California avoids single payer budget buster
California lawmakers aren’t always the most sensible or restrained bunch. But that doesn’t mean they are completely oblivious to the dangers of some policy ideas. Like a single payer health…
Schools closures scrambled political lines
Even as some public schools continue to face a number of challenges keeping kids in class, and teachers on the job. But as the pandemic winds its way into another…
The progressives are getting restless
The 2024 presidential election seem far off into the future. But for some factions of the Democratic party, the chance to challenge Joe Biden in the primaries can’t get here…
The progressive bluff on a resurrected BBB
House Democrats, or at those progressives form the safest of House districts, are intent on reanimating the corpse of Build Back Better. While these would-be Dr. Frankenstein’s know they don’t…
Democrats blame Manchin when they should blame themselves
Congressional Democrats and the press are still trying to figure out what got into Sen. Joe Manchin that convinced him to back away from the Biden administration’s costly Build Back…
Progressives are the favored scapegoat for Democratic losses
The fallout from the Nov. 2 elections continues to rain across the political landscape, with Democrats still pondering exactly what hit them. That includes Democrats in what was thought to…
The far left gets shellacked
Following up on James Carville’s rant against rampant wokeness in the Democratic party….there’s plenty of evidence from the Nov. 2 results, the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake writes, to prove that…
Progressives insist they aren’t the cause of Nov. 2 defeats
As Democrats in Virginia and nationally cast about for answers, and scapegoats, to explain their crushing defeats on Nov. 2, one group refuses to take the blame: progressives. If anything,…
Democratic tax hopes begin to shrink. They need to get even smaller
Congressional Democrats had big dreams of remaking the federal government, and the tax system that funds it. But a funny thing happened on the way to the liberal utopia: self-interest…
Progressives against Democracy in California
For all of their loud and repeated utterances in defense of democracy, California progressives seem to have exactly the opposite view when it comes to the recall effort against Gov….