Conservative Failure

Bushwhacking Obama: Conservatives Call for "Fixing" Social Security

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservative Failure, Obama Strategy, Michael Gerson, Obama State of the Union, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security Reform, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Former Bush policy advisor Michael Gerson echoes a growing chorus of conservative pundits in offering up "Social Security reform" as "the answer to Obama's problems." The advice is illogical on its face.

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Listening To Conservatives Is Making Us Poor And Poorer

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Conservative Failure, Poverty, Third World America, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Who counts and who doesn't count? We hear so much about the "middle class" but rarely about the plight of the poor. And of course we hear again and ...

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The Chamber of Commerce: Without Shame or Sense

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chamber of Commerce, Conservative Failure, Business News
Robert L. Borosage

One would think that in the ruins it created, the Chamber of Commerce would have the common decency to reconsider its ideological positions. After all, they have not only been ruinous to workers and the country, they led directly to the economic free fall that devastated businesses. But no. Not one comma has been changed. Not a line changed in the stump speech. Mindless, without shame or sense, blind to the world around it, the Chamber gathers new millions from companies and peddles its poisonous nostrums.

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Reagan Revolution Home to Roost -- In Charts

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Reagan, Deficit, Conservative Failure, Savings, Business News
Dave Johnson

It seems that you can look at a chart of almost anything and right around 1981 or soon after you'll see the chart make a sharp change in direction, and probably not in a good way.

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Finance, Mine, Oil & Debt Disasters: THIS Is Deregulation

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Deregulation, Debt, Conservative Failure, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Business News
Dave Johnson

The West Virginia mining disaster was caused by deregulation. The CEO of the Massey Energy literally bought himself a judge. Corrupted absolutely, 29 dead later. This is the Reagan Revolution coming home to roost.

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Bipartisan Blight III: Evan Bayh Bye

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Evan Bayh, Evan Bayh, Bipartisanship, Conservative Failure, Evan Bayh Retirement, Deficits, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The substance of Evan Bayh's bipartisan policies that were enacted helped get us into the mess we are in, and are making it harder to get out of it.

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Huge 2009 Budget Deficit -- Just One More Conservative Failure

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Conservative Failure, Bush, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Basic math: A budget year that ends 8 months into a president's first year wasn't that president's budget.

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