Tea-Bag Mastermind Becomes Party Pooper

• The Palin Effect

  Sarah Palin

  Max Blumenthal: Why Sarah Palin can't be stopped from going nuclear inside the Republican Party.

• Right-Wing Rep's Fort Hood Fumble

  Conservatives & The American Right

  The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Christopher Hayes comments on GOP Rep. Pete Hokestra's decision to leak details of the ongoing Fort Hood investigation.

• Conscience of a Young Conservative

  Youth

  Alana Levinson: Can the Republican Party survive without the enthusiasm of its young supporters?

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• 2012: The Year of Sarahpocalypse

  Sarah Palin

  Countdown : Keith Olbermann sounds off on Sarah Palin's apocalyptic political career, and what we can really expect in the future.

• Abortion Battle Puts Health Reform at Risk

  Health Care Policy

  Countdown : Nation editor Christopher Hayes is "infuriated" by the last-minute add-on that prohibits coverage for abortion in the House health plan.

• Olbermann on Going Rouge

  Conservatives & The American Right

  Countdown : Keith Olbermann weighs in on the Sarah Palin "companion" book Going Rouge, edited by Nation staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim.