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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Who’s Depressed Now?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH It seems hard to believe that the election was only three short weeks ago, and that even as the results were coming in proving Nate Silver [the much maligned New York Times blogger] right and the pillars of conservatism [Dick Morris, George Will and, of course, Karl Rove] completely wrong, Republicans thought […]
Sex And Responsibility
How To Kill Social Security With A Smile
BY FROMA HARROP Conservatives never much liked Social Security. It’s a wildly popular government program that’s totally solvent until 2033. It will be easily fixable and by then may not need fixing at all. Doesn’t quite fit with the government-can’t-do-anything-right talking point. Then there’s the Social Security Trust Fund, a nice hunk of change invested […]
Enough Already!
Change? Learn? Compromise? Grow? Not These Republicans
BY JOE CONASON Hearing so much chatter about “change” in the Republican Party, the innocent voter might believe that the Republicans had learned important lessons from their stinging electoral defeat. On closer examination, however, the likelihood of real change appears nil because the party’s leaders and thinkers can cite so many excuses to remain utterly […]