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Liberals have been begging for t... blog aboutplainpoliticswellplayed https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-15-1973-part-one.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: April 15, 1973 (part one) PRESIDENT: Yeah. I had a call from Kleindienst. EHRLICHMAN: Yeah. I heard you did and I thought you ought to take it. PRESIDENT: Oh su... blog aboutplainpoliticsaprilpart https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/02/housekeeping_27.html A plain blog about politics: Housekeeping Howdy everyone, As some of you have seen, I'm mostly going to be elsewhere this week . I'm planning to do one post a day with links to my... blog aboutplainpoliticshousekeeping https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-forced-ryans-errors.html A plain blog about politics: What Forced Ryan's Errors Ross Douthat today argued that the Republican budget as drafted by Paul Ryan contained an " unforced error " on taxes: By trumpeting absurd... blog aboutplainpoliticsforcedryan https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/01/housekeeping.html A plain blog about politics: Housekeeping 1. I'm going to try live-tweeting the SOTU. Can't vouch for whether it will be worth following or not, but why not give it a try? Follow ... blog aboutplainpoliticshousekeeping https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-11-1973.html A plain blog about politics: April 11, 1973 blog aboutplainpoliticsapril https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-mattered-this-week_27.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: What Mattered This Week? I'll go with what looks to be the beginning of an open fight within the GOP about foreign policy and civil liberties -- we had the House vot... blog aboutplainpoliticsweek https://newstalkkit.com/unlock-your-political-potential-candidate-night-awaits/ Curious About Politics? Learn How to Make a Difference! You've heard people telling you that you should become a politician. Well here's your chance to learn more and possibly become the next leader in Yakima County... learn how tocurious aboutpoliticsmakedifference https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/ A plain blog about politics: December 2011 blog aboutplainpoliticsdecember https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/03/friday-baseball-post.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Friday Baseball Post Jody Gerut retired this week. Sad day for me. Why? I had -- that is, my roto team...well, let me stop and warn you, first: this is a roto p... blog aboutplainpoliticsfridaybaseball https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/06/president-and-primaries.html A plain blog about politics: The President and Primaries Yes, back to this topic, again. This time at the request of Eric Alterman: Moreover, the fight over "primary-ing" useless Blue Dogs like ... blog aboutthe presidentplainpoliticsprimaries https://www.learnbible.online/what-does-the-bible-say-about-politics/ What Does the Bible Say About Politics? Discover Biblical Insights Today - what does the bible say about https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/11/impeachment.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Impeachment! Well, not the president. Just the Attorney General. And not actual impeachment; just a few radicals planning to introduce articles of impeac... blog aboutplainpoliticsimpeachment https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/10/friday-baseball-post.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Friday Baseball Post I'm writing this as the Arizona-Milwaukee game is still going on, so we know the ALCS teams but not the NLCS teams. Through 2010, six diff... blog aboutplainpoliticsfridaybaseball https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-28-1973.html A plain blog about politics: March 28, 1973 In public, or close to in public, a landmark: a hearing of the Ervin Committee . It comes about because James McCord is reluctant to continu... blog aboutplainpoliticsmarch https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hanoi-against-internet,-outlaws-talking-about-politics-and-news--28893.html VIETNAM Hanoi against internet, outlaws talking about politics and news Decree 72 blocks the dissemination of information on blogs and social networks. Comments that are sensitive or against Vietnam are also punished. However, the... about politicsvietnamhanoiinternetoutlaws https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/07/fun-with-mcconnell-plan.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Fun with the McConnell Plan Over at Greg's place, I have a post up suggesting that the Republicans might try passing McConnell (or, perhaps, just a clean debt limit inc... blog aboutplainpoliticsfunmcconnell https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/07/oy-bai_22.html A plain blog about politics: Oy, Bai Matt Bai has another fantasy analysis piece . Brendan Nyhan takes it apart . The only thing I'd stress a bit more than Nyhan does is a r... blog aboutplainpoliticsoybai https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/read-stuff-you-should_22.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Starting with something not to read, as usual...it's a close call, this time, between a Schoen/Caddell op-ed in the WaPo giving (more) terri... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/12/catch-of-day_21.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day Ah, I swear I was going to get to this, but Mori Dinauer beat me to it : The Los Angeles Times gets fooled into thinking that the busine... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/sunday-question-for-liberals_24.html A plain blog about politics: Sunday Question for Liberals Same question as the question for conservatives: Suppose that Republicans have at least 51 and no more than 55 Senators next year, and that... blog aboutplainpoliticssundayquestion https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/10/read-stuff-you-should_11.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Happy Birthday to Jane Krakowski , 45. Some good stuff, too: 1. Heather Roff-Perkins on robots . 2. Dave Wiltse on Ted Cruz and the in... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/09/catch-of-day_30.html?m=1 A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day I blamed the appointments mess on Rahm Emanuel. Brad DeLong corrects me : Blame is not zero-sum. Jonathan Implies that the blame should be... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-31-1973.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: March 31, 1973 Just a short segment today, with one big development. Ehrlichman and Haldeman (in California) talk to Kleindienst about the Gray nominatio... blog aboutplainpoliticsmarch https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/03/romney-not-dead-yet.html A plain blog about politics: Romney Not Dead Yet Excellent piece by Steve Kornacki this morning making the argument for Mitt Romney as frontrunner . I'm not sure I agree that Romney has the... blog aboutnot deadplainpoliticsromney https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-mattered-this-week_22.html A plain blog about politics: What Mattered This Week? I'm a bit behind, but it's not too late for What Mattered This Week? Start with Syria, still. What about the government developments in P... blog aboutplainpoliticsweek https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/post-endgame.html A plain blog about politics: The Post-Endgame Good item from Steve Kornacki (who has been doing great work on GOP WH 2012, which I feel that I haven't linked to enough; you should be rea... blog aboutthe postplainpoliticsendgame https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/rnc-in-disarray.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: The RNC in Disarray Lots of fuss about the RNC scandal , obviously because it allows people to write semi-naughty words such as "bondage" and that's always fun,... blog aboutplainpoliticsrncdisarray https://flyingcarpetsandbrokenpipelines.blogspot.com/2009/10/life-is-strange-different-between.html?showComment=1256601169948 .: Life is strange- difference between writing about politics and emotions Strange it is indeed... Usually, writing a post is simple, it is straight forward- there is a message I want to give, and I do it. But as I ... life is strangedifference betweenabout politicswritingemotions https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/fine-i-concede-re-income-taxes.html A plain blog about politics: Fine. I Concede (re: Income Taxes) Okay, alright, I know when I'm licked. I thought I had a harmless but at least mildly interesting observation about people not knowing what... blog aboutplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/02/friday-baseball-post_24.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Friday Baseball Post So apparently the Giants are in fact thinking of Angel Pagan (30 year old season, 331 lifetime OBP, 322 last year OBP) as the everyday lead... blog aboutplainpoliticsfridaybaseball https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-on-conservative-hacks.html A plain blog about politics: More on Conservative Hacks As I said before, one of the key questions in my mind about American politics today is whether conservative leaders believe their own talkin... blog aboutmore onplainpoliticsconservative https://ottawayes.com/en/pro-polituky About politics Ottawa About politics Ottawa about politicsottawa https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/10/read-stuff-you-should_25.html A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Happy Birthday to Nancy Cartwright , 56. With some good stuff: 1. John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi, " The decline of union membership and... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/6141-spew-all-about-politics-here/page/5/ Spew All About Politics Here - Page 5 - Politics, Religion, & Philosophy - FED2k Discussion all aboutspewpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-30-1973.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: January 30, 1973 Gordon Liddy and James McCord are convicted on all counts. The first Watergate trial is over, with the other five all having plead guilty. E... blog aboutplainpoliticsjanuary https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/07/catch-of-day_12.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day To Christian Beckner at Foreign Policy who notes that, with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announcing that she's leaving, t... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamalibyawar-powers-2.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Obama/Libya/War Powers 2 Barack Obama is guilty of one thing with regard to Libya: awful presidenting. There are two things to consider here, and in both of them O... blog aboutwar powersplainpoliticsobama https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/06/curse-of-pat-brown-of-richard-nixon.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: The Curse of Pat Brown? of Richard Nixon? Reading Kevin Drum today about how Californians hate all their pols got me thinking about just how pathetic their pols have been -- not in ... blog aboutthe curse https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/06/imitate-nixon-is-so-rarely-good-idea.html A plain blog about politics: "Imitate Nixon" is So Rarely a Good Idea I strongly recommend Andrew Sprung's epic takedown of a particularly awful column by Gideon Rose in the Sunday NYT. Sprung hits most of ... blog about https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-26-1973.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: April 26, 1973 The day starts with yet another long Nixon-Haldeman meeting, assessing where they are and what, if anything, they can do about it. The same ... blog aboutplainpoliticsapril https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/catch-of-day_21.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day Oh, it's going to Jonathan Chait, alright. But which to choose? His terrific takedown of doubletalk at the Weekly Standard? His canny ca... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://www.narrativelyacademy.com/p/watch-how-to-write-about-politics WATCH: How to Write About Politics Without Losing Your Mind Missed Narratively's live video seminar this afternoon? Watch the full thing now. how to writeabout politicswatchwithoutlosing https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/08/late-entries-and-parties.html A plain blog about politics: Late Entries and Parties Nate Silver has a fun piece up this morning about potential late entries in the Republican WH 2012 field, and how they might fit into the c... blog aboutplainpoliticslateentries https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-platforms.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Why Platforms? Suzy Khimm has a nice summary of what political scientists have to say about party platforms today, but she doesn't address a question I've... blog aboutplainpoliticsplatforms https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/10/immigration-dead-or-undead.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Immigration: Dead or Undead? Greg Sargent has been doing great reporting and analysis on immigration, and today he reports on a third Republican Member who has signed on... blog aboutplainpoliticsimmigrationdead https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/08/read-stuff-you-should_13.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Happy Birthday to Dallas Braden , who once was perfect, 30. It's a tough game for pitchers. Starting back up with a little good stuff: 1... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/06/catch-of-day_27.html A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day Shared, to Conor Friedersdorf, who explained why "Are you a flake?" is a softball question to ask a presidential candidate, and to David S.... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/swift-boating-probably-dud-in-2004.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Swift Boating? Probably a Dud in 2004 "Swift Boating" seems to be in the news this week, so here's my quick contribution: Swift Boating -- and the George W. Bush campaign in ... blog aboutplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-and-left-2.html A plain blog about politics: Obama and the Left 2 Matt Yglesias tears lefty blogger Chris Bowers to shreds this morning, explaining the (fairly basic, but often overlooked) notion that the l... blog aboutthe leftplainpoliticsobama https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/05/against-overreaction.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Against Overreaction (Updated Below) I'm going to take issue with Joshua Green's complaint about the climate/energy bill and recent disasters in the Gulf of M... blog aboutplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/03/filibusters-and-judges.html A plain blog about politics: Filibusters and Judges The Senate this morning defeated cloture on the Caitlin Halligan nomination for the DC Circuit Court. The vote was 51-41, with Harry Reid sw... blog aboutplainpoliticsjudges https://elearning.ddasproject.eu/statements-and-reflective-questions-about-politics/ Statements and reflective questions about politics | DD@S Project about politicsstatementsreflectivequestionsdd https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/03/read-stuff-you-should_26.html A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Happy Birthday to James Caan , 73. Yes, good stuff: 1. How political science should lobby , by Jennifer Victor. 2. Wait -- you mean go... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/04/romney-in.html A plain blog about politics: Romney In Mitt Romney "entering" the race for the nomination isn't exactly news; he's been running for president for years now, and running for 2012 s... blog aboutplainpoliticsromney https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/11/you-cut-taxes-remember.html A plain blog about politics: You Cut Taxes, Remember? Via Greg Sargent , an excellent example of exactly what I was talking about the other day : Democrats are strangely hesitent to claim credit... blog aboutplainpoliticscuttaxes https://blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voices/2021/06/14/things-to-look-forward-to-about-politics-at-york/ Things to look forward to about Politics at York - Student Voices Jun 16, 2021 - Fourth Year student Kirsten shares some of the reasons you can be excited about Politics at York and why she loves studying at the University. look forwardabout politicsthingsyorkstudent https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-we-need-to-know-about-winnowing.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: What We Need To Know About Winnowing I've suspected for the past couple of cycles, and now believe strongly, that Republicans have become ruthlessly efficient in winding ways to... what we needblog aboutplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-2-1973.html A plain blog about politics: February 2, 1973 The first Watergate trial is over; two have been found guilty, and the others put in guilty pleas. Everything in the trial has gone the way ... blog aboutplainpoliticsfebruary https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/09/debate-leftovers.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Debate Leftovers My immediate reactions last night are over at the Plum Line. Short version? I thought Perry did not do well, but I'm not convinced that any... blog aboutplainpoliticsdebateleftovers https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/01/brinkmanship.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Brinkmanship I'll point everyone to a good post by Jonathan Chait , who draws a distinction between pure posturing on the debt ceiling (as in the Democra... blog aboutplainpoliticsbrinkmanship https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/04/housekeepingmany-holidays-edition.html A plain blog about politics: Housekeeping/Many Holidays Edition Just a quick word to let everyone know that posting this week will be probably be inconsistent, as Passover begins tonight, and then the Wes... blog aboutplainpoliticshousekeepingmany https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-question-for-conservatives_12.html A plain blog about politics: Sunday Question for Conservatives Thinking about Social Security today. A lot of liberals appear to believe that virtually every proposed change in Social Security benefits ... blog aboutplainpoliticssundayquestion https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-mattered-this-week_22.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: What Mattered This Week? The Supremes held off on the headline cases this week, but decided a bunch of others. Those are important, too! What didn't matter? I'm no... blog aboutplainpoliticsweek https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/catch-of-day_08.html A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day Ooh, this is a good one. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was complaining about anti-Wall Street rhetoric and how much he already pays in tax... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-20-1973.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: April 20, 1973 The fallout of the last round of revelations continues, while John Dean and the prosecutors continue their stalemate. It's still not entirel... blog aboutplainpoliticsapril https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/03/catch-of-day_18.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day Love it, love it, love it: Newt Gingrich ripped Barack Obama on Fox News last night for publicly releasing his NCAA bracket during a time o... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/06/questions-about-approval-numbers.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Questions About Approval Numbers Here's something I don't know: when it comes to questions about reelection, should anyone pay attention to narrow questions of presidential ... blog aboutplainpoliticsquestionsapproval https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/03/get-ready.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Get Ready The oddest thing about the health care debate, at least in my view, is that Republicans basically did not engage on the actual substance of ... blog aboutplainpoliticsgetready https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/07/housekeeping.html A plain blog about politics: Housekeeping Not sure how much I'll post today and tomorrow because Greg is taking a couple days off, so I'll be over there more than usual. Meanwhile,... blog aboutplainpoliticshousekeeping https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/10/elsewhere-acairaq-sabotage-more.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Elsewhere: ACA/Iraq, Sabotage, more My TAP column yesterday is about the "ACA is like Iraq" thing, extending what I wrote here a while ago. I argue that the ACA rollout isn't ... blog aboutplainpoliticselsewhereaca https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/10/elsewhere-simpson-bowles-taxes-again.html?m=1 A plain blog about politics: Elsewhere: Simpson-Bowles, Taxes (Again) Sorry for the slow blogging today; I think I'll have another post coming later, but it might wind up waiting to tomorrow. Meanwhile, I hit... blog aboutplainpoliticselsewheresimpson https://www.azquotes.com/author/7392-Thomas_Jefferson/tag/politics Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Politics | A-Z Quotes Discover Thomas Jefferson quotes about politics. Share with friends. 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The basic... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/19952011.html A plain blog about politics: 1995/2011 I recommend Stan Collender's pessimistic column about budget politics next year, but it gets me thinking again about what a difficult posit... blog aboutplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/09/counting-senate-votes-on-health-care.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Counting Senate Votes on Health Care I didn't think we'd have news today, but I agree with Chris Bowers and Steve Benin that we did get some news. (As usual, this is all proc... blog aboutsenate voteson healthplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/08/catch-of-day_15.html A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day Steve Benen calls out WaPo's Richard Cohen -- the " hackiest pundit in America ' -- for saying that Rick Perry looks like a president while ... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/06/elsewhere-scandals-romneys-iran-health.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Elsewhere: Scandals, Romney's Iran, Health Care First up: at Salon, I had a column over the weekend about the unusually intense dead zone we're in now, and why it's a ready-made trap for ... blog about https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/cranky-wednesday-blogging-4.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Cranky Wednesday Blogging 4 Jon Avlon reacts to the demise of the Benator with the creakiest of cliches, the " all the moderates are leaving " piece. Just as awful as ... blog aboutplainpoliticscrankywednesday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/kaiser-aca-survey-and-tangible-benefits.html A plain blog about politics: The Kaiser ACA Survey and Tangible Benefits The always-fascinating Kaiser poll about ACA had its latest installment yesterday, and the numbers hinted at a new opportunity for Barack O... blog about https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/03/forget-your-conscience.html A plain blog about politics: Forget Your Conscience Marjorie Margolies is on everyone's mind this week (mine included), and she has an op-ed in the Washington Post today telling Dems to vote t... blog aboutplainpoliticsforgetconscience https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/09/defending-yikes-palin.html A plain blog about politics: Defending (Yikes!) Palin All pols use ghostwriters for speeches and books. Not only is it no sin for Palin to have done so, but to the contrary, it's one of the few... blog aboutplainpoliticsdefending https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/01/we-are-still-good-friends.html A plain blog about politics: We Are Still Good Friends By the way, I have one other comment on Barack Obama's speech last night: being a citizen has become a whole lot more enjoyable for me ever ... blog aboutwe areplainpoliticsstill https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/12/which-cans-to-kick.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Which Cans To Kick? Matt Yglesias has a good item this morning about the possibility of pushing back the fiscal cliff deadline . Good topic, and I'm surprised t... blog aboutplainpoliticscanskick https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/friday-baseball-post.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Friday Baseball Post Time for some Hall of Fame blogging, in advance of the old timers ballot, which has ten names: Ron Santo, Gil Hodges, Luis Tiant, Minnie Min... blog aboutplainpoliticsfridaybaseball https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/03/plans-vs-talking-points.html A plain blog about politics: Plans vs. Talking Points I think Glenn Kessler gets maybe two things right in his column this morning about what constitutes a "plan" by a politician. One is that ... blog aboutplainpoliticsplansvs https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/youll-want-to-read-john-sides-on-david.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: How Money Works in Congressional Elections You'll want to read John Sides on the David Brooks column about money in politics. As John says, Brooks is correct to say that people over... how money worksblog aboutplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/03/counting.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Counting I fully agree with Ezra Klein's smart post about counting votes in the House on health care reform. The statements that Members make to re... blog aboutplainpoliticscounting https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/03/aca-and-2010-revisited.html A plain blog about politics: ACA and 2010, Revisited Lots of blogging talk yesterday about a new paper forthcoming from Brendan Nyhan, Eric McGhee, John Sides, Seth Masket and Steven Greene sho... blog aboutplainpoliticsacarevisited https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/04/sunday-question-for-liberals.html A plain blog about politics: Sunday Question for Liberals I last asked about this a year ago, when Nancy Pelosi had just turned 71. She's now 72. She was, in my view, an extremely effective Speaker ... blog aboutplainpoliticssundayquestion https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/11/catch-of-day_21.html A plain blog about politics: Catch of the Day (Updated) Newt Gingrich has targeted...CBO, which ( via Goddard) he called today a " reactionary socialist institution ." CNN had a great... blog aboutplainpoliticscatchday https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/08/read-stuff-you-should_8.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Happy Birthday to Keith Carradine , 63. I mostly associate him with Alan Rudolph, who I liked a lot during his peak (although I suppose he's... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunday-question-for-liberals_23.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: Sunday Question for Liberals I suppose it should be a SOTU question, with the big (such as it is) speech coming this week, and details beginning to be leaked out/pre-spu... blog aboutplainpoliticssundayquestion https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/11/aca-and-long-term-partisan-trends.html A plain blog about politics: ACA and Long Term Partisan Trends Lots of talk about health care expert Jonathan Gruber's shot at Mitt Romney today , but I wanted to challenge one thing he said ( via Greg)... blog aboutlong termplainpolitics https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-mattered-this-week_30.html?m=0 A plain blog about politics: What Mattered This Week? Well, you know what I'm going to say didn't matter: the birther junk. Also, the Trump campaign. I'm not sure how to classify Ben Bernanke's ... blog aboutplainpoliticsweek https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/10/2010-cycle-notes.html A plain blog about politics: 2010 cycle notes Republicans have made steady progress in 2010 Congressional races over the last couple of months. I haven't run a Cook number lately, but i... blog aboutplainpoliticscyclenotes https://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/01/read-stuff-you-should_23.html A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should Happy Birthday to Charlie Spikes , 62. If I recall correctly, he was once featured in a Sam "Mayday" Malone story. Immortality! (wait -- ba... blog aboutread stuffplainpolitics