By linking the welfare of working-class Americans directly to the prosperity of the rich, the Republicans can protect the insulated interests of corporations and the wealthy without the fear of backlash.
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Anyone who loves freedom recognizes AMC TV's zombie series The Walking Dead as an allegory for the demise of liberty after four more years under President Obama.
The best brands in the world find a way of both making consumers want to be part of their community and differentiating the product from their competitors. The 2012 Republican Party did neither.
If you sacrifice your ideals for ambition, however, you are crossing the line to where you should re-think your political future. This is where these five Senators in Albany and at least one mayoral candidate are now.
This treaty didn't change any American laws. It merely asked that all other nations move toward laws for people with disabilities that would equal the Americans with Disabilities Act that we first passed in 1990.
Important in understanding the issue is how the tax rates for the richest Americans have fallen precipitously over the last several decades.
When can we just go back to being Americans and not have to continue to label ourselves so we can instantly pick a fight? I long for that day to arrive.
It is time to resume discussion about the possibility of a political realignment that would make Democrats the leading national political party for a generation.
It has become painfully clear that the people we've elected to represent us don't have our best interests in mind.
Conservatism is best-suited to be a loyal opposition, forcing progressive policies to improve their clarity, efficiency and ambition. It is not suited itself to be a governing philosophy because it does not have credible solutions to problems.
While the entire political punditry world is caught up in yet another horserace, major tenets of the Republican party's faith seem to be crumbling. Their bedrock ideology is revealing itself, in multiple ways, of having been built on sand all along.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to move to the other side of the electoral bed and light up a cigarette. Anyone have a match? And how sw...
All corners prefer to be reelected above all else. The public is pretty much equally divided about the kind of liberal we want to see elected and/or reelected, be (s)he Democrat or Republican.
It would be refreshing, or maybe even electrifying, if the Republicans actually told voters what they should be telling them: we can't help you.