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August 10, 2000 — Getting Their Money’s Worth : On August 3rd the Hotline reported the results of a new poll that showed that a clear majority of the public (65 percent) believes that the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft is “politically motivated by competitors” and that roughly twice as many […]

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 […]

Editor’s note: In the current issue of The American Prospect, staff writer Nicholas Confessore explains just why opposition to John Ashcroft, now George W. Bush’s attorney general, was so ineffective. National Review editor Rich Lowry attacked Confessore’s article a few days after it was posted on the web. Here, Confessore responds. I’m never sure whether […]

With the events of late in the year 2000, the United States left behind constitutional republicanism, and turned to a different form of government. It is not, however, a new form. It is, rather, a transplant, highly familiar from a different arena of advanced capitalism. This is corporate democracy. It is a system whereby a […]

Tuesday, as their party sold its constituents down the river on the John Ashcroft nomination, Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton publicly recited the Edgar Allen Poe poem “The Raven” to their counterparts from Maryland. The New York senators had lost a bet over the Superbowl — in which the New York Giants […]

Very early morning, November 8, 2000. I’m at home, in bed, my eyes propped open with toothpicks. Last night — as the networks called Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida for Al Gore — I revived the moonwalk in my glee. Now the networks have called the election for George W. Bush, and I’m thinking the moon […]

After prolonged coyness, George W. Bush has finally announced that he has tapped Richard B. Cheney, former George Bush defense secretary, to be on the Republican ticket. Bush had said he wanted a “forward-looking administration,” but then picked one of Daddy’s dinosaurs. Bush had once promised that his veep choice would be an “electrifying” one […]

In football, if your team wins the game, homecoming is where you savor the victory, spray champagne on your teammates, recount the winning touchdown and gloat about crushing your opponents. This Presidents’ Day weekend GOP homecoming was . . . different. The 28th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held in the Marriott in Arlington, Virginia […]

Before John Ashcroft’s confirmation hearings even started, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott announced that all 50 Republican senators would vote to confirm Ashcroft as attorney general. When Democratic Senators Zell Miller of Georgia and Robert Byrd of West Virginia announced recently that they would vote for him, they reconfirmed that Ashcroft would be approved. That […]

One frequently cited reason for the Democrats’ uninspired response to George W. Bush’s $1.6 trillion tax cut plan is that they’re no longer privy to the White House’s staff of number crunchers. There once was a time, under President Clinton, when these tax wizards worked on behalf of Democrats. They’d run the numbers for the […]