The GOP Plays Politics With Our Economy

• Republican Party Rejects the Middle

  Republican Party

  The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Christopher Hayes believes one New York congressional race marks a takeover of the GOP by far-right radicals like the tea party protesters.

• Sanford, Ensign and the Politics of Affairs

  Republican Party

  Countdown : Nation contributor Melissa Harris-Lacewell talks to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann about philandering politicians and why their private affairs matter to the public.

• Sarah Palin: The Last Elephant Standing?

  Republican Party

  The Rachel Maddow Show : The Nation's Chris Hayes reflects on the diminishing prospects of a Republican return to the White House in 2012.

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• 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.

• Right-Wing Ponders Overthrow of Obama

  Conservatives & The American Right

  Countdown : The Nation's Christopher Hayes weighs in on of the recent "treasonous rhetoric from the right" and the danger that it could lead to real violence.

• The Right Reacts to Racism Allegations

  Racism & Discrimination

  Countdown : Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell discusses the importance of President Carter's remark that racism has played a role in the opposition to Obama's agenda.