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Policing our cyberstreets

EFFORTS TO reform both health care and energy are on the move in Washington, and their progress has been made possible by innovations in information technology and telecommunications. The Obama administration’s Recovery Act put a $20 billion down ...

From BRUCE REED AND MARC DUNKELMAN, Boston Globe,  20 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

The Baucus bill makes Washington live within its means again.

Assuming the Senate Finance Committee approves the Baucus health reform bill as planned, Tuesday will be a red-letter day in health care history, bringing comprehensive reform nearer the finish line than ever before. By producing a bill that meets the ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  11 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bill Clinton

Joe Wilson does other politically challenged states a favor.

In the same way that residents of underperforming states used to console themselves with the saying, "Thank God for Mississippi," people in other states that have felt the sting of political humiliation can start thanking their lucky stars for South ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Republican National Committee,  Larry Craig,  David Vitter,  Mark Sanford,  Joe Wilson (politician)

After all these years, conservatives have a lot to learn from Ted Kennedy.

For once, Democrats and Republicans in Washington can agree on something: the U.S. Senate won't be the same without Ted Kennedy. Like the first great senator from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster, the Last Lion combined the two best traditions of the ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  27 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Edward M. Kennedy,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Daniel Webster

Health reform is still a good bet to happen.

The government isn't about to take away your health insurance – but Republicans seem determined to take away your summer vacation. As grass-roots armies have marched into battle at town meetings and shopping malls across the country, fake troops ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Lloyd Doggett,  U.S. Congress

In Sarah Palin's GOP, the leaders keep quitting and the troubles don't.

"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down [and] plod along," Sarah Palin said Friday, in an attempt to suggest that serving her full term as governor would add to the nation's apathy. "That's the worthless, easy path; that's ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  4 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Sarah Palin,  Mark Sanford,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Senate

Conservatives' new share-the-wealth plan to destroy capitalism and make you $5 richer.

At the height of the Ownership Society, when George W. Bush was pushing private accounts for Social Security, Grover Norquist explained the political rationale in the Washington Monthly: "Owning $5,000 worth of stock makes you 18% more Republican." ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  22 Jun 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  General Motors,  Lamar Alexander,  Grover Norquist,  George W. Bush

The GOP is losing the dog wars to Obama.

When David Cameron set out to transform the Tory Party in Britain, one of his first triumphs was a trip to the Arctic for a famous photo-op hugging a Husky. In one fell swoop, he convinced voters that he cared about the environment—and, perhaps more ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  15 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  David Cameron,  UK Conservative Party,  Joseph Schumpeter

Binge, Don't Purge

Specter's departure is yet another distress call for Republicans. In the same way that 25 years ago the South soured on the national Democratic brand and spurred a mass of party defections, the Republican brand has now gone south in the Northeast and ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  29 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Democratic Leadership Council,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bob Casey,  Barack Obama,  James Carville

Mitt Romney sets the new Republican trend -- downsizing.

An October 1973 TIME story, "Time for a New Frugality," began with what the magazine called "an old New England maxim": "Use it up / Wear it out / Make it do / Or do without." This week, rather than splurge for a new idea, TIME dusted off the old one ...

From BRUCE REED, Slate,  23 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Mitt Romney,  Barack Obama,  Madonna,  George W. Bush,  Rush Limbaugh

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