Be careful what you wish for…the GOP seems to be having a little buyers remorse for its servitude to the religious right. Every election cycle they have chummed the waters with gay marriage, abortion, and immigration…you name it…anything to drive the religious base to the polls. When “their” candidate is elected…the base is collectively thrown under the bus […]

 Well, it’s a good question.
What people think of Bill Clinton and his presidency is grist for other columns. For now, I’m asking a simpler question: Since the Constitution provides for one president, not two, could he find a way to live in a White House that wasn’t all about him?

 
Paul Krugman takes a long hard look at the economic impact of the “mortgage bubble”, who it happened to and why it happened…in a word, Greenspan.
Blindly Into the Bubble
Of course, now that it has all gone bad, people with ties to the financial industry are rethinking their belief in the perfection of free markets. Mr. […]

 
Seems to me that our very own Huckster is not running for President of the United States, he’s running for Preacher of the United States. Now, can’t you just see after his bright flame is snuffed out by his own parties leadership that he’ll pop up at some big church leading the flock on the t and […]

 
From the New York Times Opinionater word for word. Who knew? Well, almost every Progressive in this country knew that Junior would go down in history as the “worst President ever”. The GOP sure can pick ‘em can’t they?

Is President Bush’s economic policy worse than his foreign policy? Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia economist who served […]