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E-mail: robertcesca@hotmail.com
Blog: www.bobcesca.com

Bob has been a featured contributor to the Huffington Post since August, 2005. His posts appear on the front page above-the-fold every Wednesday (sometimes Thursday).

Bob is the author of One Nation Under Fear -- a collection of blog-style essays examining the politics of fear during the "dark ride" of the Bush years.

When he's not writing about politics, Bob is also a screenwriter, director and producer, and the founder of Camp Chaos, a new media production studio based near Philadelphia.

Bob grew up in Washington, DC and Northern Virginia. He graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in Political Science with a concentration on the media and the American Presidency. Prior to Camp Chaos, Bob was a talk radio host, radio news reporter and freelance journalist.

Bob has written and produced hundreds of animated shorts as well as music videos for Iron Maiden, Meat Loaf, Everclear, Yes and Motley Crue. He's also the creator of the politically charged animated sketch show ILL-ustrated which aired for two seasons on VH1 and MTV2.

He's also a pro cycling fan and a very serious rider -- though not very good.

Blog Entries by Bob Cesca

Progressives vs. the President

54 Comments | Posted January 27, 2010 | 01:47 PM (EST)


This isn't the first column in which I've addressed this dynamic and it won't be the last. So consider the following an overview or a recap of what I feel is the disconnect between President Obama and some vocal factions within the progressive movement.

Clearly there are progressives,...

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The Democrats Need to Find Some Spine and Pass This Bill

582 Comments | Posted January 20, 2010 | 06:42 PM (EST)


In the 1998 midterms, Democrats actually gained seats. A rare thing for the president's party to pick up congressional seats in a second midterm election. Nevertheless, the Democrats won the day and Republicans lost a net five seats.

Take a guess how the Republicans responded. Naturally, they freaked...

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Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists an Easy Victory

567 Comments | Posted January 13, 2010 | 05:52 PM (EST)


For much of the last decade, the Republican line about liberals has been that whenever we downplayed the urgency of the so-called terrorist threat (or dared to criticize then-President Bush for that matter) we were somehow emboldening the terrorists.

For example, during the 2004 campaign, John Kerry was annihilated...

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The Twisted and Dangerous Republican Record on Terrorism

491 Comments | Posted January 6, 2010 | 05:03 PM (EST)


The Republican record on terrorism is pretty damn terrible. Naturally, this hasn't stopped them from milking whatever remains of their purely cosmetic tough-guy reputation in order to fear-monger the failed Underpants Bomber incident irrespective of their lengthy history of failure, cowardice and stupidity on the issue.

I think we all...

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Republican Hypocrisy on Terrorism Reaches New Levels of Awful

853 Comments | Posted December 30, 2009 | 03:42 PM (EST)


Former Vice President Dick Cheney's public relations apparatus was firing on all cylinders Wednesday morning, with the release of a predictable statement about the failed Underpants Bomber fracas. And by "public relations apparatus" I mean "cable news and Politico."

Needless to say, Cheney is well-qualified to take an...

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I'm Really Pissed Off About Health Care Reform

1320 Comments | Posted December 16, 2009 | 06:02 PM (EST)


I'm pissed off.

I'm pissed off at health care reform. I'm pissed off at this endless process of emotional highs and lows and exhilaration and dejection and history and infamy.

I'm pissed off that President Obama "thanked" the independent senator from Connecticut even though the senator nearly killed health...

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Contradictory Republicans Still Flummoxed By Medicare

453 Comments | Posted December 9, 2009 | 07:25 PM (EST)


If it weren't for the fact that the Washington media establishment is gamed in favor of Republicans, it's very likely that they would have long since been relegated to nothing more than a LaRouche-style crackpot cult, handing out mimeographed pamphlets outside the post office.

How else, other than via the...

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Obama's Unavoidable Cure for the Afghanistan Cancer

467 Comments | Posted December 2, 2009 | 04:11 PM (EST)


Whether you like it or not, if you voted for President Obama last year, you are partly responsible for this strategy. That's not entirely a bad thing depending on your position on the war, but it's worth repeating that the president never spoke of drawing down our forces in the...

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Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air

676 Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 05:58 PM (EST)


I'm not sure what I have more contempt for. Sarah Palin's pathological lying or the people who can say with a straight face that Sarah Palin is qualified for anything other than a reality show contestant or the the Edie McClurg role in a remake of Planes, Trains &...

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Joe Lieberman Filibusters Health Care While Americans Suffer

523 Comments | Posted November 12, 2009 | 04:18 PM (EST)


One of many classic episodes of Seinfeld was "The Opposite" -- the finale of season five. While George decides to ignore his instincts and behave in the exact opposite way he normally would, the B-story involves Elaine's boyfriend, Jake Jarmel, being hit by a cab. And instead of rushing to...

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Hope, Change and The Long Road: One Year Later

465 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 02:18 PM (EST)


"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America -- I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you -- we as a people will...
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VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

21 Comments | Posted November 2, 2009 | 08:35 AM (EST)


As a brief follow-up to my post from last Wednesday about Issue 2 in Ohio, here's a fun video about the "lie" regarding this ballot measure.

The thumbnail is this: Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution in order to create a small regulatory panel that will be...

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We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

445 Comments | Posted October 28, 2009 | 05:45 PM (EST)


If and when health care reform finally passes, we will have successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis. The treatment half. The next step has to be focused upon doing something about the poisoned filth we've collectively nicknamed "food." Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the...

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Keep Going, Republicans! You're Doing Great!

761 Comments | Posted October 21, 2009 | 05:09 PM (EST)


I have an important message for Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the most visible Republicans on the national stage: Keep going! You're doing great! If this was video, you would see me standing an applauding. Maybe holding up a lighter for an encore.

The Republican...

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Punishing the Health Insurance Cartel for Extortion and Fraud

457 Comments | Posted October 14, 2009 | 05:04 PM (EST)


The health insurance cartel tipped its hand this week, and, for that, they deserve to have it chopped off.

If there was any lingering doubt about the ethical bankruptcy of the cartel, we now have incontrovertible evidence in the form of a new report commissioned by the health...

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The Health Insurance You Have Now Sucks

852 Comments | Posted October 7, 2009 | 05:09 PM (EST)


Over the weekend, I took a rainy walk down Wall Street and through the financial district in lower Manhattan. As I navigated my way across the busy intersections and between the arrays of decorative sidewalk bollards, I noticed something really strange.

No protesters.

None, despite the fact that within...

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The Impeachment of President Obama

970 Comments | Posted September 23, 2009 | 06:36 PM (EST)


If the Republicans ever manage to retake Congress, they will absolutely try to impeach President Obama. And it'll be based upon a supremely ridiculous charge such as, say, the president refusing to nourish our crops with a sports drink instead of water.

Okay, so maybe the Idiocracy example is...

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With a Health Care Plan This Insane, Who Needs Wingnuts?

577 Comments | Posted September 16, 2009 | 03:58 PM (EST)


There's one positive political aspect to this epic fight for health care reform. We now know for sure which congressional Democrats have to be vigorously challenged and defeated the next time they come up for re-election.

The health care reform debate has forced the toxic slag to gurgle to...

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The Most Nightmarish Health Care Reform Bill Ever

325 Comments | Posted September 9, 2009 | 05:14 PM (EST)


Yesterday, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) finally released a proposal for his committee's health care reform bill -- the framework for the eventual Senate Finance Committee legislation.

Predictably, the Baucus Plan is totally nightmarish. Naked on the subway while being accosted by prostitutes that resemble Chuck Grassley nightmarish. I've been...

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The Public Option is Popular, Moral and Inexpensive, Therefore it Must Die

1544 Comments | Posted September 2, 2009 | 06:59 PM (EST)


Attention politicians and traditional media people. Important announcement.

Is everyone with me? Chuck Todd: stop applying your beard rouge and pay attention. Bartiromo: leave the cork on the fork.

Okay, here we go.

The public health insurance option as defined in both the Senate HELP bill and the House...

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