The set-up for Sunday’s “Face the Nation” was pretty irresistible – Dede Scozzafava appearing live with Dick Armey, the prickly Texan who helped sabotage her upstate congressional campaign this fall.
Alas, the follow-through was lacking.
Scozzafava and Armey were invited for a segment pegged to last week’s news that the national G.O.P. may Read More
I met Wayne Davis in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this weekend on the corner of State and Third streets. It was Saturday, and about 600 Tea Party-types were gathering above us for a Tea Party on the steps of the state Capitol. Marchers carried signs saying “Big Government = Slavery” and “Fire King Obama and Queen Pelosi.” Read More
ALBANY—More than 200 people showed up at the New York Athletic Club Thursday night–overlooking Central Park–for a reception hosted by the state Conservative Party. George Pataki was one of them. He wasn’t scheduled to speak at the event, which was held to honor former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.
But the ex-governor–a moderate, particularly by national Read More
Newt Gingrich made waves on Monday night when he used an appearance on Greta Van Sustern’s Fox News show to take a subtle dig at Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin and Dick Armey – three of the big-name Republicans who have lent their support to Doug Hoffman’s third party congressional bid in the upstate 23rd Read More
If conservative leaders no longer even try to offer serious solutions to national problems, nobody should underestimate their capacity or their will to mobilize angry Americans. Behind the April 15 "tea parties" rallying against President Barack Obama's economic program – promoted as a new phenomenon by Fox News Channel and right-wing bloggers – stands a Read More
Ignorance and mythology are out-shouting facts and wisdom in public discussion of President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the depressed economy. Excessive airtime is devoted to the prejudices of cable hosts and radio personalities who regurgitate ideas they barely understand and who haven’t entertained an original thought since the Reagan era. Urgent action that could Read More
Regardless of which side of whatever issue she may take, Senator Hillary Clinton still has a slimy-politi cian problem: Does she mean it, or will she do anything for votes—and will the anythings she may do entrap the United States in yet new disasters?
Her Feb. 5 speech at a dinner meeting of the Read More
Democrats will no doubt hail the non-binding resolution just passed in the House of Representatives as another victory towards forcing the administration to change its course in the war.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey sees the non-binding House resolution opposing the Iraq troop increase as a defeat for the Democrats.
Discussing the 246 Read More
Whenever an obscure professor complains about the war against the Taliban, an alarm is sounded from certain quarters about the enemy within, the supposed disloyalty of academics and the uncertain patriotism of anybody who lacks enthusiasm for military action. But citizens peaceably exercising their right to dissent-no matter how mistaken-are no menace to national security. Read More
To those who insist they see no difference whether George W. Bush or Al Gore becomes the next President, recent headlines have offered a few more reasons to sober up.
The cliché that the malleable Mr. Bush will be guided by more sensible (or sentient) advisers, for example, is turning out to be yet another Read More
