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Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage?

Written with Bernard A. Weisberger. Originally published at BillMoyers.Com. We might wish the uproar from the convention halls of both parties these busy weeks were the wholesome clamor of delegates deliberating serious visions of how we should be governed for the...

The Top 13 Lies In Modern Republican Convention History

On Wednesday, Jonathan Cohn asked if Paul Ryan's address was "The Most Dishonest Convention Speech … Ever?" Now that Mitt Romney had his turn, I decided to answer the question. After reviewing presidential and vice-presidential nominee acceptance speeches...

Romney and the Republican Memory Hole

Mitt Romney laid out his case to the American people last night. The speech was long, bloated with the sleep inducing poll tested patriotic treacle and banal pieties that have become inescapable on these occasions. Mitt Romney campaigns in prose, with a mind given to...

Takin' It To the Suites

When we turned on the TV to watch the Republican Convention this evening we saw what appeared to be a hyperactive GOP advance man gesticulating from the stage. But he wasn't barking out canvassing instructions to local ward heelers or scouting Holiday Inns to find the...

The Amnesia CONvention

This Republican convention is the convention that assumes (hopes) that everyone has amnesia and will forget … everything. They hope you forget that the budget was balanced before they got in last time, that the economy was doing great before they got in last...

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