by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
The perversity of conservative failure is that by rendering government incapable or unwilling of doing anything that serves the common good, conservatives have left fewer people willing to trust that government can serve the common good, even when they want it to....
by Bill Scher | May 3, 2007 | Blog
Check out video of Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Robert Borosage, kicking off today's Failure of Conservatism Conference. "...corruption and incompetence aren't idiosyncratic to conservatives. They are, in some ways, an integral expression of the scorn...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
There was a genteel smackdown between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and William Kristol of The Weekly Standard. But beneath the generally gentlemanly exchange between the two intellectual titans, there were some genuine jaw-droppers from Kristol, who showed...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
When Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, wanted to offer an example of how conservatives have gotten government wrong, he talked about chickens. These are chickens that are carrying a chemical that is used to make plastic forks and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
Robert L. Borosage launched the Failure of Conservatism conference at the National Press Conference on Thursday with a broad indictment of the conservative movement and with a cautionary note for progressives: “Ideas have consequences.” Borosage, the co-director of...
