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Budget, Farm Bill, Immigration Reform: How Republicans Can Save Themselves Post-Shutdown

Oct 18, 2013 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Immigration, mic, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (October 18, 2013)

Right now congressional Democrats have an abysmal approval rating of 31%. Not surprisingly, however, their Republican counterparts are doing even worse, polling at only 20%. By comparison, President Obama’s approval rating remains in the low 40s, suggesting that if anything, legislative Democrats are being damaged more by their institutional association with Republicans than anything else.

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Obama’s Greatness Demonstrated As He Defused the Republican Nuclear Bomb

Oct 17, 2013 | Democrats, Economic Policy, mic, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans

Published:  mic (October 17, 2013)

America, it is time to doff your proverbial hat to President Barack Obama. This is what a leader looks like.

It isn’t simply that he managed to protect his signature legislative legacy, the Affordable Care Act, from being mutilated and/or defunded by congressional Republicans. While that is quite the accomplishment in its own right (one that will be appreciated more with the passage of time, as its major provisions begin to change lives for the better), it is far less important than the precedent Obama has set through his conduct during the shutdown fiasco.

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Memo to Ron Paul and Glenn Beck: America’s Founders Were Not Anti-Government

Oct 2, 2013 | Conservativism, Democrats, Economic Policy, History, Liberalism, Libertarianism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Originally Published: PolicyMic (March 8, 2012)
 Republished on PolicyMic (October 2, 2013) as “Government Shutdown Question: Would the Founding Fathers Fight Liberalism?”

Editor’s Note:Although this article was originally published on March 8, 2012, we felt it would be valuable to offer the perspective of a PhD student in history on the ideological debate accompanying the current government shutdown.

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This Tiny Corner Of America Can Predict If Democrats Will Win In the Next Election

Sep 30, 2013 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Other, mic, Pennsylvania, Political Parties

Published: mic (September 30, 2013)

While it’s easy enough to talk about politics in terms of any given immediate cycle, Democrats should always try to keep the big picture in mind by asking themselves the most important question: How can we win the next election, the election after that, and other elections into the future?... Read Original Article

Imagine What Would Have Happened If John McCain Had Stayed For This Meeting ….

Aug 1, 2013 | Democrats, mic, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (August 1, 2013)

If you follow the news cycle closely, you may have noticed a cute little story yesterday about John McCain. As CNN reported, the Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate opened a door that he thought would bring him to one of his appointments … and found that he had accidentally wandered into a Capitol Hill meeting between President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.

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Why Joe Biden Should Run For President in 2016

Jul 17, 2013 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Political Parties, Vice President Biden

Published: mic (July 17, 2013), The Morning Call (July 17, 2013)

According to a recent Politico article, Vice President Joe Biden is being criticized by some of his backers for not doing more to promote his 2016 presidential candidacy. Should Biden choose to run, he would, no doubt, face a formidable opponent in Hillary Clinton, the erstwhile first lady, senator, and secretary of state who is widely considered to be the Democratic front-runner.

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