At OpEdNews: Getting and Spending � Keeping the Faith in Government

Seeded on Sun Jan 4, 2009 7:09 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Congress should start off their new session with a gesture that would show the public that their representatives are working for them, not against them: vote themselves a pay cut.

congress, politics, congressional-pay, congress-failures

At OpEdNews: Keeping the Faith Extends to Prescription Drugs: Drugs, Sex But No Rock 'n Roll

Seeded on Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:00 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Virginia pharmacy fills prescriptions for Viagra but refuses to fill prescriptions for contraception. The right wants to take us back to the dark days before the legalization of abortion and before the legalization of contraception.

politics

At OpEdNews: McCain's Base: From Race Card to Mob Card

Seeded on Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:00 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

The politics of hate is back with a vengeance. The McCain campaign has avoided playing the race card, but they have skillfully exploited the mob card.

politics, john-mccain, presidential-campaign, sarah-palin, politics-of-hate

At OpEdNews: Did McClellan Pave the Way for a Renewed Call for Impeachment?

Seeded on Thu May 29, 2008 12:43 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Rather than continue to play the blame the press game, impeachment should be put back on the table with McClellan as first witness, with or without immunity.

politics, impeachment, mcclellan, propaganda, bush-lies

At OpEdNews: Geraldo Blows in the Wind

Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:02 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Geraldo v. Colbert: Geraldo hits the panic button—Cry me a river; see Gerry run.

media, books, immigration, politics, geraldo-rivera, comedy-central, bill-oreilly, steven-colbert, keith-olbermann

At OpEdNews: McCain Enabled: The Grilling of the Press

Seeded on Tue Mar 4, 2008 4:38 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

The fallout from the New York Times piece on McCain's ties to the Vicki Iseman lobby assures that the press will continue its pattern of enabling John McCain.

media, politics, mccain, presidential-candidates

At OpEdNews: Harry and Louise vs. Harry and Sally

Seeded on Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:42 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

They've got what the rest of us want but at least 2 Democrats and 156 Republicans, compassionate conservatives all, are only interested in taking care of themselves.

congress, politics, health-insurance, s-chip, health-care-bill

At OpEdNews: Which Bush Appointments Were Mistakes?

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2007 11:50 AM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Back in the last presidential debate of 2004, Bush said that the only mistakes he made were in some of his appointments. Was that statement also a mistake?

politics, alberto-gonzales, bush-appointments, attorneygate, appointing-gonzales, bush-mistakes

At OpEdNews: Revenge � American Style: What the Democratic Party Debate Tells Us about Strategy

Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:57 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

The primitive concept of revenge is very much still with us and it is infused itself throughout the Republican Party.

middle-east, politics, culture, war-strategy, democratic-presidential-primary, as-pogo

At : Who's Sorry Now? The Unapologetic President and His Apologetic Appointees

Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:20 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Summary: Apologies are part of the liar's poker that's a trademark for the Bush Administration: hold your cards close, keep raising the stakes, never admit anything, and never fold until it's absolutely apparent that there's absolutely no choice.

politics, bush-administration, geneva-conventions, abu-ghraib, defense-donald-rumsfeld, us-middle-east, bush-world, alberto-fernandez

At : Connecting the Dots in Election Fraud

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:55 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Election fraud is not the same as voter fraud, the cry of the Republican apologists who want us to think they were just trying to ensure clean elections as they were summarily dismissing US Attorneys. Confusing the two is the intent and is part of the problem.

politics, new-hampshire, election-fraud, david-iglesias, attorney-gate, nanette-laughrey, michael-vu, us-attorney-carol-lam, republican-dept-of-justice

At OpEdNews: The Dems Have Only Themselves to Blame (But We Have to Suffer the Consequences)

Seeded on Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:52 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

So long as the Democrats let Joe Lieberman blackmail them in maintaining majority status in the Senate, they will continue to be seen as weak-kneed.

politics, joe-lieberman, ned-lamont, senate-majority, democratic-strategy

At OpEdNews: Another Fall Guy: The Plame Game Revisited

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:13 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Today's hearings reveal that the White House has a lot to hide but by the time the Supreme Court gets involved, Bush will probably be out of office.

congress, politics, plame-hearings

Cultural Exchange: Humiliation and the Scarlet G

Seeded on Wed Nov 8, 2006 5:21 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

We can tell ourselves that we have no cultural equivalent of the shame described as peculiarly Muslim, but it's not true. The battle being played out over Iraq policy now may be just an attempt to ensure that we don't get fed another portion of the humble pie that was Vietnam.

congress, politics, lenny-bruce, abu-ghraib, morals, hypocrisy, american-culture, shame, hester-prynn