Share What should be done to an organization that engaged in illegal, unethical electioneering on behalf of a successful presidential candidate in a swing state that made all the difference? Defund it? Prosecute it? Make a documentary? How about all of the above? And would it make a difference if the story involved the Republican [...]

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Share Lucky those “family values” voters contributed to the Republican Party.  Now, they get to see what they got in return: strippers. Beyond the irony, it’s clear that the family values folks got ripped off.  When corporate lobbyists contribute to the RNC, they don’t get topless dancers, they get a political red light district.  Why [...]

Share One can be criticized for making policy disputes into good versus evil dichotomies, but the Republicans make it so easy!  When one side resorts to terrorism (attempting to achieve political ends through violence or the threat of violence in a civilian context), racism, and over-the-top hate-speech, what else can one conclude? The bad guys [...]

Share PUTTING GOVERNMENT BACK ON THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE This first major step in a transformational presidency was the 2008 election itself when we broke with history and elected Barack Obama.  The passage of health care reform is the second.  Try as they might, Republicans will not be able to stop the thrust of [...]

Share After all the scare tactics, death panel lies, racial epithets, homophobic epithets, threats of violence, predictions of “the end” of the country and/or freedom, a shout of “baby killer” from one Republican at pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak, and horserace reporting that ignores the substance of health care reform, the Democrats came through with a [...]

Share The Huffington Post does a nice job encapsulating a number of reactions.  Conservative David Frum’s is the most interesting since he takes on the reactionaries who now control the Republican Party.  A moderate approach could have watered down the bill more, but the no-to-everything approach backfired, according to Frum. The bill is seriously flawed [...]

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