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...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
There was a genteel smackdown between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and William Kristol of The Weekly Standard. But beneath the generally gentlemanly exchange between the two intellectual titans, there were some genuine jaw-droppers from Kristol, who showed...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
When Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, wanted to offer an example of how conservatives have gotten government wrong, he talked about chickens. These are chickens that are carrying a chemical that is used to make plastic forks and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2007 | Blog
Robert L. Borosage launched the Failure of Conservatism conference at the National Press Conference on Thursday with a broad indictment of the conservative movement and with a cautionary note for progressives: “Ideas have consequences.” Borosage, the co-director of...
by Robert Borosage | May 3, 2007 | Blog
This article first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. As Republican contenders for the presidential nomination gather for their first debate Thursday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, they are caught between a rock and a hard place. The vast...
by Bill Scher | May 3, 2007 | Blog
Today is the Failure of Conservatism Conference, hosted by Campaign for America’s Future and The American Prospect, which will seek to make the case that “the failures of the Bush administration—from Katrina to Iraq—are more than a matter of incompetence and cronyism....