GOPers Abandon Free Market, Each Other and Party Platform GOPers Abandon Free Market, Each Other and Party Platform
RRepublican were divided over how to respond to an economic crisis of their own making. John McCain's economic guru, Phil Gramm, successfully deregulated the financial-services in...
Sep 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Is Paulson’s Bailout Proposal Constitutional? No Is Paulson’s Bailout Proposal Constitutional? No
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson draft proposal for the bailout of struggling financial-services firms sought to make himself the most powerful unelected official in American hist...
Sep 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Capitalizing on Crisis: Insurance Profiteers Demand Deregulation Capitalizing on Crisis: Insurance Profiteers Demand Deregulation
It is safe to say that there is no moment more dangerous for consumers – and citizens --than one of financial panic when the federal government is moving boldly to respond. Reg...
Sep 21, 2008 / John Nichols
Three Years Late: McCain Says Cox Wrong for SEC Three Years Late: McCain Says Cox Wrong for SEC
Remember when John McCain's economic guru, Phil Gramm, got in trouble for saying that Americans were whining about a financial mess that the Republican nominee for president now s...
Sep 18, 2008 / John Nichols
Constitution in Crisis, Candidates in Denial Constitution in Crisis, Candidates in Denial
Constitution Day has arrived without major statements from Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on the need to restore this country's commitment to the rule of law. In...
Sep 17, 2008 / John Nichols
Republicans Sue Republicans to Help Palin Republicans Sue Republicans to Help Palin
ANCHORAGE -- Here is an interesting twist on the McCain campaign's determined effort to shut down the investigation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's abuses of power in what has co...
Sep 16, 2008 / John Nichols
Campaigning to Restore the Constitution Campaigning to Restore the Constitution
Two hundred and twenty-one years ago this week, the Constitutional Convention that had gathered in the touchstone city of Philadelphia to replace the Articles of Confederation wit...
Sep 15, 2008 / John Nichols
“Come Talk about Sarah Palin” “Come Talk about Sarah Palin”
ANCHORAGE – Ed Schultz, the nationally syndicated radio host, came to Alaska looking to find out about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The North Dakota-based ...
Sep 14, 2008 / John Nichols
Palin Channels Cheney’s 9/11-Iraq Falsehoods Palin Channels Cheney’s 9/11-Iraq Falsehoods
When everyone's attention was focusing on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's less-than-reassuring interview about foreign policy with ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, the Republican nom...
Sep 12, 2008 / John Nichols
Looking Forward, Rather Than Backward, on Another 9-11 Looking Forward, Rather Than Backward, on Another 9-11
The various speeches, statements, pronouncements and pontifications by the president and the political class arrayed around him on this seventh anniversary of the September 11, 20...
Sep 11, 2008 / John Nichols