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As Recession Looms, Another SCHIP Veto
Tomorrow, the conservative minority in the House is expected to sustain President Bush's second veto of expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program. SCHIP has already successfully provided health coverage to six million kids, but nine million more remained...
Stealing Our Future: Conservatives, Foresight, and Why Nothing Works Anymore
Brad DeLong once said that "'Nobody could have foreseen ______' is the Bush administration's version of 'The dog ate my homework.'" It does seem to be their handy-dandy Swiss Army Knife, all-purpose explanation for the various disasters that have happened on their...
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
The Sunday shows score their first question for the Watchdog in 2008! Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace did ask Mitt Romney about the federal lobbyists on his campaign team, despite his claim that he doesn't have any lobbyists running his campaign. Romney's response?...
It Takes a Movement
Wading into the storm kicked up by Sen. Hillary Clinton's comment that "it took a president" to turn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality into a reality, Bill Moyers nails it on his January 18 commentary for his PBS show, "Bill Moyers' Journal": Many,...
Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
Katrina: Conservatism's Catastrophic Success
It's been a long time since I blogged about Katrina or its aftermath. But I was reminded of it by the steady stream of Katrina-related headlines I've been reading lately. You know, the drumbeat of actual news that barely breaks through the din surrounding stories of...
Fossil Fuel CEOs On Their Heels
Today's edition of Environment & Energy Daily (sub. req'd) reports on a conference featuring the chief lobbyists for the fossil fuel industries. And they're in panic mode. While David Parker, president and CEO of the American Gas Association, noted "general...
No Half-Stepping Stimulus
Democratic leaders in the House are currently sketching out the details of an economic stimulus package designed to soften the blow later this year of the now-apparent recession. But Robert Kuttner, founding co-editor of The American Prospect and the author of “The...
Hilariously Delusional
National Review editor Rich Lowry, while trying to dismiss the potency of economic populism among middle-class Republican voters, offered this analysis of Mitt Romney's victory in Michigan and the limited appeal of Mike Huckabee: It turns out that anxious middle class...
Conservatives Try (and Fail) To Deal With The Economy
Conservatives appear confused what argument to make about the struggling economy: pander with newfound populism, make excuses for tax handouts to CEOs, and/or insist everything is going fine. Mitt Romney outpandered John McCain and Mike Huckabee in Michigan, finally...
