by Robert Reich | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
[fve]https://youtu.be/6W5e7AwqksU[/fve] 1. Cruz is more fanatical. Sure, Trump is a bully and bigot, but he doesn’t hew to any sharp ideological line. Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to...
by Robert Reich | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It died in 2016. RIP. It has been replaced by warring tribes: Evangelicals opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and science. Libertarians...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Give the feds credit. Playing the long game in the Oregon standoff worked. Not only did they bring in the last of the wannabe “militiamen” without giving them what they wanted, federal agents also nabbed the grandfather of them all. They were going to be hailed as...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Democracy, Economy, This Is The GOP
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is just the tip of the iceberg. We are living in a nation of Flints, thanks to racial bias, economic inequality, austerity and conservative governance. We can’t afford to kid ourselves about what it will take to fix it. Clean water...
by Jim Hightower | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
One big difference between the rich and the poor in our country is that the rich don’t tend to have their drinking water poisoned by their own governor. Not that Republican Governor Rick Snyder personally dumped poison into Flint, Michigan’s water. But by dumping his...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 5, 2016 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Meet Ted Cruz, the Republican winner of the Iowa caucuses. He’s a liar, a jerk, and nobody who knows him remotely well — including his fellow Republicans and, quite possibly, his own family — appears to like him much. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) barely had time to bask in...
