Category Archives: Democrats

Good News on Dental Healthcare: Now Tell People This, Joe!

Posted on May 23, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Some good policy news (boldface mine): In a move last month that received little fanfare, the Biden administration finalized a rule that would give states the option of adding adult dental insurance coverage as part of their Affordable Care Act … Continue reading →

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Sen. Durbin Is Not Serious About Stopping the Fifth Circuit Federal Court

Posted on May 16, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is the most right-wing federal court in the U.S.–and many of the worst decisions that ultimately are used by the Republican-dominated Supreme Court to enact conservative policies originate there. If Democrats … Continue reading →

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Democrats Are No Longer the Party of Low-Propensity Voters

Posted on May 7, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

And I’m old enough to remember when Democrats were the party of low-propensity voters. In other words, Democrats used to want high levels of turnout because unlikely/less likely voters were disproportionately Democratic. But things have been changing as some asshole … Continue reading →

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Urban Governance: It’s the Executive Branch, Stupid

Posted on April 24, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

And in too many cities, the executive branch is failing its citizens. There are two posts from Joe Friday, both of which highlight what some asshole with a blog has been writing for a long time: many of the failures … Continue reading →

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If Biden Spoke Like This Once, There Would Be Calls to Invoke the 25th Amendment

Posted on April 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

And people wouldn’t be wrong to do so. Adjudicated rapist and serial fraudster Donald Trump recently uttered this (it’s unclear how to punctuate this gibberish): It’s where the army weathered it’s brutal winter at Valley Forge where General George Washington … Continue reading →

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Professional Democrats Suck at Their Jobs: The Biden Mental Acuity Edition

Posted on April 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

While extrapolating from a single person is a mug’s game, the erroneous belief that Biden is too elderly to be president does seem to be widespread, if not so much anymore among the chattering class (boldface mine): And Wallace Welch, … Continue reading →

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How Should the Media Cover Republicans?

Posted on March 28, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Not adjucated rapist and serial fraudster Donald Trump, but Republicans–and I don’t mean the small minority of ‘Never Trumpers’, but actual Republicans? In light of former Republican National Committee Ronna McDaniel’s hiring and unhiring by NBC, Josh Marshall gets at … Continue reading →

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Why Was Biden Doing So Poorly?

Posted on March 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

During his State of the Union address, Navigator Research did one of those focus group thingees with a group of soft partisans and independents in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area. The results showed a huge (YOOGE!) swing for Biden when … Continue reading →

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If Democrats Are Serious about Protecting Women in Red States Who Need Abortions…

Posted on March 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…then they need to take internet privacy and personal data collection far more seriously (boldface mine): With abortion access, you think about the fact now that there’s a patchwork of state laws around abortion and that in the previous era, … Continue reading →

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Professional Democrats Are Bad at Their Jobs: The Inability to Push Narratives Edition

Posted on March 8, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

In a very good New Yorker article about how Biden isn’t senile and convicted rapist and serial fraudster Donald Trump is (would be hard pressed to know that based on most reporting), a former Republican strategist makes a very good … Continue reading →

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