BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD “If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts...

BY JOE CONASON The urge to punish politicians is understandable no matter who is in power, because they inevitably disappoint the fond hopes of their admirers and raise the hackles of their detractors – and yet that same urge is almost never satisfied for long. In the case of the midterm spanking administered to Democrats, […]

BY FROMA HARROP The Democrats did good. Not in the election — they did pretty miserably there. But they did good for the country. They led America back from the brink of economic disaster. The lead story in the Election Day Wall Street Journal was about the impending sale of General Motors stock to private […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Tea Party spoke! Loudly, powerfully and proudly. But besides, “Throw the bums out,” what did it say? And now that the party part is over and the nasty business of governing begins, what does it all add up to? What’s its governing agenda? How does it make anything positive out of […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH 1994 was much worse. Much. So was 1980, but of course, that was also a presidential election. Within days, there were makeshift unemployment offices in all the congressional office buildings. Actually, to be a little Pollyanna-ish here, what’s striking is that for Democrats, it could have been so much worse. California and […]