Independent Caucus tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-499317 2010-09-18T09:33:37-04:00 Rationale. Reason. Proportion. Fact. TypePad English, The News, And My Grandfather tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef0133f4588bef970b 2010-09-18T09:33:37-04:00 2010-09-18T09:33:37-04:00 What do you think of the diminution of both print newspapers and network news channels generally viewed as just reporters of the news, and not having any particular side, at least none they let on to? For a long time... Joe Intili Barack Obama: Just Not What I Thought tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef013487027d26970c 2010-09-06T12:13:50-04:00 2010-09-06T12:13:50-04:00 I wanted to title it something even less flattering. Really. I shed the first three titles that came to me because they sounded, on their face, unkind, and too personal, things I criticize and rebel against in a media and... Joe Intili Change Afoot?..Just Not Obama's Foot tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef013484a51b90970c 2010-06-18T22:55:50-04:00 2010-06-19T11:22:13-04:00 Did anyone quietly notice what quietly happened the other day in the U.S. Senate? The same Senate where Democrats have nearly a super-majority in numbers? They voted down a spending bill. An unpaid-for, 100% borrowed spending bill. And not some... Joe Intili What I Don't Want: More Of Same tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef013482ce4107970c 2010-06-02T19:57:42-04:00 2010-06-02T19:57:42-04:00 Here's what I don't want, and that is another iteration of same. I'm already starting to hear it, and starting to see what the playbook will be, and the hypocrisy of it all turns my stomach. The "iteration" has gone... Joe Intili Tea Partiers Wrong To Join Republicans tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef01310fee1956970c 2010-03-28T11:52:20-04:00 2010-03-28T11:52:20-04:00 The Tea Party is making a mistake if they align with the Republicans. They are the first thing to come along in a while that looks like the beginnings of an alternative party to the Democrats and Republicans, with a... Joe Intili Health Insurance Reform et. al. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef01310fe80b98970c 2010-03-27T09:54:21-04:00 2010-03-27T10:28:58-04:00 Wow, it's been a long time. I like this stuff - public policy and the like - so much. I am addicted to it, really. And so it's remarkable to me that I could go so long and not post,... Joe Intili Happy New Year tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef012876973f1f970c 2010-01-01T03:10:48-05:00 2010-01-01T03:10:48-05:00 Hello. I've had a little bubbly. I offer that as a disclaimer should there be a certain incoherence to this post. We worry about politics as we should. When we stop worrying is when things can really go bad. So... Joe Intili He's Right And He's Right tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef01287674a75f970c 2009-12-22T08:18:22-05:00 2009-12-23T13:50:41-05:00 This a short post since typing it on my iPhone. I heard John McCain speak on the Senate floor yesterday. His basic point? That candidate Obama said he would take a political approach to reforming health care which embodied "change",... Joe Intili John Kerry Worried About Teabaggers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef0128765c22d5970c 2009-12-16T15:32:15-05:00 2009-12-16T15:32:15-05:00 I got this email from John Kerry, or so it said, likely mega-distributed to me and tens of thousands of other people whose email addresses are known to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), asking for contributions in order to... Joe Intili No Obama In Berlin? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341ea83053ef0120a66e0967970b 2009-11-10T08:14:08-05:00 2009-11-10T08:20:46-05:00 Obama did not travel to Berlin for the commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years hence. The wall "fell" when the East Germans opened the Brandenburg Gate rather than forcibly dispurse the thousands of East Germans who... Joe Intili