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Brent Budowsky is a regular columnist on thehill.com. He served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for commerce and intelligence matters, including one of the core drafters of the CIA Identities Law. Served as Legislative Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives. Currently a member of the International Advisory Council of the Intelligence Summit. Left goverment in 1990 for marketing and public affairs business including major corporate entertainment and talent management.
Friday, February 10, 2012 Calling wealthy Democrats
Citizens United destroys the American notion of citizenship by creating separate and unequal classes of Americans. It creates a de facto American House of Lords in which the wealthiest 10 percent of the wealthiest 1 percent are given unlimited financial power to attempt to buy our democracy in secret, while all other Americans are relegated to second-class citizenship.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Clint Eastwood and Chrysler upset the "Hope America Fails" Republicans (3 comments)
What is good for American auto workers is good for President Obama. What is good for America is good for President Obama. The Republicans can't handle the truth, because they are so negative that what is good for America is bad for Republicans!
Thursday, February 2, 2012 A tale of two Romneys
If George Romney were here today, Mitt Romney would probably be calling him a European socialist, while George Romney would probably be supporting the auto policies of Obama and possibly endorsing Obama for reelection.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 How Obama can win big (1 comments)
If the president runs as the champion of patriotic capitalism and Made in America jobs and works his heart out to bring the next Morning in America while his opponents act like the "hope America fails" party that has bet its ranch that the American economy fails -- Obama will win, by a knockout.
Saturday, January 14, 2012 What do abused dogs and laid-off workers have in common? (1 comments)
So: Let's have this debate, based on facts, based on sound economics and business, and based on deep principles of faith and the degree that faith (in my case, the Sermon on the Mount) should have an impact on policy.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 Conservatives in crisis (1 comments)
As conservatives prepare for an urgent meeting this weekend to discuss their options in the 2012 campaign, they face an epic crisis of identity and electability that creates rising odds for the reelection of President Obama.
Throughout the 2012 campaign, there has not been one credible conservative candidate for the presidency.
Sunday, December 25, 2011 Ron Paul should apologize for racist newsletter comments; Rick Perry for misusing Christianity in a sleazy ad (6 comments)
If Ron Paul wants others to take responsibility for their actions, he should take responsibility for his. Otherwise his credo is the same serial hypocrisy he correctly accuses Newt Gingrich of. For the failed, embarrassing and shameful campaign of Rick Perry and his ads misusing Christianity in a partisan attack on opponents, he should also apologize.
Friday, November 11, 2011 The Norquist Factor (1 comments)
There is real danger for Republicans, especially House Republicans, of being trapped by the Norquist pledge into taking absolutist positions that voters view as an aggressive attack against the majority view of the nation.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 Occupy Repatriation
If job-exporting firms conclude they can use influence-peddling to win a tax break every 7 years, they would export jobs in greater numbers. To promote a jobless American economy, and further destroy the revenue base and fiscal soundness of the nation. If these firms create the jobs first, give them their tax break. If they do not, we should Occupy Repatriation and say to them: Hell, no.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Truman moment for Dems (1 comments)
Listening to Republican leaders and watching Republican debates make the GOP today appear to be a party run amok. It denies science, reason, facts and even, at times, the president's birth. They attack and abuse core interests of a majority of voters. Their tactics are often alien to the basic notions of civility, moderation, fair compromise and respect that constitute the American idea.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 Elizabeth Warren's Moment (1 comments)
As President Obama prepares to offer a modest jobs program to a joint session of a Congress with unpopularity rivaling the disapproval numbers for Casey Anthony, the prospect of a progressive populist patriotic revival is emerging in Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Warren, one of the most brilliantly qualified candidates in modern history to be passed over for an important post, appears poised to run for Senate in Mass.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Now Obama must lead (5 comments)
Yes, President Obama inherited a mess. But it is unacceptable that in the third year of his presidency he still blames his predecessor and does bus tours to promote jobs programs that do not exist. The president should not be touting free trade deals and a patent bill as his major jobs programs. This is not merely false. It is farce.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 Al Gore for president (13 comments)
If Gore runs in 2016 he would be the most qualified candidate for the presidency in a century. On the playing field of national politics, Gore is the conscience of the Democratic Party, the soul of what true Democrats stand for, and the fighting spirit that Democrats everywhere hunger for.
Thursday, July 21, 2011 Banana Republicans (2 comments)
The Banana Republicans oppose the very concept of negotiating in good faith. They have certain views far outside the mainstream of traditional Republicanism, and far outside the mainstream of traditional Americanism, which views our nation as a melting pot of diversity, requiring a coming-together of shared purpose.
Saturday, July 9, 2011 Cut the crap and create jobs (3 comments)
Shame on the president. Shame on the Republicans. Shame on the Democrats. Shame on the media. Shame on them all. It is time to cut the crap, create the jobs and fight like hell for what Americans want: jobs.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 July 4 infamy: Republicans try to destroy the American economy (7 comments)
The Hope America Fails Republicans are a disgrace as the rest of us celebrate the Fourth of July. It is incredible, amazing and unprecedented that any leader of a major party in Congress could publicly state that his major goal is not to improve the economic lives of Americans, but to destroy a political opponent, while opposing programs to create jobs that Americans desperately want and need.
Saturday, June 18, 2011 Ron Paul: Champion of greed, not liberty (16 comments)
Dr. Paul means well, but fails to understand that monopoly is not liberty. Oligopoly is not freedom. Ripping off homeowners and borrowers is not liberty or freedom, it is ripping off homeowners and borrowers in a market that is not free when consumers are not given real choices.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 March on Washington (2 comments)
A Labor Day March on Washington for Made in the USA jobs will send a powerful and resounding message that Americans want American jobs, that we are not a banana republic doomed to permanently punishing joblessness that dramatically adds to permanently crippling deficits.
Saturday, June 11, 2011 Liar Weiner, liars everywhere (4 comments)
In the lane at the top of the modern world, crime pays. The criminals do not get prosecuted, they receive bonuses for the crimes. One party lacks the guts to prosecute the crimes. The other party calls the crimes capitalism and lies about opponents, calling them socialists. While both parties seek donations from the criminals who are not prosecuted.
Saturday, June 4, 2011 Republicans propose another recession (6 comments)
The big problem with Democrats is they don't fight hard enough against Republican policies. I am in the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. It amazes me, with historical evidence that Republican policies so often cause recession, that some Democrats are so relucant to stand up as Democrats, for Democratic policies.
Monday, May 23, 2011 GOP has an extremist problem (3 comments)
Make no mistake, the Republicans have an extremist problem. This is the weakest GOP field in decades. Republicans would be well-advised to say goodbye to the nutcases and stop advocating torture, denying science and trying to destroy Medicare.
Friday, April 15, 2011 Republican Medicare, Republican Socialism, Massive Republican Tax Increase (1 comments)
The GOP's attack on Medicare is a textbook case of Republicans clutching the third rail with both hands, escalating the blunders that have cost them dearly in elections before, and alienating the voters with the kind of political theology and extremism that voters do not want and will not tolerate.
Friday, April 8, 2011 NBC should fire Donald Trump or hire Ron Paul
If NBC insists on continuing its promotion of presumed Presidential candidate Donal Trump on the public airwaves, then NBC should also give Ron Paul a show of his own.
Saturday, April 2, 2011 Summer shocker for GOP in Wisconsin recall battle (2 comments)
Minnesota's Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) may not know the state in which the original Lexington and Concord battle was fought, but I will tell you the state where the next Lexington and Concord will be fought. Wisconsin. This summer.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 The Al Gore Surge (2 comments)
Gore is not the cause of the fierce attacks against progressive values or the stirrings of revival among the oft-maligned "progressive base." But he brings to the battle a powerful voice with a history of game-changing initiatives as congressman, senator, vice president, bestselling author, Academy Award winner, and Nobel laureate.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Dems need a liberal Reagan (3 comments)
The union-busting attack that has now begun, financed and orchestrated by ultraconservative business interests and hyperpartisan Republicans and cloaked by the masquerade of deficit reduction, has finally begun to rouse the widely mocked and largely depressed Democrats.
Saturday, February 19, 2011 Wisconsin to Washington: GOP declares war against workers
This is not a war against deficits, it is a war against collective bargaining, a war against job-creating programs, a war against the very idea of government creating jobs. In many cases this is a war against policies that help women, a war against pay equity for women, a war against new jobs for women and a war against poor women and their daughters and sons.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Wisconsin to Washington: GOP declares war against workers (1 comments)
The GOP is waging a war against teachers, against firefighters, against police, against programs that create jobs, against men and women who hunger for jobs, against pay equity for women, and against the economic recovery that has only begun.
Friday, January 14, 2011 JFK 50 years later: great goals for a great nation (1 comments)
Will America rally behind the call of General Eric Shinseki to end all homelessness among American veterans within 5 years?
Thursday, December 30, 2010 2011: Year of upheaval (2 comments)
2011 will be a year of controversy and conflict for President Obama, Congress and national politics that will bring revolts within both major political parties and a rising demand for a third-party candidate in 2012.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 "Reagan is an appeaser' (1 comments)
Let's remember that when the more right-wing fringe attacks START, their ideological ancestors from the right attacked Ronald Reagan, too.
They don't want advocates of START to remind you of this.
I just did.
Saturday, December 4, 2010 GOP to jobless: DROP DEAD! (2 comments)
What an outrage. Republicans want tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to be permanently extended, but they don't want to pay for them. Republicans delay the passage of jobless benefits, and would only support them if they are paid for.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 "Second Amendment Solutions": Why Everyone MUST Vote (4 comments)
The notion that America is turning to the right is a fraud perpetrated by the right, pushed by Republicans, repeated like parrots by the mainstream media. If everybody votes, Democrats win.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Russ Feingold: The Conscience of the Senate (1 comments)
Our democratic institutions are being obliterated by a surreptitious, evil avalanche of corporate cash targeting our most principled politicians.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 The GOP is blowing it (2 comments)
There is stirring among the Democratic base and rising concern among moderates who look at what Republicans would do, and ask, as Butch asked Sundance: Who are these guys? Speaking of bad ideas, what has Social Security ever done to Republicans that they constantly insist on privatizing it?
Friday, September 24, 2010 The GOP's real Contract With America
Voters are starting to "get it" about what the real Republican Contract with America would do to them. For middle America, it isn't pretty, and for the Democratic base, it is a great motivation to vote.
Thursday, September 9, 2010 If Obama names Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic base erupts like a volcano and votes (8 comments)
If Obama names Warren, consumers would have the strongest possible friend fighting for them all day, every day, at a time of major consumer rip-offs and disastrous consumer confidence that would be lifted with the Warren selection. The Democratic base is dispirited and tired, but the Warren nomination would rally them beyond the imagination of the most cynical pundits and politicians.
Saturday, August 28, 2010 Republicans plan McCarthyite persecutions (3 comments)
The party of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy is so punch drunk with the lust for power and so dependent on extremist supporters who pursue the politics of hate that the party that is no longer the party of Lincoln is virtually bragging about the abuses of power they intend to perform if the given the power to do so.
Friday, August 20, 2010 Healthcare Fisaco (6 comments)
Congress completely botched health care for the American people & while their incompetence is intolerable, it's not too late for the people to fix the mess.
Monday, August 16, 2010 Conservatives should denounce bigotry that hurts American troops (1 comments)
The so called Ground Zero mosque has the right wing commentariat frothing at the mouth. This anti-Muslim bigotry is fanning the flames of intolerance here at home, and showing every citizen of Muslim nations that the US is a nation of hypocrisy.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Future Shock: Dems to Keep the Congress (1 comments)
Republicans started the bailouts, set up the economic policies that caused the crisis & destroyed the economy. G.W. Bush's book, Decision Points, & Karl Rove will remind voters of the Bush/Cheney nightmare & Democrats will retain control of Congress in November.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 President Should Listen (1 comments)
To the chairman of BP, it's all about the "small"(poor) people as opposed to the "large" (rich) people. There is a dust up in Texas between the two. Obama & the Democrats should be paying attention.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Will Elizabeth Warren be Blago'd by bank lobbyists? (2 comments)
Elizabeth Warren is by far the best, strongest and most qualified candidate to lead the new consumer protection agency created by the financial bill. My hope is that President Obama selects her, but if he does not, the reason would be that she was Blagojevich'd by bank lobbyists who would have veto power over their regulators.
Thursday, July 8, 2010 When a black Republican plays the race card against a black president (4 comments)
Invoke the Panthers, try to tie them to the president and attorney general. Since certain white voters feel hatred or fear toward the Panthers, try to direct that toward the president, the attorney general or anyone opposing your candidates on the ballot.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 Republicans starve the jobless, Democrats head for the hills (9 comments)
Today American workers are without jobs because Republicans opposed programs to create jobs and obstructed them with filibusters. Today jobless Americans are without benefits because Republicans opposed them and obstructed them with filibusters.
Saturday, June 12, 2010 BP bailout proposal coming soon (4 comments)
There should be NO bailout of BP paid for by ANY taxpayer, period, end of discussion, over and out. If necessary there should be a fund paid for by all of the oil companies doing offshore drilling, as the price of their doing business off our shores and as the incentive to make sure this does not happen again.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Harry Reid, Sharron Angle and the end of the Tea Party myth (1 comments)
Reid is a populist compared to Angle, who would vote in the Senate like a bank lobbyist and Wall Street bonus baby. If Nevadans are happy that their homes are being foreclosed and their credit card interest rates have risen, Angle is their candidate!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 The Kagan Retreat (1 comments)
Devoid of a track record as a practicing lawyer, Progressives fear Kagan's right wing impulses. Does the Clinton library hold records which can reduce those fears?
Monday, May 10, 2010 Democratic Delusions (11 comments)
Americans are in an ugly mood for good reasons. If Democrats fail to rally their base in the upcoming midterm elections, there may be a train wreck ahead.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Progressives In Crisis: The Democrats' Lobbyist-Industrial Complex (6 comments)
The greatest threat to the Democratic Party and progressivism in America is not Sarah Palin. It is not the tea party right. It is not the Republican Party. It is not Rush Limbaugh. It is not Fox News.
The greatest threat to the Democratic Party and progressivism in America is the lobbyist-industrial complex that always obstructs true change and always seeks to destroy the greatest programs for reform.
Monday, April 26, 2010 Dems chance to save 2010 (3 comments)
Conventional wisdom says the Democrats are going to lose some seats in this election cycle. This article discusses a vector which could prevent a true meltdown.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Matt Drudge and the Republican Delusion (2 comments)
Matt Drudge may be the single most important figure in media today, but his right wing "triumphalism" could be deluding his readers. Noting imbalance and selectivity in spotlighting anti-Obama polls and news and squelching Obama's recent wins, Drudge's happy bubble may create a false reality for Conservatives come election day.
Monday, March 29, 2010 The Moscow Subway Bombings (14 comments)
The essential method driving the evil of terrorism is killing innocent people. What is needed is an international alliance of decency to undermine the effectiveness of terrorists.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 Right-wing death threats rise: Republicans should condemn Rush Limbaugh (8 comments)
Death threats are rising against Democratic public officials. Abusive calls and threats are made against the homes of prominent Democrats. Extremists call on supporters to bring guns to Washington. Enough is enough.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Right-wing death threats rise: Republicans should condemn Rush Limbaugh (6 comments)
The violent rhetoric being used by Republicans are being inspired by such individuals as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
This is the face of the GOP, angry, frothing and very white.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 End The Civil War Among Progressives (9 comments)
The health care bill should be treated as a vote of conscience. Progressives in the Congress have every right to vote for the bill, or against the bill, with reservations. Moderate and conservative Democrats similarly have every right to vote for the bill, or against it, with reservations.
Monday, March 15, 2010 The Real Rahm Emanuel Story (18 comments)
The Rahm Emanuel story raises two great issues that will ultimately define the success or failure of the Obama presidency, and the public option debate puts this high drama in clear perspective.
Friday, March 5, 2010 Republican National Committee advocates a party of hate (3 comments)
The issue is that the modern Republican Party does not have opponents, it has enemies. The modern Republican Party does not seek to win a debate, it seeks to destroy its opponents.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 The GOP is betting America fails (7 comments)
Democrats should run against the abuse of Senate rules that is a direct attack against majority vote in American elections and a direct attack against changes that Americans voted to enforce.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 Ron Paul wins huge victory in conservative straw poll (5 comments)
Congratulations to Ron Paul for his stunning and well-earned victory at the conservative meeting. Paul is a true conservative in the classic sense who enriches our national debate and is respected by friends and foes alike.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Five Supremes: Corrupt to the Core (23 comments)
Testifying under oath during confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito offered assurances about their respect for legal precedent and the appropriate role of the judiciary.
The result is plain to see.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 A Manifesto for Progressives (4 comments)
The Progressive Caucus in Congress can save Democrats from a disaster in the 2010 elections that could destroy any semblance of a governing majority and erase any hope for the mandate for change that voters gave Democrats in 2008.
Here's how.
Saturday, January 2, 2010 If Napolitano should resign, Bush and Cheney should have been impeached
If Janet Napolitano should be fired for her role in the Christmas bombing plot, George W. Bush should have been impeached for being warned about planes flying into buildings in New York and ignoring those warnings, and Dick Cheney should have been impeached for his role in the CIA leak case and prosecuted for his role surrounding torture.
Thursday, December 31, 2009 Bailed-out bankers foreclose churches during Christmas season
With so many Americans hurting, in large measure because of the financial abuses that required huge taxpayer bailouts, many churches are forced to use scarce money to satisfy the voracious hunger of banks. That money cannot be used to shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, clothe the needy, and perform their vital missions in the service of the Lord.
Thursday, December 24, 2009 Truth or consequences: The lobbyists win, the people lose (2 comments)
For the first year of Democrats in control of everything, the big winners are the lobbyists, at the expense of the people.
There is a reason the president's popularity has fallen from the 70s to the 40s and a reason the Democratic Congress now has an unfavorable rating of almost 70 percent, similar to Republican negatives before 2006 and 2008. Democrats can barely achieve anything today, even with their huge majorities.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Obama's fat cats. (2 comments)
President Obama has delivered hundreds of billions of dollars worth of taxpayer money to the very Wall Street cartels that created the financial crisis.
The fat cats have been taken care of extravagantly. What has happened for the rest of us?
Friday, November 13, 2009 Ron Paul is right: Audit the Federal Reserve Bailout Money
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's obscenely cynical comment that he's just “"doing God's work” should be reason enough to support Ron Paul's efforts to audit the Federal Reserve.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Voters Are Not Stupid! (3 comments)
Americans, perhaps with more than a little naïveté, believe in fairness & justice, but Washington politicians have completely obliterated the voter's hopes that anything even close might come from them. They have been getting away with it in spades. Do voters have the will to put an end to it?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Go All Out: End Price-fixing by Insurers (3 comments)
Insurance is a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't con game & the health sector is no exception. Both sides are fed up with it.It's time to stop the price-fixing & gouging.
Friday, October 16, 2009 The Secret Democratic healthcare filibuster (1 comments)
Voters elected Democrats to 60 seats along with a Democratic president and strongly Democratic House. Enough is enough. If there are Democrats who want to defeat change in favor of special interests, they should do publicly, and be accountable to those who elected them.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Democratic Strategists (2 comments)
The key to success for Democrats is to focus on the issues: jobs, homelessness, financial abuses of women & children, the neglect of veterans. The list is long & Republicans are weakest when dealing with the problems it reveals.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 How Dems Win in 2010 (4 comments)
Going rogue seems to be all the rage. The rough & tumble skinny on how Democrats win big in 2010.
Friday, August 28, 2009 Kennedy's legacy: Dreams that never die, hopes that never surrender (1 comments)
Kennedy's legacy will advance again with a mobilization for the public option on the healthcare bill in September, not whispered hints of a Democratic surrender with a progressive president and large majorities in Congress.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Lion's Roar: Ted Kennedy Moves to Save Healthcare
Ted Kennedy, an extraordinary man from a family of giants, gives every thing he's got to a national health care effort for all Americans.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 The President Should Fight for the Public Healthcare Option (7 comments)
The pundits who write off the public option are wrong. The decision can be made as late as Christmas Eve and there is plenty of time for the truth to triumph over the falsehoods. The president favors the public option. The House will pass the public option. A majority of the Senate favors a public option. And a healthcare bill, to bring true reform, must include the public option.
Thursday, July 9, 2009 Republicans Rejoicing with More Americans Jobless? (1 comments)
Sure seems to me that certain Republicans appear to be taking unseemly joy as more Americans lose their jobs. The party of Bush and the Party of No is dangerously close to being the party that hopes America fails!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Obama Falls in Ohio: Great Democratic Debate Begins (6 comments)
The luster of President Obama's persona has diminished which signals the start of an historic debate within the Democratic Party.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Republican Sex Hypocrites Owe Bill Clinton an Apology (4 comments)
Don't let Republicans & assorted other right wingers masquerading as peter pure hearts forget that Eliot Spitzer got it right way before nearly anyone else.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Boozing Bankers Celebrate Their Wealth and Triumph
The controversial TARP program to save Wall Street bankers fortunes has turned out not to be the savior of the credit system after all.
This article by Mr. Budowsky discusses in detail what a debacle it is becoming.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Credit-Card Law Has Painful Impact (13 comments)
President Barack Obama and members of Congress are promising a new law to stop credit card companies from using fine print to exploit cardholders. But there's a catch in the bill "" a one-year delay so the companies have time to adjust their business models, essentially another loophole that is hastening rate hikes and credit-limit cuts before the new law can take effect.
Friday, May 1, 2009 The Great Bank Robbery of 2009 (32 comments)
This week America witnessed Black Thursday for workers and families as the Senate defeated a bankruptcy bill that would have protected distressed homeowners and the House passed a bill that encourages and guarantees banks will continue abuses the bill pretends to remedy for a full year.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Let's Have a Real Tea Party (10 comments)
This is not partisan: I don't see the Obama administration officials taking the lead to fight for consumers; in fact, the banks are eating their lunch, whatever their intent.
Saturday, March 28, 2009 Best Friend of George Soros and Billionaire Short-Sellers: The Republicans!
Here is the hypocrisy and hilarity of the recent attack on George Soros by Republican John Feehery. The economic policies championed by Feehery and other Republicans provide huge windfall profits for Soros and everyone else in his situation.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Laissez Unfair
We must end the corrupting collusion between Wall Street money and Washington policy, and begin a serious and thoughtful relationship based on sound business and true capitalism.
Jon Stewart said it perfectly. Americans ask, "Who is on our side?"-
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Finally, Putting Country First (28 comments)
As the United States faces a severe financial crisis, many of the key players in politics, business and the media continue to act out their tiresome roles to the detriment of the nation.
In this guest essay, former Democratic congressional aide Brent Budowsky warns of the dangers from this unpatriotic approach."I propose a solution as our nation faces the moral equivalent of war"
Friday, February 20, 2009 Jesus Would Be a Liberal Democrat, Right? (6 comments)
What would Jesus do? The far right argues that he'd support republican economic policies. The author begs to differ.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Obama's Middle East Moment (10 comments)
While most of our media remains fixated on trivial trials in Illinois and similar mundane matters, the President of the United States is making one of the great U-Turns in diplomatic history and making a sincere and credible attempt to bring a historic transformation to the bloodstained carnage and crises that far too often engulfs the troubled lands of the Middle East.
This is huge.
This is historic.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 Moment of Truth: Bush prepares pardons, Obama prepares to ban torture.
Under George Bush and Dick Cheney the intelligence community has been used as a partisan foil for their own sick goals.
Torture is un-American and only results in damage. Damage to the tortured and, yes, the torturers. But also the very integrity of what is supposed to be the United States of America.
