Back in the late 90s, I was active in progressive Tennessee politics for a couple of years, when I lived in Knoxville. It was the most active I've been in my life in terms of real organizing and such. Something about living in a place...
democratic gerontocracy
Susan Collins sucks. And yet it does not look like Democrats have any plan to defeat her except relying on Janet Mills to run--who is a mere 77 years old,.
Thanks to the commenter who noted that the last EIGHT members of Congress to die in office are Democrats: Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia--age 75, cancer Rep. Ra煤l Grijalva of.
The Democrats and their love for the Olds has paid off big once again with the death of Gerry Connolly, who Pelosi and other senior Democrats went all-in to protect as head of Oversight Committee from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, despite the fact that he had the...
If we are going to talk about the gerontocracy sucking away the life of the Democratic Party, we can't just use it as a metaphor for "moderates we don't like.".
RA脷L GRIJALVA I have so much respect for Raul Grijalva, the outstanding legislator from Arizona. He was one of the greatest congressional progressives of the first quarter of this century..
Oh jesus christ........ Voters long believed that President Biden was too old to seek a second term. The issue torpedoed his campaign and saddled his vice president with an extraordinarily short political runway. But one month after Democrats lost up and down the ticket, party leaders are already struggling with the next...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., center, speaks with committee members Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April.