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“They Haven’t Learned Yet”: Republican’s Love Affair With Voodoo Economics
In a moment of sanity, George HW Bush once called Ronald Reagan’s proposal for tax cuts “voodoo economics.” The idea was that tax cuts for the wealthy would somehow “trickle down” to the rest of us and...
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“Real Incremental Progress Is Happening In Blue States”: State...
It’s often easy to become discouraged at the state of national politics. Given Republican control of the House, there’s very little chance of either Clinton’s or Sanders’ policy priorities going...
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“On Invincible Ignorance”: The G.O.P.’s Intellectual Leader Is Still Making...
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the Serious, Honest Conservative — never mind those of us who actually looked at the numbers in his...
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“The Time-Loop Party”: The ‘Foxification’ Of The GOP, Saying And Doing The...
By now everyone who follows politics knows about Marco Rubio’s software-glitch performance in Saturday’s Republican debate. (I’d say broken-record performance, but that would be showing my age.) Not...
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“Voodoo Never Dies”: Never Forget That What It’s Really About Is Top-Down...
So Donald Trump has unveiled his tax plan. It would, it turns out, lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit. This is in contrast to Jeb Bush’s plan, which would lavish huge cuts on...
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“Voodoo, Jeb! Style”: Mr. Bush Imagines That He Is Privy To Secrets That Have...
On Monday Jeb Bush — or I guess that’s Jeb!, since he seems to have decided to replace his family name with a punctuation mark — finally made his campaign for the White House official, and gave us a...
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“A Voter-Fraud Witch Hunt In Kansas”: Voters Could Be Charged With A Felony...
In fall 2010, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach held a press conference alleging that dead people were voting in the state. He singled out Alfred K. Brewer as a possible zombie voter. There was...
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“The Only Officers Who Would Have A Problem Are Bad Officers”: Do Police Have...
In Gardena, California, south of Los Angeles, three police officers killed an unarmed man, shooting him eight times, and shooting a second, seriously wounding him. They said the men were suspected of...
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“Stigmatizing The Poor”: New GOP Lie: Food Stamps on Cruise Ships
The headlines are sensational: Kansas bans welfare recipients for spending food stamps on cruise ships. Kansas will make sure welfare queens can’t get their palms read on the Caribbean. The new law...
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“A Massively Failed Experiment”: Why Conservatives Learned Nothing From Sam...
Kansas governor Sam Brownback had a plan when he got elected in 2010, and it was a plan that could only be enacted in a place like Kansas: Pass huge tax cuts, then watch the state transform into a kind...
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“There Are Limits”: Yes, A Backlash To Conservative Extremism Is Possible
I think it’s safe to say that the single greatest source of frustration to progressives today is the relatively small price the Republican Party appears to be paying for the extremism that has gripped...
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“How Not To Get Your Country Back”: Americans Who Want Their Country Back...
The Tea Party mantra, “I want my country back,” resonates with many. The racial undertones can be ugly (as well as pointless). But the longing for an economically secure America centered on a strong...
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“When Moderates Fight Back”: Middle-Of-The-Road Republicans Are Now Attacking...
The missing component in the machinery of American politics has been moderate-to-liberal Republicanism, and the gears of government are grinding very loudly. You wonder if Kansas and Alaska have come...
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“Don’t Be Fooled, The GOP Wants Impeachment”: A Litmus Test To Separate...
In Washington, the conversation about impeachment is preceded by a conversation about a conversation about impeachment. Democrats say Republicans are bring up the I-word to lay the groundwork for...
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“Left Coast Rising”: California’s Success Demonstrates That Extremist...
The states, Justice Brandeis famously pointed out, are the laboratories of democracy. And it’s still true. For example, one reason we knew or should have known that Obamacare was workable was the...
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“GOP Governors Hurting Their Own”: The Latest Plot To Undermine Obamacare And...
It’s actually quite easy to explain. The reason why 19 states have refused to expand Medicaid has nothing to do with the cost — the federal government would cover the full cost of the expansion for the...
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“Obamascare Tactics In Red State Races”: Passing Laws That Prevent Any Future...
If I asked you to name two states where the incumbent Republican governors might lose reelection this fall, you would likely, I expect, say Florida and Pennsylvania. I doubt very much you’d offer up...
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“The Oldest Hatred, Forever Young”: When Hatred Is Loosed, We’re All In The...
Most of the hate crimes in the United States don’t take the fatal form that the shootings in Kansas over the weekend did, and most aren’t perpetrated by villains as bloated with rage and blinded by...
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“She Surely Paid Her Dues”: Will Kathleen Sebelius Win In The End? Legacy...
Yes, there was utter failure, but there was also one hell of a recovery. As time goes on, she’ll get less blame for the former and more credit for the latter. It was always going to be a tough job,...
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“Clearly Freakazoid Behavior”: Where Does The Tea Party Find These People?
I was on Hardball last night talking about the escapades of this Milton Wolf character, the tea party guy who’s challenging GOP incumbent Senator Pat Roberts this year. Wolf became freshly newsworthy...
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