Robert Reich

THE BITTER POST-ELECTION OF 2000 IS OVER, AND EVERY POLITICIAN IN AMERICA IS MAKING GRAND, GRACIOUS OVERTURES TO THE OTHER SIDE IN AN ORGY OF CONCILIATORY BLATHER. THEY’RE USING NICE WORDS THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC NEEDS TO AND WANTS TO HEAR. BUT ALL THIS KISSY-KISSY SWEET TALK IS SHEER BALONEY. Americans patiently waited out the […]

The New York Times The seemingly interminable Clinton scandals are not the Democrats’ biggest problem, and merely distancing themselves from Bill Clinton (or Hillary Rodham Clinton) won’t restore the party’s soul. The Democratic establishment in Washington is no longer connected to the grass roots. The national party is nothing but a fund-raising machine. Terry McAuliffe, […]

The Washington Post If I were a political consumer, I would — with apologies to the late Monty Python parrot — be going back to the store right about now and registering a complaint: “This political party — the Democratic Party. It’s dead.” “No, no, no no,” he replies. “It’s just resting.” But I know […]

Los Angeles Times President-of-the-U.S.-Economy Alan Greenspan has cut interest rates, but President-elect Bush says it’s not enough. W. wants that whopping tax cut he ran on to stimulate the economy further. Look behind the headlines and here’s the reality: Greenspan is offering Bush a deal, but Bush won’t buy it. Worse, Greenspan can’t punish Bush […]

USA Today Virtually every member of the U.S. Senate knows there aren’t nearly enough votes there to convict the president and send him packing. The only real question is whether the Senate, which is likely to open the trial today, censures the president within a couple of weeks or the process drags on for months. […]

The London Observer The consensus among political junkies and talking heads on this side of the Atlantic is that Al Gore’s pick of Joe Lieberman as his running mate saved Gore’s tush. But the new Gore-Lieberman brand has yet to be tested. And the first big test is whether it will fall into the trap […]

Broadcast January 4, 2001 The person missing from Bill Clinton s economic summit almost exactly eight years ago is the same person who’s missing from George W. Bush s economic summit this week. I m referring of course to the president of the United States economy, Alan Greenspan. Greenspan doesn’t do economic summits. But he […]

So who will be in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth come January? Neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore. The new center of power in Washington will lie with the moderates in both parties–liberal-leaning Republicans and conservative-leaning Democrats who together will be the only ones capable of setting Washington’s agenda. A president […]

The New York Times One party claims that the budget surplus will be small, and that a central goal should be to eliminate the debt. The other says the surplus will be big, and we can do ambitious things with it. You’d be forgiven if you thought that the first party was the Republicans and […]