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Glenn Beck and the War on Honor

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Aug 29, 2010

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I have failed you, dear readers. I promised to journey into the heart of Glennbeckistan for “Restoring Honor,” or “Whitestock,” or “The Greatest Affront to American Ideals in History,” or whatever you wanna call it. Instead, I ended up watching it on C-SPAN and monitoring real-time reactions on Twitter. The following was repurposed from my various [...]

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The Tea Party Can Haz Dream?

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sat, Aug 21, 2010

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If you live in America and currently draw breath, you know the country is in some serious straits. We’re out of work, facing dim prospects for economic growth and our towns and cities are literally falling apart. Then there’s the escalation of the culture wars, now starring an emboldened coalition of bigoted Christians, bigoted free [...]

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The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Aug 16, 2010

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From a just-published article in The New Republic called “The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama: A Counter-history,” by John B. Judis. “Obama …. has a strange aversion to confrontational politics. … During his campaign and his first year in office, he held to a blind faith in bipartisanship, even as the Republicans voted as a bloc [...]

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Conceptual Gridlock, American Style

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Jun 28, 2010

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In case you didn’t know, I live in Washington, D.C., and work in the policy space, specifically the so-called “public interest.” The nature of my work is communications, which takes on many forms. At the end of the day, however, it’s all messaging, and it’s all political. Typically, I’m tasked with analyzing/describing/translating issue-specific concerns, but I [...]

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Agony Loves Company

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Jun 27, 2010

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Not long ago, the New York Times ran a column called “The Agony of the Liberals,” by Ross Douthat (cool name). Go ahead and read it if you want, but it’s not the reason for this post. The column inspired a handful of Letters to the Editor that ran in the Sunday edition. They’re all [...]

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