Richard Nixon is a widely hated figure in American politics; but I think that the bulk of the hatred that came his way was a result of him being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Late 1960s and early 1970s were a very liberal time in America; and anyone who was not a...
Three years ago, a columnist wrote that President Obama should "go gangsta" on GOP for its obstructionist tactics and its lies to the people.
Obama may or may not go gangsta on GOP, but I will.
What many people do not understand is that the Republican Party is the party...
It is often repeated in Republican circles that "that government is best which governs the least." When a private citizen says such a thing, there's nothing wrong with it; but when a political candidate says this, it is suspicious. Why is it suspicious? Well, for one, what is...
During the Bush administration, when America accumulated $6 trillion in debt, with a Republican Congress and White House, at a time that there was absolutely no need for it and before the baby boomers had even started to retire, a Republican commentator stated that Reagan had...
By Robert Parry
In the debt-ceiling debate, both Republicans and Democrats wanted Ronald Reagan on their side. Republicans embraced the 40th president’s disdain for government and fondness for tax cuts, while Democrats noted that “even Reagan” raised the debt limit...
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/83-83/6936-bushonomics-the-meltdowns-true-villain
Michael Tomasky
The Boston Globe ran a chart last Sunday that I’d buy billboard space to reproduce in every decent-size city in America, if I were running the...
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/102-102/4859-ronald-reagan-enabler-of-atrocities Deception of the American public – a strategy that the administration called “perception management” – was as much a part of Reagan's Central American...
By Robert Parry December 12, 2010 Ten years ago, the United States stood at a crossroads though the dimness of the future made it hard for many to see which path led toward a brighter day and which headed toward disaster. ...
One statement frequently heard from Republican politicians is that tax cuts always create prosperity. That has not been shown to be true by recent history.Tax cuts created prosperity when Kennedy did it because at that time the taxes were ridiculous, with the tax on the...
There are many voters who are dissatisfied with the economic situation. What many don't understand is that Obama was bequeathed by the previous administration a vast economic crisis - a crisis far worse than what Jimmy Carter had bequeathed Ronald Reagan. Reagan's economic...
While much breath has been wasted by the Tea Party on making ridiculous claims of Obama administration being Communist, or totalitarian, or even Nazi, the fact is that the Tea Party constitutes the true...
For two decades going now, we are seeing American Right continuing to claim credit for the breakup of Soviet Union and to equate the American Democrats with Stalinists and their crimes. Not enough has been done to change and to challenge this line, either in America...
http://grayson-green.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-republican-party-of-jeff-flake.html
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IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would...
I am not writing much these days, but when a story grabs me, I have to comment. Comparing the best Republican, presumably Ronald Reagan, to Barrack Obama in first term performance is a great idea. The...
Just when I thought that the Tea Party movement could not get any more ridiculous, I've found on the website of a Southern Tea Party candidate a claim that Bush and the Bush-era Republican Congress were liberals,...