Republican Politics of Projection
As a younger voter in 1988, I remember when then-Vice President and presidential candidate George H.W. Bush stood in front of Boston Harbor and slammed his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Mike...
View ArticleNo Need to Say the Republican War On Women "is Real"
Why do Democrats always seem to snatch weakness from the jaws of strength? The Republican War On Women is an important issue for Democrats. It's another vivid example of how Republicans favor big...
View ArticleJoe Biden Comes Up with the Bumper Sticker of the Year
Vice President Joe Biden, at a speech in New York City today, came up with the political bumper sticker of the year. He even told us that it could be used as a bumper sticker. Said the Veep:“If you are...
View ArticleHow About Saying "Elected Representatives" Instead of "Government"?
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." --President Ronald Reagan, inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981For over 30 years, Republicans and...
View ArticleRomney's Republican Bullying Pulpit
It was a remarkable week as North Carolinians voted on Tuesday to ban same-sex marriages and domestic partnerships, President Obama on Wednesday historically stated that he supports gay marriage, and...
View ArticleHow to Beat Republicans on "Government"
Republicans have been running against "government" at least since Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Willard Romney fired the latest salvo in the Republican War On Government last Friday when...
View ArticleHow to Frame the Affordable Care Act Win
After suffering a historic political loss via the Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are seeking to make lemonade by characterizing the ACA as a massive tax on everyone....
View ArticleInterview with Progressive Talk Show Host Kenny Pick
There is a small but growing band of progressives who donate their time, equipment and talents to airing home-based progressive political talk shows on the Internet. One of the stars of this movement...
View ArticleAfter Aurora, How About a Gun Law Shock Doctrine?
Another six months, another tragic shooting. The Aurora, Colorado theater shootings were the 22nd such incident since and including the 1999 Columbine shootings. In the mainstream corporate media,...
View ArticleThank Your Public Employees
This past Sunday, we saw two widely varying examples of the best of public service. On Sunday morning, when white supremacist Wade Michael Page gunned down six people at their Sikh temple in Oak Creek,...
View ArticleInterview with rap activist Macarone
With his name and his residence in conservative Orange County, California, Maurice Bradford could be an attorney or an accountant. But instead he’s Macarone, a self-styled “rap activist” who is carving...
View ArticleThe One Thing Democrats Should be Saying but Aren't
At the Republican National Convention and elsewhere during this election season, the Republicans' principal attack against President Obama is that he hasn't fixed the economy or significantly lowered...
View ArticleInterview with Nicole Belle
"Mom, Wife, Media Critic/Political Analyst, Blogger, Austen Fanatic, Unapologetic Liberal." That's Nicole Belle's bio at the Crooks and Liars progressive political blog, where she is Senior Editor and...
View ArticleFour debate pointers for President Obama
With the second Presidential debate between Barack Obama and Willard Mitt Romney around the corner and the third debate just six days later, President Obama should follow these four time-tested...
View ArticleClimate change is the new Internet
Want to know the dirty little secret that may cause many Republicans to believe in climate change? The secret is: there’s lots money to be made. Indeed, climate change a/k/a global warming could...
View ArticleRepublicans, embroiled in civil war, cave on revenue frame
It has been Republican dogma for the past several years or longer that “we don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.” Kowtowing to Grover Norquist and his “no tax increase in any form,...
View ArticlePresident Obama's fiscal cliff Twitter bumper sticker
President Obama (or, presumably, one of his underlings) has created the equivalent of a bumper sticker phrase on Twitter, using the hashtag “#My2k“ to spread the message about the consequences of...
View ArticleTwo Conservative arguments for gun control
The tragic killings of children in Newtown, Connecticut seem to have set off a noisy political debate over gun laws, perhaps more than previous mass shootings such as those in Aurora, Colorado and...
View ArticleSecond Amendment and other constitutional rights are not absolute
In the current gun violence debate, the National Rifle Association and its supporters often cite the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for their opposition to any gun safety laws. However, such...
View ArticleTaking "freedom" back
The hottest Republican buzzword today is “freedom.” It shows up in NRA talking points, names of groups like FreedomWorks, names of bills like South Carolina’s Firearms Freedom Act, which would exempt...
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