The problem with Republicans’ political ethics is highly contingent. Take the words of George W. Bush, for example. When he contemplates the other nations of the world, he declares an inflexible and unhelpful dichotomy: “either you’re with us, or you’re against us.” But when it comes to judging himself and his own […]

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Virginia Foxx used to be against earmarks, but then she was for them, though she promises to be against them some time in the future. Typical Republican doubletalk.

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You know, Bill Clinton was hardly a die-hard progressive president, but at least he understood why progressives place an emphasis on the separation of the passage of laws in the congress, the enactment of laws by the executive, and the enforcement of laws by the judiciary. Three separate and equal branches each interact with […]

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In a debate of Democratic Party presidential candidates on December 4 2007, Barack Obama had this to say about improving Chinese labor conditions:
I am interested as I said in making sure the Chinese population is fed and clothed and advancing. That is important. It is not in the long-term interests of China to […]

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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Who would have possibly thought that yet another Republican would use a position of power for personal pursuits? Okay, just about anybody who’d picked up a newspaper during the past seven years.
Yes, friends, another Bush administration official, this time Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, has […]

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Public Affairs Books has posted an excerpt of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s book, to be published in full in the spring 2008:
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction […]

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You may have noticed there’s not much written here about Mike Gravel. That is, in part, because the Democratic presidential candidate has not had much new to say since he began his campaign (only one blog post in two months, for example). But it’s also because Gravel left such a sour taste in […]

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There’s a scandal brewing for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign, and it has to do with a lot of the problems we’ve been having under George W. Bush. The issue is secrecy of government records. For Bush, that problem has to do with a sitting presidency. For Hillary Clinton, the problem […]

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In Iowa this weekend, when presidential candidate John Edwards appeared at a Democratic Party fundraising dinner, he didn’t just flatter the powerful Democrats there. He challenged them to reform the Democratic Party, to take it away from the corporate lobbyists who are attempting to twist the party into little more than an instrument of […]

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