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- The GOP's Dubious Populism - February 4, 2010
- The most revealing moments in President Obama's State of the Union Address were not in his remarks, but the reaction to them by those listening on the Republican side of...
- Hope in the Deep Freeze - January 28, 2010
- On the eve of his first State of the Union Address, Barack Obama confided that he would "rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."...
- No Obama Obituaries, Please - January 21, 2010
- Having taken the oath of office just one year ago, Barack Obama is a flashing meteor that sputtered out too soon -- or so the national media narrative tells us....
- For Reid, Motive Does Matter - January 14, 2010
- If Harry Reid's private remarks about the skin tone and speaking style of Barack Obama were offensive, the Republican crusade to oust him from his leadership position is...
- Partisan Hysteria Helps al-Qaida - January 7, 2010
- The latest atrocity attempted by al-Qaida seems to be yet another example of history reprising a great tragedy as farce. What makes the misadventure of the underpants...
- GOP Senate Tsunami? Not Yet - Salon - January 7, 2010
- The tendency to exaggerate Republican prospects and Democratic woes is among the most consistent biases in American mainstream media -- as yesterday’s coverage of...
- The Democrats Blinked - December 17, 2009
- By bowing to Sen. Joseph Lieberman and his obstructive pals in both parties on health care reform, President Obama has confirmed what Republicans always say about...
- The Scientific Consensus Remains Unshaken - December 10, 2009
- Evading the challenges of climate change -- and the human responsibility to save the planet -- is simple enough even for the laziest citizen. Pay attention only to the...
- The Crushing Legacy of Bush and Cheney - December 3, 2009
- From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged "Obama's War," and perhaps that is fair enough given the president's many endorsements of what he has called...
- A Crushing Legacy of Bush - New York Observer - December 1, 2009
- Understanding Our Hollow Centrists - November 26, 2009
- The puzzling thing about politicians of either party who claim to be "centrist" or "moderate" is how much they sometimes sound like party-line right-wing Republicans....
- What is So Patriotic About Fearmongering? - November 19, 2009
- The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our system, the strongest defenders...
- Testing Next Year's Lies Today - November 12, 2009
- Within hours after the House of Representatives approved health care reform by a narrow margin, Republicans predicted retribution at the polls next fall. They promised...
- 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