by Richard Eskow | Oct 8, 2013 | Blog
Journalists are understandably captivated by the government shutdown and the looming confrontation over the debt ceiling. Those are certainly dramatic stories. But another, quieter drama has been playing out for years in homes and communities across the country, as...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 7, 2013 | Blog
(Originally published in Alternet) Of course they shut the Federal government down. Tea Party Republicans long for the days when there were no government authorities to enforce laws and restrain the power of unchecked wealth, the days when there was no Justice...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 6, 2013 | Shutdown
Picture a lone Republican running through the darkened hallways of power, paraphrasing Soylent Green’s climactic line as he shouts the news to his peers: “It’s people! The Federal government is people!” That insight seemed to strike Hill Republicans last week, if only...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 3, 2013 | Blog
White House messaging on the shutdown (and debt ceiling threats) has been nearly pitch-perfect. Republicans, on the other hand, have stumbled and struggled and are paying for it in the polls. Now the GOP’s trying to solve the problem it has created for itself by...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 3, 2013 | Blog
Forty million dollars an hour. A third of a billion every day. $1.6 billion every week. That’s a conservative estimate of the money Republicans are wasting by keeping the federal government closed down. And if pundits like Sean Hannity have their way, they’ll run up...
