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Drop Dead Conservatism Kicking the Jobless When Theyre Down
A couple of years ago I started writing about something I called "Drop Dead Conservatism," and attempted to define it: High on delusion, denial, and derision, it's the face of a conservatism unequipped to recognize — let alone meet — the challenges America...
The Korea Trade Deal And The Conservative Closeout Sale Of America
The Washington Post criticizes President Obama because he is holding out for a better Korean Free Trade Agreement deal for American workers and businesses. They call that a "setback." But a setback for who, exactly? In a Thursday editorial, Mr. Obama's Korea trade...
Drop Dead Conservatism The Winners Circle
A while back I attempted to define "Drop Dead Conservatism." High on delusion, denial, and derision, it’s the face of a conservatism unequipped to recognize — let alone meet — the challenges America and the world now face, and blind to the possibility drowning itself...
Drop Dead Conservatism Part Two
Read part one. There's a literary reference that comes to mind when I consider "Drop Dead" conservatism. (My English Lit. degree occasionally comes in handy.) It's a Shakespearean reference, actually, to a character from one of his lesser known plays. Timon of Athens...
Drop Dead Conservatism Part One
Drop Dead. That's the best answer that some conservatives have been able to offer to a country in teeth of the worst financial crisis we've faced in a generation. When the Wall Street crisis loomed and the bailout was being debated: let the market fail, and risk...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/19/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Did The Rich Cause...
The Ides of November
We expected to see an all-out assault on Social Security and progressive taxation in November, and we expected it to come under the banner of "deficit reduction." That was always the plan: Wait until after the election, when a lame-duck Congress could pass the...
In House Vote GOP Tells Jobless To Drop Dead
When the House of Representatives held its unsuccessful vote earlier today on a measure to continue emergency unemployment benefits that are set to expire at the end of the month, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Sander M. Levin, D-Mich, told Congressional...
Nobodys Buying The Cut-Social-Security Line
The next time a conservative politician goes to the microphone and says something to the effect that "the American people have spoken, and they've made it clear that they want us to rein in out-of-control entitlement spending and keep programs such as Social Security...
Republican Senator Acknowledges Health Reform Is Not A Federal Government Takeover
After the President signed the health reform law, opponent GOP Sen. Scott Brown immediately promised to push for changes. In a March 30th Boston Globe oped, he wrote: "I am working on legislation that would allow states to opt out of this federal health care bill...
