Blog Archive: January, 2008


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Even paranoids have news networks

By Rick Perlstein
January 31, 2008

One of the most fascinating phenomena for conservative watchers this year has been to observe how gracelessly our friends on the right have handled the disintegration of the conservative era. One example: right-wing congressmen are retiring in droves—as if the thought of actually participating in a deliberative body, not one as procedurally rigged as a politiburo, has become simply too awful to contemplate.

Another example: all the tell-all memoirs. Used to be, the Omerta was tighter than the mafia. But I've read two books spilling the beans just this year—one of them mediocre, the other quite excellent. The enablers have suddenly become conscience-stricken—now that their bosses are losing.

Anyhoo, here's the latest. more »

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"The New Axis of Evil"

By Rick Perlstein
January 31, 2008

Human Events hates America. From the producer of Michael Reagan's radio show: more »

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Yet another ennobling conservative contribution to our national discourse...

By Rick Perlstein
January 31, 2008

Listen, if you dare, to Michael Savage talking about Africans and homosexuals. more »

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In which the Big Con reflects on an E.coli conservatism New Year's resolution

By Rick Perlstein
January 31, 2008

I made a resolution this past January 1, in the wee small hours of the morning: put the E. coli back in E. coli conservatism. I launched this blog last April with a post that began, "First they came for the spinach...." That was our manifesto: the sine qua non of our mission, demonstrating the stomach-churning failures (literally and figuratively) of conservative "government" to deliver up the basic requirements for a civilized national existence.

Then I dropped the ball, moving on to other universes of conservative negligence—so many to choose from!—perhaps because this food stuff was so horrifying to contemplate.

I shall no longer shrink from my duty. I shall no longer shrink from my duty. I shall no longer shrink from my duty. more »

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Stealing Our Future II: Democracy, Fear, and the War on the Middle Class

By Sara Robinson
January 31, 2008

The conservatives' 30-year "war on big government" was, at heart, a war on engines of prosperity that drove the rise of the middle class — and on the very heart of democracy itself. When we can no longer even trust the processes that count our votes, it's obvious that their triumph is nearly complete — and that our republic is in mortal danger.

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Max Baucus, American Hero

By David Sirota
January 30, 2008

Thank the Lord for Sen. Max Baucus, the Senator from Montana - a state that is among the poorest in the nation. more »

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Domestic surveillance captures Bin Laden

By Anita Chariw2 (not verified)
January 30, 2008

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Another ennobling conservative contribution to our national discourse...

By Rick Perlstein
January 30, 2008

"You ever just pictured Ted Kennedy naked?"

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Truth

By Rick Perlstein
January 30, 2008

Joe Sudbay of Americablog makes this outstanding catch from an article on Rudolph Giuliani's demise in the more »

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A Very Basic Failure

By Terrance Heath
January 30, 2008

Everyone has heard at least one "health care nightmare" story. These stories naturally provoke outrage. But what happened to an anonymous 68-year-old man is categorized as "news of the weird news," even though it's as much about our failed health care system as the familiar "nightmare" stories.

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