To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
What The New President Will Need
BY SUSAN ESTRICH President-elect Barack Obama will no doubt ask for many things in the coming weeks-from Congress, from the states, from banks and businesses, and from the American people. He will ask for new legislation, new programs, new regulations, not to mention confirmation of all his new people. He will promise a better tomorrow, […]
Don’t Expect An FDR From Obama
BY FROMA HARROP Even in this awful economy, the voters seem content to toggle between the two main political parties. If Republicans aren’t doing the job, then let Democrats try. Barack Obama? He seems competent. There’s little agitation for a radical third-party response. That was not the case in 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt became […]
The Party Of No Ideas
BY JOE CONASON Would it be rude to ask whether the Republicans have any new proposals to save the country from this worsening recession? The question arises not because anyone expects the minority party to burst forth with creative ideas, but because conservatives in Congress and the media seem so determined to thwart or stall […]
Putting The Bite Back In Our Financial Watchdog
BY JIM HIGHTOWER After Bernard Madoff confessed in December to looting some $50 billion from investors through a long-running, widespread Ponzi scheme, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., complained that this massive fraud “fell through the cracks of our regulatory system.” Indeed it did, but let’s be blunt – there are now a lot more “cracks” than […]
R-e-s-p-e-c-t
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I don’t hate George Bush. I never have. I voted against him twice. I disagree with him, sometimes passionately. I think the country is in worse shape now than it was eight years ago, and that history will not be kind to him. I think America’s standing in the world has dropped […]
