To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Observercast

Why Pelosi’s Opponents Are So Wrong

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BY JOE CONASON The tiny faction of Democrats who aim to block Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s election as House speaker are only missing two things: a candidate of their own and a rationale that makes sense. The easier problem is the absence of a candidate, even though the members who have been mentioned so far seem […]

Old-Fashioned Civility

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The president didn’t seem to mind. When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene couldn’t restrain herself from calling out “liar,” he was ready. When others started booing, he took them on. The president smiled and veered off his teleprompter. He was at his best. Let Biden be Biden. But what does it say about us? The British do […]

She Said, She Said

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Here we go again. Meg Whitman says she had no idea that she was employing an illegal immigrant for nine years and fired Nikki Diaz Santillan as soon as she found out. Gloria Allred says she did know and alleges the Social Security Administration told Whitman and her husband in a letter, […]

Return Of ‘The Contract With America’

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BY JOE CONASON The Republicans have announced the forthcoming release of the “Contract From America” – a set of legislative proposals presumably intended to replicate the “Contract With America” used by their leaders in the historic 1994 midterm when they won control of both houses of Congress. The question immediately raised by this news is […]

Will Palin Run? Who Knows? Who Cares?

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Will Palin run? Who knows? Who cares? The press is agog because the ci-devant Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate is in the midst of her bus tour up and down the East Coast. A girl has to keep an eye on her TV ratings. It’s a safe bet that Palin […]