By Stanley Kutler How do we remember history? Time diminishes our memories of details and spear carriers. Thirty-five years ago, as Richard Nixon p...
Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.
Don? This thing on? I'm sure HuffPo hasn't made it into your briefing folders, but here you go: Colin Powell lied. Condi lied. I've said it before. I'll say it again.
The U.S. government, not just a handful of evil Southern planters, encoded slavery in the Constitution, and protected and nourished it for a century. The government should apologize.
The GOP must have a place for Republicans like Colin Powell and Olympia Snow who are less conservative -- but who believe in core Republican principles.
It might not be exactly kosher to repost somebody else's opinion piece, like Ray McGovern's May 28th one, "Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan" (first pos...
By: Andy Myers Republicans keep talking about ideas. As in: "Let's stop focusing on personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney and Colin Po...
Talk about being in a state of confusion--man the GOP sinks lower into the political abyss everyday. Chairman Michael Steele has been very consistent...
Instead of getting Ali and Frazier, the crowd braced itself for a confrontation between Carville -- "The Ragin' Cajun," and Rove -- "The Boy Genius." There was drama and theatrics galore.
This week's news has been dominated by things like President Obama's good Supreme Court pick and California's not-good ruling against gay marriage. So why am I thinking about the good-for-nothing Dick Cheney?
For decades, the conventional wisdom was that the Republican Party was the party of the military. However, as Republicans have abandoned ideals that make our military strong, big names now support Democrats.
For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.
Powell's well-timed and publicized knock of Cheney, Limbaugh, and hard core party regulars simply further enshrines him as the GOP's odd man out.
The vacuum left by former clown-in-chief George W. Bush, ably lead by sinister foil Dick Cheney, has spawned an entire army of wanna-be Bushes: the ni...
Has Washington already forgiven and/or forgotten Powell's role in making the final "close" on the sale of the Iraq War? In D.C., apparently, Powell's credibility has experienced seamless reweaving.
We interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and he had some very interesting things to say about Cheney and Rumsfeld.
It occurs to me that maybe the Republicans are in a good mood, rather than in the terrible doldrums all liberals think the GOP is in.
Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.
As someone who still has friends over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it boils my blood to think that insurgents and terrorists now have something else to show around as "proof" that America is "fighting a war on Islam."
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By choosing a racist, sexist, hate spewing entertainer over a respected, fair ex-general, Cheney is illustrating the new ugly face of the Republican party.
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But they'll always say they don't want big government or high taxes (ie, big govt. does things like INTEGRATION, trust me, that's all code for "government made my kids go to school with__________(you fill in the ethnic group) or government made me hire _____________ (you fill in the ethnic group).
Also, when equal opportunity legislation was enacted, the government led by example. Thru the 60s and the70s, black people for one, became members of the middle class. But imagine what went thru the minds of some whites in the rural south for instance, when they had to answer the questions of a Black Social Worker...trust me, mom has stories...they're UPSET ABOUT ALL OF THIS.
This is why they were so excited to see Reagan back in the 80s when he opened his campaign in that little Mississppi town known for its historical racial intolerance.
You have oversimplified your characterization of Louisiana's gov, Bobby Jindal.
The 'oil-based spending spree' you refer to needs context:
1. recent legislation which, for the first time, allows Louisiana to collect a portion of oil revenues for the resource which has been drilled off its coast for years without tariff -- an activity which has contributed mightily to the devastating erosion of coastal wetlands (a major contributing factor to the severity of how storms affect Orleans and surrounding parrishes). If you had your ear to the ground you would know that coastal restoration is a major objective in Louisiana.
and,
2. the depth of neglect for Louisiana infrastructure visited on the state by previous administrations, including, but not limited to: a so-antiquated electrical power grid, largely untouched since the 1960s, most of which came down in Hurricane Gustav; graft and inefficiency storm water containment systems (most of them built when the current gov. was a child); and outdated roadways and bridges.
Come drive in New Orleans, where potholes are frequently named and decorated each Christmas.
None of the above were the current Governor's doing.
Further, please do not mention Governor Jindal in the same sentence as Governor Palin in any serious assessment of GOP assets.
Governor Jindal is dedicated, ethical, uber-nerdy in his absolute command of pertinent information, and very, very smart.
The Dems have half the seats in congress, how many Dem seats are held by Blacks, Chinese, Women, Latinos, etc? Blacks can't get elected here in liberal one party Dem MA because of extreem Gereymandering, and the Chinese community has had to file numerous voting complaints.
Let's not have the pot call the kettle black.
Remember that old horror movie series, where the psychotic killer, who ran around in a hockey mask, kept reappearing, even though everyone thought he was gone for good? Well, that is an apt metaphor for the GOP/neo-con way of thinking.
Before everyone becomes to content and self-congratulatory, please remember that in California (California!) the gay marriage Proposition 8 law passed with a simple majority. Folks, the U.S. is still right of center enough to provide hope for the Repuglicans.
Well-said.
A while back, The Economist magazine remarked that the Republican party had fashioned itself as the "white trash pride" party. As you so perfectly put it, the GOP is now absurdly out of touch with most of the country. And I might add, the world.
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