To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: April 2009
RIP To A GOP
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The Republicans don’t want him. The Democrats do. They would have booted him out. We’ll do everything we can to support his re-election. It’s a tough day when you leave your party, but being a hero certainly beats being reviled. The truth is that by the time he left the Republican Party, […]
Walking The Walk
Throwing Out Stereotypes
BY FROMA HARROP SALT LAKE CITY – American flags and lush spring grass lined the long drive of a Mormon meetinghouse here in the desert capital of Utah. Television trucks parking outside. Utahans were gathering last week for the funeral of Bill Orton, a Democrat who had represented an especially conservative congressional district in this […]
Flaming Ridiculous
Reagan, Nixon Greeted Despots, Too
BY JOE CONASON Few aspects of American politics are as ridiculous and dangerous as the right-wing urge to substitute macho posturing for foreign policy. That irrepressible habit surfaces constantly now that President Obama is in the Oval Office, most recently when he shook hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas, […]