Fannie and Freddie's Rich Uncle
Those Republicans hate big government but love big bailouts, like Bear Stearns and Fannie Mae. And the help comes fast too, unless you are needy people, like the New Orleans Katrina crowd.
Those Republicans hate big government but love big bailouts, like Bear Stearns and Fannie Mae. And the help comes fast too, unless you are needy people, like the New Orleans Katrina crowd.
Bennet Kelley | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
The can-do nation that soared from the depths of the depression to the moon has withered to a Wal-Mart nation that believes we can maintain our leadership and economic standing on the cheap.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
As the only one of the candidates who deals in reality rather than fantasy, Obama is the only candidate who will be ready on day one, as "commander-in-chief," or as president.
R.T. Eby | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home
The media have stopped covering the war. Bush has given up trying to accomplish his mission. Meantime, PFC George Delgado may very well have been the 4,000th American death in the war.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
This past Sunday, the New York Times presented a symposium of sorts on the future of the Iraq War, titled "How To See This Mission Accomplished." Hav...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
This week, the Rev. Wright circus came back to town, and the media reacted like a giddy five year-old, giving his clownish act -- and Obama's acrobatic effort to avoid falling off the high wire -- wall-to-wall coverage. Getting far less airtime was the fact that April was the deadliest month in Iraq for US troops since September 2007. Fittingly, we also saw the 5th anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" -- which produced the quote of the week from Dana Perino: "President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said mission accomplished for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission." I'm surprised she didn't tack on "...for the next five seconds; after that, all bets are off."
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...
LA Times | Louis Sahagun and Ronald D. White | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports took the day off Thursday, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes in what the unio...
Moira Whelan | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
You can't just criticize people for taking you out of context for repeating your "100 Years" remark when you have failed to explain what, exactly, your context is.
Reps. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, and Lynn Woolsey | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Instead of working to find political solutions that will calm the warring sects, our continued military presence has further entrenched the divisions on all sides of the conflict.
Rahm Emanuel | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Just like his baseball predictions, President Bush sings a very similar tune about Iraq. History will be the judge of whether once again George Bush's record and America's reputation will go down in flames.
Mary Mapes | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
The carrier landing, the flight suit and the banner all seem so long ago. That day was thousands of American military funerals ago, countless dead Iraqis ago. Too many lives and too many lies ago.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, "The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a -- on a carrier landing."
Rep. John Murtha | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Five years ago today, President Bush declared "mission accomplished." 1,827 days later, the U.S. occupation of Iraq continues, and our "mission" remains undefined and open-ended.
Jonathan Powers | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Five years ago Bush announced, "my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Half a world away, my soldiers and I were preparing our rucksacks to head to Baghdad.
Steve Young | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Washington - On the 5th anniversary of President Bush's heroic landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln and speech before the Mission Accomplished banner, t...
AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph...
Max Bergmann | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
McCain has called for more of the same -- more troops, more time. His ill-defined approach says we cannot afford to fail, but fails to explain how to succeed.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
In a just world, the media will provide as much coverage tomorrow about what has transpired in Iraq since that not-so-magical moment on the aircraft carrier as they did on the day itself.
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment
Hollywood has tried to make it easy for us by making its Iraq War films about us, and setting the action here, in the U.S. But we can't be bothered.
Sen. Robert Byrd | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
As we mark this painful milestone, we must ask ourselves: what is the moral justification for allowing this war to continue?
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
President Bush and all of his apologists have scapegoated or are preemptively scapegoating the troops and the "commanders on the ground."
James Boyce | Posted 12.07.2007 | Media
Media sources outside of the U.S. seem able to report the truth, and call a rose a rose with far greater accuracy than those here in the United States are able to do.
Rep. John Murtha | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
As we begin the fifth holiday season without a redeployment plan, we are faced with two choices: Either we continue to stick with a policy that sacrifices American blood or we can listen to the American people.
Think Progress | Satyam | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics
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Paul Peete | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business