by Richard Eskow | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog
Think of it as the story of two antagonists. One of them was an honest Senator who came to Washington to fight corruption. The other is an arrogant banker who's so sure of his untouchability that he wore "FBI" cufflinks when he made a public appearance last month. The...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog, Conservatism
From the moment he was sworn in as president, what's bothered many conservatives most about Barack Obama was that he was a Black man who seemed pathologically incapable of "knowing his place." Conservatives from Peggy Noonan to (most recently) Grover Norquist have...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is working hard to rescue the GOP's "lost" message. You can't blame him for trying. There are, of course, several problems. Not the least of which is that it looks like GOP leadership still believes "message" and "tone" were what...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog
Before we begin, let's take a moment to ponder the absurdity of a system in which a) for-profit corporations are allowed to call themselves "agencies"; b) the government - that is, us - gives these for-profit companies given trillion-dollar influence over the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog
Alan Simpson's the lead pitchman for a billionaire- and corporate-funded initiative to slash Social Security that has subjected the public to years of nonstop haranguing and lecturing. The lecturing's gotten crude, too, as when Simpson insisted that anyone who...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog, Conservatism
Like I said in the first post in this series, Obama didn't waste time talking to Republicans in his inaugural address because he didn't need to talk to them. President Obama's biggest accomplishments in his first term happened without their support and despite their...
