For GOP Senators, "Wealth Care" Trumps Health Care

Joe Vecchio, 12.23.2009

Social and political commentator

Other than obstructing the advance of the health care bill, what alternatives to greater or improved health care coverage have the GOP proposed?

Parker Griffith's Christmas Present To Alabama Democrats

Matt Osborne, 12.23.2009

Blogs at osborneink.com.

Griffith was always a Republican. That someone who boasts an astoundingly low seven percent progressive rating versus a 33% conservative rating has turned coat should be shocking only to a few cave-dwellers.

Tiger Woods For Congress?

Avery Corman, 12.21.2009

Author

The hiatus from golf initiated by Tiger Woods has encouraged a team of Republican Party strategists to draw up a proposal for Woods to run for a House seat from his home district in Florida.

Uganda Antigay Sentiments Hit Close To Home

Kim Stolz, 12.18.2009

MTV News Correspondent

In his State of the Union Address in January 2003, President George W. Bush gave one of his more eloquent and moving speeches about his upcoming ...

Operation Steele/Armey: GOP, Tea Party Movement Co-Opt Each Other

Alex Brant-Zawadzki, 12.24.2009

Alex Brant-Zawadzki is a writer and journalist living in San Francisco.

Today Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and Dick Armey, head of FreedomWorks, held a joint conference call expressing their willingness to work together.

The Tea Party Problem. When Do Both Sides Say Let Them Drink Tea?

Kara Vallow, 12.16.2009

How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an election held tod...

How Two Teenagers Beat the Secret Service

Paul Raeburn, 12.14.2009

Tareq and Michaele Salahi are not the first gate-crashers to discover that the Secret Service isn't so tough.

The Economy is Recovering, No Thanks to Republicans

Andy Ostroy, 12.14.2009

New York City-based political analyst

The economy is indeed turning, and it's done so with absolutely no assistance from Republicans, who've elected instead to take the calculated political risk of becoming the Party of No.

GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933

Mike Papantonio, 12.13.2009

Senior partner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor

Finally, Republicans have memorialized their flat-earth style of politics by demanding that their candidates stop thinking and swear a purity oath. Regardless of whether it's dumb luck at work here, Obama should be grateful.

GOP Tactics: All Hail the (Loyal) Opposition!

Rick Horowitz, 12.11.2009

Satirist and syndicated columnist

Just so you know: We're against it. We were against it before, and we're still against it. We thought it was a terrible idea when President Obama proposed it, and we still think it's a terrible idea.

First Lieberman, Now Huckabee?

Norm Stamper, 12.11.2009

Retired Seattle police chief, member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

We should candidly look at whether Mike Huckabee is getting a raw deal for granting clemency to the man who murdered four Lakewood, Washington cops this Thanksgiving weekend.

GOP Policy

Jeff Danziger, 12.10.2009

Jeff Danziger is a political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Obama Again Reminds He's Not Black President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 12.09.2009

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

The Congressional Black Caucus got another painful reminder that President Obama is not black President Obama. In a press interview Obama bluntly s...

The Republican Party of Obstruction: Disturbing and Distressing

Lance Simmens, 12.08.2009

Has spent the last three decades involved in a variety of public policy issues.

The experiment in post-partisan governance has not been met with much success as it relates to health care reform. It is disturbing and disgusting that the GOP has elected to behave in such a destructive and petty way.

What It Takes to Make a Republican Mad

Robert J. Elisberg, 12.09.2009

Columnist and screenwriter

We don't have to imagine how mad, furious, angry, unhappy, livid, incensed and pissed off some Republicans are right now. More mad than they've ever, ever been in their life.

Palin's Uncomfortable Racism

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 12.07.2009

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

Recent events don't type Palin as a racial bigot. They do type her as the latest in the long train of right-side GOP politicians who calculate that they can score big with a subtle play of the race card.

GOP Purity Test: Republican Party's Version of the Longest Suicide Note in History

Kara Vallow, 12.09.2009

You can tell the sun is setting on a once-great political party when it starts issuing angry, demonizing mission statements that seem deliberately devised to alienate as many moderate voters as possible.

Words That Work

Don McNay, 12.03.2009

Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.

  A - I´ll always want you B - Because my heart is true C - Come, come, come closer And I´ll tell you of the ABC´s   -Fran...

Conservatives Want Republican Purge Trials

Thomas Frank, 12.02.2009

Author, Wall Street Journal columnist

For years, conservatives have railed against "Republicans in Name Only." But recently, the GOP's leaders have decided that nothing is more healthful in such a situation than hacking off a limb or two.

The Next First Republican Presidential Debate

Bob Franken, 11.30.2009

Appears on MSNBC and is a member of SPJ Washington Hall of Fame

"WHAT AN INCREDIBLE NIGHT THIS WILL BE!!!" Rush Limbaugh is beside himself. He's the moderator of the first GOP presidential debate of 2012, carried...

Sarah Palin: The Perfect Voice for the GOP

Mike Papantonio, 11.25.2009

Senior partner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor

Dynamic equilibrium was one of those concepts most of us learned to reduce to a formula in chemistry class. The proof formula was far too complicated...