by Dave Johnson | Aug 30, 2012 | Blog
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...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 30, 2012 | Blog
Their opponents shouldn't be too quick to call Republicans "crazy." It makes more sense to employ that time-honored investigative principle: Follow the money. Sure, they've said crazy things -- in their speeches and in their official platform. But crazy? Like a fox....
by Robert Borosage | Aug 30, 2012 | Blog
Rep. Paul Ryan’s bravura performance last night at the Republican convention gave full display of the skills honed by a career pol who has spent his entire adult life in the Washington watering holes of the right. Ryan has learned to look straight into the camera and...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 30, 2012 | Blog
Where can we find one of those "new ideas" we keep hearing about, the ones that the supposedly "serious" Paul Ryan brings to the Presidential ticket? Not in their plan to turn us into a nation without Medicare. That idea isn't any newer than the song stylings of Patti...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
How's this for a radical, anti-American statement? The Republican Party's draft platform mocks American workers' pensions as useless artifacts which were "born in an old industrial era beyond the memory of most Americans." Republicans talk about restoring American...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog
The presence of scandal-ridden accounting firms on Mitt Romney's fundraising list got me to thinking: What do they expect to get for their money? And why does the accounting profession seem to be so riddled with corruption? And it reminded me of something that...
