
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What Really Happened In Massachusetts
The mainstream media narrative of what happened last night in Massachusetts is of a Democratic Party facing enormous setbacks, and of a voter population turning against Obama and his agenda. We’re here with a different perspective; we think something different happened last night in Massachusetts, and here it is:
Massachusetts’s voters did their damndest to save the Democratic Party from itself by electing Scott Brown. They fired a warning shot across the bow of an administration and congress that has mismanaged the wall street bailouts, and has turned healthcare reform into a ghost of a bill due to its fixation on pleasing and avoiding confrontation with Republicans.
Last night was a protest.
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Tea Party Returns To Massachusetts
I have an idea about what is going to happen today, and it’s making me nervous. I hope that in 24 hours, I am proved wrong and deprived of the privilige of saying, “I told you so,” but I’ll post my thoughts anyway.
Back on November 5, I penned these words:
If you want to lose the 2010 elections, then go ahead and don’t do anything meaningful with your control of government. Unexcited Obama voters and progressives will stay home on election night just like they did in Virginia and change will finally come to Washington—you will be out of power and the Republicans will be back in power…
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Roundtablet…new progressive strategy and analysis
Hi! The Roundtablet team is extremely excited about this new site of ours. We have some exciting things in the pipeline, and the rest of the team will be introducing themselves throughout the next week. But I’ll start it off–I am Alexander Hurst, founder and editor of roundtablet.com. Hopefully, by the fall this site will be much more extensive, and we will be providing valuable strategy for the Democrats, progressive candidates, and all those working on progressive causes…