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“Why Move On? This is too much fun,” the headline on the February 26th issue of The Weekly Standard proclaims. Above it runs a color photo of a bizarre quartet: Bill and Hillary Clinton arm in arm with Michael Jackson and Denise Rich, big jewelry and big smiles all around. (It’s almost as amusing as […]

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 […]

If you believe Trent Lott, Tom Daschle will have his hands full when he becomes majority leader of the Senate later today. Over the weekend, the deposed Republican majority leader bitterly threatened to “wage war” against Democrats, insisting their 50-49 majority does not actually constitute a majority and promising to grind Senate operations to a […]

If mimicry is the best form of flattery, conservatives are making a lot of people blush. Lately, they’ve been stealing rhetoric at will — even if they railed against that very rhetoric just months ago. During last December’s electoral fiasco in Florida, for example, Republican pundits happily drew upon lefty postmodernist theories of human subjectivity […]

It has become a depressing pattern with George W. Bush: Declare a crisis. Hype it until the prophecy is fulfilled. Ignore the good science that offers a solution. Propose a different plan that will not solve the problem, but will reward wealthy business interests that funded your campaign. Repeat. First it was the economy. President […]

When the Feds announced last week that they were indicting Democratic Representative James Traficant from Ohio on a slew of racketeering, bribery and corruption charges, the acerbic, polyester-clad legislator and former sheriff of Mahoning County let fly one of his usual anti-federal rants: “You’d best beat me,” he said of the U.S. Attorneys prosecuting his […]

So Senator James Jeffords of Vermont is going to leave the Republican Party and become an independent. The Democrats will take control of the Senate, even while the ancient Strom Thurmond (who switched parties himself back in the Mesozoic period) is still shuffling along. Jeffords has long been one of the GOP’s most liberal members. […]