As a general rule, I try to cut public figures a little slack when they say a no-no.  Anyone can commit a verbal blunder, even one that sounds bigoted.  Not every off-the-cuff remark is a window to the soul.

But some can be and Tim Grieve at Salon is absolutely on target in arguing that in the case of the increasingly creepy appearing George Allen, the evidence of actual racial malice is growing at an alarming rate.

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The case could be made — if George Allen weren’t the kind of guy who wore a Confederate flag on his shirt in high school, kept a Confederate flag in his living room at home and featured a Confederate flag, ever so subtly, in a campaign ad; if Allen hadn’t opposed the 1991 Civil Rights Act and a holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King Jr.; if Allen hadn’t hung a noose in his office; and if Allen hadn’t courted the modern-day equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan while serving as the governor of Virginia.

That last little window into what it means to be George Allen comes courtesy of the Nation, which has unearthed a 1996 photograph of the then governor posing with National Rifle Association spokesman Charlton Heston and a couple of the leaders of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the magazine describes as “the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.”

George Allen used up all the slack he’s entitled to a long time ago.  The man’s a disgrace.  And he has no business in the United States Senate, let alone the White House.

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A couple of days ago, I argued that economic unfairness is the issue, above all others, that carries the potential to bring about a fundamental realignment of political power in this country to the benefit of the Democratic Party.

I rest my case, again.

(NY Times) Three Polls Find Workers Sensing Deep Pessimism

Three new opinion polls released yesterday found deep pessimism among American workers, with most saying that wages were not keeping pace with inflation and that workers were worse off in many ways than a generation ago.

The Pew Research Center found in a survey of 2,003 adults completed last month that an overwhelming majority said workers had less job security and faced more on-the-job stress than 20 or 30 years ago.

The nonpartisan Pew center, said, “The public thinks that workers were better off a generation ago than they are now on every key dimension of worker life — be it wages, benefits, retirement plans, on-the-job stress, the loyalty they are shown by employers or the need to regularly upgrade work skills.”

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One of the more troubling aspects of Joe Lieberman’s defiance of the will of Connecticut’s Democratic voters is his clear sense of entitlement.  Joe thinks he has a right to be a senator — that the voters owe it to him. 

And why not, some might argue: After all, he’s held the office for 18 long years; just six years ago he was the Democratic nominee for vice president, for Pete’s sake.  Why shouldn’t he feel betrayed?  Why shouldn’t he look for any possible way to fight back?  

The problem with this line of thinking, of course, is that this isn’t supposed to be primarily about Joe Lieberman — it’s supposed to be about democracy; and in a democracy, no one, not even Joe Lieberman, is too big to take a fall when the voters decide the time is right.

It’s also worth remembering that Lieberman is far from alone: Bigger men (and women) than he have gone down to defeat under circumstances where they might be forgiven a twinge or two of feeling betrayed. 

Walter Mondale is an icon in Minnesota politics.  He served in the United States Senate for over 16 years before being tapped to be Jimmy Carter’s vice presidential candidate in 1976.  He later ran as the Democratic presidential nominee in 1984.

So when, in 2002, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party picked Mondale to replace Paul Wellstone, following Wellstone’s tragic death in an airplane crash, he looked to be a pretty solid bet to win. 

But he lost. 

And he didn’t cry in his beer or attack the voters; instead, he demonstrated a grace in defeat Lieberman would do well to study.  In his concession speech he said, “At the end of what will be my last campaign, I want to say to Minnesota, you always treated me well, you always listened to me.”

You see, Fritz Mondale, even in that moment of disappointment — and yes, embarrassment, too — understood who the boss was.

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Donald Rumsfeld is a sad, pathetic little man.  Having proven again and again that he lacks both the essential moral character and the basic competence needed to do the job our nation is cursed to have assigned to him, he now viciously attacks anyone who dares oppose his mendacity and incompetence.

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease ”a new type of fascism.”

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration’s critics as suffering from ”moral or intellectual confusion” about what threatens the nation’s security and accused them of lacking the courage to fight back.

There’s a lot more, of course, but I don’t have the stomach for it.  Suffice it to say he accuses anyone who opposes him on Iraq, or for that matter, anything else, of being a defeatist and an appeaser of this “new type of fascism.”

It’s a stark choice he gives us: Either follow him fawningly as he continues to drag this country through the gates of hell, or, as the only other apparent option, subject ourselves to attack for being unpatriotic, fascist-loving-morons.

The bottom line, according to Rumsfeld’s “logic” is that the only way to be a patriotic American is to blindly follow his lead.

Yet, based upon what has happened during the last five years, only a fool would do that.

So, I guess what that means is, according to Rumsfeld, only fools can be patriots.

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Bill Clinton throws himself into fighting AIDS.

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Ronald Reagan cashes in with a $2 million speaking gig in Japan shortly after leaving office, appearances be damned.

George HW Bush cashes in with Carlyle, conflict of interest be damned.

Now, in fairness . . .

(Here we go again with that incessant liberal need to be fair as opposed to going for the jugular the way our “friends” to the right do)

. . . after leaving office Reagan did do some public service work and Bush the First has probably done more than Reagan; it was never, however, the major focus of Reagan’s ex-presidency, nor is it today with the elder Bush. 

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With great and groveling respect for the big shots in the Democratic establishment, I respectfully suggest that many of them have poop in their eyes when it comes to the real point of the upcoming election. This isn’t about whether the Democrats gain seats; they will. It isn’t about whether they’ll take control of the House; they probably will. It isn’t even about whether they take the Senate; they have a fair shot.

Barring an extraordinary turnaround (something comparable to Alan Schlesinger coming back to beat both Lamont and Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate race) this will be a Democratic year. That also isn’t the issue

The real issue is whether this is going to be a year like 1974, or one like 1994.

In post-Watergate 1974, Democrats gained 48 seats in the House and five in the Senate. But it changed nothing; the slow drift toward Republican political dominance barely missed a beat, exploding with a vengeance a mere six years later in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate.

The 1994 election, on the other hand, with Republicans winning 52 seats in the House and nine in the Senate, was a transformative political event. The Republican Party emerged as the dominant political party in the nation and has remained so ever since.

1974 was a hiccup, 1994 an earthquake.

So here we are today: And after 12 long years of watching the GOP cheating, lying and just plain treating them badly, the American people are ready to file for a divorce. What they haven’t decided yet, however, is whether to accept the Democrats’ offer to get engaged on the rebound.

We Democrats need to give them a better reason to say yes — a stronger argument, if you will, as to why we’re the perfect political party for them to settle down with, raise some kids and grow old together.

And a good starting place is a story that was in The New York Times yesterday.

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Forgive me if this seems a bit trite, but regardless of how the election ultimately turns out, there is something profoundly encouraging, inspiring even, in seeing a United States Senator representing not just a Southern state, but the former capital of the Confederacy itself, paying a huge price in the polls for using a racial slur.

I’m only 51-years-old, but I can tell you that I well remember a time when that would not have been the case.

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Every now and then it’s good for political junkies — or in my case, I guess, a combination junkie/pusher — to be reminded that not everyone (or even a majority of anyones) pays all that much attention to politics.  A case in point involves Karl Rove.
 
Gallup has come out with a new poll that establishes, surprise, surprise, that Rove isn’t all that popular with the American people. This from Gallup:

The poll, conducted July 28-30, finds that 22% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Rove, while 38% have an unfavorable opinion and the rest either don’t know who Rove is, or don’t know enough about him to have an opinion. This is a continuation of the pattern observed across the five Gallup surveys that have included measurements of Rove’s image since July 2005; Americans’ ratings of Rove always have been more negative than positive. Rove’s current net favorable rating (the percentage rating him favorably minus the percentage rating him unfavorably) is -16, which is more positive than the -28 net rating in April and is roughly the same as in two polls in October 2005.

All of the findings are interesting, certainly, but what’s most striking to me is the percentage of respondents who have no opinion: According to the poll, about 40% of Americans “either don’t know who Rove is, or don’t know enough about him to have an opinion.”  Wow. 

Now, if we were talking about just any old presidential assistant or cabinet member even, this wouldn’t be surprising.  But Karl Rove?  He is unquestionably one of the most widely discussed political figures of our time.

How could anyone even occasionally watch a television news program, read a paper or even tune into the late night talk shows, without knowing a bundle about Karl Rove?

While perhaps not a new observation, this still represents a level of public disinterest in the workings of democracy that is nothing short of staggering.  And when you remember that it’s these very people who ultimately decide who governs this nation, well, it can almost make you cry. 

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