The GOP-encouraged, right wing media-inflamed, health care industry-funded mobs engaged in shouting down Democratic congressmen and Senators at town hall meetings presents us with a new low from a party I thought couldn’t sink any deeper. The goal, of course, is to defeat health care reform by drowning out the support with a wall of [...]

Is it finally time for the Republican Party to give up its “family values” crusade? Have there been enough scandals yet to persuade the holier-than-thou bunch that they have no moral authority to preach to the rest of us? The hypocrisy of South Carolina Governor Mark “Impeach Bill Clinton” Sanford is breathtaking, but no more [...]

I’ve grown increasingly tired of the fights over Supreme Court nominees. No matter who the current occupant of the White House names, you can be sure there will be strident objections from the opposing party. Too conservative, out of the mainstream, too liberal, a judicial activist, a sexist, a racist, etc., etc. Oh, sure, there [...]

The spectacle of the GOP doing everything it possibly can to derail any inquiry into the interrogation practices of the Bush administration is truly stomach-churning. They bounce from denying that the things the Bush administration authorized were torture, to claiming that anything the president authorized was by definition legal, to claiming that torture worked to [...]

One of the last remaining moderate Republicans,  Senator Arlen Specter finally called it quits and joined the other party. One could hardly blame him. Facing a strong conservative challenger, he was likely to lose in the primary to a man far to his right, who then most likely would have been defeated in a Democratic-leaning [...]

We seem to live in two completely separate worlds these days–the one inhabited by most of us and the one peopled by the right-wing bloviators. In the first one, Obama is still in the honeymoon period, feeling his way, creating the tenor of his presidency, trying his best to address the many complex issues of [...]

Now that former Veep Dick Cheney has weighed in, the Republican campaign against Obama has begun in earnest. Less than two months in office, his cabinet no yet complete, if you listen to the Republicans, the Obama administration is already an abject failure. Fatboy loudmouth Rush Limbaugh has already made the GOP position pathetically clear: [...]