AMERICAN PARTY DUOPOLY

FROM OUR ARCHIVES—WEEKEND EDITION DECEMBER 9-11, 2011  Pulling the Trigger on Trigger by RANDY…

STEVEN JONAS—Who needs Republicans to take these positions when you’ve got a so-called Democrat doing so?  And who did Obama call in for a private White House chat on the budget, taxes, the deficit and the like?  None other than Bill Clinton who, before he was President was the DLC chair in the 1980’s.  It was Clinton who, in his first State of the Union Address, made an announcement that could have been taken right out of the mouth of Ronald Reagan: “The era of big government is over.”  Obama took a page from the Clinton playbook even before that most recent visit.  He started “triangulating” the progressive Democrats in the Congress just like Clinton did, using language to describe them and the policies that they had been putting forth that he hardly ever uses against the GOP/Far-Right.

David Michael Green  |  December 12 2010    Wow! What got into Barack Obama?!?!…

BY GLENN GREENWALD BY GLENN GREENWALD | SUNDAY, SEP 19, 2010 (updated below) New York…

By Patrice Greanville with Jason Miller Note: This is a repost.  This essay was written…