"The state of our union is strong!" Thanks for the newsflash.
Is it too much to hope for that a president fulfill his (or her, but that's REALLY too much to hope for) constitutionally mandated duties by giving an honest assessment of the condition our condition is in? I don't remember seeing anything about unibrowed Iraqi women in there, but it's been a while since eighth grade civics.
Just saw this at My Left Nutmeg. They're all wondering if Obama will be praising Joe, the Democratic Senator I'm looking forward to voting against in a primary come later this semester. NB: This is my personal view. As many others have already noted, the Dems don't endorse in primaries.
Anyway, I was interested in something else from the blog post:
During his seven years in the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. (emphasis added)Kevin, do you think there's any chance we could get him to mention the EITC at the dinner? It's a particularly poignant message at a dinner which costs $175 a head.
The state of Democratic politics in the south has never looked worse. Electoral maps bleed Republican red below the Mason-Dixon line. Anecdotes provide an even gloomier picture: in my home state of Tennessee, Republicans took control of the State House in 2004 for the first time since Reconstruction. At the same time, however, the contemporary southern sterotype of Democrats is ready for significant change. By focusing on religion and poverty in the 2006 and 2008 elections, Democrats can begin to retake the south. In doing so, they will not only have better chances for electoral victory, but they will begin to redefine the political landscape for the future.
Hey,
My name is Scott Caplan, I'm a senior in Saybrook. This is my first post on the blog.
I apologize for writing something that's a bit too "meta" for most readers (see below for more political stuff), but I'm a big fan of Technorati tags (see http://www.technorati.com/). Anyway, the only time I was ever able to (read "not too lazy to") was when I was using Flock (see http://www.flock.com/), which integrates Technorati tagging. Unfortunately, I've stopped using Flock, but I picked up Performancing for firefox (see http://performancing.com/firefox), and after many false starts trying to figure out Movable Type configuration (we're using Movable Type to run the blog), I've finally gotten it to work. (Yay!) If any other Dems are interested, I'll send out something to Kevin in the near future about how to configure it.
All that said, and I apologize if you couldn't give two bollocks about all this, I plan on posting once in a while here, though by no means as much as I email demtalk!
Latest political news I found interesting:
Ned Lamont, Greenwich millionaire and potential Democratic Senate candidate, was at the New Haven Public Library this morning. The turnout to meet him was pretty good, with about 40 people in attendance. After some brief announcements by local activists ( Professor Odom will be giving a speech about Iraq at 311 Temple on Tuesday at 7:30), Lamont bounded up to the podium and was greeted by quite a bit of applause. More after the flip...
So, in retrospect, I probably should have posted this info sooner, but here it is:
Potential Democratic Candidate for US Senate from CT, Ned Lamont, will be at the New Haven Free Public Library at 10am on Saturday, the 28th. (The library is off of the green on Elm Street. Not sure which room exactly, but I know it's downstairs.) Lamont would challenge incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman in the primary on August 8th, 2006. [Credit Aaron Margolis for catching this one.]
The Yale College Democrats do not endorse in primaries. More on the flip...
It's been a while since I made a regular habit of perusing campus blogs, so I went on a little google expedition to try to find some political blogs written by Yalies. Here's what I came up with:
Broad Recognition which "provides feminist commentary on campus events and serves as an alternative news source and discussion forum." It updates regularly and is really thought-provoking. Have you recently considered the gender-role implications of STEP signage in Yale's laundry rooms? Check it out.
SNAP Notes, the blog of SNAPPAC, which is a student-run group that raises money to fund interns on progressive campaigns around the country. They're a good source of political commentary generally and specific news relevant to congressional campaigns.
More on the flip!
How do you like comment on other things? Are the entries supposed to open? Is creating a new entry the only thing you can do? This is hard....I want to go back to the 90's!!
Undoubtedly you guys saw the Dems' Stop Alito tabling on Cross Campus last Tuesday. As we urged Yalies to call their Senators to tell them to oppose Alito's confirmation, we handed out a handsome little flier detailing a few of the reasons to be afraid of 30 years with Sam on the court. His opposition to choice is of course well known, but he's also unsympathetic to victims of discrimination, disfranchisement, and illegal strip-searches (I know, that last one's a little surprising from a social conservative).
Another questionable aspect of Alito's record, one which holds particular interest for Yale undergraduates, is his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a group of reactionary fossils from the bad old days of the Ivy League. More on the flip....
Hi everyone. So I originally used this post to test some new code for the yale dems blog. It looks like everything's working as it should, so go ahead and use this as an open thread to discuss the website. What's good, what's bad? What else would you like to see?
And it better be all good, because I just spent, like, a lot of hours working on it! :-p
Hats off to the YDN for their front page coverage of the Dems' Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) lobbying campaign! (Link.) The federal EITC has been the single-most effective way of lifting the working poor out of poverty -- it's absolutely vital to our strength as a one-people nation. There's more to come as the Yale Dems partner with Project Opportunity to launch a massive lobbying campaign to encourage Connecticut to adopt a state EITC.
Check back soon for details about our offical campaign launch!
I am a Democrat, and proud of it. So I was disappointed to see Roger Low's column criticizing the Democratic Party and expressing cynicism about its future ("Dems doomed without solid reform plan," YDN 1/12). What the Democrats need these days is more involvement from idealistic young progressives, not less.
The values that made the Democratic Party great are the values that still drive it today. That's not to say the organization doesn't have its shortcomings -- all parties do. But those who are searching for a powerful force for good in these turbulent times need look no further than the party that created Social Security and Medicare, enacted landmark civil rights legislation and created the longest period of economic expansion in our nation's history.
This near to the vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito LAW '75, the judge's judicial history requires attention.
While Alito is experienced, his radically conservative judicial philosophy threatens the most basic of our constitutional rights and freedoms. This is clearly demonstrated by sifting through a damaging paper trail.
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