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Positions on the tax-cut debate are dividing across three separate dimensions. And on all of them, the differences among Democrats are slight compared to those between us and Republicans.
Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
December 8th, 2010
Category: 2011 Democratic Agenda, Leadership, Liberalism, Rhetoric and Framing, Watching Conservatives
October 5th, 2010
I have been fairly tough on Berkeley’s chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, in this space in the past, and this obliges me to give him a shout-out for the very tough call he just made to control the financial bleeding of the school’s intercollegiate athletics (IA) program. Following a faculty vote to put this program on a [...]
September 6th, 2010
Lately I have been talking to a number of policy makers in the U.S. and in other countries who are facing public sector cuts. Many of them utter words to the effect of “Even if we know a new initiative will work we can’t launch anything during a period of fiscal retrenchment”. A related sentiment [...]
August 21st, 2010
Category: Democratic Party, Leadership
Howard Dean: great party builder; lousy moral leader.
March 22nd, 2010
Category: Blogging, Leadership
Without “pass the damn bill,” the damn bill wouldn’t have passed. Homage to Steve Benen.
