Progressive Opinion

alternet.org — The GOP is now a dark, putrefied party of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh and Coulter. And we're all the worse because of it.

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huffingtonpost.com — It must be a soul-crushing gig, this business of pretending to care; of constantly being forced, simply for official reasons of state, to pantomime concern about human life, about the death of innocent people, about the education of children, about the hunger of the poor — to even act like you're paying attention to other people at all — when in your heart you know better than anyone else that you're only the designated front-man for a criminal business-syndicate.

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prospect.org — Conservatives like to argue that politics is about ideas, and to them, and many of the people who write about them, it is. But those ideas are politically useless unless they're understood by the electorate as solutions. Solutions, however, require problems. And that's what the GOP is lacking at the moment — the appropriate problems.

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truthdig.com — The comment was outrageous, but it was not the least bit surprising. A psychologist responsible for assessing returning war veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder — a psychological ailment that could entitle them to monthly disability payments — told staff members not to diagnose the illness because to do so would increase the government's costs.

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huffingtonpost.com — Whether it's the economy, the environment, foreign policy, fiscal policy, government competency, judicial fairness… you name it… we've tried it their way, and it hasn't worked. They've had their turn and they've failed. It is our turn now.

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thenation.com — How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.

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huffingtonpost.com — They wanted to drown government in a bathtub. They did and wound up drowning their own party instead. It turns out the American people want a government. They think it serves a purpose.

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nytimes.com — Earlier this year, Mr. Bush derided a modest plan to provide $4 billion to states and localities to buy foreclosed properties, saying that buying up empty homes helps only 'the lenders or the speculators." Most egregious, Mr. Bush has resisted efforts to allow bankrupt homeowners to have their mortgages modified under court protection, parroting the mortgage industry's overwrought objections to what is arguably the best way to avoid preventable foreclosures. When Mr. Bush hasn't been busy saying no to worthy efforts, he has been endorsing Orwellian-named programs that have failed to address the problem effectively.

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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — The incomes of middle-class and working poor families have grown much less robustly under Republican presidents than when Democrats are in the White House. The Census Bureau's Historical Income Tables show that, since 1948, middle-class incomes have grown more than twice as fast under Democrats, while the incomes of working poor families have grown six times as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans. Only families near the top of the income distribution have done about equally well under both parties.

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huffingtonpost.com — When it comes to moral relativism, the difference between the Right and the Left seems not one of who practices the philosophy and who doesn't, but in which areas we are willing to concede that, among all the stark black and whites, there is room for shades of gray.

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