Pelosi Has Back Pedaled Just as Fast as Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 01.06.2010

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is disingenuous at best and engaging in crass political gamesmanship at worst in whacking Obama for back pedaling on heal...

Filibusters Could Be Fun

Christopher Brauchli, 01.06.2010

Columnist and lawyer

In the 19th century there were only 23 filibusters, while between 1970 and 2004 there were 191. The increase in number is attributable to the Virtual Filibuster.

How to Win by Negotiating with Ourselves

Joe The Nerd Ferraro, 01.05.2010

Joe the Nerd Ferraro is a husband, dad, computer nerd, and a general pain to the local government in Audubon, PA.

Normally you don't win anything when you negotiate with yourself. You barter yourself into a worse and worse position. I see an exception. Sam Stein ...

GOP Continues to Cower in Front of al Qaeda

Adam Blickstein, 12.30.2009

Communications Director for the National Security Network

This reality is that every time the GOP clamors for torture -- every time they say we can't try terrorists in U.S. courts or detain them domestically -- they embolden al Qaeda.

Palin's Popularity Dead Heat with Obama is No Fluke

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 12.30.2009

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

Polls now show that Sarah Palin is in a dead heat with President Obama in popularity. The even more miraculous thing is that she's sprinting up, whi...

Cartoon: GOP's Health Care Problem

Sunil Adam, 12.28.2009

Editor, "The Indian American"

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GOP Plays Soft on Terrorism Card Again

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 12.27.2009

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

It didn't take long for anti-terrorism hawks from Joe Lieberman to GOP congresspersons to dump the lax security, terrorist watch breach, and faulty al Qaeda intelligence on President Obama.

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

Producer for Fox Sunday primetime

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.