Demas is whiny, irritating, and in this case... absolutely right.

by: yvette248

Tue Sep 28, 2010 at 00:27:51 AM EDT

Okay, so it's late at night and I'm waiting for my Ambien to kick in, so maybe my eyes are deceiving me. Susan Demas just wrote a scathing opinion piece about the state of the Democratic party this election year. And, unless I'm too sleepy to see straight, I think she totally nailed it.

Democrats worst enemy isn't the red-faced tea partiers. It's the fact that a good chunk of their base, which turned out in droves in 2008, is planning to stay home. You would think they would be motivated to stand up against truly crazy GOP candidates. But most liberals seem more content to crucify Barack Obama than devise any semblance of an electoral strategy.

Polls overwhelmingly show that Americans hate tax breaks for the rich. Why Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid haven't held votes repeatedly on these George W. Bush tax cuts that are set to expire is beyond me. Is it class warfare? Yes, and an extremely popular form of it. But Wall Street can breathe a sigh of relief that Democrats are too [pussy-foot] to exploit it.

A Lesson in Pseudonymity and Anonymity

by: emptywheel

Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 14:42:01 PM EDT

That's a reality that many journalists--whose public speech is usually studiously apolitical and who get paid (however inadequately) for that speech--don't appreciate. Political speech in this country is not "free" speech; it often comes with real world consequences. And that, my dear journalist friends, is the reason why most bloggers who post pseudonymously do so--to protect their livelihood, all the while engaging in the political speech enshrined in our Constitution and critical to the healthy functioning of our democracy.

CD07 Walberg Punishes Journalist for Good Reporting

by: Fitzy

Thu Apr 19, 2007 at 17:39:36 PM EDT

It's not personal. It's just a bad public relations move, typical of a staff composed of 20-something "Jesus Camp" counselors who almost managed to lose the general election to Sharon Renier, a chicken farmer with $1.03 in the bank.

They're not ready for primetime.

Ouch.
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Susan Demas (now at the Battle Creek Enquirer) was probably the most prolific and professional journalist in the 7th Congressional District to cover the 2006 election. She's always been fair to all candidates-- even when I might wish she were a little more harsh on Walberg. Her articles on Tim Walberg have been cited on Walberg Watch again and again, and, at one point, she and I were briefly in contact for a possible story that never ran.

In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time before Tim Walberg saw that she was, you know, reporting the truth about him. We can't have that, can we?