The Nation.



Executive Excess on Capitol Hill

By Charlie Cray & Christopher Hayes

November 12, 2007

Write a Web letter about this article.

What's a Web Letter?

Web Letters are continuously published e-mails from real people, signed with their real names. No registration is required. Each article page on The Nation includes a Web Letters link.

Read the best Web Letters on this page.

We're committed to publishing your comments as they are received. We place a red star () on the best submissions and may edit your e-mail for length or content. Your e-mail address will not be published or shared with any third party without your consent.

If you prefer, you may submit a letter to the print edition only.

We look forward to hearing from you.

  • This one is, indeed, a no-brainer!

    It is like several old conundrums. You can't be all three, honest, liberal and supporting the loophole. An honest liberal must favor the reform. A liberal who supports the loophole isn't honest. And an honest supporter of the loophole isn't liberal.

    John D. Froelich

    Upper Darby, PA

    11/13/2007 @ 10:40am


Popular Topics
Most Searched

Issues »

Most Emailed

Issues »

Blogs

» The Dreyfuss Report

Maliki the Thug | He says he wants the US out, but a former Iraqi prime minister has other ideas about Maliki.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Capitolism

John McCain's Private Language Problem | McCain: The surge means what I say it means.
Christopher Hayes

» Campaign 08

Cindy Sheehan is Putting Impeachment on the Table | A peace activist's independent campaign prods Speaker Pelosi.
John Nichols

» The Notion

Fox News Attacked by Rapper, Blackroots & Colbert | Fox's worst nightmare: Liberal bloggers and Black hip hop.
Ari Melber

» The Beat

Obama Sets the Right Middle East Peace Timeline | Like Carter, he says he would start working on inauguration day.
John Nichols

» ActNow!

Send Karl Rove to Jail | The former Bush advisor regards the law with contempt, so it's time the law and Congress hold him in contempt as well.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

Rethinking Afghanistan | There is no easy answer but we need to think beyond the reflexive response of troop escalation in order to find sane and humane alternatives.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» Passing Through

In Youth Organizing, the Old Becomes New Again | Organizational models and institutions from the 2004 election are beginning to see a revival in 2008.
Michael Connery

» And Another Thing

McCain Opposes Contraception -- Pass It On | He's for Viagra and against the pill. Why won't the media cover this important story?
Katha Pollitt