You remember how the Democrats just aren’t stressing their favorable hand on security issues? New Democracy Corps/Third Way poll shows that Obama’s got solid approval ratings on most aspects of national security — in the mid-50s or slightly better; the exception, alas, is on interrogations & detentions — but Generic Democrats are doing significantly worse. [...]

First, huge thanks to Spencer for letting me guest-blog again. As he mentioned, I spend most of blog-time at my own joint, but you can also find me hanging around the good folks at PostBourgie. By now, it’s obvious that Evan Bayh is leaving the Senate because he is angry; angry at liberal activists for [...]

In the wake of last week’s elections and the flurry of “conventional wisdom” (read: warmed-over bullshit) declaring that the Democrats are “in trouble,” the White House is worried about its political prospects and has taken to debating whether or not it will pursue deficit reduction as a political strategy: On the political side, Obama can [...]