Condoleezza Rice “would make a great middle school social studies teacher,” according to the late Don Askew, a retired Green Beret colonel and Middle East advisor to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. “Incompetent” was about the kindest thing I ever heard him say about Rice and her boss over the mess they made in Iraq. My guess is Askew, who was also a Pentagon planner for Operation Desert Storm, would be even less charitable toward the now ex-secretary...
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Labor’s Candidate is President this Workers Memorial Day
What a difference a year makes. When unions observed Workers Memorial Day on April 28, 2008, one of the most anti-union presidents in history was in the White House. As this Workers Memorial Day approaches, we have a new president who was elected with overwhelming union support. Workers Memorial Day is a time when unions hold special services of remembrance for workers who lost their lives on the job. Unions recognize April 28 as Workers Memorial Day because the...
The Birchers and Billy James would have loved the tea parties
You’d think after “Maverick” McCain ran to the right and got clobbered last November, the Republicans would try to hit the comeback trail by edging toward the center. Think again. The “tea party day” tax protests were more proof, if proof were needed, that the party of Lincoln and Liberty is bound for the farthest shores of American politics. Robert Welch and the Rev. Billy James Hargis would have loved tea party day, a made-for-TV movement bankrolled by rich, right-wing...
The ‘Buick Guy’ Still Loves McCain
I passed the old clunker again. The first time was the day before the election. The 80s-vintage Buick compact was more primer than paint. The driver’s duds looked bargain basement, not Brooks Brothers. Yet a “McCain-Palin” sticker clung resolutely to the rust bucket’s rear bumper. The sticker is still there. Buick Guy wasn’t exactly dressed to the nines when I saw him the second time. Based on his wheels and his threads, Buick Guy is one of what the...
The GOP’s ‘…intellectual force and energy’ ducked the draft, Vietnam
I get a kick out of watching Republicans squirm when Democrats call Rush Limbaugh the face of the GOP. The squirming started after Limbaugh said he hopes President Obama fails. No doubt, more than a few Republicans agree. But they know better than to publicly root for Obama to screw up. Anyway, after Limbaugh blabbed, Rahm Emanuel, the president’s chief of staff, called him “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.” Author Frank Schaeffer said...
What Happened to the Party of ‘Lincoln and Liberty?’
What would Abraham Lincoln, a Kentucky native and the first Republican president, make of his party as we celebrate his 200th birthday? The Great Emancipator might be spinning in his tomb, according to Frank Schaeffer, an ex-Republican and Huffington Post regular. “The Republican Party is only a step away from becoming the fringe of the fringe,” wrote Schaeffer, “a New York Times best selling author… a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood,” according to HuffPo. Schaeffer says...
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