Past House GOP Tactic Proving Useless For Dems
Today's Right Wing is about the past. But the world is always moving into the future. So unless Newt Gingrich and Co. are hiding an enormous time machine, they can only fail to deliver on their rhetoric.
It would help our debate if we acknowledge that, at its core, fairness is a central issue. Fairness is, after all, another label for justice, and to "establish Justice" is what our Constitution promises.
A new poll shows not only that 80 percent of all Americans do not want Medicare to be cut, but, amazingly, that total includes 70 percent of self-identified tea-partiers.
Public diplomacy continues to undergo interesting linguistic evolutions, as few can agree on what it actually means. If everything is public diplomacy, then nothing is public diplomacy.
The Slur de Jour election has begun. The GOP presidential nominee won't be able to survive the taint of wingers competing for headlines.
When it came to voting, Prop 8 proponents were advocates of "let the public decide." So, why the sudden switch from trusting the public to demanding secrecy?
A recent straw poll showed that Trump's birther crusade has paid off. But that's bad news for GOP party leaders, who have finally woken up to the Frankenstein monster that they created.
An American president whose father was African has unique credibility in condemning those who abuse their citizen's rights. Yet Obama watches on the sidelines and forfeits his claim to leadership.
If Johnson makes it to the general election, he has enough expertise at wooing skeptical independents and fiscally conservative liberals into taking a serious look at him. And he'd get Bill Maher's vote for the pot position.
If the goal is to have a message and platform that appeals to both base and swing voters, you can do no better than populist economics. And here's the other key thing: it is hard to unite them any other way.
The Obama Administration has done some historic therapy on America's oil addiction, including new vehicle efficiency standards, but the president's blueprint doesn't lay out the path to full sobriety.
The debate about federal taxes continues to boil, partly because people are looking at very different indicators of what is "fair" and "efficient" in taxation. Let me try to clarify some of the heated points of the debate.
Your resignation shows you finally realized what you should have known two years ago, during our interview: This isn't someone else's problem. This is clearly your problem.
In a country where Black women are likely to have less access to health care, have higher incidence of chronic illness and injury, and in which at least 17 percent are uninsured, it is little wonder that some are driven to abortion out of desperation.
Of course King and Spalding can take on the representation of a public client on a matter of public concern, but this kind of firm-wide gag rule is illegal and wrong.
While it's fun to watch Arnold say things like "Hasta la vista, Baby" through clenched teeth on a movie screen, the fictional war between humans and robots has taken on a new dimension these days.
U.S. officials now admit that the CIA relies on proxy detention in lieu of the Bush-era secret prison regime. Congressmen are wringing their hands, but for the wrong reasons.
Instead of taking on George Bush over trade in 2004, John Kerry accepted Bush's basic premise that free trade is best and that his proposed solutions could work, and attacked him for cutting job training funds, Pell Grants and Perkins loans.
The values that Barack Obama defends are those both of the Founders of the United States and healthy people in general. In contrast, Republicans' values are profoundly dysfunctional and signal the death of bipartisanship.
Terry Newell, 2011.04.24
Mark Green, 2011.04.24
Andrew Reinbach, 2011.04.24
