Ralph Nader

Congratulations! The "grand compromise" will cut nearly thirty nine billion dollars in needed government spending, which proves how "serious" everyone is about reducing the deficit. The grand compromisers could have cancelled the next ten years of tax subsidies for oil companies and cut the deficit by forty billion, but apparently that's not how serious people do things.

If the Republican Party were singing to its base today, the song would be the theme from Friends, "I'll Be There For You." And the Democrats would be singing "You Always Hurt the One You Love." We're being told we should celebrate a "compromise" in which Democrats gave up $38.5 billion in spending cuts, when the original Republican demand was for $32 billion. That means the Democrats only gave the Republicans 20% more (20.2135%, to be precise) than they originally demanded.

Okay, guys. You get an extra 20% -- and not a penny more!

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If you haven't read Smirking Chimp writer Eric Boehlert's excellent column regarding the shameless double standard in media coverage of John McCain, now is the time to do it. more »

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Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic Party's nomination to run for president, and because this is a crucial election year it is only natural for Democrats to try to win over progressives — especially the disaffected variety turned off by your candidate's hard right turns. more »

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Everyone's talking about Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania yesterday over rival Barack Obama. Ten whole percentage points: may I make whoopee in my pants, now? It's still not enough to help the senator supposedly representing New York catch up to the one supposedly representing Illinois in terms of pledged delegates. more »

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Since it's a given that Nader-haters are going to spend a lot of time this year trying to remove him from the presidential race, it helps to bear in mind that there are right ways and wrong ways to do this, and for that reason I'm giving you a "do and don't" list so that you may be successful.

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And so it begins -- AGAIN. The irrational hatred of, and attacks upon, Ralph Nader. And all for the "crime" of (Gasp!) exercising his Constitutional right to run for president. more »

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