HomeTagged ‘Republicans’
Democrats win?
William Saleten of Slate proposes that Democrats and their leaders used their legislative power wisely during 2009-10, even if it cost them seats in the House.
Politicians have tried and failed for decades to enact universal health care. This time, they succeeded. In 2008, Democrats won the presidency and both houses of Congress, and by the [...]
“Tea Party” more popular than Republicans or Democrats
NY Times columnist David Brooks is worried by a recent Wall Street Journal / NBC News Poll which shows the “Tea Party” demonstrators to be more popular than either of the two major political parties. He sees a revolt against “the educated class,” of which he — and his readers — are presumably members.
The Wall [...]
The Pope’s “Christian humanism”
For those who think Pope Benedict XVI is the Antichrist, the latest papal encyclical won’t come as a shock. But for other conservatives who have come to rely on the Pope as a defender of right-wing orthodoxy, it just might.
Benedict’s encyclical, released on Tuesday, attacks global capitalism from the left. He argues we need to [...]
The more things change…
A new religious right organization is emerging from the tattered remains of groups like the Christian Coalition and Moral Majority. This organization — calling itself the Freedom Federation — purports to have a kinder, gentler face than its predecessors, which all too often came across like the Blue Meanies. But the group’s agenda is anything [...]
The cross of hypocrisy
The Washington Times, of all places, is reporting (in the news section, not an op-ed) that social conservatives have fallen from the moral high ground. The most recent example, of course, is Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina who went missing for six days when he was visiting his mistress in Argentina. Last [...]
Kansas as a battleground state for abortion
Inevitably, the press has recognized that Kansas has an unusually combative culture when it comes to the abortion debate. The AP filed a story laying out the recent history. Here is an excerpt:
In part, it’s a power struggle — conservative Republicans, many of them evangelical Christian, battling over abortion and other hot-button social issues with [...]
Chat completed on Firedoglake
Whew! We just pounded our keyboards and hit refresh through a spirited and furious ninety-minute web chat on Firedoglake. For now, you can read the chat here. If that link fails, try here, where it’ll be permanently archived. Thanks to Lisa Derrick and everybody else at FDL, we had a great time answering smart questions!
Return of the conservative populists?
David Sirota, writing in Salon, muses that Republicans could revive their fortunes if they embrace populism, as Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul did during the primary campaign, calling Wall Street tycoons “criminals.”
Of course, at some point such rhetoric would need to be backed up by real policy proposals. And it’s safe to say that Republicans [...]
Who cares What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Obama’s President now, so who cares about the conservatives? Haven’t they now “lost” the heart of America? Shouldn’t we just move on?
Well, the election was not a landslide, nor did it redraw the electoral map. Plenty of working-class whites voted for McCain. And those pesky “wedge” issues are not going away. Mainly what happened was [...]