Tom Sullivan

It's an article of faith among free-marketeers that Americans are overregulated. But most Americans have forgotten what freedom from regulation really looks like.

Digby pointed to this clip from MSNBC's Hardball featuring Reverend Eugene Rivers, and gay activist Mike Rogers. They were there to discuss the controversy over Pastor Rick Warren's invitation to give the opening prayer at Barack Obama's inauguration.

Something clicked.

When “Meet John Doe” ran on cable during this year’s Wall Street meltdown, it no longer felt like a quaint, period piece. Frank Capra’s populist films about little guys standing up to media magnates, corrupt politicians and greedy capitalists struck a nerve with audiences fighting their way out of the Depression.

It's an article of faith among free-marketeers that Americans are overregulated. But most Americans have forgotten what freedom from regulation really looks like.

Digby pointed to this clip from MSNBC's Hardball featuring Reverend Eugene Rivers, and gay activist Mike Rogers. They were there to discuss the controversy over Pastor Rick Warren's invitation to give the opening prayer at Barack Obama's inauguration.

Something clicked.

When “Meet John Doe” ran on cable during this year’s Wall Street meltdown, it no longer felt like a quaint, period piece. Frank Capra’s populist films about little guys standing up to media magnates, corrupt politicians and greedy capitalists struck a nerve with audiences fighting their way out of the Depression.

How much collateral damage are Senate conservatives willing for America to incur so they can cripple the United Auto Workers? How many lost American jobs are acceptable to resuscitate a failed economic theory?

Until recently, any suggestion that we should prevent corporations from becoming too big to fail was capitalist blasphemy. As the Federal Reserve considers printing money to support more government bailouts, an already old acronym has been reborn: TBTF (Too Big To Fail).

Based on chatter from conservative talking heads, they have someone to blame whenever things in America go south.

Who dat?

Broadcast coverage and photo spreads and from Election Night show people from Japan to India, from Israel to London, applauding, crying and dancing in the streets over the election of Barack Obama.

An 82nd Airborne vet once joked that the army marked American military gear with U.S. to make it easier for troops to identify the enemy: just shoot anyone who is not US. In 2000, Americans elected – if we can call it that – not a man, but that mindset.