Tom Gilroy

Much of the progressive blogosphere is aghast at the embarrassing Republican strategy of putting Senator Jeff Sessions, a man with a history of racially insensitive statements, as the central interlocutor of a Hispanic woman. Could they really be that stupid -- again?

Stupid? No. More like strategic. There is a...

Can we finally do away with the niceties of treating New York Times columnist David Brooks as some kind of reasoned conservative centrist providing 'balance' to the liberal media and finally admit he's just a nerdy (read; inoffensive) and more articulate mouthpiece of the same alternative reality spewed at us...

As we bask in either the glory of making history or the relief that the most loathed global figure since Hitler will finally exit the White House, it's tempting to follow Obama's lead and focus only on the positive, on 'where we agree', and to move past the partisanship of...

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but The War With Iraq is over.

Like everything with the Bush administration's relationship to it's gullible public, the point is never what they're doing, but what they say they're doing; it's the words, not the deeds.

So No Child Left Behind of course has...

Speaking recently at The Chataqua Institution (and reprinted here at HuffPost), New York Governor Elliot Spitzer extolled the virtues of humility and passion in the public arena, implicitly referencing the lack of the former and the overabundance of the latter in the White House. This is all well and...

Is it just me, or does the GROUNDBREAKING, 'take back Washington,' non-binding, sure-to-be-vetoed, Iraq war spending bill that keeps our military there for 18 more months of death, debt and destruction somehow not really smell like victory?

Is anybody else out there having a hard time seeing...

Why is it that whenever the White House begins a full-scale character assassination on anyone who disagrees with their invented view of the world, they fall all over themselves to make it clear they're not attacking that person's patriotism?

'While I believe Madam Speaker would serve tea to the...

Madam Speaker,

Here is today's example of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

After lying to the American people in 2005 that his 'privatization' scheme for Social Security would 'save' this crucial safety net from the future 'disaster' only he and his ideologues foresaw, President...

Madam Speaker,

Here are today's examples of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

Side-by-side articles on the front page of every major newspaper in the United States detailing on one side, from the Libby trial, the orchestrated pattern of lies from The White House to...

You thought Rove would just go away?

Boy, the sane of this country must really want to lose the election--again. By sane, I mean the 85% of us who know Bush and Co invaded for the oil, are gutting the Constitution, and don't in any way believe any of...

Madam Speaker,

Here are today's examples of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

In its zeal to reward its base of the ultra rich, the White House's anti-regulatory FDA reversed the 14 year ban on silicon breast implants despite proven health risks to America's women,...

Madam Speaker,

Here is today's example of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

With a historically unprecedented budget deficit, President Bush has asked Congress for an additional 245 billion dollars to continue his wars without end in Afghanistan and Iraq, soon to spread to Iran....

Madam Speaker,

Here is today's example of why you must immediately move to begin the impeachment process:

The new study (http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003239.html) released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that claims;
1)the 'surge' of additional troops to Iraq will actually consist of close to 50,000 troops, NOT the 21, 500...

There's an interesting note in yesterday's New York Times article about the latest efforts of the White House to get around having to answer to the law, the Congress, or the will of the people.

In yet another stunning example of his ceaseless march to circumvent the Constitution and exert...

Remember how comedic the world seemed when our country was run by an unchecked, arrogant imbecile, the most loathed global figure since Hitler? In a single month before the election, habeas corpus (and therefore the Bill of Rights) was gutted, torture was deemed vital to national security, and North Korea...

Well, we're right on schedule for invading Iran, and all the major characters are onstage, right down to the Israeli prime minister, John Bolton, Condi Rice, Bill Kristol and George Will--not to mention W himself--- playing their roles to a T, having had months to memorize and perfect their lines.

While virtually every other country in the Western world recognizes May 1st to be 'the International Day of The Worker,' we here in America studiously ignore it as anything other than just another day. That's training for ya.

Sure, the occasional rabid pundit like confessed drug addict Rush Limbaugh...

As the drums beat yet again to terrify us over a new 'threat' to democracy, this time from another country on the other side of the world that continues to abide by a non-proliferation treaty we violate daily, it's important to keep focussed on what's happening stateside; pensions are being...

The shit is so deep with W & Co it's almost dizzying, which is of course the point. You barely have time to focus on one single embarrassing historic catastrophe -- lying about the war, say, or lying about Katrina, or lying about torture -- and suddenly you're blindsided by...

If you missed the President's address to the nation last night, here's all you really need to know: he dared us to impeach him.

W basically got up there and said, 'I'm the same incompetent buffoon I was 6 years ago, and I'm staying the course. What're you gonna do...