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Hometown: Vancouver, BC
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The Right's Priorities

By Rick Perlstein
November 22nd, 2008

While we're busy governing, Freepers will be combing through Barack Obama's late mother's 1,067-page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia for "Facts that could be helpful in upcoming Supreme Court cases":

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These Giants May Fall: Deadbeat Auto Execs Jet Into Storm

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November 21st, 2008
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mayfield.co.nz — In a classic case of insensitivity two of the auto execs flew in on private jets, old habits die hard. One of the Senators in the hearing picked up on this and asked if they had considered downgrading to First Class. It was a well deserved moment of barbed sarcasm, not lost on the three, as the Senator communicated his anger and frustration...

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Conservatism: The Talk Radio Problem

By Rick Perlstein
November 21st, 2008

Ever since Sara Palin's speech to the Republican National Convention, I've been struggling to express something that Nate Silver gets to with conciseness and aplomb. more »

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Conservatism: Trashing Government on Its Way Out

By Terrance Heath
November 21st, 2008

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a single agency in the United States government that conservatives haven't left in worse shape than they found it. more »

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New New Deal? The Literary Evidence

By Rick Perlstein
November 20th, 2008

Turns out the president-elect has been reading Jean Edward Smith's fine biography FDR. An excellent choice—and a strong suggestion that maybe Obama is thinking about this.

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Right Minded (2)

By Rick Perlstein
November 20th, 2008

Last week I shared with you the post-election reflections of a listserv I follow of conservative "scholars." I think I'll keep 'em coming. This stuff is too good not to share: more »

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(Card) Check Please

By Digby
November 19th, 2008

I have long been amused by certain bizarre conservative rallying cries. This past election I noticed a new catch phrase. The minute a conservative breathes the word "card check," his or her supporters completely lose their minds. But where does the passion come from? more »

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Free Fall

By Robert Borosage
November 19th, 2008

"The era of big government is over" is over. A major recovery program—featuring substantial public investment—will be inevitably the first initiative of the Obama administration. It should feature more spending than tax cuts—investing in renewable energy and conservation, in rebuilding everything from schools to bridges to a smart electric gird, in helping cities and states avoid crippling cuts of services, in keeping college affordable, providing health care to children, and aiding those most in need.

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What's Really Driving EFCA Opposition: The Smoking Gun

By Rick Perlstein
November 19th, 2008

The forces of workplace authoritarianism have gotten far too far with their propaganda that the Employee Free Choice Act, designed to make it easier for workers who want to join a union to do so, only oppose this common-sense reform because it is un-American: that it eliminates the "secret ballot" in unio more »

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Romney to City: Drop Dead

By Rick Perlstein
November 19th, 2008

My fine colleague Terrence Heath has been riffing out a new concept to explain the latest turn of our right-wing friends: "drop dead conservatism." As in the infamous 1975 New York Post headline, "Ford To City: Drop Dead," reporting on the 38th president's avowal that he would rather see New York City go bankrupt than approve a bailout more »

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"Letting it go."

By Cynthia Boaz
November 8th, 2008

So, in the last couple of days, in response to my indignation at various things, including Nader's role in giving Missouri to McCain, Hannity et al's extremely classless, cowardly, and dangerous ramping up of anti-Obama rhetoric, the shameful passage of Prop 8 in CA (and similar propositions elsewhere) and Palin, Bachmann, and Lieberman's sudden change of heart and wholesale "embracing" of Obama, more »