The Texas Blue: News
Wednesday Roundup: The Thunder at Soldier Field
Wed, 08/08/2007 - 7:04am
If you were waiting for fireworks at last night's debate or hoped to see some interesting changes to the candidates' overall strategies, well, you got what you were looking for.
AFL-CIO Democratic Primary Debate: The LiveBlog
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 4:54pm
5:48 The debate doesn't actually start until 6, but man, the pre-debate discussion is getting nasty!
Cornyn Abandons Family Values (Again)
By David Gurney
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 4:01pm
John Cornyn, to the surprise of no one here, opposes affordable health care for poor children.
The Only Debate With Tailgating (So Far)
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 2:40pm
It's a little early for any endorsements to come out, but you may not hear of many (or any) labor endorsements during the primaries, no matter who wins tonight's AFL-CIO debate at Soldier Field in Chicago, which George will be liveblogging. Join him tonight from 6:00 PM Central. Join us below for some pre-game talk about NAFTA and endorsements.
Bush Makes Nixon Look Good
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 10:30am
Quick — somebody get out the political life boats! The Bush administration’s poll numbers continue to sink. Numbers have now gotten so low that pundits are publicly comfortable making open comparisons between Bush and Richard M. Nixon.
Tuesday Roundup: Cornyn On (Off?) The Fence
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 7:00am
The junior Senator was in El Paso yesterday, talking about the need to increase border security and saying that the key isn't a big border fence. Which is weird, because he voted for a big border fence. Now he is backing off of that assertion, or at least he engaged in a little quibbling and quantifying about it when he was in front of the El Paso Chamber.
Our Ailing Infrastructure
Mon, 08/06/2007 - 1:00pm
An article in Friday's Washington Post shines a light on an often-overlooked problem that impacts all of us: The aging of our country's infrastructure. These paragraphs, in particular, caught my eye:
Nevertheless, the overall national infrastructure is stuck in a "death spiral," as states repeatedly fail to maintain the status quo condition of their transportation networks, Pisarski said. Maintenance standards slip further as the money is spread thin.
Silence Can Often Speak the Loudest
By Chris Bell
Mon, 08/06/2007 - 8:08am
The power of quiet. I was struck by it the other day during my first camping trip in years. In the dark, back country wilderness of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, I kept finding myself saying, “Listen to that!” Not because there was anything to hear but because there was absolutely nothing; it was complete and total silence. It produced some of the clearest thinking I’ve experienced in years.
Monday Roundup: A (Kind Of) Quiet Weekend
Mon, 08/06/2007 - 7:00am
The biggest news over the weekend, more or less, is that Senator Clinton had a decent welcome at Yearly Kos.
On The Record: Zada True-Courage
Sun, 08/05/2007 - 12:00pm
For this episode of On The Record, we speak with Zada True-Courage, the Committeewoman for SD 25, Comptroller for the True Courage Action Network, and co-founder of the Northeast Bexar County Democrats.