Conservatives Silent After Norquist's Racial Remark About Obama
Eight days ago in Jacksonville, Florida, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) predicted to a crowd of supporters that he would soon face race-based attacks from t...
Eight days ago in Jacksonville, Florida, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) predicted to a crowd of supporters that he would soon face race-based attacks from t...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reported last year on the aggressive tactics Republican senators were using to obstruct an unprecedented number of bil...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Some are disappointed with him because they had an inflated, starry-eyed hope that he was the man who would magically undue Bush's wreckage. This expectation was unfair to Obama.
Paul Helmke | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.
Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Leading economically conservative organizations who argued the proposed gambling regulations would interfere with the functioning of our financial system had the support of less than 10% of Republican congressmen.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
When the best you can come up with is attacking your opponent's wife, boy howdy, it shows that you're in serious trouble.
Mary Lyon | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Charlie Black gave away the mindset -- the same chilling, dreadful policy-making mentality under whose influence we've already suffered for almost eight years -- of the McCain campaign.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
With enemies like this, Senator Obama doesn't need friends. Dobson's comments will energize his fellow evangelicals to vote for Barack.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
The message to Republican presidential contender John McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama don't waste any time courting no shot former GOP ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
The Democrats are about to lose to Bush and the grossly unpopular Republicans again on FISA and telecom immunity. But are they really losing? That depends on what your objective is.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
The true contempt for our soldiers comes from Bill Kristol and his neo-con pals who sent them off to fight and die in a totally bogus, elective war -- not from MoveOn.org
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. But if you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?
Steve Benen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Now that it's time for the general election, and the right is desperate to smear Barack Obama, the GOP has rediscovered OBL.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green
While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.
Robert Koehler | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
The GOP shadow platform, which has sustained Bush through eight years of spectacular misrule, is a crippling, regressive national force that we must outgrow if we want to survive, let alone prosper
Mary Lyon | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
To this day, I still think Gore is the gold standard. Our country would be light years better off if we'd had Al Gore's steady hand at the wheel for the past seven-and-some years.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER and BETH FOUHY | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a shar...
America Blog | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst. The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all ...
Mickey Edwards | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
On the first day of Congress, members swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States ... against all enemies foreign and domestic." Not the President, not a political party -- the Constitution.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House rank and file Republicans are tens of millions of dollars short of meeting fundraising targets set by their own campaign comm...
Washington Post | Chris Cillizza And Ben Pershing | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
Faced with one of the worst national political environments in modern political history, Republican incumbents are turning to a tried-and-true approac...
David Roberts | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
grist.orgNational Journal polls members of Congress:Matt draws our attention to one particular quote from a Republican No: "If there's one thing ...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Michelle Obama is no "baby mama". I still am dumbfounded by what an offensive, insensitive, racially charged reference Fox News made.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
That an overwhelming majority of Americans want an imminent end to the war apparently doesn't faze McCain.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
So what would happen if the Electoral College tied? Well, it goes to the House of Representatives. And since the Democrats have an advantage in the House, you'd think "President Obama." But you'd be wrong.
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Think Progress | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics