Archive for November, 2009
Senator Mark Leno at Cal!
Author: Pegah ZardoostJoin the Cal Dems on Tuesday, November 17th from 5:00 to 6:30 P.M. in West Pauley Ballroom in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union Building for an event that’s sure to please – State Senator Mark Leno on The Future of LGBT California. Senator Leno represents San Francisco and authored the Harvey Milk Day [...]
Read moreOn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Author: AnaisPolicy Director Nik Dixit leads a Cal Dems presentation on why DADT should be repealed now. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGziiPj1INk
Read moreFire This Clown
Author: RobbieI’ve long been concerned that Doug Elmendorf has been a less than fair referee on health care reform, but what he said about global warming makes it clear that he’s a clown unfit to fill Peter Orszag’s shoes: “Most of the economy involves activities that are not likely to be directly affected by changes in [...]
Read more“A Cancer Growing Inside the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body”
Author: RobbieThis weekend’s House vote to pass historic health care reform legislation sends President Obama’s central domestic policy priority sailing towards the legislative end zone. In addition, the House passed major energy/environment legislation earlier this year, another major Obama agenda item. Both bills now await consideration on the floor of the United States Senate. As we [...]
Read morePolitics as Sport
Author: RobbieImagine that politics is baseball. Following from that, political junkies are baseball fans. And elections are the World Series (debates are the play-offs). But here’s where the metaphor gets tricky. Baseball fans expect that they will get to watch the World Series every fall. After the mother of all elections last fall which created innumerable [...]
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