by Terrance Heath | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week two major right-wing crusades that started out with pretty big bangs -- the Oregon Standoff and the Planned Parenthood sting -- ended with disappointing (for wingnuts) whimpers. Almost Over In Oregon It wasn’t supposed to end this way. The standoff at...
by Bill Scher | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Politico Magazine asked me and 11 others if Trump has "killed the GOP." My answer? Not yet: Before the Republican establishment concludes that its party is being consumed by a hostile takeover, it should first let its people cast some votes. So many conclusions are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2016 | Conservatism
With the winter winds of January came a flurry of reports that several states were moving to cut thousands of people from their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, or “food stamp") rolls. In New Jersey, for example, Governor Chris Christie pulled the...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The Donald was missing and missed last night in the Fox News Republican debate. Without the bawdy showman, the entire cast seemed smaller, the divisive questions of the Fox moderators more petulant, and the debate endless. The most stunning revelations of the debate...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Conservatives are responding to Flint, Michigan’s water crisis with the same depraved indifference that helped contaminate the city’s water and expose thousands of children to lead poisoning. By now, the entire country has heard the tragic story. In 2013, Flint —...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
The people of Michigan hired themselves a GOP businessman to be governor in 2011. And what they got was children poisoned by public water in Flint. That is, what they got was a government run based on GOP business values. To line the pockets of CEOs and shareholders,...
