Weekend Watchdog:Can You Trust Rudy?
Here’s how the Sunday news shows did with our Weekend Watchdog questions. In a word, not well. For former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Fox News Sunday): One of […]
Weekend Watchdog:Can You Trust Rudy?
Here’s how the Sunday news shows did with our Weekend Watchdog questions. In a word, not well. For former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Fox News Sunday): One of […]
Weekend Watchdog:Can You Trust Rudy?
Here’s how the Sunday news shows did with our Weekend Watchdog questions. In a word, not well. For former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Fox News Sunday): One of […]
Weekend Watchdog:Can You Trust Rudy?
Here’s how the Sunday news shows did with our Weekend Watchdog questions. In a word, not well. For former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Fox News Sunday): One of […]
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-up
The Sunday show hosts failed to ask any of our Weekend Watchdog questions today. Fox News Sunday taped its interview with Rudy Giuliani on Friday, one day after his client […]
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 […]
The Next Enron Scandal
The Enron scandal is rearing its ugly head again, and the Securities and Exchange Commission has to decide with whom it will stand: Will it be with small investors who […]
SEC Must Choose Sides In This Enron Scandal
Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, gave these remarks at a press conference this week with victims of the Enron collapse and their supporters, along with attorney […]
Making Excuses, Ignoring Security Threats
Yesterday, the House passed an intelligence bill that included a provision requiring a comprehensive report on how climate change may exacerbate national security threats. This should be obvious and non-controversial. […]
The Empathetic Presidency Is Back
As President Bush touched down in devastated Greensburg, Kan., on Wednesday, I thought back to April 2001, when a white policeman killed a 19-year old black man in Cincinatti, sparking riots. […]
’08 Action on Global Warming
Back in February, presidential hopeful Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., quietly made a bold move. He co-sponsored the “gold standard” of global warming bills, Sanders-Boxer, cutting greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent […]
Grappling With Big Pharma
Over at the Take Back America 2007 blog, I’m posing the question: what can we do to galvanize the grassroots and remove the grip the pharmaceutical industry has on the […]
The Empathetic Presidency Returns
As President Bush touched down in devastated Greensburg, Kansas today, I thought back to April 2001, when a white policeman killed a 19-year old black man in Cincinatti, sparking riots. […]
The Market Forces Are Not With You
Business leaders jumped into the universal health care pool this week, as 36 companies formed the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform and called for a system where all individuals are […]
Blogger Disgust At Canada Drug Vote
A little sampling of blogger reactions to yesterday’s Senate vote scuttling an attempt to allow cheaper prescription drugs to be imported from Canada. David Sirota: “How Many ‘Free Trade’ Senators […]
Senate Flinches on Canadian Drug Imports
I spoke too soon on Friday, when I heralded a Senate vote denying a filibuster on allowing drug imports from Canada, where costs are lower. Yesterday, Big Pharma struck back, […]
Defrauding Seniors
There is more evidence that partially privatizing Medicare is currently hurting our seniors. Private insurers already have been given a role in delivering Medicare coverage. In addition to private companies providing […]
Privatizing Medicare Is Defrauding Seniors
More evidence of how partially privatizing Medicare is currently hurting our seniors, in today’s New York Times. Private insurers already have been given a role in delivering Medicare coverage. In […]
Weekend Watchdog:Networks Strike Out
Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]
Weekend Watchdog:Networks Strike Out
Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]
Weekend Watchdog:Networks Strike Out
Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]
Weekend Watchdog:Networks Strike Out
Sunday morning news talk show hosts went 0-for-3 this week, failing to ask any of the Weekend Watchdog questions we wanted answered. Here’s what we wanted to know: For House Minority […]
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-up
The Sunday show hosts went 0-for-3, failing to ask any of our Weekend Watchdog questions. Even though House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on Fox News Sunday, “I’m not […]
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 […]
Everyone: Stopping Global Warming Affordable. White House: Ack! Global Recession!
Across the world, the consensus headline out of today’s report (PDF File) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is: stopping global warming is feasible and affordable. The UK Times […]
Republican Debate: Monochromatic Candidates, Stale Ideas
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One Conservative Success, And The Counterattack
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 […]
Corruption + Incompetence = Conservatism
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, […]
Kuttner vs. Kristol: It’s Hard Out Here For A Neocon
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, […]
Getting Government And The Economy Wrong
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 […]
Failure of Conservatism: Getting The World Wrong
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 […]
The Gipper Won’t Win This One
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, […]
Failing Conservatives Flail About
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 […]
Failing Conservatives Flail About
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 […]
Memories of Maria Leavey
Over at the Take Back America 2007 blog, I shared my experience being helped by the extraordinary Maria Leavey, as nominations are being accepted through May 6 for the new […]
The Conservatives’ Secular Problem: Global Warming
Getting responsible about global warming is another way to speak to the concerns of secular voters (not to mention the religious voters who make up the Creation Care movement). And […]
The Conservatives’ Secular Problem: Lovin’ Low Wages
The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol (part of Thursday’s Big Con Face-Off, RSVP now!) today published online this from Irwin Stelzer, warning fellow conservatives of horrible developments ahead: …part of the […]
