The union-haters must still be in hog heaven over an AFL-CIO-sponsored poll that showed most Massachusetts union households supported Republican Scott Brown over union-endorsed Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The margin was 49 to 46 percent. The numbers remind me again of Pogo’s apt observation: “We have [...]
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Eighty-two percent of them said they want a public option as part of the Democrats’ health care reform.
Yet they just helped elect a guy who opposes the public option and the Democrats’ health care reform.
They’re Obama voters who cast ballots for Massachusetts’s new Republican senator, Scott Brown. He promised to be “the 41st vote” against [...]
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I wish the media would quit saying “populist anger” is fueling the Tea Bagger movement. It’s giving the real Populists a bad name.
The Tea Baggers are on the side of millionaires. The Populists of the 1890s weren’t.
I teach history, but I used to be a reporter. Good reporters dig deep when they write stories. They even read [...]
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The “Tea Baggers” made LEO’s “list of the 50 grandest, most brain-bending and spirit-crushing gaffes, foibles and malicious undertakings” of 2009.
LEO is short for Louisville Eccentric Observer, an alternative newsweekly — print and online — in Kentucky’s largest city. “…Folks and organizations qualify for our infamous awards because, generally speaking, they’ve betrayed the public trust,” [...]
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It is the great unmentionable in the health care debate.
It is an attitude apparently shared by many voters. The Democrats keep quiet about it because they don’t want to make voters mad.
The same attitude is helping the Republicans thwart reform. But they won’t acknowledge it publicly for fear of looking bad.
B. Smith isn’t scared to talk about it on his Internet blogsite, Radical [...]
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I just saw another Rebel-flag emblazoned “Heritage not Hate” bumper sticker. I suspect I’ll see more during the sesquicentennial observances of the Civil War.
The “Heritage not Hate” folks claim slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War. Neo-Confederates – and there are more than a few in my native Kentucky – claim that 11 slave states – the Bluegrass [...]
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The Republicans and Al Qaeda say President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. A former Peace Prize winner says he does.
“In less than a year, with his inspiring messages of humility, dialogue and peace, President Obama has significantly lessened the tensions in the world, in the Middle East (University of Cairo speech), in [...]
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I’m a union-card carrying, Hubert Humphrey Democrat. So Ronald Reagan is not one of my favorite presidents, not by a long shot.
But I’ve got to hand it to the Gipper for coming up with what was called the 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
I’d like to see our party modify [...]
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Some abolitionist Republicans dissed President Abraham Lincoln for not getting rid of slavery fast enough.
Some Socialists panned President Franklin D. Roosevelt for not taking the New Deal far enough.
Some liberals are all but accusing President Obama of selling out to the Republicans because he’s not calling for a single payer health care plan.
I’m a union-card carrying [...]
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Paul Begala, the CNN pundit and Democratic political guru, wonders “if at long last there is no decency on the far right.”
He cited a professionally-printed sign from the recent Washington tea party. “BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY,” it said.
“Oh, I get it,” Begala jabbed on the Huffington Post Internet site. “Sen. Kennedy is dead, and these [...]
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