TomInReston | November 18, 2007
I’ve now seen most of the Thursday night Democratic candidate debate, and I’m now officially tired of at least one of the many narratives. While in principle, compromise and bipartisanship is fine, it is no virtue to meet the current Republicans halfway.
These are the Republicans who start from the proposition that torture is fine, that [...]
TomInReston | November 11, 2007
On election day 2007, I was at my precinct (I’m the captain) at 5:30 a.m. , in the rain, with a cold wind blowing. I spent the next three hours passing out sample ballots, greeting people, monitoring turnout. I rushed to D.C. for a four-hour business meeting I couldn’t miss, then back to my [...]
TomInReston | November 10, 2007
I’ve been away from Polimania for awhile.
Elections. (More on that later.)
The ground has moved a little, here in Virginia. Many others have covered the details.
With the governor’s mansion and the Senate in Democratic hands (and a smaller GOP majority in the House), a Democrat in the U.S. Senate and the likelihood of another next [...]
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
