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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....

Conservative Filibuster Broken on Canadian Drugs

Senators trying to drive down prescription drug costs failed to break a drug industry-backed conservative filibuster when the issue was empowering Medicare to negotiate. But yesterday, they successfully broke an attempted filibuster on allowing cheaper drugs to be...

Bloggers Take On Conservative Failure

While we were commemorating the Failure of Conservatism in DC yesterday, what was the blogosphere doing? D-Day saw conservative failure in the melamine scandal: "Conservatives care nothing about government, and yet they act surprised when the mechanisms of government...

Watch The Big Con Face-Off: Kuttner v. Kristol

The highlight of today's Failure of Conservatism Conference was the debate between the American Prospect's Robert Kuttner and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, over the question: "Can Conservatives Be Trusted To Govern?" You can watch the full debate below, thanks...

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