by Dave Johnson | Dec 16, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform, This Is The GOP
The "omnibus" budget for the next year is out. Here are some of the winners and losers. With a Republican Congress, every budget battle is about ratcheting down the things our government does to make our lives better. Every budget battle is a defensive action, with...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
It was showtime in the Republican debate last night in Las Vegas. Hysteria was the coin of the table. Carpet-bomb ISIS. Take out Assad. Destroy Iran. Shoot down Russian planes. Launch cyberwar against China. Expand the Army, Navy, Air Force; modernize nuclear weapons...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Donald Trump will be center stage in CNN’s Republican Presidential debate tonight, flanked this time by a surging, sinister Sen. Ted Cruz on his left and a flagging Dr. Ben Carson on his right. Once more Trump will claim the spotlight, with the others vying for time...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 14, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
One consequence of the deafening media din generated by Donald Trump’s hateful blather is that his competitors seem moderate in contrast. Thus Marco Rubio, the callow young, ambitious first-term senator from Florida, is billed as a foreign policy leader in the...
by Jim Hightower | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism
Disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship didn’t get what he deserves in his recent federal trial. But he richly deserves what he got. “Guilty,” declared all 12 West Virginia jurors, who convicted this arrogant and avaricious former CEO of Massey Energy of willfully...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. by saying, “this is not who we are as a party or a country.” Ryan is mistaken: Trump represents exactly what the GOP is, and what progressives must not let America become....
