BY JIM HIGHTOWER “So long,” sang Woody Guthrie, “it’s been good to know you.” I’m humming that tune as George W., rides off into the sunset – just an old cowpoke headed back home to his Texas spread. No, he’s not headed to that hokey ranchette in Crawford that Karl Rove insisted he buy in […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I have been holding my breath for a while, sending out little messages, waiting for the updates on Sen. Kennedy. He said he would be there to watch the man he had supported, the carrier of the torch, take his oath as president of the United States of America. Most people, diagnosed […]

BY FROMA HARROP Let the name-calling begin. A national health plan is again proposed, and its foes are trying to deal it death by unflattering labels. The old favorites include “socialized medicine” and “government takeover of health care.” Some 61% of Americans think it’s more important than ever to fix the health-care system – an […]

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, […]

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 […]