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November 4, 2003 — Scott Johnson

My favorite Democrat, part 5

Today’s Journal carries a review of the new book by Georgia Senator Zell Miller, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat: “A democrat who dissents.” Among the information I had not previously read is the origin of Miller’s disaffection with his Democratic colleagues in the senate: “At first, Mr. Miller was impressed with Tom Daschle, but his relationship with the entire Democratic leadership changed in the »
November 3, 2003 — Scott Johnson

My favorite Democrat, part 4

Senator Zell Miller elaborates on his endorsement of President Bush for reelection in a Wall Street Journal column, “George Bush vs. the naive nine,” and on a related note RealClearPolitics has also linked to the MSNBC transcript of Senator Miller’s interview on Meet the Press yesterday. The whole interview is of interest, but I especially enjoyed Miller’s discussion of Wesley Clark. When Russert asked Miller his opinion of General Clark, »
November 2, 2003 — Scott Johnson

My favorite Democrat, part 3

The Washington Times conducted an interview with retiring Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia in connection with the publication of his new book, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat: “One Democratic vote for Bush.” Reading the interview provides two kinds of pleasure that conservative partisans like us are unused to experiencing: The pleasure of a well stated but consoling observation, compounded with pleasure of the »
October 29, 2003 — Scott Johnson

My favorite Democrat, part 2

Last March I paid tribute to Senator Zell Miller of Georgia as “My favorite Democrat.” Among the compelling reasons I cited in support of my designation of Miller was that “the guy has good taste in people. His [Web site] photo gallery includes shots with the following ‘good people’: Billy Graham, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Isaac Hayes, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Little Richard, ‘James Brown, the godfather of soul,’ Emmylou »
August 31, 2003 — Scott Johnson

My favorite Minnesota Democrat

The city of Minneapolis sits in Hennepin County and presents the biggest law enforcement challenge in the state of Minnesota. The Hennepin County Attorney prosecutes the huge volume of criminal cases that make their way through the court system, many of which are high profile and high stakes cases involving crimes of violence committed by members of the racial and ethnic gangs that have taken over significant swatches of the »
March 2, 2003 — Scott Johnson

My favorite Democrat

Admittedly, the list of candidates is a short one. But on Thursday the Wall Street Journal published a terrific piece by Georgia Senator Zell Miller: “Mr. Moonves, call off your hillbilly hunt.” The piece made me reflect that I’ve liked everything I’ve read by and about Senator Miller. I found more reasons to like him when I took a look at his incredible Web site: “Senator Zell Miller, Democrat, Georgia.” »
January 29, 2022 — John Hinderaker

My Books of 2021

Featured image An old friend texted me last week to ask why I hadn’t done a post on books I read in 2021. There is no particular reason; I did such a post in 2019, but I don’t think I did one last year. But it is fun to think back and try to reconstruct my reading over the last year, and some of our readers may be interested in my reactions »
July 18, 2021 — Scott Johnson

In re John Thompson, Democrats are shocked

Featured image I brought the case of John Thompson up to date early yesterday morning in “The mixed-up files of Rep. John Thompson.” I argued for the general importance of his case in the manifestation of the motive force of the Democratic Party. Minnesota Democrats deserve him as their public face. They should be stuck with him good and hard. By the end of the day, however, Minnesota’s Democratic establishment and its »
September 26, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

Democrats plan to delay, delay, delay

Featured image Democrats reportedly are circulating a memo on how to delay a vote on the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett until after the election. The thinking is that if President Trump loses and Republicans lose their Senate majority in the next Congress, the chances of thwarting confirmation in the lame duck session will be substantial, or at least improved substantially. I don’t know if that thinking is correct, but it’s sensible »
May 25, 2020 — Steven Hayward

A Unified Field Theory for Democratic Nominees (which Biden Doesn’t Fit)

Featured image Even if Biden’s age problem wasn’t so obvious, it would still count against him for a simple reason, which I call “Hayward’s Unified Field Theory of Successful Democratic Nominees.” Since World War II Democrats generally win the White House with a younger nominee, usually in his 40s, with a clear generation-changing message about the future: think John F. Kennedy (“New Frontier!”), Bill Clinton (who openly claimed to be a “New »
May 1, 2020 — Steven Hayward

Democrats and Their Reductio ad Hitlerum Slander

Featured image The usual hectoring elites are complaining that the virus crisis—another “moral equivalent of war”—isn’t generating oodles of national unity and good fellow feeling among citizens, like World War II. Quite the opposite: we seem just as divided as before. (And of course we are told this is Trump’s fault.) But it turns out much of that gauzy (and nowadays recreated) memory of the war years is distorted if not mistaken. »
February 29, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

The Democratic horse race comes to Virginia

Featured image Super Tuesday is almost upon us. It’s less than three days away. The Commonwealth of Virginia, just a few miles from where I live, is a Super Tuesday state. Even before tonight, Joe Biden was gaining momentum in Virginia. The RCP poll average had him in third place, behind Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg. But this average was based on only two polls. A new poll from Christopher Newport University, »
February 22, 2020 — Steven Hayward

The Power Line Show, Ep 169: Bernie—The Coronavirus of the Democratic Party

Featured image This week’s episode, featuring listener favorite Lucretia, Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery, was taped while the Nevada caucuses were in process, but now we know that Bernie Sanders has crushed it. He’s the Coronavirus of the Democratic Party—a long latency period that has now broken out into an unstoppable epidemic. It’s over: the only question now is who Sanders will pick as his running mate. Watch the next debate, »
February 12, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

Will Amy Klobuchar be the last woman standing?

Featured image Half a year ago, I thought that the Democratic nominee for president would be one of these four candidates: Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or Kamala Harris. This wasn’t just my view, it was widely shared among those who, unlike me, are sometimes right about modern political horse races. Now, Kamala Harris is long gone, and the Biden and Warren campaigns are on life support. With Harris gone and »
February 7, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff

Tonight’s Democratic debate

Featured image I watched the first two hours of tonight’s Democratic debate, passing up the Maryland vs. Illinois basketball game (won by Maryland, putting the Terps in first place in the Big Ten). I got what I deserved for preferring my least favorite political party to my favorite college basketball team. If you have watched several of these debates, you probably have a good sense of how things went tonight. The performances »
December 29, 2019 — Scott Johnson

My books of 2019

Featured image I have written about all but three of the books I read this year on Power Line. Here they are with the briefest of notes on each. Andrew McCarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. McCarthy brings his professional background and experience to bear on the biggest scandal in American political history. Only he could have written the book, and he provides just »
September 1, 2019 — Paul Mirengoff

Bidding for black votes, sometimes it’s not easy even for Democrats

Featured image I’ve mentioned before that it’s difficult, if not impossible, for Republicans to win the votes of African-Americans through policy proposals. These voters are loyal to the Democratic party. In any case, the Dems invariably will outbid the GOP through more blatant race conscious policies than the ones Republicans propose. Democrats too can find it difficult to bid for black votes — when they are running against each other. Take the »