Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
Just the logical result of electing a pseudo-leader, a smooth cutout for the reigning oligarchy. President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the [...]
It had to end like this. You don’t allow the amoral rich to run a nation without effective oversight and restraint and expect a just, democratic, and compassionate republic. There’s only one common factor in the failure of great nations: Mismanagement. The USA is heading down a well traveled road to its own Armageddon. Rome, [...]
The Kochs are poster boys for the plutocratic cancer devouring the American republic. By Joe Conason | Posted on Aug 27, 2010 Despite the kaleidoscopic proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does [...]
We are the Tiger Woods of nations. We’ve been very good at a couple of things for some time now. Things like commerce and belligerence. Or, best yet, commerce backed by belligerence. Things that involve a bit of testosterone. David M Green | ••••••• For the better part of a century now, America has [...]
The colossal imposture of a “liberal” president struggling mightily to do the “people’s bidding” keeps rolling on, practically unchallenged… | Phil Rockstroh . The devices employed in US election cycles and its national politics, in general, are akin to the dramatic conventions of children’s theatre. Every two to four years, voters are instructed to clap [...]
Colorado’s Tea Party nominees disagree sharply over the federal government’s most successful program BY JOE CONASON AUG 12, 2010 The fractious and nebulous leadership of the Tea Party, a right-wing protest by the middle-aged and elderly, has never quite figured out how to talk about Social Security: a successful federal program despised by conservative [...]
PATRICE GREANVILLE | PHOTO: Michelle Obama deplaning in Spain. Billing itself as the best democracy the world has ever seen (it’s actually, quite literally, the best democracy that money can buy), the system continues to show a cynical disregard for the demands of the masses. • Most Americans want an end to constant war. They [...]
Eric Alterman just published a massive essay in The Nation, entitled “Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now” I don’t recommend it. __________________________________________ DAVID MICHAEL GREEN __________________________________________ First, it’s damn hard to find a thesis in this extended disquisition. The article does a fine job of cataloguing the many ills that [...]
Hot Rhetoric, Hollow Reform The way the Washington Post reported the story, Congress has finally pushed through “tougher” off-shore drilling regulations for oil companies. By JAMES RIDGEWAY | July 9 – 11, 2010 | Two key Senate committees approved legislation before the July 4 holiday that purport to change the way the federal government regulates offshore [...]
Opeds— By Case Wagenvoord | We are slowly learning that all deficits are not created equal. There are good deficits and there are bad deficits; there are deficits that wear white hats and those that wear black hats. PHOTO: Former baseball pitcher and currently senator for the benighted state of Kentucy, Jim Bunning, has [...]
