Los Angeles Times The bitter 2000 election is over, and every politician in the United States is making overtures to the other side in an orgy of conciliatory blather. They’re using nice words that the American public needs and wants to hear. But all this kissy-kissy talk is sheer baloney. Americans patiently waited out the […]
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich, a co-founder of The American Prospect, is a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, one of the books featured in the Prospect’s High School Essay Contest.
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Bush is Glued to His Script
Los Angeles Times Those who expect President Bush to move to the center now that Jim Jeffords has defected from the Republicans are the same people who expected that Bush would govern from the center once in office. He didn t then and he won t now. The recent Senate inversion will slow him down, […]
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Bush Will Be Feeling Tugs Right And Left
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 […]
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What Kind of Party for the Democrats?
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, […]
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Electoral Dysfunction
The wrong lesson to be drawn from Super Titanic Tuesday is that both Bradley and McCain were too far to the left of their respective parties. The right lesson is that there’s a large and growing party of independents and nonvoters in America that neither party’s establishment has been interested in courting. The question now […]
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Coolidge’s Democratic Disciples
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 […]
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Trial ties up Senate? Don’t worry; Congress is irrelevant
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. […]
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How Bouncing Bush has Cornered Gore
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 […]
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Look Who’s Missing From The President-Elect’s Economic Summit
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 […]
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Amid the Mess, It’s the Same Ol’ Same Ol’
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 […]