• “M.J., you wrote: "The reason the United States continues to fail on the Israeli-Palestinian track is because of the power”
      Posted on Obama's Mideast Failure: What's Going On? November 21, 2009 9:09 AM
    • “I like this language: "It is too bad that we have a certain group -- the Party of No and”
      Posted on Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option November 20, 2009 4:09 PM
    • “Would you agree or disagree that sometimes, historically, what seem like half and inadequate measures at the time evolve into”
      Posted on Senate Bill: Two-thirds of Newly Insured in Public Plans November 20, 2009 12:34 PM
    • “Analysis is just so. It clarifies one way in which artappraiser's comment about public option, pro and con, sucking up”
      Posted on Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option November 20, 2009 12:28 PM
    • “I for one would welcome that. You're a hard worker and know a lot that many of us, certainly me,”
      Posted on Senate Bill: Two-thirds of Newly Insured in Public Plans November 19, 2009 3:07 PM
    • “BTW, the book to read on the point that, so long as public policy reinforces the perception by businesses that”
      Posted on Help Needed - re: Socially Responsible Mutual Funds November 19, 2009 2:06 PM
    • “Good questions and good for you for not letting your current advisors spook or dissuade you from seriously looking into”
      Posted on Help Needed - re: Socially Responsible Mutual Funds November 19, 2009 11:51 AM
    • “Nathan, you are seeking to provide justifiable reasons for enthusiasm, preferably, or at least support, for what is before Congress”
      Posted on Senate Bill: Two-thirds of Newly Insured in Public Plans November 19, 2009 11:15 AM
    • “Interesting observation. A book I aim to get to soon might be pertinent to your comment: From Cronkite to Colbert:”
      Posted on My Favorite Onion November 17, 2009 12:28 PM
    • “LMAO. I needed that. I also enjoyed "Area Man Passionate Defender of What He Imagines Constitution to Be", linked to”
      Posted on My Favorite Onion November 17, 2009 10:21 AM
    • “TJ, I don't think "they" are all the same or have the same mindset. But it's just part of the”
      Posted on Now, About Those Jobs. . . November 13, 2009 10:27 AM
    • “I agree with your suggestion that President Obama and Congress propose a WPA-type program to put millions of Americans to”
      Posted on Now, About Those Jobs. . . November 13, 2009 10:00 AM
    • “I've shared this with friends. I always worry when pieces like this use the past tense that there's going to”
      Posted on The Great Divide November 9, 2009 10:50 AM
    • “Thanks for posting. I guess some see or want to see President Obama as a modern-day Lincoln on this issue,”
      Posted on Why Kucinich Voted No November 9, 2009 10:41 AM
    • “Possibly I shouldn't insert myself in here and should just let Thera respond for herself. But I didn't think that”
      Posted on The Great Divide November 6, 2009 3:02 PM
    • “From one who may be sort of hopelessly over-analytical: beautifully said. It put into words better than I've been able”
      Posted on The Great Divide November 6, 2009 1:46 PM
    • “There is also the following, from the astute and thoughtful John Judis, part of his election results review at The”
      Posted on What Happened Tonight November 5, 2009 12:16 PM
    • “Jonathan, thank you for replying and for the links--I will check them out. I appreciate it.”
      Posted on What Happened Tonight November 4, 2009 6:40 PM
    • “I'll offer the following observations as a northern Virginia resident. Deeds won the nomination partly because it was a weak”
      Posted on What Happened Tonight November 4, 2009 11:33 AM
    • “Thank you for replying. I appreciate it. Would you be so kind as to provide a source or two to”
      Posted on What Happened Tonight November 4, 2009 10:59 AM
    • “Jonathan, much as I might prefer to accept your interpretation of last night's results over some others being freely offered,”
      Posted on What Happened Tonight November 4, 2009 10:42 AM
    • “Thank you Andrew, and best wishes going forward.”
      Posted on Andrew Golis! Thanks and Farewell October 30, 2009 4:33 PM
    • “Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I'm doing my itty bitty part to help it go viral...”
      Posted on Where's the Pony? October 29, 2009 1:44 PM
    • “Red Planet, if that is the way things shake out in a final bill I believe your analysis will be”
      Posted on People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives! October 27, 2009 12:34 PM
    • “Good point. I was just looking at some poll results reported in Politico for the New Jersey governor's race that”
      Posted on People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives! October 27, 2009 11:47 AM
    • “Oops, my bad, sorry xavier12345, question meant for Zeno of Citium, obviously...”
      Posted on People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives! October 27, 2009 9:53 AM
    • “xavier12345, what do you mean by that?”
      Posted on People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives! October 27, 2009 9:45 AM
    • “For those who have been critical of the President's supposed lack of leadership on the public option part of the”
      Posted on People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives! October 26, 2009 10:04 PM
    • “Re the health care issue, if the President believed or knew he had the power to break a filibuster with”
      Posted on An Open Letter to the President from Your Disappointed Supporters October 26, 2009 3:21 PM
    • “Yours is the sort of gracious remark that I expect from someone of your humane sensibilities, Bernard. The Jim Carroll”
      Posted on Goldberg: The Last Word (At Least From Me) October 24, 2009 6:20 AM

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  • Location northern Virginia
  • Party Democrat
  • Politics idealist without illusions (what I work towards, at any rate, it being in the nature of illusions that one does not generally know when one has one)

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  • Favorite Books A few that come to mind are Walking with the Wind, John Lewis (perhaps my top living "famous person" hero); Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, Henry Ashby Turner; Cincinnatus, Garry Wills (on George Washington and the ethical exercise of power); Everything for Sale, Robert Kuttner (on the uses and limitations of markets, best single book on economic policy I have read); Animal Farm and other works by George Orwell; A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind; The Irony of American History, Reinhold Niebuhr; Robert Kennedy In His Own Words: Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years, eds. Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman; RFK: A Memoir, by Jack Newfield; Lincoln's Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shenk.
  • Favorite Quotes (lately; it changes) "Two pins shared a balloon. Watch out, said one of them, I'm going to prick a hole in *your* half." Tor Age Bringsvaerd, courtesy website of Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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