There are, I believe, two ways to read what the GOP is doing at the Congressional and state levels.  On the one hand, this may be all driven by ideologues -- it's easy to dismiss the budget battle in Washington and the craziness in Wisconsin as the overreaching of Tea Party Republicans emboldened by their electoral success.  That would explain why ( Read more... )

I just read an article on CNN by David Gergen, for whom I have a great deal of respect. This article, though, is ridiculous. Gergen basically argues that Obama has already lost all his ability to govern and the State of the Union address tonight is a waste of time. (The title of the piece is something like "State of the Union DOA?" Seems ( Read more... )

I am so sick of listening to the Republican Presidential candidates trying to lay claim to the "Reagan Legacy," and if I hear John McCain say one more time that he was "a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution" I'm going to puke.  It's time for a reality check, folks.  Ronald Reagan might well have ushered in a new political era, one in which ( Read more... )