nytimes.com - 1/4/2009
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As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners. Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of ...
nytimes.com - 1/2/2009
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Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect,
to make itself the party of racial backlash. And...
everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision. >
(more)
Op-Ed Columnist: Bigger Than Bush
nytimes.com - 1/9/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama explained why the nation needs
aggressive action to deal with the economic crisis, and...
he’s right. But his economic plan falls well short of what’s needed. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Gap
nytimes.com - 1/5/2009
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Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful
lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression....
Will we “act swiftly and boldly” enough to stop that from happening? >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Fighting Off Depression
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Bigger Than Bush
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Paul Krugman: "Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party
of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years,
from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party's champion, to the Bush
administration's pervasive incompetence, to the party's shrinking base,
is a consequence of that decision... That's why the soon-to-be-gone administration's failure is bigger than
Mr. Bush himself: it represents the end of the line for a political
strategy that dominated the scene for more than a generation." ...
Paul Krugman Proves He Is No Liberal
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 [image] Paul Krugman Proves He Is No Liberal [Iain Murray] Yesterday, Paul Krugman made the most astonishing assertion I have ever seen him make: Government is not the solution to our problem, declared Ronald Reagan. Government is the problem. So why worry about governing well? Where did this hostility to government come from? In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P. s Southern strategy, which originally focused on opposition to the Voting Rights Act but eventually took a more coded ...
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