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- The GOP's Toxic Tea Party - November 5, 2009
- When Newt Gingrich warned Republicans that they were making a grave "mistake" by driving out moderates and enforcing the angry orthodoxy of the far right, the sober tone...
- Reid's Winning Compromise - October 29, 2009
- The Senate leadership's decision to include the "public option" in its health care reform legislation seemed at first almost miraculous, especially to anyone who...
- White House's Fox Fight Isn't Nixonian - Salon - October 23, 2009
- With outraged Washington journalists and Republican politicians crying "Nixonian!" over the public scuffle between the Obama White House and the Fox News Channel, what...
- Playing Monopoly With America's Health - October 22, 2009
- Popular disgust over the fat premiums that financial executives bestow upon themselves is burgeoning, and rightly so. Those Wall Street piggy banks are filling up with...
- An Award for Defeating Cheneyism - October 15, 2009
- Outraged babble and sanctimonious tut-tutting over President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize will pour forth until the very evening he accepts the prize in Oslo, and then for...
- Why Obama Must Spend More - October 8, 2009
- The latest signals from the White House suggest that President Obama now realizes he must do more -- and quickly -- to ease the economic suffering of working families....
- The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is Back - Salon - October 5, 2009
- "Socialism" and Sham in the Senate - October 1, 2009
- Listening closely to the politicians with the most clout in the debate over health care, it is startling to discover how little they actually seem to know about the...
- Joe Wilson's Dixie Partisans - September 17, 2009
- The stupid misconduct of entertainer Kanye West and politician Joe Wilson demonstrated, if any fresh proof is necessary, that thoughtless rudeness isn't confined by...
- Republican Politicians Have No Empathy - Salon - September 12, 2009
- A Perfect Storm of Idiocy - September 10, 2009
- The wild furor over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren raises many questions, but there is only one that really matters. How did America surrender...
- It's Time to Take Back the Health Care Debate - Salon - September 5, 2009
- Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security - August 27, 2009
- Predictably as always, the Republicans in Congress and in the conservative media are berating Attorney General Eric Holder for deciding to investigate the CIA's use of...
- Obama's Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough - August 20, 2009
- If the Democrats fail to pass real changes in the health care system this year -- rather than a sham that mimics and mocks reform -- they will have nobody to blame but...
- Winston Churchill, Healthcare Socialist - Salon - August 14, 2009
- Long before many of today’s frothing right-wing demagogues were born, American conservatives came to idolize Winston Churchill, the late Tory prime minister whose...
- The Real Death Panels - August 13, 2009
- When Republican politicians and right-wing talking heads bemoan the fictitious "death panels" that they claim would arise from health-care reform, they are concealing a...
- Clinton Derangement Syndrome, N. Korean Strain - Salon - August 7, 2009
- Aug. 7, 2009 | Like a seasonal flu, the verbal virus that is sometimes called Clinton derangement syndrome has struck again, beginning only moments after the 42nd...
- A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton - July 30, 2009
- In his struggle to change the nation's health care system, Barack Obama again faces certain obstacles that almost stopped his amazing march to the presidency. Aside from...
- Blue Dog Math - July 23, 2009
- "Fiscal conservative" is one of those terms used by politicians of all sorts to describe themselves, without any real justification. Parroted mindlessly from one news...
- Bipartisanship is For Suckers - Salon - July 17, 2009
- Pelosi's Toothless "Commission" - July 16, 2009
- Very soon, Congressional leaders are expected to announce the creation of a new commission to investigate the real causes of America's crippling financial disaster....
- Losers Who Pushed Palin Still Feuding - Chicago Sun-Times - July 13, 2009
- Party of Franken, Party of Palin - July 9, 2009
- The new senator from Minnesota is a comedian, writer and actor who lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and raised a lot of money from friends in Hollywood. The...
- Suddenly, a Trillion Is Too Much? - July 2, 2009
- If Americans hope to discuss health care, climate change, green economics or public infrastructure with any degree of realism, then the time has come to acknowledge that...
- Which Political Party is "Decadent" and "Sick"? - Salon - June 26, 2009
- June 26, 2009 | Whenever the latest Republican politician is caught with his zipper undone, a predictable moment of introspection on the right inevitably ensues....
- The Sickening Addiction That May Ruin Reform - June 25, 2009
- If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year -- or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the "public option" --...
- An Obama 'Scandal' as Phony as Whitewater - Salon - June 19, 2009
- The AMA's Unhealthy Obsession - June 18, 2009
- Campaigning to build the widest possible consensus for reform of the nation's health care system, Barack Obama told the delegates of the American Medical Association...
- Why So Scared of a Public Plan? - June 11, 2009
- Within the coming weeks, Americans will begin to consider critical issues concerning the future of health care for themselves and their children, including universal...
- Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard - June 4, 2009
- If right-wing broadcasters don't want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly -- as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead...
- Why Obama's Court Pick is Already a Winner - May 28, 2009
- Choosing Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the United States Supreme Court will allow Barack Obama to prove three important things. As a politician, he is not...
- Obama's Pick Is a Winner, Already - New York Observer - May 27, 2009
- Choosing Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the United States Supreme Court will allow Barack Obama to prove three important things. As a politician, he is not...
- Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link - May 21, 2009
- Defending their record in office these past eight years, figures from the last administration seem especially touchy on the subject of torture. Led by the former vice...
- Beware the Bad-Faith Reformer - May 14, 2009
- Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation...
- Those Brand New Humble Republicans - May 7, 2009
- Hoping to re-brand their declining party, a group of prominent Republicans recently launched a national "listening tour," presumably as an exercise in market research....
- Selling a Toxic GOP Brand - New York Observer - May 6, 2009
- Combating Epidemic Ignorance - April 30, 2009
- In the turbulent imagination of the hard-core conservative, American foreign policy should be about telling off the rest of the planet. According to the right-wing...
- Torture and Truthiness - Salon - April 27, 2009
- Don't Substitute Macho for Foreign Policy - April 23, 2009
- Few aspects of American politics are as ridiculous and dangerous as the right-wing urge to substitute macho posturing for foreign policy. That irrepressible habit...
- The Tea Party Brigade - April 16, 2009
- If conservative leaders no longer even try to offer serious solutions to national problems, nobody should underestimate their capacity or their will to mobilize angry...