Tag: Congress
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Republican war against voting
The GOP’s Blame-ACORN Game By Peter Dreier & John Atlas This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN’s alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious is that it caused, nearly single-handedly,…
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Sorry, Senator.
No, Sen. McCain, the election will not be suspended just because circumstances do not currently favor your ascension to the presidency. One way or another, Republican misrule must end. John McCain cannot postpone the inevitable. If he has any idea how the nation should navigate these treacherous economic waters, he should propose them. One thing…
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A sucker . . . born every minute
First came the looting of savings and loans across the nation, which, by the standard of today’s economic failures, was a quaint little hold-up. It still gave us this delicious title: The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One by William K. Black. Have you heard of a better title for anything?…
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Jew Baiting
This deserves much more attention than it’s getting. Congressman Steve Cohen is Jewish. He represents the majority-black district in Memphis, Tennessee, vacated by Harold Ford in 2006. Cohen is among the House’s most liberal members, and he recently gained some notoriety for getting Congress to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow. Cohen is being challenged…
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McCain’s Unscrupulous Start in Politics
From the beginning, John McCain traded heavily on his “heroism” in Vietnam to make his way as a politician. Now, we’re are being asked to not only look past the defects of this deeply flawed and corrupt man, but actually elect him president because of his past. If only he were running against a Republican.…
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A Modest Proposal on Offshore Drilling for Oil
Obama Shifts, Says He May Back Offshore Drilling by MIKE GLOVER, , August 1, 2008 (AP Photo/Mike Carlson: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. answers an audience member’s question, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, during a town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he…
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Study: Poor Ballot Designs Still Affect U.S. Elections
Study: Poor ballot designs still affect U.S. elections By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Poorly designed ballots continue to plague U.S. elections, even after Congress set aside $3 billion to overhaul voting systems to prevent a recurrence of the flawed Florida ballots that deadlocked the 2000 presidential race, a study out today concludes. Problems…