Tea Bird

Imagine a Progressive United States

Well, some jokesters did and created a fake New York Times website complete with articles.
Headlines include such gems as:
“National Health Insurance Act Passes”
“Nation Sets Its Sites on Building a Sane Economy”
and
“Troops to Return Immediately”

The last swing of the boom

After living through sixteen years of two Presidents’ terms, the Baby Boomer generation appears to have run its Presidential course. When Obama, on his way over to Grant Park for his election night event, emailed his millions of plugged-in supporters, he wrote “We just made history.”
As Damien Cave noted:

With that simple “we” in millions [...]

Will the GOP Consider Latinos White?

From TAPPED:

There’s been lots of discussion during the past week about the future of conservatism. David Brooks and First Read consider the topic today. In short, the GOP can’t continue to appeal primarily to less educated, Southern, rural, and racist voters in an age of increasing education levels, diversity, tolerance, and migration back into [...]

Gitmo Going Out of Business

The biggest political news story of the day:
President-elect Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial [...]

Center-Right No More

Liberal economist (and Nobel winner) Paul Krugman states his case that the “center-right nation” meme is a canard:

Did progressives get a mandate from last week’s election? Lots of people would like to claim that they didn’t — that we’re still a “center-right nation.” And one of the assertions you hear to back that claim [...]

In pictures: Barack Obama’s election triumph - the front pages

From Britain’s Guardian, a collection of newspaper front pages from around the world:

Obama, The Day After

Sean Quinn of FiveThrityEight.com sums up what a lot of us are feeling today:

I’ll be honest, it’s a little hard to write today. I suspect a lot of you may be feeling the same complex set of emotions at the end of a political season so seismic that most of us will remember [...]

How This Happened

An email to Obama supporters:

Matthew —
I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.
We just made history.
And I don’t want you to forget how we did it.
You made history every single day during this campaign — every day you [...]

Yes. We. Did.

Obama wins the Presidency of the United States of America!

Is There A Hidden McCain Vote?

Will undecideds break largely for McCain?
It’s what Republican pollsters have been saying the last few weeks, and seems to be what Chuck Todd at NBC thinks as well. The net effect would be that Obama’s share of the vote is what current polling pegs it at, while McCain would scoop up the [...]