Joel E Lewis

Now Thomas Friedman joins the “our government is broken and our our political parties represent the crazies” bandwagon. That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center. Say what? I write often about innovation in energy and education. But I’ve come to realize that none of [...]

538 has a great article on the role of moderate politicians in congress. The Bayh’s , Lieberman’s and Snowe’s of the world are moderates, in that they muddle together proposals of each side to make bastardized policy proposals that meet in the middle (legislative man-bear-pigs).   As long as they remain moderates, patching together existing proposals, [...]