by Robert Borosage | May 4, 2007 | Blog
Ten white guys in dark suits and bright ties to answer questions. Three white guys in dark suits and bright ties to ask them. Stale ideas fit the staid image at the first Republican presidential debate last night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. MSNBC should...
by Bill Scher | May 4, 2007 | Blog
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...
by Bill Scher | May 4, 2007 | Blog
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...
by Bill Scher | May 3, 2007 | Blog
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...
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...
